Confirmed: It Was A Hoax

Ashley Todd comes clean:

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter “B” in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Of course she made it up.

Now will Drudge, with his giant red “MUTILATION!” lettering, and others in the barbecue media apologize for stirring up every racist redneck freakdog in America?

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  • ceu

    Apologize? (snort) When’s the last time they apologized for anything?

  • JG

    so, for the record, every right wing smear and talking point has been picked up and aired by the BBQ, liberal media.I really think the next phase of the blogosphere (after the election) is to really debunk this whole notion of the liberal media–Arianna is correct–I truly believe if it wasn’t for YouTube and the blogs, Mccain may have been able to achieve what Bush did–but no longer. However, the right wing is still able to manipulate the MSM while at the same time they are allowed to affix the label of liberal media to the MSM–this two-fer is an advantage and it must stop–we have a corporate media, not a liberal media–and if (I say if) the Dems control both houses and the Presidency, the corporate media’s fake balance will kick into overdrive–the Dems and the blogs must push back.

  • dontpanic23

    Stupid ninny. You can’t get away with shit like that anymore, especially in this political atmosphere. I’m still waiting to see if a certain Kos theory is reconfirmed if a certain baby comes a month or two late.

  • J M Ashby

    First the 22.5k for makeup, and now this. I can’t wait for KO tonight.

  • http://www.intoxination.net IntoxiNation

    Shockingly enough, Drudge does have it in the big red letters now. What next? Cats and dogs sleeping together….

  • http://livefreeordie08.wordpress.com LiveFreeOrDie08

    Regarding Palin’s 5th: The reason she’s not releasing medical records is she knows she’s gonna lose, and if she releases them it will clearly show that she was never pregnant, and it’ll blow up any chances she has for a political future (or any future for that matter).She’ll release them in 2012 when the baby thing is old news. By then they will have tightened up the story on why Trigger is living with the newlyweds…to give the two babies a chance to bond, and it’s a better place for Tigger than the campaign trail. Whatever.

  • NotAPollStat

    At 2:07pm ET, MSNBC’s Alex Witt(less) reported that Police said the story was a hoax. She repeated several times that police said the story was a hoax. The host, Kevin Corke, had to question Witt(less) about the supposed victim’s naming of an alleged suspect (Bravo for him!) At that point, Witt(less) HAD to report that it was supposedly a 6ft.5in. BLACK man.I thought it was telling that Witt(less) NEVER once reported that the woman CONFESSED, only that police said it was a hoax.Ergo, wingnuts, a POLICE CONSPIRACY!

  • Pfing2

    OMG! OMG! OMG!I called this the instant this was reported.CHECK OUT THE “B”!It’s BACKWARDS!!!!!!!!!!THE MUGGER WOULD HAVE HAD TO PURPOSELY CARVE backwards!!OR……………………THE IDIOT WAS LOOKING IN A MIRROR AND DID IT TO HERSELF!More proof that the GOP & it’s nutjob supporters need to take a bottle of Xanex & call it a week!

  • ShelleyBee

    How long before she appears as an analyst on Fox News like the “Inadequate Black Man” lady? They’ll hire anybody.

  • McWolcott

    As soon as I saw what she did, I thought of this movie called A Slipping Down Life where this woman carved a name on her forehead by looking in a mirror.What a stupid, stupid woman.Excellent example of the lengths people will go to for publicity.

  • El Mystico

    Okay, well, now that we know it was a hoax:1. The obvious backwardness of the B2. The B looked NOTHING like it was slashed into her face with a knife.3. A fresh black eye would be a lot more swollen… at least more than none. It was none swollen.4. If someone has just cut your face open with a knife… you would probably be bleeding heavily, so unless she had a field suturing kit on her, they probably wouldn’t have let her refuse medical treatment because she’d be BLEEDING FROM HER FUCKING FACE.

  • dontpanic23

    @LFOD–Anything is better for the baby than the campaign. Have you seen the pictures and how she lugs him like baggage? A child that age has few neck muscles and she holds him with the inside of one forearm while he flops about. There’s rarely a hand on him. Just that careless looking arm. I saw several in one sitting looking through the montage of the Dumbress’s New Clothes. I’d seen others. Yet the daughter holds him like a fragile baby.

  • bluegoose

    Politics aside, I hope that she gets the help that she needs. Obviously, she has problems that require therapy, and this being a national story isn’t going to help with that.Of course, the fact that right wing sites took this and ran with it is a predictable disgrace. Any day now, Drudge will have a red-headline story about black helicopters and the Trilateral Commission. Get ready for eight years of this sort of thing, led by the Fat Sex Tourist himself…

  • cactusgal

    This story was pure horse crap from the git-go. She’s obviously the kind of chick that could beat off several male attackers at the same time and not look any worse for the wear.

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Joe the (fake) Plumber, meet Jo the (fake) Victim.

  • Amers

    Respectfully, bluegoose, no – I think she’s just a tool.