Oct 24th, 2008 | Ashley Todd survey
"If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over..."
By now you've probably heard about the Ashley Todd story. The 20-year-old McCain campaign volunteer claimed she was robbed outside a Pittsburgh ATM and that her alleged attacker, a 6'4" black man, beat her after seeing a McCain sticker on her car. Todd claimed the man said, "You are going to be a Barack supporter" before carving a "B" into her face.
"Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test," reported the HuffingtonPost earlier today. "This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander [said] that Todd confessed to making up the story."
The latest developments have Fox News executive vice president John Moody adding, "If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."
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have you seen who OWNS the media? And how they were giving Bush a genital spongebath until Hurricane Katrina?
That's because liberals control the media.
But the publicity was so much less. Did Obama's publicity machine put out information about it?
An Obama supporter did something similar a few weeks ago. Some people are sick no matter what "side" they are on.
straight to the point answers -- this isn't what I'm thinking at all.
Karl Rove's henchmen are so amateurish.Imagine not checking their facts...
And it was a McCain spokesman who dreamed this up: http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php
I am relieved that this is a hoax, though. Nobody deserves that kind of treatment, no matter who they're voting for!
If individual supporters are resorting to literally beating themselves up, then things are pretty desparate.If I was a republican, I wouldn't beat myself up about it.