Kasich Ad Uses 23 Yr Old Partisan Rookie Hack as Credible Source (or Sorcerer)

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Kasich is about to launch a new ad later today attacking Governor Ted Strickland for running false and misleading ads. In the spot, the Kasich campaign cites one source for their attack on Strickland : National Review blogger Mytheos Holt. And Holt is hardly a credible source. Until last spring, the poor kid was writing for The Wesleyan Argus in an ultra-conservative column called "Mytheology" before he graduated and grabbed a desk at NRO. He's also grabbed coffee for folks at Accuracy in Media and shadowy Bush group, Freedom's Watch.

With a crack resume like that, it's no wonder Team Kasich swooped in to use him as the only credible journalist willing to shill for the team.

In the spot, he's quoted calling Ted's spots "blatantant misrepresentation of the truth.... ridiculous... not one sentence in context."

With youthful exaggerations like that, perhaps he should have run for State Treasurer.

UPDATE : BSB has a picture of him dressed as Darth Mytheos, and like the photo in this post, that one was found online. We aren't making this up. Really.

Here's the spot on YouTube, via Plunderbund.