McEwen drops out? Schmidt sings opera?

With less than two weeks to go before the May 2 primary, things couldn't get any crazier (or could they?) in the race between Rep. Jean Schmidt and former Rep. Bob McEwen, who are both vying for the 2nd Congressional District seat.

First, someone doctored up a bogus press release purporting to be from the McEwen campaign, announcing that he's dropping out of the race to return to his home in Fairfax Station, Va., and faxed it to media around town.

The release was actually pretty funny. It said McEwen had decided running for Congress was too "grueling" and that he's instead decided to back Schmidt and go back to being a lobbyist: "I endorse her, and would vote for her but for my return to Virginia."

Read Channel 9's story about the fake release here.

Then, an even more clever person, took the C-SPAN footage of Schmidt's speech last November where she told Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a decorated former Marine, that "cowards cut and run, Marines never do," and put it to music.

More specifically, put it to opera music.

Watch the video here.

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