Dole's ad below shows Hagan as a nuisance yapping dog and says she is often called a "fibber."
The ad does not specify who "they" are who call Hagan "Fibber Kay."
The Dole campaign said they did not come up with the nickname, but they did not know who did.
"We're not sure who coined it, but we hear people call Kay Hagan 'Fibber Kay' on the campaign trail and we hear it frequently," said spokesman Hogan Gidley.
A search of North Carolina newspapers, blogs and Web sites did not return any references to "Fibber Kay" from before the ad began airing, and nearly all written since were about the ad itself.
The ad does not name any of the supposed "fibs" that Hagan has made.
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Dole spokesperson Hogan Gidley told me Friday that the campaign didn't coin the title, but he didn't point to an exact origin, either. "We hear her called that on the campaign trail pretty frequently ... [from] people who have seen her advertisements and who have heard her speak," Gidley said. "When you tell that many fibs, something like that is bound to stick." The fibs she tells, he added, are about Dole's record on issues like immigration and the 2004 tobacco buyout. (Gidley also insisted that despite calling Hagan a liar, the spot isn't an attack ad. The Hagan camp strongly disagrees.)
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