Jesus on a pogo stick!!!

[CatWoman]

Ohio GOP Smears Al Franken In Press Release With Doctored Photo, Fabricated Quote
Yesterday, the Ohio Republican Party sent out a news release (full text here) attacking Rep. Sherrod Brown (D) for enlisting the support of comedian Al Franken:

It is not surprising that Sherrod Brown is enlisting the help of a Hollywood liberal, who like him, is so far out of the mainstream of Ohio values. What is troubling is that Brown would solicit support from someone who compared conservatives to Nazis “who should drink poison and die.”

The quote used in the news release is taken from Bernard Goldberg book, 110 People Who Are Screwing Up America, in an alleged interview between Goldberg and Franken. But in his book, Goldberg makes it clear that the exchange is completely fictional. The Ohio Republican Party represented it as fact.

The news release was accompanied by this photograph, showing Franken dressed up like a baby bunny, wearing adult diapers and clutching a fluffy white teddy bear.


http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/26/franken-ohio-photo/

[NYCGirl]

1. Al's tough. He was just talking about it. NT

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

2. desperate lying liars are desperately lying

and the desperate lying lies they desperately lie.

[LaurenG]

3. Oh roflol

So how low will they go here? I wonder what Al will have to say about this or Sherrod for that matter?

[renate]

4. these guys are all class, all the way

I thought that the Republicans said that when they took over, "the grownups would be in charge."

Even a middle-schooler would consider this crap jejune.

[KingFlorez]

5. I wonder which Repuke they pasted Franken's head on in the bunny picture?

[Rose Siding]

7. Pretty obvious it's Rush

[Atman]

8. Mark Foley

I'm sure he had the boys take lots of pics for his scrapbook.

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[ninkasi]

6. What IS it with these people?

Have they all gone completely insane? The ads the repukes are running this year seem to be extra shrill, and all of them are looking pretty desperate. I think they're poisoning themselves with their own venom now.

[originalpckelly]

9. Is this all they've got?

Man they are really desperate, aren't they?

[tech3149]

10. Your subject line reminds me

I haven't listened to the Dead Milkmen in a while. Mabey after Hartmann's show is over.