You know, rather than being a shill for Apple, I think that Baghdad Bob should replace Terry McAuliffe. Just imagine:

Impotent imperialist criminal Republicans cannot just take over the Congress and the White House! Bush the retarded monkey did not win the 2000 election--it is all lies!

All these pictures of them in committee chairs and large offices on Capitol Hill are a Hollywood fabrication. They are committing suicide by the hundreds in front of the Reflecting Pond! Don't look over there--who will you believe, me or your treacherous eyes, may they be eaten by worms in Hell, praise Kennedy?!

The American people will never stand for an infidel Republican government, as they starve our children, and poison our air and water, eat our babies, and destroy our social security and medicare, and cause our dogs and cats to live together. We are making them drink the poison, and slicing open their overfed bellies, and dining on the entrails!

Our glorious candidates are preparing for the final battle. They shall strike back, and ultimately triumph! We shall make them eat upon their own livers in Hell, praise Roosevelt.

I'm not sure he could be quite as vitriolic as Terry, but he could come close.

Could somebody please explain how the nickname "Baghdad Bob" came about? And who conceived it? And why "Bob"? Is there some pop-culture reference I'm missing?

I honestly thought for a while there that "Baghdad Bob" was a reference to Robert Fisk.

I've seen Fisk referred to in that way, too. My initial reaction was the similarity to Hanoi Jane, though the implied analogy really doesn't work that well. It does sound good, though, which is important for a meme.

Over at SgtStryker.com, the name "Skippy" seems to have stuck.

I like Baghdad Bob for Fisk.

That was a classic McAuliffe speech; way to dig up the resources. I thought you were going to do a parody of him, though, using Skippy's quirks of spin.

You've certainly got the words...and the music.