Just when you thought that The Washington Post has gone off the deep end by endorsing both Creigh Deeds and Jody Wagner (more on her endorsement in another post). The Post has decided to focus their attention on Bob McDonnell’s hair.

“McDonnell laughed when asked whether he uses dye to conceal the silver strands in his never-out-of-place head of hair. He insists that he doesn’t apply color; wife Maureen said a combination of natural extracts like chamomile and green tea and the summer sun have altered the hue of his hair,” Walker wrote.

This intrigued us. Chamomile? Green tea? Was McDonnell’s wife referring to some kind of hair product? Or is there actual brewing going on in the McDonnell household?

“I think we found the one topic upon which both campaigns and all partisans agree: Bob McDonnell’s got a good head of hair,” responded McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin to the inquiry, noting that with two weeks left in the campaign, hair products aren’t exactly the campaign’s most pressing concern.

We caught up with Deeds’s 20-year old son Gus over the weekend and asked him what his father puts in his hair. The question was kind of a gimme–Deeds’s staffers had been trading the passage on McDonnell’s hair all morning. Here’s what Gus had to say: “He does not put tea in his hair. He’s all natural, almost to a fault. He colors his hair with early mornings and hard work and life. No tea.”

This is what the Post now considers newsworthy, instead of reporting on the real issues at stake. What is this a newspaper or a fashion publication?