OMFG.
I just watched CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" with that stale fellow who sits in for Cooper. One segment invovled him talking with an "expert" about the veracity of statements made in campaign ads.
OMFG.
The "expert" was Mark McKinnon, a republican strategist, who was given license by CNN to put the GOP spin on the ads that were supposedly up for public discussion.
Not surprisingly, CNN's "expert" spoke approvingly of GOP ads. He was a little weird on the Harold Ford ad, throwing out a lot of "independent arm" language that was too hard to follow in a short amount of time. But he clearly endorsed ads, like the one questioning Jim Webb.
I wish I had more details, but I'm running on outraged memory and, as I write this, tonight's transcript is not available (and, because I'm in eastern time, likely won't be before I go to bed).
But who cares? The simple fact is that CNN did a segment on what's true and what's false, and they picked a republican operative to be the arbter.
Nuff said.