AP ARTICLE October 24, 2008:
Pittsburgh police say 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. Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department’s investigations division, says 20-year-old Ashley Todd is being charged with making a false report to police. Todd, of College Station, Texas, initially said a black man robbed her at knifepoint Wednesday night and then cut her cheek after seeing a McCain sticker on her car.
Brian:
Is it nonsensical to ask whether someone put Ms. Todd up to this task? Yesterday John Moody, the Executive VP of Fox news, wrote a periodical asserting that if the Todd incident is proven factual, voters will immediately link the event to Obama and begin to question his candidacy, if proven a hoax McCain will lose. Here is an excerpt from the article:
If Ms. Todd’s allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee. If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting. For Pittsburgh, a city that has done so much to shape American history over the centuries, another moment of truth is at hand (Moody, 2008).
The front page of foxnews.com has now posted an article titled “McCain Campaign Volunteer Admits Alleged Attack Was a Hoax” (http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/mccain-campaign-volunteer-admits-alleged-attack-hoax/).
The police are still treating her as a victim, so the verdict is still out on whether she intentionally orchestrated the event or if she really was mugged. To say the least, my eyebrows are raised on whether this was organized with more than just Todd and close friends. An event of this matter has a “stickiness” appeal to it for our national media. Airwaves are always filled with those recent “missing child” non-societal level news segments. A race related hate crime to a McCain supporter on the 10 days out from the end of this election would have just the spice to last for the next few days. If I were a McCain supporter and I wanted to rock the election boat this may be just an event that could shock the racial fears underlying our society into action, or inaction at the polls if you will.
My second daily thought deals with McCain’s recent negative advertisement that alters Biden’s voice to make him sound like a serial killer or a terrorist:
The typed text is a throwback to the iconic serial killer movies that we all know, love, and fear. You will notice the crying girl. I was immediately reminded of the LBJ Daisy advertisement. “These are the stakes, vote for McCain or suffer from widespread chaos and terrorism.” If nuclear war were a credible threat to the American public at the moment, a Nuclear bomb exploding could have been a perfect cherry to top this bowl of ice cream.
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from FOX story quoted above:
"not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee"
Huh? WHA WHA WHAT???
So let me get this right: The mythic large black man assaults a college aged white woman and the natural reaction of the voter is "wait, maybe I don't know enough about this Obama guy."
So when FOX says "not because they are racists" they really mean "because they are racists."
Today's Talking Points memo argues that the McCain campaign "racially charged" the Todd scandal before the "facts" of the incident were available to the public:
The McCain spokesperson's claims (...) is significant because it reveals a McCain official pushing a version of the story that was far more explosive than the available or confirmed facts permitted at the time.
The claims to KDKA from the McCain campaign were included in an early story that ran late yesterday on KDKA's Web site. The paragraphs containing these assertions were quickly removed from the story after the Obama campaign privately complained that KDKA was letting the McCain campaign spin a racially-charged version of the story before the facts had been established, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php
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