Pike through Ike

Pike through Ike is the latest in the series of Jump the Shark and nuke the fridge. It refers to the moment in the Presidential debates where John McCain makes a bombastic claim that General Eisenhower offered to resign on the eve of D-Day. He did not.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/McCain_doesnt_like_Ike_facts.html

John McCain put a Pike through Ike at the presidential debates.

The term was minted on the truedition blog on wordpress.