The slow motion train wreck continues.

So apparently McCain was challenged yesterday by the Des Moines Register editorial board about all the lying his campaign has done. And he angrily responded:

I have always had 100 percent, absolute truth and that’s been my life of putting my country first. And I’ll match that record against anyone’s. And I’m proud of it. And an assertion that I’ve ever done otherwise, I take strong exception to.

Here’s how Jonathan Karp, the editor of McCain’s five books, describes the origins of McCain’s emphasis on honesty:

“My father was the most honest man I know,” he writes in “Why Courage Matters.” In “Character Is Destiny,” he recalls a moment when his mother, while playing cards with his father, teasingly accused him of cheating: “He shot up from the table, in great distress, and begged her never, ever to doubt or even pretend to doubt his honesty…He simply couldn’t bear the idea of being deceitful or being accused, wrongly, of deceiving anyone.”

Yes…such behavior fairly screams, “This is a human being you can trust about anything.”

I’m sure you’ll also be shocked to hear McCain’s father was an alcoholic.

MORE HONESTY FROM THE MOST HONEST MAN I KNOW: All of McCain’s books are credited as “by John McCain with Mark Salter,” but are actually written by Salter. According to Salter, some of the feelings he attributes to McCain are “my surmise.”

In which the governor can’t think of the name of a newspaper:

Couric: And when it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?

Palin: I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media.

Couric: What, specifically?

Palin: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years.

Couric: Can you name a few?

Palin: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too. Alaska isn’t a foreign country, where it’s kind of suggested, “Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington, D.C., may be thinking when you live up there in Alaska?” Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.

In which the governor not at all heavy-handedly gives us an advance look at her campaign’s probable post-debate spin:

Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate - is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden’s been around a while?

Palin: Oh no, it’s nothing negative at all. He’s got a lot of experience and just stating the fact there, that we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years. So he’s got a tremendous amount of experience and, you know, I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he’s got the experience.

More horrors.

Update: the horrifying video …