Thugs For Change

Well, I'm sure the Kos Kidz will get some real laughs out of this. Obama's run his campaign just like a street thug out of Chicago. Now we get to see what some of his worst supporters are like.

Don't tell  me - after Obama passes his welfare-like tax plan guys like this won't be forced to rob and maim innocent people, right? Yeah, sure.

Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.

Comments

[Lala]

photo of victim here

http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2008/10/mccain-staffer-claims-b-was-carved-into.html

[Mr DeBakey]

And this breaking story has what to do with what?

What's next?:
"McCane staffer down with Gastritis. America's Socialist future blamed!

[Continuum]

Strange that she refused medical treatment. Does anybody else smell a put up job? It's happened many times in the past few years. Then days later we find out the victim was actually no victim but an actor in their own persecution fantasy.

[BobinStamford]

Look, it's a white Tawana Brawley!

You patriots need something better than this.

No one manipsnates my family!!

Semper Fi!

[ET]

Wow. Conspiracies abound because there are no baaad liberals. Of course y'all keep up the lie of of someone yelling "kill him" at a Palin rally (never happened, according to the secret service investigation, but is still repeated here).

http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Service_says_Kill_him_allegation_unfounded_.html

Obama himslef goaded his supporters to "get in their face." I guess this Obama supporter took uncle barry at his word. Never a good idea.

[tally]

Well, her picture's up. She does have two black eyes, but the "B" is backwards. Where's Columbo when you need him?

[jaime]

Maybe perhaps there's more to this story, and this guy's just crazy.

Because I could just as easily and dishonestly say that the guy who punched the female Obama volunteer in the face shouting about ACORN is representative of McCain.

Maybe he too thought "At least I don't plaster on the makeup like a trollop, you cunt"

[jaime]

"lie of of someone yelling "kill him"

Yeah, us liars and our video and audio proof.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVFWahLTdUo

[Kilo]

"the "B" is backwards"

Yeeeeeeah..... it does look rather mirror-assisted, doesn't it.
That would make it exactly zero things about this story don't sound fishy.

[Lala]

The B could be upside down. He knocked her down, maybe he had her head between his knees.

[How to reform the MSM]

If this was self-inflicted, does anyone think she would have made it backwards? Wouldn't she have tried to make it look completely unsuspicious?

Note also that in his two-sentence, boilerplate response, BHO didn't say a word about his supporters going too far.

[mark l.]

love mccain, but this woman is a stinker...

unless she was upside down, or the guy was dyslexic, mccain should run from this woman.

[Spartan112]

If this was self-inflicted, does anyone think she would have made it backwards? Wouldn't she have tried to make it look completely unsuspicious?

Note also that in his two-sentence, boilerplate response, BHO didn't say a word about his supporters going too far.

Posted by: How to reform the MSM | Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 07:23 PM

Do me a favor sport, and google "MOrton Downey Jr. and Swastika".

[Dan Riehl]

BTW when Obama was in Hawaii for a week on vacation - he spent all of an entire hour with his grandmother - didn't even take his wife and kids. Guess he wanted a little something to make female voters swoon before Nov 4. Ya think?

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2008/08/09/news/story04.html

Because the messiah cares....

[Spartan112]

Dan, that story only says that the first thing he did in Hawaii was to visit his Grandmother, it doesn't say it was his only visit of the week or that he didn't take his girls on subsequent visits. Are you purposefully misleading your audience?

BTW, I often go to visit my Grandmother without my son. Sometimes I want to just sit and talk with her and my son makes that difficult. Maybe they had business to deal with...who knows, you sure seem to think you do.

Shall we start talking about Cindy McCain and her relationship with her half-sister?

Families are funny things. I have a half-sister and the only time I see her is at family functions. I never call her. We don't exchange cards or gifts at the holidays and I couldn't tell you when her birthday is. Does it make me a bad guy? I don't think so. I didn't grow up with her and I have nothing in common with her. I don't dislike her at all, but she's not really my family.

[ShiddyButt]

You are such sad, silly, little people.
Enjoy you're much deserved political exile.

[mark l.]

this whole obama 'rushes to grandmother's side
story that seems to have been running for three days is getting stale...

he has 605 million and supposedly controls his own destiny, and yet he has squandered three days telling the press that he is going to her? go please...

the strange coincidence of obama taking several days off before any televised event, debate speech, and his sudden unfulfilled need to see his grandmommy strangely coincide with his planned 30 minute infomercial on cbs.

another aside-

if the woman turns out to be tawana brawley, does the community activist who takes up her cause find his way into the mainstream of the republican party, like sharpton?

[BobinStamford]

This Tawana is a fraud

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

When does the waterboarding begin?

[Mr. Thickety-Thick from Thickville, Thickania]

Mr. Poopy Bottom:

"Enjoy you're much deserved political exile."

And please do enjoy your lack of intelligence, and utter lack of ability with the English language.

Cordially yours,

Mr. Thickety-Thick

[jharp]

"before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said."

You are being utterly ridiculous.

You trying to inflame whitey or what? Really, you are hurting the country with this bullshit.

Post the rest of the story. It's nonsense.

[Mr. Thickety-Thick from Thickville, Thickania]

Perhaps Ms. Todd was the victim of an illiterate negro whose life in Academia was brought to a quick end by his inability to master basic letter-forms.

After all, it is kind of hard to believe that a perfectly normal white girl would permanently ruin her face by carving a backwards "B" into it.

Mr. McCain might be an otherwise nice fellow, but even he isn't that wonderful that a young lass should deface herself over him.

Which is more than I can say for the idiotic youth who are just one sandwich of forming suicide bomber squads for Obama.

[Mr. Thickety-Thick from Thickville, Thickania]

And as for Obama, is he not the golden boy?

With nearly a billion US Dollars (arguably still a lot of money, though a billion doesn't quite spend like it used to - should be enough to afford a toaster oven, or perhaps a dead parrot) in his coffers... why, the golden boy could simply take a vacation to the Riviera for the next week and a half, and waltz into the White House!

Ah, but to be a sham-man who goes back on his word at every turn. And for his honesty, Mr. McCain only has a paltry $80M to work with.

[Kilo]

"After all, it is kind of hard to believe that a perfectly normal white girl would permanently ruin her face by carving a backwards "B" into it."

chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5685125.html

I'm going to call you a fake person if you're saying you've either never seen a scratch before or are unaware of whether they're permanent.

[tjproudamerican]

This may be an attack or it may not. As for why the woman would make a mistake in the "B", ask policemen you know: people always do that when they are putting forth a fraud.

The Duke story stunk and so does this one.

Rember the "attack" on Francisco Nava at Princeton last December?

"Police became suspicious because Francisco Nava's account of the attack last week contained inconsistencies, said Sgt. Ernie Silagyi"

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-33590148_ITM

[tjproudamerican]

And at my Liberal College. there were two "right wing bigot attacks" against two different Lesbians, including the hand-wringing and "Candle-light Vigils for Tolerance".

And each girl, like Nava at Princeton, like the Duke lying stripper, made the whole thing up, including harming themselves.

If the attack occurred, arrest and punish the attacker. But these stories need us to take a deep breath. People will think this is another McCain backer "Hail Mary" pass, and college students are very unreliable.

[Lala]

this is possibly her myspace profile

"Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her cloths off, but its better if you do."

Female
23 years old
College Station, Texas
United States

[Lala]

Michelle Malkin has doubts

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/

[jharp]

Hey Lala,

You and I agree. What do you think about that?

And wanted you to know my son and I went to see Obama in Indianapolis today. Pretty cool.

[templar knight]

And Lala, my daughter has a cat named mittens. That's cooler than seeing Obama.

[Lala]

I love you templar knight!

[seekeronos]

"--- I'm going to call you a fake person if you're saying you've either never seen a scratch before or are unaware of whether they're permanent. ---"

Scratches are one thing, deep wounds are another.

Although to be fair, those grainy pics that have surfaced as of yesterday do not give great deal so as to discern how truly deep the wounds are.

[seekeronos]

After looking at the photo on Malkin's site, I'm going to say she's a fake. Those are clearly scratches - a little deep, probably done with something like a sewing needle or something of similar gauge.

And if some guy was going to be so dumb as risk serious prison time for knifing up a woman, why not go the full distance and have his way with her and then carve her up like those animals who killed the young Chris Newsome and Channon Christian a few years back?

Robbery and Rape seem to be outside the usual politics of harassment and intimidation of the Obamites - in our area it is more the childish antics of yard sign theft and the much more rare broken car window or keying of paint jobs (yard sign presence is hardly a judge of a candidate's popularity, but McCain outnumbers Obama about 3-2 in my area, and that is in deep blue NY Democrat country).

[Spartan112]

Robbery and Rape seem to be outside the usual politics of harassment and intimidation of the Obamites - in our area it is more the childish antics of yard sign theft and the much more rare broken car window or keying of paint jobs (yard sign presence is hardly a judge of a candidate's popularity, but McCain outnumbers Obama about 3-2 in my area, and that is in deep blue NY Democrat country).

The same happens on both sides everywhere Seek. It's unfortunate but that's the tenor the campaign has Taken. This is obviously faked though. She's clearly too young to have learned a lesson from Morton Downey Jr.

[Spartan112]

Robbery and Rape seem to be outside the usual politics of harassment and intimidation of the Obamites - in our area it is more the childish antics of yard sign theft and the much more rare broken car window or keying of paint jobs (yard sign presence is hardly a judge of a candidate's popularity, but McCain outnumbers Obama about 3-2 in my area, and that is in deep blue NY Democrat country).

The same happens on both sides everywhere Seek. It's unfortunate but that's the tenor the campaign has Taken. This is obviously faked though. She's clearly too young to have learned a lesson from Morton Downey Jr.

[Spartan112]

Robbery and Rape seem to be outside the usual politics of harassment and intimidation of the Obamites - in our area it is more the childish antics of yard sign theft and the much more rare broken car window or keying of paint jobs (yard sign presence is hardly a judge of a candidate's popularity, but McCain outnumbers Obama about 3-2 in my area, and that is in deep blue NY Democrat country).

The same happens on both sides everywhere Seek. It's unfortunate but that's the tenor the campaign has Taken. This is obviously faked though. She's clearly too young to have learned a lesson from Morton Downey Jr.

[Spartan112]

The post so nice I had to make it thrice.

[Worst President Ever]

Whoops

A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed. More details to follow.

[Mr DeBakey]

Who wudda thunk?:

"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.

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. [...]

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."

[tas]

So an obvious hoax is proven to be... A hoax. Yet you fell for it hook, line, and sinked. Nice critical thinking skills, jackass. Do you even read the stories you link to or just taking your marching orders directly from the McCain campaign, without question?

Talk about being a joke of a blogger.

[mantis]

No update from Dumbass Dan? Shocking.

[J.R.]

This site was only good for junk food journalism anyways...I haven't been here since your whole Holloway obsession died out. I see I'm not missing much.

Moron.

[The Commuter]

You really ought to update this post. Turns out that girl was lying. Made the whole thing up.

That must be really embarrassing for you.

But remember, admitting when you're wrong is the first step of republican recovery.

[D Johnson]

Mr. Riehl are you such a coward of a man that you cannot admit being wrong? You wrote such a scathing piece on the Obama campaign all based on a lie from a "troubled" young woman. You have lost what little respect I have for you.

[JG]

Ahem.

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Carry on.

[UrMajesty]

Dear Mr. Riehl
( And to all the Right-Wing morons that jumped on this story for ammunition)

How STUPID! do you feel now?

You are sooooo desperate to find SOMETHING to justify your obvious bias and dare I say RACIST ATTITUDE against Sen. Obama you will desperately and tenaciously grab on to the hope of nonsense to prove how irrelevant you are.

You couldn't even wait 24 hours to see if Ashley Todd was a fake as so many seemed to feel she was.

NOOOOOOOOOO! You just had to attack like a rabid dog with Mad Cow coursing through his brain!

But I am not surprised as I knew all of you would do EXACTLY what you did.

You don't care about truth, you don't care about reality, all you care about it being Republican and even that isn't working for you anymore!

Maybe it's a good thing chance is a cummin' cause apparently you have nothing left.

[Kevin]

Mr. Riehl, sir, touch a damn dick.

[Bkk]

Ashley Todd: Hoax....Right Wingers: Eat Crow

Seems like the real Thugs for Change are revealed. Good job on your unbiased reporting. Glad your stupidity is now on full display.

[JMarra]

HAH HAH HA HA Ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!

BIG PHYLLIS DILLER LAUGH!

This is RICH! A LAUGH RIOT!

Watching the Morons For McCain indignantly snatch up the White Virginal Purity Sullied banner–

–and then drop it like a hot potato, after their racist pants are pulled down!

HAH HAH HA HA Ha ha ha hahaha hahahaha hahahahahahahaa!

[morro]

This is perhaps one of the unbiased news article ever.

Wait.

[Riehl World Crow eating]

Riehl, please, make a public statement condemning Ashley Todd's actions! YOUR reputation is at stake here. Notice the pile-on of comments here? The negligent vetting of College Republican "field workers" has tarnished the entire Republican party. But I suppose vetting was never the primary strength of the party anyway.