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Ohio GOP Photoshops Very Big Sign Into Tea Party Rally

Eric Kleefeld | April 28, 2010, 2:31PM

The Ohio Republican Party is being lampooned on both liberal and conservative blogs and message boards, over a mailer featuring a sign Photoshopped into a Tea Party rally -- a very big sign.

The sign shows a Tea Party rally, along with a sign "Vote Steve Stivers May 4th," referring to a candidate in next week's House primaries. Stivers has the party's endorsement for the GOP nomination to run against freshman Democrat Mary Jo Kilroy, who narrowly defeated Stivers in the 2008 open-seat race.

The sign is added in. It is also very large, relative to the people and other protest signs in the rest of the photo. As has been pointed out elsewhere, the sign would have to be 30-50 feet high. The liberal Plunderbund site gave it a satirical news headline: "58 Tea Party protesters killed by falling giant Stivers sign."

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