Monday’s Washington Post demonstrated how confident the media is in an Obama victory. They now feel safe to offer publicity to candidates on the left-wing lunatic fringe. Manuel Roig-Franzia explores the alternate universe of former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, now running for president on the Green party ticket. Her “star” endorsers are hardly a sign of mainstream appeal:

She is joined onstage for a panel on FBI spying by Ward Churchill, a former star University of Colorado professor who provoked outrage by writing that Sept. 11 victims were “little Eichmanns” and not “innocent civilians.” For her part, McKinney was ridiculed in the months after the attack for suggesting that the Bush administration knew more than it let on before planes hit the World Trade Center.
Churchill says he has never voted for president, not wanting to validate an “occupation” government that seized land from Native Americans.
But he voted this year.
For Cynthia McKinney.
“She’s got integrity,” Churchill says.

Then there’s that other infamous endorser, highlighted on the McKinney campaign website:

The site, where McKinney’s campaign seems most alive, carries Roseanne Barr’s picture and endorsement: “Since I will vote for a woman before I will vote for a man any day . . . I am going to vote for Cynthia McKinney.” On Roseanne’s blog, an entry says, “Vote Cynthia McKinney — Green Party,” and runs through her policy positions: Supports gay adoptions. “End the death penalty; it’s based on race & class.” Legalize medical marijuana and needle exchanges. Declare the United State carbon-free and nuclear-free.

The joke here would be guessing which endorsement is more damaging to McKinney’s cause.