RTFA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B4YSV9341c

Yosemite Sam caught on film during the third and final Presidential Debate on October 15, 2008.

I saw this image on John Taplin’s blog:

He was claiming the picture was NOT photoshopped, and I just didn’t believe him. After all, I had watched the debate, and I didn’t notice anything like that. Then, I reviewed the video above, and I couldn’t believe that it was actually a real picture. BUT IT IS.

I agree with Taplin – McCain really can’t get a break. …totally epic lulz…

My previous article is referenced by my post to Slashdot, and the comments thread has a bunch of good suggestions for watching online.

wwwrench points out a technique for watching the CNN stream of the debates if you have Linux:

You can get it to work [on Linux]: just use VLC media player
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and open the video stream:
File->Open Network Stream
check HTTP/HTTPS/FTP/MSS and put in the url http://www.cnn.com/video/live/cnnlive_1.asx

Also, C-SPAN options should be “analyst-free”:

http://www.c-span.org/politics/c-span-Debate-Cam.aspx

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_rm.aspx

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Brief RTFA analysis here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 Full 1.5-hour C-SPAN video here

UPDATE 2008-10-16 …for something completely fun and different, here’s great live music: John Frusciante, Flea & Omar Rodriguez