According to Michael Sneed in Tuesday’s Chicago Sun-Times, mayoral brother William “Bill” Daley is “steamed” over a new John McCain ad that blasts Barack Obama by linking him to supposed Obama buddies, “convicted felon” Tony Rezko, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who carries “a legacy of federal and state investigations,” as well as Illinois Senate president Emil Jones, Jr. (“under ethical cloud”). But first on the list of sinister associations—even before “his money man” Tony Rezko—is Obama’s “economic adviser,” whom the voice on the ad tells us is not only the “Mayor’s brother,” but also one of those creatures so prevalent in McCain’s upper echelon—a “lobbyist.”

The ad seems sleazy and unfair—although none other than the New York Times which McCain campaign senior adviser Steve Schmidt declared yesterday “completely, totally, 150 percent in the tank for” Obama, fact checked it and, under “accuracy,” declared that it contains “nothing that is outright wrong.”