ICYMI: A Picture's Worth A Thousand Distortions

Toledo Blade - Brown calls energy-tax ads cynical

“FactCheck.org, an operation of nonprofit Annenberg Public Policy Center, said the claim that it raises taxes "on energy" is "debatable, to say the least.”

“Mr. Fielder did not respond directly to whether facial hair was added to the picture of Mr. Brown's face.”

Cleveland Plain Dealer - Shady pics and video: Groups backing Josh Mandel, Sherrod Brown having fun and fits

“First comes the U.S. Chamber of Commerce ad with a picture of a U.S. senator badly in need of a shave. Except representatives of the senator, Democrat Sherrod Brown of Ohio, say the Chamber of Commerce manipulated an Associated Press photo that showed a clean-shaven senator, doctoring it to made him look shifty.”

Cincinnati Enquirer - U.S. Chamber gives Sen. Brown gritty new look in political ad

“J.P. Fielder, a Chamber spokesman, said “I don’t have an answer to where the photo was changed, or if it was.”

The Hill - Ohio Dems accuse Chamber of doctoring photo in Brown ad

“A spokesman for the Chamber, J.P. Fielder, repeatedly declined to confirm or deny that the group doctored the photo in the ad.”

Cincinnati Enquirer - LTE: Sen. Brown dedicated, effective

“The million dollar attack ads against Sen. Sherrod Brown are downright despicable.”