Blog Comments in Political Ads

You knew it would come to this.

A Republican state legislator from Fairfax County [Virginia] has launched an attack ad on cable TV against his Democratic opponent that features unidentified, unverified quotes from a blog.

The ad by Del. Timothy D. Hugo points to a new form of negative campaigning in which information for an attack ad is sourced to comments posted on the Internet instead of more authoritative sources such as news reports or public records.

Whatever happened to the good old days when candidates would just make up shit about their opponents? Now they have to outsource it to blog commenters? Sheesh; how lazy can you get?