I wrote about the bogus attack on one of Alexi’s advisors back on June 17th, the Sun Times joins in today:
Just when you thought Mark Kirk couldn’t be more disingenuous.
The Republican Senate candidate who tried to pass off a series of exaggerations in his military record as honest errors now is smearing his Democratic opponent, Alexi Giannoulias, with a blatantly misleading TV ad that links him to the Gulf oil spill.
In the ad, Kirk disapprovingly calls a top Giannoulias aide “a longtime BP lobbyist,” right after showing images of an oil-slicked bird and the gushing Deepwater Horizon rig.
It is true that the aide, Endy Zemenides, was a registered lobbyist for the BP/Bovis Global Alliance.
But it is also true that there’s a world of difference between working on landscaping and zoning issues for BP gas stations in the Chicago area, as Zemenides did, and lobbying Congress on behalf of the multinational corporation blamed for the disaster in the Gulf — even if Kirk professes to see no difference.
When challenged Monday on the fairness of the ad, Kirk said: “A BP lobbyist is a BP lobbyist.”
Right.
And what do we call a candidate who thinks the voters are too stupid to see the truth for what it is?
Insulting.