McCain volunteer Ashley Todd recants

[james_davis_nicoll]

McCain volunteer admits race-baiting fable about being assaulted by a tall black Obama supporter was in fact a lie.

Note that nobody is suggesting John McCain personally urged the young woman to go out and lie for his cause. He just would have benefited from it had it worked.

John Moody, executive vice president at Fox New: "If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

Huh. Ashley Todd's wikipedia entry appears to have been deleted because she isn't notable enough to warrant one.

Comments

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Oh, they actively tried to benefit from it afterwards though: before she confessed it was reported that both McCain and Palin had called her to offer their support.

Of course, that it was an obvious hoax to everyone but a complete idiot, or College Republicans (but I repeat myself) further cements my belief that the McCain/Mooselini campaign is like a circus clown car: just when you're convinced nothing more funny can possibly come out of it, they prove you wrong.

She ha[d/s] a myspace page

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

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

(http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:dNPAoAhExjwJ:profile.myspace.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Duser.viewprofile%26friendID%3D8513159+www.myspace.com/rabbitrocker&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a)

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a Wikipedia admin, I'd certainly support its deletion as a biography of a non-notable person. Had the lie had legs in the Tawana Bradley tradition, that would be another thing entirely.

[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

I'm beginning to feel like the McCain campaign is like towards the end of one of those fantasy movies, when the Big Bad brings out his uberweapon and it fails, his legions of Terror are running Scared, and his monsters have been taken down by the clumsy ministral.

I also have this image of McCain's campaign manager screaming "INCONCEIVABLE!"

I mean, hasn't anyone in the McCaine campaign read the Evil Overlord's List?