The Kansas City Star today demanded Missouri Senator Jim Talent either correct or stop airing some of his political ads. The misleading nature of the ads was exposed by FactCheck.org, a non-partisan group underwritten by the Annenburg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania.FactCheck.org called the ads "misleading", designed to "deceive voters" and that in the ads Talent "falsely attributes several unflattering quotes" about McCaskill to the Kansas City Star. The ads make it seem like reporters and columnists from the Star made statements that were actually made by McCaskill's political opponents.
The Editorial Page Editor of the Star, Merriam Pepper, has gone on the record for the paper "We are requesting that the Talent campaign pull ads that cite the Kansas City Star as the source for material that is not properly attributed."
It is just another example of Talent's desperation as election day draws near and his record haunts him - that would be a record of 65 missed Senate Armed Services Committee meetings, (out of 95) of opposing body armor for troops and of supporting Bush 94% of the time - oh wait - I forgot - he doesn't support Bush, Bush supports him. I have got to get that committed to memory.
