This Just In, from "The Last Thing the McCain Campaign Needed" Department...

Here's pretty much the last thing John McCain--who just today was excoriated by the Times for "running a campaign on partisan division, class warfare and even hints of racism"--needs right now: the revelation that the 20-year-old female campaign worker who claimed to have been robbed by "by a black man" in Pittsburgh, and sexually assaulted and mutilated by said "black man" when said "black man" learned that she supported McCain--and whose tragic story of victimization got major play on Drudge this morning and was all the talk of the cable news shows--was making the whole thing up. Lovely.