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

[zeborah]

<looks it up> Looks like there was some confusion because the reference was in external links rather than being footnoted from the sentence it referred to. Someone deleted it from the external links (presumably thinking it wasn't an important enough link to be included, and not realising it was the source for your statement) and so the citation needed link was added later.

I've fixed it now. If it's useful in future, I generally cite sources using the <ref>(source)</ref> tags right after the sentence they belong to -- that creates a numbered footnote linked to the (source) details in the references lists.