Rich Iott, the Nazi re-enacting Tea Party congressional candidate from Ohio, has released a statement saying, "This election needs to be about issues, not false character attacks." Sure. The issue here is dressing up as a war criminal, so yeah.

You've probably heard the horrifying story of the man and two teens who were tortured by Bronx gang members for being gay. Now, members of the Latin King Goonies are rolling over on the gang's leaders to clear themselves.

And the Asshole of the Week award goes to this guy.

Oh fucking snap bros, drop everything and rush down to the Borders on Wall Street, where Tucker Max is just finishing a book signing! His new book comes out today! Send pics! Send reviews! Send medication! It's on again! Damn.

Bishop Eddie Long—noted homophobe, megachurch pastor, and author of Gladiator, the Strength of a Man—has been accused by two young men from his church of coercing them into masturbating and "oral sexual contact." That's so crazy!

Florida pastor Terry Jones, the mustachioed wannabe holy book burner, is being slapped with a $180,000 bill by the local police and sheriff's departments for the extra security they had to provide during Jones' 15 minutes. [CNN via NYM]

Racist Republican candidate for New York governor Carl Paladino spoke to the Times about his "insular" Democratic competitor, Andrew Cuomo, who he's hated since "watching him on the newsreels." Newsreels? He was probably drinking pop and eating Moon Pies, too.

Thankfully, another loudmouth has thrown himself into the Not At Ground Zero Park51 Community Center mix: Ex-convict Bill Keller of Live Prayer. He hates Muslims, and even Glenn Beck! And he's trying to open a "9/11 Christian Center" in Manhattan.

The owner of the car that cushioned Thomas Magill's 39-story fall from an Upper West Side apartment building is pissed off that her vehicle is totalled, and wants to know if Magill now feels stupid for trying to commit suicide.

You know the assholes from Westboro Baptist Church who protest everything with "God Hates Fags"? They were picketing a funeral in Nebraska for a Marine killed in Afghanistan when a man drove by and fired pepper spray. Hero?

A new Islamic center is being built in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and this has scared a lot of white people, who think it will become a terrorist training camp. So, naturally, someone doused the construction equipment with gasoline and torched it.

New Jersey guy Wyclef Jean is still whining about being disqualified from a presidential election in a country that he doesn't live in. So he wrote a song! In it, he says the electoral council should be thrown in prison.

Pastor Terry Jones' "International Burn a Koran Day" approaches! And surely his fear of Islam is based on a deep understanding of the Koran, right? Nope: "I have no experience with it whatsoever. I only know what the Bible says."

Sam Mazzola keeps a large collection of bears, wolves and tigers at his home in Ohio. He's let people take on "Caesar the Wrestling Bear" for money. Shockingly, on Thursday one of his bears attacked and killed a caretaker.

Pro-war draft dodger Ted Nugent pleaded no contest to charges of baiting and killing an immature deer for his TV show. Classy.

A right wing advocacy group founded by radical cleric Pat Robertson yesterday sued New York over the Islamic center near Ground Zero because the city "allowed the intended use of the building and political considerations to taint the deliberative process."

A Florida church called the Dove World Outreach Center, in keeping with its pledge to "stand up for righteousness," is hosting "International Burn a Koran Day" on September 11. But only after the "No Homo Mayor" protest next month.

That whole uproar about Senator Joe Lieberman's bill to give the president an internet "kill switch?" He says it's all just "misinformation," and only wants the president to have the power to "disconnect the American Internet" when bad things happen.

This oil spill thing has people heated! And BP CEO Tony Hayward… what a dickhead. Oh, but remember Goldman Sachs? That filthy rich, monolithic investment banking monster that basically destroyed the global economy? Yeah. Who do you hate more?

Glenn Beck has never been very tactful, but his four-minute tirade against Malia Obama this morning over her "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" question regarding BP's oil leak represented a reprehensible new low. Audio inside. Update: Beck responds.