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

[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?

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Let's hide the List from them a little longer, shall we?

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

Given their current aptitude at doing, well anything, remotely competent, they'd probably get everything backwards anyway.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

The idea of the McCain campaign sticking self destruct devices around the place given McCain's long record of having complex machinery explode when he's nearby is leaving me with some mildly conflicted feelings.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

It's not as much as the exploding, as with the pilot error.

[fridgepunk.livejournal.com]

This one time he was on an aircraft carrier, and it caught fire and exploded.