You are probably familiar by now with Mr. Black’s comments, made while probably trading phone lines with lobbying clients–or mass-murdering dictators–from the back of “The Straight Talk Express.”

Let’s take a look at Mr. McCain, who is shocked (shocked!) that there are those wishing for a terrorist attack so he might win:

McCain On Bin Laden Tape:

A lot has already come out on Black’s past as a lobbyist (past being up until about a month or two ago), and some of the miscreants for whom he has toiled. But today, The Washington Post has a piece that lists most if not all of these interests:In addition to Savimbi, Black and his partners were at times registered foreign agents for a remarkable collection of U.S.-backed foreign leaders whose

We previously showed you the clip here at The Silo of the web ad. The national cable ad is similar. Here is part of the release:New TV Ad Exposes McCain’s Lobbyist Ties,Calls For McCain to Fire Chief Advisor Charlie BlackA new national television ad calls on John McCain to fire his chief campaign advisor, lobbyist Charlie Black.

Moveon.org’s new ad pointing out what we did in “McCain’s Murderers Row,” namely that Charlie hasn’t met many interests he wouldn’t happily advocate for if the check were big enough.Even if Black were to be fired (and I wouldn’t bet the house on it), this is only one of the many lobbyist stories hitting print that the McCain people must be worried about right about now.

Per The Politico:John McCain’s campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley’s dual role consulting for the campaign and for an independent 527 group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict-of-interest policy barring such arrangements.

A new website (firethelobbyists.com) has been created by Campaign Money Watch, to convince Senator McCain to fire three lobbyists working on his campaign that have ties to ruthless dictators. You may recall that over the past two days, two McCain aides have resigned because of their willingness to do public relations work for the Burmese Junta.It turns out that they have friends in low places, however.

Progressive author John Gorenfeld recently released a book exposing the unsavory ties between the GOP and billionaire, Washington Times Publisher (and convicted tax cheat) Reverend Sun Myung Moon. In his book, Bad Moon Rising, Gorenfeld shows the relationship between many in the Republican hierarchy, including the Bush clan, and a man who has often been charged with being a leader of a cult.What is beyond question, however, is that a high-ranking