A couple of days ago CQ Politics noticed some eerie similarities between John McCain's speech on Georgia and Georgia's Wikipedia entry. Judge for yourself the validity of the plagiarism charge -- and some of the language does look very similar -- but while we can criticize McCain's lazy speech-writing team, this, from the New York Observer's Joe Conason, is taking Wiki-gate to an absurd level:

The discovery that John McCain's remarks on Georgia were derived from Wikipedia, to put it politely, is disturbing and even depressing -- but not surprising. Under the tutelage of the neoconservatives, who revealed their superficial understanding of Iraq both before and after the invasion, he favors bellicose grandstanding over strategic thinking. So why delve deeper than a quick Google search?

It's probably worth mentioning that McCain actually went to South Ossetia two years ago, but leave that aside. Inflating the lifting of background passages from a Wiki entry into Conason's view that it encapsulates everything wrong with U.S. foreign policy shows that we're definitely in the silly season.