Time's The Page has the scoop on a series of attack ads hitting McCain financed by Citizens United, David Bossie's operation. The ad isn't really that outrageous in terms of what it says -- basically just gives examples of times he's made common cause with Democrats, not saying he was in Hanoi partying or something while he was a POW.

It's big news.

But check out Halprin's headline for the piece: "And So It Begins"

Basically running attack ads on John McCain is on a par, in somberness terms, with initiating genocide or dropping a nuclear weapons.