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talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/26/2008

Feldman Speaks -- But Not About Hoax

— talkingpointsmemo.com — Bear with me. The intricacies of GOP dirty tricks in Pennsylvania take some unraveling. But this is too rich, and the best part comes at the end. On Thursday the Pennsylvania GOP sent out an email to 75,000 Jewish voters in the state warning that ... (more) Feldman Speaks -- But Not About Hoax

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elections.foxnews.com - 10/24/2008

McCain Campaign Volunteer Admits Alleged Attack Was a Hoax

— elections.foxnews.com — A woman who lied about being attacked because of the McCain bumper sticker on her car will face charges of filing a false report. (more) McCain Campaign Volunteer Admits Alleged Attack Was a Hoax

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 10/26/2008

Time for Answers

— talkingpointsmemo.com — It is time for the McCain campaign to come clean about what role any of its staffers may have had in hyping or pushing the press to hype the charges stemming from Ashley Todd's vicious and reprehensible hoax. As Greg Sargent reported yesterday, ... (more) Time for Answers

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McCain Volunteer in Fake Attack Story Was A Paulian
Little Green Footballs — ... Earlier this year, Ashley Todd, the disturbed young woman who made up a fake story of being attacked by a black man enraged by her John McCain sticker, was working for the Ron Paul campaign. ...

One More on Ashley Todd
Politics Daily — Filed under: Scandal, InvestigationsOK so a lot of people, including myself and even the McCain campaign itself, were punked by Ashley Todd. Not good. And yes we've had a lot of posts on this subject, but let me add one more and trust me, there is a payoff at the end: From the Post-Gazette: Once she had told the story to police, "she told lie after lie and the situation compounded to where we are right now," said Lt. Kraus. He added that Ms. Todd showed no remorse for her actions but was angry with the media, saying they blew ...

College Republicans fingered in Ashley Todd affair
The Reality-Based Community — [image] College Republicans fingered in Ashley Todd affair Michael Fuoco of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a retrospective on the Ashley Todd affair . It makes for very sad reading. I wonder whether the College Republicans knew when they hired Todd that she's been fired from the Ron Paul campaign for acts of deception? TPM blogger "astral66" makes a very nice catch : since the photographer who took the picture first posted on Drudge (who had met Ashley Todd at a College Republicans mixer) only gave it to the police and the College Republicans, and ...

Ashley Todd, PA Racist Hoax "Victim," Was Paid Organizer for College Republican National Committee, Not a Volunteer
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ... as a "mutilation," and other conservative Web sites as fodder against the surging Obama campaign. Ashley Todd filed a report with the Pittsburgh Police Department alleging a 6'4'' black man robbed her, then carved up her cheek and sexually assaulted her because he saw that she was a McCain supporter. It turns out the story was made up, and that Todd's black eye and the backwards B scratched into her cheek were most likely self-inflicted . Something was missed in the reporting of the story, however. Though Todd was an employee of the College Republican National Committee ...

Ashley Todd's Instability Seen Well In Advance Of Pittsburgh Hoax
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... . But as it turns out, the Paul supporters were much more able than the McCain campaign at discerning the real crazies in their midst. Long before McCain volunteer Ashley Todd decided to foment a Pennsylvania race-war by going all Un Chien Andalou on her cheek, the Paul campaign recognized something in her that ran a little deeper than their own studied eccentricities. ...