John McCain is a Cylon, and Palin is Roslin (WARNING: BSG + ELECTION SPOILERS!)

A fearless truth-seeker who isn't afraid to go where mainstream media is terrified to tread sneaks us this breaking (!) blogsclusive, a deeply troubling discovery at the highest levels of power.

Many have noticed that famously short-tempered Vietnam war veteran John McCain, famously imprisoned and tortured in Hanoi, bears a more than passing resemblance to famously short-tempered Cylon war veteran Saul Tigh, famously imprisoned and tortured on New Caprica:

Oh, but it doesn't stop there... Adama, President Roslin, toasters... and America. John McCain is a Cylon (429truth.com) Update: Oh, wow, they have a campaign website. (thanks akbar56!)

• [Anonymous]

  aw man!!! i havent gotten to season 3 yet!! That’s a pretty huge spoiler to have in the main title. The warning doesn’t help when it’s after the spoiler. I almost feel like I really want to stop reading boingboing now cause this happens too much!! That really sucks though. Huge spoiler. DELETE THIS POST!!! (Or at least rename it)

• [erissian]

  I laughed at the afterthought spoiler warning:

  SNAPE KILLS DUMBLEDORE
  (warning: spoilers!)

• [briseno]

  Have you seen

  http://www.civickommisar.com

  They are saying that Palin works for Cobra and is the Baroness.

  NewsBreak! Cobra has infiltrated the Republican Party!

• [minTphresh]

  frakkin toaster!

• [certron]

  Frak! I just finished the last two episodes of season 1 last night. I thank my friend who sent me the pics for not spoiling, but BB did it anyway. Then that CNN article linked by Anonymous at #13 has another spoiler or two in there.

  I can’t complain too much, I saw a few episodes out of order here and there, so I already knew a few hidden identities. Now I just have to make sure everyone else I’m watching with doesn’t get spoiled, too. Maybe that will encourage them to watch them faster / more often!

• [Jake0748]

  This probably isn’t the right time or place to post this, but… I’m just watching Palin’s speech on TV at the Repub convention.

  I think she may very well be the next Dan Quayle.

• [Jake0748]

  Wait… I thought Sarah Palin was Peggy Hill.

• [Anonymous]

  Tigh is a Cylon?! Aurgh, I just finished Season 2!

• [Anonymous]

  I’m still watching season 3 of BSG on DVD! Thanks for the spoiler warning, jeez. -_-

• [cinemajay]

  I object to this comparison on the basis that it makes the candidates seem cooler than they really are.

• [Jeff]

  Sarah Palin is about as good a character as I could write for a crazy Republican White House story. Thank Eris, she is the perfect “covert” chaos element. The IOT’s Deployment Section has outdone themselves. Shake it up baby. Just like Starbuck.

• [akbar56]

  The canidates also have their own site:

  http://tighroslin2008.com/

• [Giovanni]

  CORNEL TIGH IS A CYLONG?@!?!!?!?!?@!?# gdsEWAFDSfdsalkjvdxz/lk ARWWARAWRGGG!!!

  i hate you

  PS. I’m glad someone else thought Palin looked a lot Roslin

• [Takuan]

  nope; Peggy and Cotton (but with less character, intelligence and charm)

• [akbar56]

  Giovanni, the reveal of Tigh’s Cylon-hood is over a year old at this point. That is well beyond the statue of limitations on spoilers.

• [Chuck]

  NO!

  I’ve been arguing for months that Cindy McCain is the Cylon! (Or perhaps an unholy crossbreed between a Stepford wife and a Cylon.)

  NO ONE WILL LISTEN!

• [jibbles]

  It’s worth repeating: there *really* ought to have been a spoiler alert here. Not too late to fix, I don’t suppose?

• [TEKNA2007]

  Sarah seems fun as hell. I like her a lot. I bet she’d be great to party with … that Alaska state of mind, you know. Kind of like North Fargo.

  Not sure about presidential though. But I bet there’s a great Northern Exposure episode that begins with her taking residence in the White House.

• [trr]

  The VP does not live in the White House.

• [Xeni Jardin]

  Aw shit, sorry about the spoilers. I amended the post headline.

• [TEKNA2007]

  Sarah seems fun as hell. I like her a lot.

  OK, maybe not so much. From the NYT:

  Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books

  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html

• [TEKNA2007]

  The VP does not live in the White House.

  Right. Doesn’t Cheney live at “the observatory”?

  I was thinking of President Palin. With John Corbett playing Chris-the-DJ as her husband, and Maurice Minniefield as an Al-Haig-style Secretary of Defense, just waiting for Palin to visit Juneau so he can step up and declare “I am in charge!”

• [Shawn Wolfe]

  Skipper and Mary Ann ’08

  http://flickr.com/photos/shawnwolfe/2816890640/

• [Anonymous]

  Frak yeah!

  http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/02/tv.what.the.frak.ap/index.html

• [TEKNA2007]

  http://www.civickommisar.com They are saying that Palin works for Cobra and is the Baroness.

  Why does Cobra have a vagina dentata as a logo?!?!? That’s some scary ****, man!