The Dispatch Editorial Board Is Guilty of Ugly Smear Tactics in Denouncing Non-Existent Ugly Smear Tactics
I wrote a letter to the editors of the Dispatch on Friday, encouraging them to give one example, one single example, of the "shrill and ill-considered attacks" that they accused Emily Kreider of making, as a follow-up to the same challenge I posted to readers of this blog earlier this week.
I have yet to get a response.
I was willing to give the benefit of the doubt, that the Board wasn't engaging in an unsubstantiated smear campaign of their own. Perhaps they had seen something that I hadn't (highly doubtful given the focus I've had on this campaign), or perhaps I had misinterpreted a statement that we had both seen.
My doubt, and the concomitant benefit thereof, have been reduced to next to nothing. The Dispatch, in decrying smears today, called out six candidates in three races. They claim that both Kilroy and Pryce have been smeared, and give examples. They claim that Brown and Dewine have been smeared, which is a view so ingrained in the CW as to hardly be worth discussing. They then state that Pat Tiberi and Bob Shamansky have both been smeared, and should be ashamed of themselves.
Wrong. Pat Tiberi has not been smeared. The Dispatch is just plain lying. Every single ad put out by the Shamansky campaign is available for your perusal here. There is no smear. The harshest statements (by far) in those ads comes from the editorial staffs of the Delaware Gazette and Suburban News Publications, independent entities which are outside of the candidates' control.
This set of unsubstantiated lies and smears by the Dispatch Board about non-existent lies and smears by Democrats up against true mud-slinging Republicans is shameful. The Board has a whole lot more to apologize for than some of the folks they're pointing fingers at.
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Looks like the Columbus Dispatch may have dropped the ball on there endorsement of State Sen. David Goodman. As I recall it was not so long ago that the Dispatch was telling us we should not vote for candidates that sling mud at there opponents on TV. Well as we all know David Goodman Has done nothing more than attack his opponent with over $1,000,000 worth of TV ads to date. Yet the dispatch went out of it way this morning in making the most unbelievable statements I have heard so far this fall about Emily Kreider: "her attacks against Goodman " "have been shrill and sometimes ill-considered". Come on, Mrs. Kreider is running one of the best campaigns I have seen in a long time.She has knocked on over 6,000 doors. It is grass roots as well as informative to the people of the 3rd Senate dist. Emily Kreider has worked hard to take the high road in this race as she is still being attack by Goodman and his Republican party. David Goodman is hiding, he will not tell us what he has done or what he will do for the people of central Ohio. Mr. Goodman sir you are a coward along with your Friends at the Dispatch.
Its Bev here again. I read both the Dispatch article and your blog concerning the outrageousness of the attack and smear ads. I'm surprised that neither seem to have seen the continuous character assassination directed at me by Jim McGregor and the Republican smear machine. In all of the direct mail pieces as well as the TV ads, they have sunk to new levels of slime. Today my campaign is filing 5 Election Commission Complaints against McGregor, ORP, Bob Bennett, OHRCC and Wm. Coley for disseminating patently false, deliberately misleading and deceptive ads directed to the voters of the 20th District in order to try and "save" McGregor's seat for the Republicans. I have also been advised by counsel to consider filing a civil action personally against all of the same defendants for defamationa and slander. I may well do that.
Yet, standing in the lobby of the Vineyard Church, Jim McGregor and I shook hands and pledged before God that our campaigns would not stoop to those levels and engage in negative campaigning and the politics of personal destruction. He ratified and repeated that pledge standing in front of me and the editorial endorsement interviewers at the Dispatch. Yet TWO DAYS LATER McGregor's smear campaign against me personally started. NOT ONCE has he or his party ever attacked my position on the issues!
Maybe Jim McGregor doesn't understand the meaning of a handshake or a pledge? Or maybe his word is not worth much. I have not "gone negative" but I do intent to get this truth out there. We will be having a press conference about this within the next 24/48 hours.
I see now were Goodman is using what the Dispatch said about Emily is a new TV ad starting this am the ad says Kreider's " attacks against Goodman " "have been shrill and sometimes ill-considered".
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