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10/23 http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html http://www.drudgereport.com/cut.jpg Dang, Obama supporters sur are dumm! he wrote the B backwards! and he had plenty of time to scratch it neatly with a dull knife! and when he punched her in the back of the head to knock her down he hit her in the left eye! stupids! \_ Did Drudge drag out the siren for this one? \_ This story has several large holes in it. \_ Even Michelle Malkin doubts this: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird \_ But the scary big black man attacked her because she supported the Real American! Quick! To the right wing noise machine! \_ "Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story" http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_re_us/attack_mccain_sticker |
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| www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Scratches Letter Into Her Face Woman Attacked, Letter Scratched Into Her Face Woman Robbed With Knife At Bloomfield ATM POSTED: 4:03 pm EDT October 23, 2008 UPDATED: 8:34 pm EDT October 23, 2008 PITTSBURGH -- A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, apparently because of her political views, Pittsburgh police said. According to WTAE's news exchange partners at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, was using an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 pm Wednesday when a man approached her and put a knife to her throat. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said. The Tribune-Review reported that Todd, who isn't familiar with the area, drove to a friend's house and together the pair located the Citizens Bank ATM at Liberty and Pearl where the attack happened and called police. Friends said she is in Pittsburgh volunteering for the McCain-Palin campaign. Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank's surveillance cameras. The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes. The Obama-Biden campaign released a statement, commenting on the attack. The statement said, "Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice." The McCain-Palin campaign also released a statement saying, "The McCain campaign is aware of the incident involving one of its volunteers. The campaign also confirms that Senator McCain and Governor Palin have both spoken to the woman." Download Our Free Desktop Alert For Breaking News Copyright 2008 by ThePittsburghChannel. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. |
| michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird -> michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/ I've reported on the great lengths that warped attention-seekers have gone to in perpetrating fake hate crimes, including beating themselves up, carving swastikas on their dorm room doors and walls, locking themselves in bathroom stalls, and burning down their own houses. Which is why I'm not jumping up and down with outrage over Drudge-promoted story of a McCain volunteer claiming to have been attacked by a black man whom she accused of carving a "B" in her face after spotting her McCain bumper sticker. She refused medical treatment after reporting the incident to police. she put it on her own face but forgot it would show up backwards. She may have been robbed and beaten but I think she added the "B".... Maaaaybe the alleged robber straddled her upside-down while carving it into her face. It needs to be said -- and since it is not said often enough by those on the other side of the political aisle, I'll say it again: We have enough low-lifes and thugs in the world running loose and causing campaign chaos and fomenting hatred without having to make them up. Hate crimes hoaxes -- by anyone, of any political persuasion, and of any color -- diminish us all. Either way, I hope that Todd gets the help she needs, that the whole truth comes out, and that justice is served on the perpetrator. And from a reader who is a police officer: "I'm a cop - 8th year now - and this McCain supporter attack just didn't pass the "smell test" as soon as I read about it. At this point, I'll guess the shiner was inflicted either by a friend willingly as part of this hoax or a boyfriend in a domestic dispute. A knife-wielding man robbed a McCain-Palin campaign volunteer and etched a "B" into her face after he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, the woman told Pittsburgh police. Police planned to administer a polygraph test to Ashley Todd, 20, because her statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred, police said. sat on her chest and pinned her hands down with his knees. So much for all those thinking the attacker was upside-down with her head between his knees. The College Politico Blog Archive Horrifying attack on McCain supporter in Pittsburgh; Update: Daily Kos has no sympathy, neither do conservatives? District Attorney of New York has indicted an Obama supporter that ripped a McCain sign out of the hands of a McCain supporter and beat her in the face with the wooden stick to which the sign was attached. Or what if the woman is actually a Republican mole, pretending to be a democratic mole who would masquerade as a McCain campaign worker with the explicit intention of creating a hoax? That way, when she is "exposed" as a Democratic mole it would actually discredit the Dems! as long as they don't find out she is actually a Republican mole... Too many time in my career I've seen officers discount a victim's story just because one thing bothered him. My first FTO told me something that has stuck with me ever since, "Never make assumptions. Everyone is lying to you until you discover the truth for yourself." If the officer of eight years has been to the scene and has seen all the evidence then he is in a possition to express his doubts. I have not been to the scene, have only read the stories and seen the photographs. The things that raise his suspicions are probably the same things that raise mine, but I won't go using my professional status to give greater weight to my doubts (which are purely assumptions on my part). Pitsburg PD are doing their job, I'll let them work their crimes without interference (and if she is lying she has committed a crime) and I hope they'll let me work mine without any from them. if I were going to fake a letter carved in my face, I'd realize how a mirror works, but I went to college in Austin, not College Station. But the more I learn about Obama and his mentors and associations, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Rasheed Khalili, Bernadine Dohrn, and William Ayers, the more I suspect he is a "Manchurian Candidate", a man who will do by guile what the Weather Underground couldn't do with bombs, destroy America as a democracy with a capitalist economic system. Patrick Britton said: So much for all those thinking the attacker was upside-down with her head between his knees. Still waiting for actual evidence to backup your skepticism Michelle. |
| news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081024/ap_on_re_us/attack_mccain_sticker Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, center, AP - Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, center, is led from Pittsburgh ... KDKA Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division. Todd, who is white, told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night. She now can't explain why she invented the story, Bryant said. Todd also told police she believes she cut the backward "B" onto her own cheek, but she didn't explain how or why, Bryant said. Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM when the man approached her from behind, put a knife with a 4- to 5-inch blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away. Todd told investigators that she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car, became angry and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground and telling her "you are going to be a Barack supporter," police said. She said he continued to punch and kick her while threatening "to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter," police said. She said he then sat on her chest, pinned her hands down with his knees and scratched a backward letter "B" into her face with a dull knife. Todd told police she didn't seek medical attention, but instead went to a friend's apartment nearby and called police about 45 minutes later. The Associated Press could not immediately locate Todd's family. Bryant said somebody charged with making a false report would typically be cited and sent a summons. But because police have concerns about Todd's mental health, they are consulting with the Allegheny County District Attorney. Todd remained in custody, and police were preparing to charge her with making a false report to police. "We had some serious cases going on, and this wasted so much time," Bryant said. "Our detectives have been working through the night just to verify the information we suspected was false from the beginning." Todd worked in New York for the College Republican National Committee before moving two weeks ago to Pennsylvania, where her duties included recruiting college students, the committee's executive director, Ethan Eilon, has said. Eilon declined to comment on the investigation Friday or to help The Associated Press contact Todd. Earlier Friday, police said they had found inconsistencies in Todd's story. They gave her a lie-detector test, but wouldn't release the polygraph results. Investigators also said bank surveillance photos did not back up the woman's initial story of being attacked at an ATM. Police interviewed Todd after she contacted police Wednesday night and again on Thursday, Bryant said. They asked her to come back Friday, ostensibly to help police put together a sketch of the man. "They just started talking to her and she just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth," Bryant said. Bryant said it doesn't appear that anyone else put the woman up to the false report. Police suspected all along that Todd might not be telling the truth, starting with the fact that the "B" was backward, Bryant said. "We have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don't generally mutilate someone's face like that," Bryant said. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |