The Blotter is reporting on some “edgy” online videos that have sprung up anonymously which trash GOP candidates.

The Daily Background blog noted the ads had been posted to several online forums by a MySpace account which appeared to belong to an employee of the Washington, D.C. political advertising firm Stevens, Reed, Curcio and Potholm. The firm gained prominence in 2004 by producing ads for the group “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,” attacking Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry for allegedly lying about his war record.

The firm now works for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign. Executives there told ABCNews neither the firm nor its employee was involved in creating or disseminating the ads.

“This is a complete fabrication and a hoax,” firm partners Rick Reed, Paul Curcio and Erik Potholm told ABCNews.com in an e-mailed statement. “No one at SRCP was involved in the creation or production of these ads or the personal content created and posted on MySpace which is attributed to one of our employees.”

A campaign spokeswoman for McCain told ABCNews.com neither the candidate nor his team had any knowledge of the videos.

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Note to Internet, enough with all these ‘girl’ videos. Obama Girl, Giuliani Girl, Hot 4 Hill. It seems like the net is now operating the same as regular television. One person sees a trend and ninety copies show up the next day.

ClickZ reports:

“Romney Joins Web Ad Buying, Clinton Drops Out, McCain Still Leads”

So far Obama & McCain are the two big advertisers I have seen on ElectionGeek with some text ads running for Romney.

Story at ClickZ:

Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign spent less than half what fellow candidate Senator John Edwards did on issue-based search ads in May, but McCain got far more bang for his buck. That’s according to a new report from search firm iCrossing, based on data from AdGooroo and Google AdWords, and a survey from Opinion Research.

With a thirty second ad according to the New Hampshire Union Leader.