cnn.com - 10/25/2008
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Police said they found "several inconsistencies" in Todd's statement.
elections.foxnews.com - 10/24/2008
pittsburghlive.com - 10/24/2008
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pittsburghlive.com —
A McCain-Palin campaign volunteer who claimed she was
robbed and cut by a supporter of Sen. Barack...
Obama has confessed to making up the story, Pittsburgh police Assistant Chief Maurita Bryant said this afternoon.
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Police say McCain worker made up attack story
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Come Saturday Morning: I Don’t Remember, I Don’t Recall
Firedoglake —
... When she's not blaming the media for the results of her own actions (or for their following the lead of Team McCain folks, such as McCain's Pennsylvania communications director Peter Feldman, who according to local reporters pushed the most inflammatory parts of the story even as it was falling apart), she's claiming that she was so out of her head she has no idea how she could have done them: ...
McCain Campaign Worker Made Up Attack By Black Obama Supporter -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
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Home McCain Campaign Worker Made Up Attack By Black Obama Supporter -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 9:00am. Tony Peyser My skeptical wife quickly sensed that this Was a story no one should be buying I'd even bet that Tawana Brawley would Have guessed that this girl was lying. VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " Blue State Jukebox ." He was a daily cartoonist for the L.A. Times from 1994 to 1997. You can e-mail ...
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Police: McCain volunteer changes ATM attack story
breitbart.com 10/24/2008 — PITTSBURGH (AP) - Pittsburgh police say a McCain campaign volunteer who said she was held down by a black man who cut the letter "B" in her face has changed her story. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard says investigators gave the 20-year-old woman a ...
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post-gazette.com 10/25/2008 — Almost from the start, Pittsburgh police were skeptical about a young woman's claim that she had been mugged and a "B" carved into her cheek by an attacker who was provoked by the sight of a John McCain bumper sticker on her car. Yesterday, their ...
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