By now, I'm sure you've seen the footage of Tancredo calling the National Council of La Raza a "Latino KKK." The most recent Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, should denounce these comments. After all, McCain keynoted NCLR's 2004 conference, and addressed their 2008 convention:

Mel Martinez should join Senator McCain in denouncing Tancredo. Less than three months ago, Martinez prominently accepted a Capital Award from NCLR in recognition of his "outstanding support of public policies that are vital to Hispanic Americans." In his acceptance speech, Martinez asked the crowd to pressure Obama for bolder action on immigration reform:

“We have got to come to an understanding” on immigration, Martinez implored recently at the National Council of La Raza’s gala, where he and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) were honored for their work on behalf of Hispanics. “Comprehensive immigration reform has got to be back on the top of the agenda,” Martinez said. “It’s the right thing to do.”

The very sick and twisted Rush Limbaugh continues on his path to hell as his lunacy knows no limits:

LIMBAUGH: The idea that torture doesn’t work– that’s been put out from John McCain on down– You know, for the longest time McCain said torture doesn’t work then he admitted in his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer that he was broken by North Vietnamese. So what are we to think here?

When the whole torture issue started to become public, why did John McCain say it didn't work? What did he get out of being honest on this topic? He knew that conservatives watch "24" like it's a documentary, so there was no upside for him unless maybe his own conscience made him come clean.

I'm not letting him off for his behavior on the military commissions or his flip flop on waterboarding, but what Limbaugh says is completely grotesque. As I've said a million times, conservative pundits can say just about anything without consequence. He uses propaganda put out by Hayden and Mukasey via the always-accommodating WSJ that Jon Perr wrote about on C&L: Mukasey Defends Bush's "Hypothetical" Torture
And as we've found out, nothing has come by the use of torture. NOTHING!

The debate over the significance of Abu Zubaydah’s role in Al Qaeda and of what he told interrogators dates back almost to his capture, and has been described by Ron Suskind in his 2006 book, “The One Percent Doctrine,” a 2006 article in The New York Times and a March 29 article in The Washington Post asserting that his disclosures foiled no plots. (His real name is Zein al-Abideen Mohamed Hussein.)

Of course there was Li'l Bush, who just didn't want to lose face, so I guess torture accomplished something, right?

"I said he was important," Bush reportedly told Tenet at one of their daily meetings. "You're not going to let me lose face on this, are you?" "No sir, Mr. President," Tenet replied. Bush "was fixated on how to get Zubaydah to tell us the truth," Suskind writes, and he asked one briefer, "Do some of these harsh methods really work?" Interrogators did their best to find out, Suskind reports.

And so they did.

Rumors started circulating last week, and now it's official. Instead of accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for President at the Pepsi Center, where the rest of the Convention will take place, Barack Obama has decided to move the main event down the street to Invesco Field at Mile High

HuffPo:

"The Democratic Party is nominating a true change candidate this August, and it is only fitting that we make some big changes in how we put on the Convention," DNC Chairman Howard Dean says. "By bringing the last night of the Convention out to the people, we will be able to showcase Barack Obama's positive, people-centered vision for our country in a big way."

As predicted, the mainstream media is already starting to jump on Obama for this. Always looking for a way to frame the issues in McCain's favor, even the usually superb Chuck Todd cautioned this morning that Obama may cede the "seriousness ground" by treating the event as a rock concert instead of a traditional convention, arguing that it may end up helping McCain. After all, the obvious enthusiasm gap between the two candidates this year puts McCain at an immediate disadvantage, and his "base" needs to help him neutralize that at every turn.

Realizing that they simply can't compete with Obama's historic speech the week before the Republican Convention, the GOP is having a hissy fit and complaining that Obama is more concerned with stagecraft than providing real solutions to real problems. Nevermind the fact that George Bush considered giving his 2004 acceptance at Yankee Stadium. Oh, the hypocrisy.

(h/t Logan)