By Kyle Whitmire | AL.com

A new 100-second campaign ad Sen. Luther Strange shared on Twitter Tuesday night tells some tall, strange tales. It's the first campaign ad for the special election to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions, and considering a Senate super PAC just dropped more than $2.6 million behind Strange in this race, you'd better get ready to see a lot more like it.

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The ad begins with Strange steering his pickup truck into a car wash. It appears covered in the sort of filth you might get out the back end of a sick cow. There's a lot of BS in this ad, and if you're not careful, you might get some on you.

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Kyle Whitmire | kwhitmire@al.com

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“We sent him to Montgomery to clean up corruption and Big Luther Strange kept his word,” the narrator says. “Fighting corrupt Montgomery insiders and special interests.”

The first part of this sentence is arguably true. Strange defeated incumbent Troy King in the 2010 GOP primary, in large part because King stunk of connections to gambling interests.

The second half of the sentence is where things begin to fall apart.

Next, we see headlines from a fictional newspaper called the “Valley Times.” You know it's fiction, because anybody who ever wrote a story like these couldn't get a job at the Onion.

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For instance: “Strange will investigate Bentley.”

This is particularly galling, considering that Strange never admitted to investigating Bentley for any such headline ever to have been written. In fact, while Strange was soliciting his appointment from the governor, he said it had been unfair for the press to say that any such investigation was taking place.

Unfair, in the sense, that the investigation was totally true and happening at the time Strange was soliciting an appointment from the man he was supposed to be investigating.

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Believe me, if Robert Bentley had pled guilty to a “sex coverup,” I would cut somebody if they tried to get between me and that headline.

In reality, he pled out to some misdemeanor campaign finance violations. Not as sexy, I know.

Despite any of that business, though, when Bentley did resign from office, Strange was getting situated as Bentley's appointee to the United States Senate — an appointment he solicited while his office was investigating Bentley.

If Strange thinks that counts as cleaning up corruption, then he must be drinking windshield washer fluid behind the car wash.

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More breaking news from the Valley Times.

This ad seems to suggest that Strange had something to do with the trial and conviction of former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard.

There’s just one problem with that.

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Because Strange had campaign business ties to Hubbard, he had to recuse himself from the case. An acting attorney general oversaw Hubbard's prosecution and Deputy Attorney General Matt Hart prosecuted the case at trial.

By recusing, Strange was supposed to have nothing to do with it, and if he’s now saying that wasn’t the case, then maybe that’s the sort of issue Hubbard might find useful on appeal.

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More fake news from the Valley Times. Just so we’re clear here, below is the real headline after the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling.

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The ad then proceeds to force-feed us rancid red meat like it’s chow time in Guantanamo and we’re the inmates. But then it gets to this.

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That's right. Sen. Strange will help Donald Trump drain the swamp. The ad forgets to mention that before Strange was elected to office in Alabama … he was a registered Washington lobbyist for Transocean, one of the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.

But maybe this ad has it all wrong. Maybe this is the super PAC saying these things and just not getting the facts straight. But nope.

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This ad was approved by Luther Strange.

Watch the full ad below.

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