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We knew Coleman would be sweating bullets over being called out on his lack of oversight. Coleman even tried to get Joe Lieberman to help, even though Leiberman was critical of the oversight performance. What do they do? They scrambled to put together a defensive ad touting Coleman’s oversight. As Rachel E. Stassen-Berger writes:

At first, the Coleman campaign dismissed the complaint saying others were better equipped to handle such an investigation, Coleman has a strong record on oversight and he supported the idea of war funding oversight. His campaign also sent two notes to supporters rebutting Franken’s claims. On Wednesday, the campaign added a new line of defense — in the person of Sen. Joe Lieberman. 

But Franken’s line of attack must have gotten under the campaign’s skin because now it has bought air time in order to defend Coleman’s record.

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Nothing in the ad pops out as immediately false although it does make some opinionated claims that are tough to verify one way or the other.

Well, false or not, it certainly distracts from the big story on Coleman here.