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]

Who the hell randomly browses?

[wldrose.livejournal.com]

I do

ash

[nojay.livejournal.com]

14-year-old me and the local library's copy of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica -- the library staff had to use the Jaws Of Life and heavy lifting gear to separate us so they could close up shop in the evening.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Me. More accurately I go to wikipedia to look something up, see a link from the page that looks interesting, and after about fifteen minutes could end up anywhere.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

I do that too, but I don't consider it randomly browsing: that's browsing, but not random because I chose specifically where I'm going next. I mean getting a random page to pop up.

In any case, I've never had one of the crap pages pop up except when I've specifically went looking for said crap page because someone pointed it out somewhere.