October Surprise Averted

When I read about this yesterday, it send shivers down my spine at the thought of the right making a huge issue out of this incident. Now it's completely neutralized and even blown back at them by the whole thing being a hoax. When is this kind of insanity going to end?

I lived in Boston during the whole Charles Stuart case where an insane white man killed his pregnant wife (on the way home from their childbirth class!) in an African American neighborhood near the hospital so that he could accuse a black man of committing the crime.  The police went into overdrive--arresting black guys right and left, and even finding one they thought for sure had committed the murder.  Then, of course, we find out that it was the white husband who did the deed, setting up an entire African American community as a scapegoat.

Stuart himself committed suicide by jumping off the Mystic River Bridge (yes, the same Mystic River as in the movie of the same name) and the wife's family, a really wonderful group of people, set up a scholarship fund for children living in the neighborhood (Mission Hill) where the crime had been committed.

Maybe Ashley Todd's family should do the same for the people in the neighborhood where their daughter did so much damage?

HOAX: McCain volunteer admits "Obama supporter mutilated me" story was a lie

via AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth by John Aravosis (DC) on 10/24/08

This photo is of a hoax. A McCain staffer who thought it might be cute to invent her own hate crime and blame it on black men in general and Barack Obama in particular. What a freaking witch. Of course, she's such an idiot that she claimed the mean black man carved a "B" for "Barack" on her face after he found out she worked for McCain - except the B was carved backwards, like it would be if you carved it in your own face while looking in a mirror. What a hateful, stupid woman.




From KDKA:

Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter "B" in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

The commander added that Todd will face charges; but police have not commented on what those charges will be.