Ohio shenanigans

At first I thought it insane that we find ourselves three weeks from the election and Ted Strickland's elegibility to vote, and therefore to serve in elected office, is suddenly in question. Then I remembered that he faces Ken Blackwell, among the most cynical and power-hungry politicians of our day, who has more hubris than a Greek tragedy.

Blackwell denies involvement, of course, which only makes sense; he's obviously too busy accusing Strickland of being gay faulting Strickland for not protecting children.

Meanwhile, TV stations are busy pulling slanderous ads from the GOP, which erroneously claim that Sherrod Brown perpetrated criminal tax evasion:

WKRC-TV in Cincinnati said it dropped the ad, which aired Wednesday, after being advised by its lawyers that the ad was inaccurate. The Brown campaign said its lawyers were assured that television stations WSTR in Cincinnati and WSYX and WTTE in Columbus, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, pulled the ad on Thursday. Barry Faber, Sinclair vice president and general counsel, declined to comment.

For those who haven't been paying attention, Sinclair are the folks who refused to air a Nightline segment in 2004 on which the names of Iraq war casualties were read, and who threatened to preempt prime-time programming to show an anti-Kerry propaganda piece as news just days before the election. Classy folks.

Also consistently classy is Mike DeWine:

The DeWine campaign had to alter a previous ad when it was discovered that it contained doctored images of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

And I though Ohio was going to be boring this year.