McCain volunteer attacked and mutilated in Pittsburgh

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Capitalizt

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If you read on her blog, she says she's going out to find an ATM machine.. Honestly, who does that? And she actually stops to post an update ON THE WAY to the ATM machine ("Pretty sure I'm on the wrong side of Pittsburg".) Could she be setting up for something? hmm...

http://lifeinthefield.com/users/ashley-todd

And you know, we humans have a habit of protecting our faces when a knife comes around. That "B" is quite well defined. It looks more like a fingernail scratch to me.

hoax.
 

Dari

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Maybe the attacker was a facial artist with a specialization in "facial carvings under distress"? As for the backwards "B", that could've been meant to add pizzaz to his work.
 

midway

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After looking at the pics, and reading more, I'm calling bullshit on this one. The backwards B, not knowing where it happened... it doesn't add up.
 

bozack

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Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Dont worry, the DNC will investigate her, and it will turn out she didnt have a license to have $60 in cash anyway.

lol
 

Pepsei

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victim twittered about her trip

The Political Machine has discovered that the victim apparently posted Twitter updates, apparently minutes before the attack.

* atodd: Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers- I'm phonebanking so let's all work together and get John McCain elected #litf08

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:55:41 +0000 *

atodd: Oh the blog I will be making soon... Its been a rough night #litf08 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:52:58 +0000 *

atodd: Pretty sure I'm on the wrong side of pittsburgh Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:45:59 +0000 *

atodd: Stubbornly searching for a bank of america to avoid ATM fees. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:23:21 +0000

Todd told police that the attack occurred around 9pm. Todd's Twitter updates seem to be posting with the wrong time zone, 3 hours later.
 

OrByte

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is the "B" really backwards?

I figured that the picture just flipped... :eek:

you know how the "B" can get backwards? if it is self inflicted.

 

ranmaniac

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Originally posted by: OrByte
is the "B" really backwards?

I figured that the picture just flipped the image.. :eek:

you know how the "B" can get backwards? if it is self inflicted.

Or he was hovering over her and carved the B from above her head, although the wound looks like something from a nail file and not a knife wound. Is there any EMTs/RNs that could comment on the photo? It's definitely a fishy story, which is why even Fox News is keeping it's distance until further confirmation.
 

IronWing

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Originally posted by: ranmaniac
Originally posted by: OrByte
is the "B" really backwards?

I figured that the picture just flipped the image.. :eek:

you know how the "B" can get backwards? if it is self inflicted.

Or he was hovering over her and carved the B from above her head, although the wound looks like something from a nail file and not a knife wound. Is there any EMTs/RNs that could comment on the photo? It's definitely a fishy story, which is why even Fox News is keeping it's distance until further confirmation.

And yet, not knowing the facts, they ran the story anyway. The MSM in a nutshell.
 

Dari

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Taken from politico.com:http://www.politico.com/blogs/...1008/The_letter_B.html
I was a nurse in a downtown Detroit ER - so I've seen lots and lots of beating victims. And I spent a while looking at the photo of the alleged victim. Biggest problem is that nice, neat, recognizable "B" carefully scratched on her face. TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE when you have a victim flailing around and fighting back as if her life depended on it - because a young white girl being attacked be a big black man with a knife would believe she was fighting for her life. Nope, only way that "B" could have been made is if she held her face still for as long as it took to incredibly perfectly make multiple tiny scratches to create that perfect B. There would also be random scratches from whatever instrument was used as she would have been thrashing her head side to side to avoid injury. Her eye bruises are consistent with a face off in a barroom brawl - not a surprise attack on the street. Pretty hard to land blows perfectly on the eyes and no place else when you have a victim fighting you wildly. And she would have other bruises on her face. The bruises around her eyes are also dark already, and look a few hours older than the obviously nice fresh red scratches that form the B. No wonder she didn't go to an ER. ER staff would have caught her in this lie in a hot minute. Too many other oddities in the story she tells. The pieces just do not fit. What a pathetically amateur attempt by the McCain fringe elements to bring the spectre of the big black man despoiling the young white girl as a desperate last minute attempt to turn people against a black Presidential candidate who is winning. Remember how they were still lynching uppity black boys for messing with innocent white girls back in the 30s and 40s? Well, welcome back, lynch mobs, to save a dying McCain campaign. Me thinks the McCain campaign has another public relations problem on their hands here. No wonder their statement seemed a little held back. The right wing bloggers and probably Faux News are going to go crazy with this - and it is going to end up blowing up in McCain's face. Can the McCain campaign possibly become an even bigger disaster?


Michelle Malkin has her own doubts:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008...-smells-awfully-weird/
 

feelingshorter

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If you were to carve a B on someone's face, why would it be backwards? Looks like someone did it in a mirror and forgot to think backwards. And did she just sit there and let the guy carve it? Her description of a tall back guy wearing "shiny" shoes is hilariously typical. Can she describe any more details of the guy? Plus if it is at an ATM, there will be photos. We will discover if she is lying in a second.
 

daniel49

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hmm not as good as some of the soldier hoaxes a while back...she needs more practice.:(
 

Juddog

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Anybody else getting flashbacks of the incident with Morton Downey Jr.? Where he supposedly had some nazi spray paint a swastika on his face but it turned out backwards like when you would draw it in a mirror. Plus a big 6'4 black guy, you'd think she would be struggling more while he carved her face, the wound wouldn't be so clean.
 

rudder

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q]Originally posted by: SP33Demon
It was a hoax people.[/quote]


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The police plan to administer a polygraph test since her story seems to have some holes in it.
 

dphantom

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Appears as others indicate this is nothing but a hoax. Another example of the lack of journalistic integrity. Rush to get the story out then check facts.

Really makes one wonder how in the world we can get accurate information to make decisions such as who to vote and what to think of the financial bailout as just two recent/upcoming examples.

 

heyheybooboo

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Originally posted by: Pepsei
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from her page - "Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths off, but its better if you do."

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