Willy Horton

This Day 2004 and 2008

Can you believe that people actually voted for George W. Bush? The worst president in the history of the United States? I can’t, either.

#1. 2004

#2. 2008

More Racist McCain Supporters

Can you believe what McCain/Palin have unleashed in this country? Disgraceful!

Fascist Racist Freak

McCain Mugged Too!

She Did Lie! [Updated x3]

The McCain campaign volunteer who alleged that a black mugger attacked her because of her McCain bumper stick HAS ADMITTED TO POLICE THAT SHE LIED!

Pathetic. This is what Republicans are reduced to? Now go on, Democrats, make hay of this!

An excerpt:

Police: Campaign Volunteer Made Up Attack Story

A Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Ashley Todd confessed to making up the story & is facing charges

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Police tell KDKA that a campaign volunteer 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.

**UPDATE:
CNN Calls out the media for falling for this unvetted hoax!

**UPDATE #2
Here she is being taken to jail!

**UPDATE #3
McCain Pennsylvania campaign director pushed the worst version of the story before all the facts were in!

Ashley Todd Story Pushed By McCain Campaign Aide, Say Reporters

John McCain’s Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established — and even told reporters outright that the “B” carved into the victim’s cheek stood for “Barack,” according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.

John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain’s Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”

Alleged Assault Clearly A Hoax

A race-baiting McCain campaign volunteer charged yesterday that she was assaulted at an ATM on a busy Philadelphia street by a black mugger. After reporting the assault, she then claimed that her attacker became enraged when he spotted her McCain bumper sticker and assaulted her again, this time carving a — backwards?? — letter B in her cheek. [can you say "mirror"? can you say Morton Downey, Jr.?]

Then, just today, she charged that he also sexually assaulted her, something which she failed to mention yesterday — when SHE TWITTERED ABOUT THE MUGGING ON HER WAY HOME! [via the Smoking Gun]

Due to the overwhelming number of inconsistencies, Philadelphia police asked the volunteer to take a polygraph test, but they have not released the findings.

This is certainly a mark of the utter desperation of the Republicans — or a young woman’s cry for help. Either way, it’s sad.

You can read more about it •••at Wonkette•••, that wonderfully funny D.C. blog!

POLL: Is this assault a hoax?

Bush Endorses McCain

MyDirectDemocracy has the video from last night’s Saturday Night Live weekly update of “President Bush” (Will Ferrell) endorsing John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Check it out, it’s hilarious!