Roy Blunt's "Bull"?

Robin Carnahan’s campaign, last week, launched a new fact-check website titled “Call Roy’s Bull”. According to Carnahan’s website, Roy Blunt and his “corporate special friends” have been using various deceits and fiction to cover up “Blunt’s 14-year Washington record of waste, corruption and sticking it to the middle class."

Linden Zakula, Carnahan’s campaign spokesman, said that the newly launched website will be updated regularly and “will be a helpful resource for those sticking to find the facts amidst all the bull that Congressman Blunt and his friends are slinging.” Zakula also added that as Missouri newspapers began to expose the truth behind Blunt’s 14-year Washington record, Blunt has been escaping questions and altering the truth about both his and Carnahan’s record. (See Carnahan's article here). Thus, Zakula says, this website to call Roy Blunt’s “bull” was necessary.

The website, while seeming to have positive intentions, also focuses on trying to make Blunt seem like a liar who is viciously attacking Carnahan. However, one of the “fact checks” of Blunt is actually an advertisement from an independent group called Independent Women’s Voice. In fact, the radio ad ends by saying, “Paid for by Independent Women’s Voice which is responsible for the content of this advertisement. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.” For a website with the title “Call Roy’s Bull” labeled across the top of each webpage, it sure seems to be attempting to convince the readers that any misconceptions in the advertisement is that of Blunt, rather than the actual sponsors of the bill. The website also makes no attempt to draw a connection between the Independent Women’s Group and Blunt and there is no clear connection between the two other than their opposition to Carnahan.