this is important:
this is important:
yesterday the right-wing news media released a story wherein it was alleged that a white john mccain volunteer from texas
was attacked by a black obama supporter. the mccain volunteer claimed that she was beaten and robbed and that
he carved a 'B' into her face with a knife.
drudge report and fox and etc all ran with the story without actually checking it out(aka-doing research).
then today people noticed some things, like the "B" was backwards, and was more of a scratch.
the police investigated thoroughly and found that her story was completely fabricated.
the right wing media were quick to pounce on this without doing any investigating, the right wing and the gop
were quick to pounce on this because they thought it would incite people to racist fears about obama.
the right wing media screwed up and are now tucking their collective republican tail between their legs
and retreating.
it was a completely made up story and fox and matt drudge fell for it.
now the mccain volunteer who made up the story is facing police charges for making utterly false claims.
hey, republicans, if you want to win, why not try to win honestly?
can you republicans even conceive of trying to win a campaign based on the issues as opposed to lies, slander, and racism?
it's disgusting how quick the republicans tried to latch onto a fabricated story about a fake racist attack.
utterly disgusting.
here's the story:
Police: Campaign Volunteer Made Up Attack Story
A Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Ashley Todd confessed to making up the story & is facing charges
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Police tell KDKA that a campaign volunteer 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.
i actually had to...
after deleting my final post from the old website where i chastised Moby for silently tolerating the homophobia, hatred and ignorance that made the old boards so vile (pearls before swine),i stopped visiting the site and buying his music. can't allow my money to support someone who provides an outlet for homphobia, hatred and ignorance.
a friend recently gave me a free download of Last Night.
thought i might stop and see how things had devolved here.
the boards are gone!
was it something i said?
thought things were looking up but then found posts from the ironically named -sacred dignity- proving that homophobia, hatred and ignorance will continue planting seeds of idiocy.
while i am happy that newmonkey was able to laugh...
it makes me weep to live in a society so ruled by fear and ignorance.
sacred dignity used nearly all the code words and scare tactics "liberal bias in the mainstream media"...allegations of murder and a "former gay lover"...
re. the scared, undignified comment "a quasi-christian (pascal's wager is something you should take look at if you're still wavering)?"
i was raised a fundamentalist born-again christian. i see the error (terror) of living by a literal interpretation of 2000 year old text that is barely decipherable by todays bests linguists. we have NO IDEA what those "scriptures" originally intended to say and teach. we are told what the then church-ruled leaders want us to beLIEve.
as for "pascal's wager"
i will live my life serving my community and humanity to the best of my ability with no hope for eternal reward or fear of eternal damnation in the afterlife.
that is far more Christ-like than any "christian" i have ever met.
peace be with you
Obama 08
"vitamin-k looks like the baby jesus" wackyweed
Exactly one week until the election...
Exactly one week until the election...lots of luck at the polls!...the positive thing in all this online discussion of views is that a lot more people will be voting this time around... -J
Major elections turn people into psychos!
This is very disturbing. This lady needs serious psychological intervention. I honestly wasn't surprised though. This is just the kind of desperate stunt I have been waiting for from the republicans.
As a side note, my brother-in-law is a police sergeant in Pittsburgh. He couldn't believe this made national news. It's just some crazy girl looking for attention.
earthquakes, market collapse, slow sales...blame it on the gop!
exactly who is the "right-wing media" that participated along with this hoax that you speak of?
every news outlet from cnn to foxnews reported the same event nearly point by point with the qualification of a "no comment from the local police". it was based on the same news release from Pittsburgh yesterday not drudge, fox news, rush limbaugh, jay severin, national review, weekly standard, ann coulter, hannity or dinesh d'souza, etc.
are you trying to connect one person who happens to support mccain with an entire political party?
if so, what do you think about sandra berhard's comments about sarah palin and Christianity since i know you're such a dedicated activist for women issues and that you're a quasi-christian (pascal's wager is something you should take look at if you're still wavering)?
are you suggesting the right-leaning media outlets are somehow responsible or complicit in the suppression of accuracy, objectivity or journalistic integrity in this unfortunate episode?
Don't get me started on the liberal bias within the mainstream media.
and why are you conveniently silent on the issue of convicted crook tony rezko, given that this guy is a lot closer to obama than the girl is to mccain? is obama using dirty money to finance his home and political career?
what do you think about donald young's untimely (or convenient) death? Don't know who he is? donald young was the former choir master at reverend wright's united church of christ in chicago and the former gay lover of senator obama, according to a signed affidavit.
I was actually going to
I was actually going to respond to you then I read the last sentence "the former gay lover of senator obama, according to a signed affidavit." And I burst out laughing and you made my day.
The right.. what would we do without you? Oh yes, live in a decent country..