The naked guy caused some other damage but, from our perspective, once you've combined a naked guy, a forklift and a pizza oven in one story, you've hit the trifecta.
What else is new today? Well, the governor of New York resigned, a major Wall Street investment bank crashed and burned in less time than it takes for a fly to land on a banana, and a naked guy drove a forklift.
When Bob Woodward was told that burglars had busted into the office of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate, he didn't think that the story would amount to much.
Someone at the Associated Press probably said "oh bugger me, not another naked pizza oven flipping guy on a forklift story..."
But Woodward was wrong and, similarly, it is possible that someone at the Associated Press didn't immediately see the larger picture.
The two Democratic presidential candidates are running neck and neck, both need Pennsylvania's delegates like fish need water, and both will be in the state tomorrow. Can it really be a coincidence that a guy chooses this particular time to get naked, drive a forklift through a wall and flip a pizza oven in a state critical to both candidates? We don't think so.
This is exactly what Nixon's henchmen did to Ed Muskie in 1972. Anyone else notice that the likely Republican candidate, John McCain, went to Iraq just before the naked guy drove a forklift through a wall and flipped a pizza oven in a mainly Democratic state? Another coincidence? We don't think so.
Clearly, the strategy of the Republican party is to discredit its opponents by implying an association between the Democratic party and naked guys on forklifts.
Forkliftgate!
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