Poor, factually challenged, Mr. Perkins writes this:
Money . . .
Liabilities now total $1.6 billion in the Adelphia restatement.
WorldCom is thought to owe its banks approximately $4.5 billion.
Tyco has lost about 83 percent of its value since December.
Enron total shareholder value lost: $63,101,519,000.
Over the past 27 months, the nation's stock markets have lost about $5.5 trillion in value, or nearly three times what the U.S. government spends annually.
Do you want our government run by corporations? Vote Democratic in November.
That's the text of the latest attack ad rolled out by the party of Terry McAuliffe. The Democratic National Committee chairman plans to air them in selected battleground states and congressional districts throughout the country.
Sound familiar? It would if you'd checked out the great flash ads at Blah3 (on the left under '? campaign' - check out the money ones). The author (at the same link) has this to say:
Note to Mr. Perkins - Hey, Doofus, it's not a DNC ad. It was formulated by the folks at BartCop and built by a guy on his home computer. In your haste to blame something, anything on those nasty, partisan, hypocritical Democrats, you ignored the most basic fact -
The DNC had nothing - NOTHING - to do with those ads.
But that's what you upstanding Republics do, isn't it? Make an assumption and treat it like the gospel.
I'll be waiting for Mr. Perkins to make a retraction. Email to follow.
UPDATE: Blah3 now has its email to Perkins up.
