I’m beginning to think conservative partisans may not be able to make it til Election Day. They’re literally starting to beat themselves up in lame-brained attempts to make Obama supporters somehow appear evil and dastardly. From John Moody, executive VP for Fox News, writing on the Fox News blogs yesterday (yes, Fox):
Less than two weeks before we vote for a new president, a white woman says a black man attacked her, then scarred her face, and says there was a political motive for it.
Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old white volunteer for John McCain’s presidential campaign, says she was mugged at an ATM machine in Pittsburgh (my hometown) by a big black man. She further says he threw her down, then disfigured her by carving the letter “B” into her face with a sharp implement when he saw that she supported McCain, not Barack Obama.
Ms. Todd is a McCain campaign volunteer. Photos of her bloodied, black and blue face were all over the news yesterday.
Turns out Ms. Todd made the whole thing up; self-inflicted wounds and all.
Mr. Moody of Fox News concluded his essay with this line:
If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.
He reports. You decide.
Think about it. All in the same 24 hour span we see conservative partisans cold-heartedly using Sen. Obama’s dying grandmother as just another political tire iron to whack him with; and then GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin claims terrorists who bomb abortion clinics don’t necessarily need to be called “terrorists”; and finally McCain volunteer Ashley Todd put the exclamation point on the bizarre, desperation-induced hysteria that seems to have taken hold of conservative partisans by literally scarring herself for life and leading police on a faked wild goose chase.
All these things are being done because these folks think that somehow they’re helping the McCain candidacy. What was it that Sarah Palin said the other day about “real America”?
This pattern of over-the-top partisan muck-raking, my friends, is about as unreal as you can get.
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PS: Could the “B” she carved on her cheek be backwards because she cut herself using a mirror?
She’ll have to live with her own partisan stupidity every time she looks in a mirror. She’s 20 years old. That’s a lot of living, and remembering how stupid this hoax was, left to do.
Sad. Just sad.
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Update: ArchPundit reveals Ill Review editor Fran Eaton (mentioned above) bought this hoax hook, line and sinker. Not that she’s never been duped before, especially not one that fits neatly with her loathing for Sen. Obama. Nope. Never.
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October 24, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Mr. Cheeseburger 9000
It’s also hopeless. Checkmate soon for McCain/Palin.
October 24, 2008 at 7:28 pm
beyondoutrageous
Ashley Todd needs to borrow Gov. Sarah Palin’s make-up artist.
October 24, 2008 at 9:25 pm
d.
I bought it hook, line and sinker, too. I stopped to consider the backwards “B,” and quickly dismissed it as my unfair bias against anything associated with the McCain Campaign.
The problem isn’t that she bought it — it’s that she lacks the integrity to follow up on her original post with an acknowledgement of the fraud.
And that makes her party to that fraud, as far as I’m concerned.
October 24, 2008 at 11:53 pm
robnesvacil
BO – The McCain campaign likely can’t afford to lose their highest paid worker for even a day before the election…
Imagine if it were taxpayers that were funding the McCain-Palin staff… “Fiscal” conservatives everywhere would be up in arms.
Actually, who am I kidding? They’d be falling all over themselves making up excuses and seeing rainbows in order to fluff off the extravagance.
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D – Perhaps you are correct. But why would anyone expect an uber-con such as Ms. Eaton to bother admitting she was duped? Such admissions are apparently more rare than the partisan pixie dust she sprinkles she fills her red T-bird’s tank with to give it that extra oomph of Palin Power.