The talk of the town is that John McCain is going to “whip” Barack Obama’s a** at the final debate on Wednesday. Using the term “whipped,” McCain had his camp cringing in fear, worrying that it may come off the wrong way. “Racially charged verb” is what some call it but I don’t think McCain meant to be racial. He’s just trying to be bad!

Meanwhile, at campaign headquarters outside Washington, McCain acknowledged his drop in polls. “We’re a couple points down, OK, nationally, but we’re right in this game,” McCain said as his peeps cheered. “The economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two, but in the last few days we’ve seen it come back up because they want experience, they want knowledge and they want vision. We’ll give that to America.”

And here it is, folks…The infamous McCain quote: “We’re going to spend a lot of time and after I whip his you-know-what in this debate, we’re going to be going out 24/7.”

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The hot topic in politics today is photographer Jill Greenberg’s “misrepresentation” of her hired run-in with John McCain. Set to shoot McCain for the cover of The Atlantic, Greenberg later admits that she deliberately tried to manipulate the photos to show the Arizona Senator and Republican in a bad light. Being a self-admitted die-hard Democrat, she states that it was “somewhat irresponsible” of The Atlantic to hire her given her previous work, according to an expose in PDN. Basically, she blames the publication for her own wrong-doings.

Meanwhile, The Atlantic has apologized for what Greenberg has done. Having turned in photos that weren’t very flattering, she then used the remaining pics to photoshop them and slap those bad boys on her website. Turning McCain into an evil monster-looking psycho, even the most liberal thinker has to see that this is downright mean and scary.

While The Atlantic says she will not get paid and a lawsuit is possibly in the air, Greenberg obviously stands by her poor decision. The photos remain on manipulator.com.

Greenberg stated that after the initial shoot, she asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute session was over. Following her orders, he went to a place where she had a beauty dish with a modeling light positioned.

“That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.”

What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says.

And his entourage didn’t seem to notice it either.

“I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” adds Greenberg.

The sad truth is that what Greenberg doesn’t realize is that by doing this, she makes not only herself look bad but the political party she stands for, thus, hurting a cause she somehow thinks she is trying to support.

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