Hoax
talkingpointsmemo.com 10/24/2008 — Well, for everyone who had eyes to see, this thing stunk to high heaven. But now we have official word that that McCain volunteer who had the straight-out-of-the-trash-novel story about being assaulted by a mugger-cum-Obama-activist has confessed ...

Greg Mitchell: Fox News VP: If McCain Worker 'Mutilation' Story is a Hoax His Campaign is 'Over'
huffingtonpost.com 10/24/2008 — It has drawn wide local and national--even political attention, with some of the candidates for president/vice president weighing in or even calling -- but now the Ashley Todd story may be starting to fall apart. Police in Pittsburgh are relating ...

Police Declare 'Mutilation' of McCain Worker in Pittsburgh a Hoax -- After Media Raise Doubts
editorandpublisher.com 10/24/2008 — Share on LinkedIn SAVE | EMAIL | PRINT | MOST POPULAR | RSS | REPRINTS Police Declare 'Mutilation' of McCain Worker in Pittsburgh a Hoax -- After Media Raise Doubts By E&P Staff Published: October 24, 2008 11:20 AM ET updated 2:00 PM NEW YORK It had ...

Ann Coulter : Red Hoax Blue Hoax
townhall.com 10/30/2008 — As the case of Ashley Todd reminded us again last week, racial bias crimes are almost always hoaxes. Todd is the Republican volunteer who claimed that a black man in Pittsburgh had pummeled her and carved a "B" into her cheek after spotting the ...

Police say McCain worker made up attack story
pittsburghlive.com 10/24/2008 — 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.

Sarah Palin Press Conference (video)
link.brightcove.com 11/13/2008 — Sarah Palin Press Conference

McCain volunteer admits attack was a hoax
fivefeetoffury.com 10/24/2008 — What an idiot

McCain volunteer admits to hoax
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 ...

Racial Mugging Victim Helpfully Twittered Her Terrible Tale
wonkette.com 10/24/2008 — Is this even possible, the lameness of this? Here we have a screenshot of this gal’s Twitter feed, on a college Republicans’ site called “Life In The Field,” presumably about GOP volunteer kids. All 50 of them! Oh and then ...

Palin Stylist Draws Higher Pay Than Foreign Policy Adviser — FOXNews.com 10/24/2008
Palin's traveling stylist was paid $22,800 this month compared with $12,500 paid to McCain's foreign policy adviser

Bush and Cheney cast ballots for McCain — CNN Political Ticker 10/24/2008
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush has cast his ballot in the 2008 election, spokeswoman Dana Perino said Friday. He voted for John McCain, "of course," she said. Laura Bush, who also cast her ballot Friday, also voted for McCain, her ...

McCain camp defends Palin in wardrobe flap — Reuters: Politics 10/24/2008
DENVER (Reuters) - Republican John McCain's campaign defended vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin on Friday over a flap involving $150,000 in clothes purchased by the Republican Party for her and her family's use.

GOP increasingly nervous — CNN Political Ticker 10/24/2008
Republicans are increasingly nervous about widespread losses in the Senate and House. WASHINGTON (CNN) – Republicans are increasingly nervous heading into the campaign’s final week — and their jitters have little to do with John McCain. Most ...

Evangelicals reluctantly embrace McCain — CNN.com - Politics 10/24/2008
The Rev. Loran Livingston can see the stress in their faces and hears the dilemma in their questions as Election Day draws near.