Who Doctored the Webb flyer???

If you said "There is a big empty hole in the middle" You're right. Yet this is the image of the Webb flyer that accompanies the story in todays Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Doesn't it seem odd that a campaign would leave a such a large percentage of a political flyer empty? That's because they didn't...

Here is a link to the actual flyer if you have not yet seen it.

and here is the text that has, somehow, been removed from the flyer in the RTD:

Harris Miller, a corporate lobbyist, made his fortune by advocating the outsourcing of American jobs. Called the "anti-Christ of outsourcing," Miller claims outsourcing "is good for the American economy."3

For the few jobs that are left behind, Miller worked equally hard to increase the number of foreign workers coming in to work for lower wages. Miller's efforts have driven down wages and benefits for all American workers.

The AFL-CIO has labeled Miller "truly one of the bad guys."4

In February of this year the AFL-CIO commented, "Over and over again on core issues like trade, immigration, overtime protections and privatization of federal jobs, he's not only been on the wrong side, he's been galvanizing corporate efforts against us."

1. Attributed to Marie Antoinette shortly before she was beheaded in 1793.
2. Hindu Business Line, 10/15/2004
3. Information Week, 01/09/2006
4. Michael W. Gildea, Executive Director, Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO, 02/06/2006

Can you think that anyone who would rather talk about the "controversy" rather than the content of the flyer?

The Richmond Times-Dispatch must be called to the mat on this abrogation of journalistic principles. We must point this out to the Editors of the RTD and others such as Howard Kurtz of the WaPo/CNN and Media Matters.

It is despicable that any paper would print a doctored image less than 100 hours before an election. We probably cannot get a letter to the editor printed before Tuesday but perhaps we can get an apology.

(I have cross posted this on dailykos)

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