Bogus Caller ID Info Traced To Magic Elves, But Tom Smith Paying St. Luke's Legal Bills Anyway

The Associated Press reports that everyone thinks it was a terrible idea for the House Republican Campaign Committee's robocalls to look like they were coming from St. Luke's hospitals or the Adair County Ambulance District, but no one has any idea how voters across the state received such garbage.  Tom Smith, the owner of the company hired by the HRCC to blast the calls (and who also happens to be a staffer for outgoing Speaker Ron Richard), said he had no idea that his company was lying to voters until he learned about it from the media.  HRCC chairman Steve Tilley says "we think that is not a correct tactic." 

These denials from the Party of Personal Responsibility leave only one remaining possibility: elves (or possibly leprechauns ).  Since it's clear that the caller ID data in at least two separate instances was magically inputted without the knowledge of human beings, we are left to conclude that it was magical creatures who did the deed.

Did I mention that Smith's company, Survey Saint Louis, is paying St. Luke's legal bills to make the case go away?   Oh yeah:

Four days before the election, St. Luke's Health System went to court and obtained a temporary restraining order against Display Stuff LLC, doing business as Survey Saint Louis LLC, which it alleged was the source of the automated calls displaying fake caller IDs. That order expired after the election and the lawsuit is being dismissed after Survey Saint Louis agreed to pay the attorneys' fees for St. Luke's, said the health center's attorney, Bernard Rhodes.

Smith must just be cutting that check because he's a charitable man, and not because he or his firm are guilty in any way.  I repeat: Smith and his company are not responsible for anything their firm does, and they're just paying for St. Luke's bills because they're very nice people.