This McCain volunteer lady, who says she was beaten up and had a (backwards) “B” carved into her face by an angry black Obama supporter:

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Admits she made the whole thing up:

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.

Wonkette did a fine job of keeping tabs on the story, from her degenerating truthiness to her Twittering of the assault. This is the most fucked presidential campaign in the long history of totally fucked presidential campaigns.

UPDATE: As people in the comments keep pointing out, the VP of Fox News said, before this whole story unraveled:

“If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.”

I eagerly await the McCain/Palin concession speech, later this afternoon.

63 replies on “It Just Keeps Getting Classier”

  1. WOW. Props to the commenters who called this yesterday. It sounded fishy (especially the 6’4″ black man who supposedly did it) but I didn’t think anyone could stoop so low. I hope she gets to share a cell with a 6’4″ black woman.

  2. #49 I didn’t know about the consent decree regarding racism on the burgh police. I lived there most of my life (6 years in Bloomfield even) and have always said western Pa is the most racist place I’ve ever been and I’ve lived all over the country. Funny they’d need to import any from Tx though.

  4. They’re starting to flip out.

    Kind of like the radical religious extremists always do in the first decade after every end of the century.

    They always think they’re getting a Rapture.

    But they’re always getting a Rupture.

    Sad. Very sad.

  8. @50,

    Yeah, I actually looked up the intersection on Google Maps and looked at the street view, because I’m obsessive like that. There are restaurants and cafes aplenty within feet of that ATM. I can absolutely believe that a robber could get away with a mugging there, but a protracted assault? No fucking way.

  9. just didn’t see this coming? i was just starting to switch over and vote for grampy after this innocent got beat down.

    what a sick fuck. i still think it can get lower with the mcShame/grandma p *ahem* campaign.

  11. I think the only McCain boosters left are the Jonestown-type people that would drink poisoned Kool-aid if they believed it would keep the “black muslin” out of the white house.

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