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[rivka]

This is just sick and sad.

Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter "B" in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

The commander added that Todd will face charges; but police have not commented on what those charges will be.

That was really the only thing lacking in making this the most disgusting campaign of the modern era, wasn't it?

I hope that all the right-wing blogs which spread the story far and wide are posting prominent corrections even as we speak. Particularly including the president of the FOX network, who posted that the original story might lead Obama supporters to change their vote for reasons having nothing to do with racism. But I hope I'm not going to see any triumphalism about this from Democrats. This is not a story we should be pleased to relate.

This young woman is seriously disturbed. I hope she gets the help she needs. I hope this story will lead more people to a sober examination of the ugly undercurrents in our society that made her original claims seem believable to many. And I hope that will be the end of it.

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[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I thought she was a fake from the beginning -- did you see the picture (http://gaysocialites.com/photos/ashleytoddnotattacked.jpg)? The B is backwards. She cut it into herself using a mirror.