Slog - Comments on It Just Keeps Getting Classier

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:06:11 -0800

Yesterday both McCain and Palin called her to offer condolences. Wonder what they'll say today...

Comment by UNPAID BLOGGER

UNPAID BLOGGER — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:07:09 -0800

Carving the B on her face backwards would be the first clue. What a moron.

Comment by pox

pox — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:11:01 -0800

You'd think they'd be better liars, with all the practice they get.

Comment by E

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:15:47 -0800

Race-baiting hoax hijinx from somebody involved in the McCain campaign? �No es posible! Shocked, shocked, I tell you!

Comment by Cindy

Cindy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:16:45 -0800

Looks like the shiner is a poorly done Sultry Eye No. 5 from Cosmo.

Comment by Heather

Heather — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:20:08 -0800

This reminds me of the story that Susan Smith made-up. Does this little pig have any kids who are missing?

Comment by kebabs

kebabs — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:20:41 -0800

The bruise exhibits no swelling. The B is backwards, and was done lightly enough not to break the skin. She couldn't describe the attacker other than he was black.

Makes sense to me!

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:21:50 -0800

I would also like to point out that it is physically impossible to carve a backwards "O."

The woman is a genius.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:22:31 -0800

The shiner is also way too developed to be from the day after the attack. She's almost recovered from whatever hit her face (boyfriend?) Girl's got problems, all right.

But yeah, it's nice story. Gave all the kooks a chance to REALLY explain what a random black mugger in Pittsburgh has to do with Obama: "well, you see, they're both, uh...."

Oh, and John Bailo: FUCK YOU and the horse.

Comment by apres_moi

apres_moi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:28:41 -0800

McCain's Campaign aka McCainomics: Lies from trickle from the top to the bottom.

Comment by UnoriginalAndrew

UnoriginalAndrew — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:29:10 -0800

@ 4 - she's not involved in the McCain campaign.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:30:00 -0800

In other "Republicans are crazy, evil shitheads" news, read Jon Swift go after "Conservative Blogger of the Year" Ace of Spades and his gang of kooked-out John Bailos: http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2008/10/great-moments-in-election-year-blogging.html

It's time to destroy this party.

Comment by Paul Constant

Paul Constant — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:30:37 -0800

@11: Are volunteers not involved in the campaign?

Comment by alan

alan — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:08 -0800

And this little cutie isn't the only one. There seems to be quite an epidemic of college republicans faking assualts at the hands of us evil, aggressive, hate-filled liberals. And getting caught:

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/13182.html

Comment by W.T. Foxtrot

W.T. Foxtrot — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:09 -0800

Long lost love child of Morton Downey Jr.

Comment by Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:26 -0800

It should be fun to watch the McCain campaign and their propaganda mouthpieces (FoxNews, Drudge) try and spin this one...they'll probably try and claim she's really a democrat who did all this this to try and humiliate the McCain campaign (of course ignoring the fact that she is a very active College Republican and McCain volunteer.

Nice going! Thanks for putting another nail in the McSame/Failin' coffin!

Comment by Julie in Chicago

Julie in Chicago — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:28 -0800

This story would only be better if she had said her attackers were Arabs.

Comment by Mac

Mac — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:32:57 -0800

I always knew this was a hoax. How many black guys from Pittsburgh are that passionate about Bob Barr?

Comment by w7ngman

w7ngman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:34:04 -0800

Wait, so John Bailo is a fool?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:34:20 -0800

@11, she's a McCain volunteer. She may not ride on the bus, but she's involved. McCain's campaign is drawing the crazies out like flies to honey.

Comment by LT Nixon

LT Nixon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:39:00 -0800

Another lame attempt to touch off a race war. Just like that crazy lady in South Carolina back in the 90s. A sad cry for attention from an obviously deranged young woman, but, seriously, what a ma-roon!

Comment by ellarosa

ellarosa — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:39:20 -0800

15, another one? you mean rebecca demornay has a younger half-sister?

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:39:28 -0800

A Fox veep already said "If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain�s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting." They're backpedaling now, but fuck them. The race is over. John McCain is the most dishonorable man to run for president since George Wallace.

And Sarah Palin belongs in jail. She gave out the contracts for that sports complex in Wasilla, near her house, in exchange for the contractors building her house for her -- damn near the same thing Ted Stevens is going to the pokey for.

GOP: the party of crooks and crazy people.

Comment by David Schmader

David Schmader — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:41:06 -0800

Thank you for that, Mac @ 18.

Comment by PC

PC — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:41:54 -0800

Didn't John Bailo link to this?

Hey John, what's your comment?

Comment by sw

sw — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:42:27 -0800

Andrew Sullivan pointed out this statement from a Fox News exec:

"If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain�s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

Comment by daniel

daniel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:42:44 -0800

"If Ms. Todd�s allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee." --John Moody Exec VP at Fox

http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/jmoody_1023/

Comment by NO APPLES

NO APPLES — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:44:02 -0800

Bloomfield is a white working class Italian neighborhood.

You think she'd pick an actual "Wrong Side" (Black) neighborhood for her race bating.

Comment by Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:48:16 -0800

@19: No! This is my "shocked face".

What a stupid, stupid woman. Are McCain and Palin going to call her and yell at her, or just pretend it never happened?

Comment by Ren

Ren — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:52:00 -0800

I had posted before her story and photo just didn't add up.

McCain/Palin supporters are getting scarier.

She could have incited real acts of violence by crazy revenge seeking racist.

Thank goodness the Philly did their job.

Comment by Ren

Ren — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:52:06 -0800

I had posted before her story and photo just didn't add up.

McCain/Palin supporters are getting scarier.

She could have incited real acts of violence by crazy revenge seeking racist.

Thank goodness the Philly did their job.

Comment by Bellevue Ave

Bellevue Ave — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:56:55 -0800

even Malkin thought it was a hoax from the start.

Comment by sasha

sasha — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:00:34 -0800

Isn't Ohio near Pittsburgh. I think that she must have been assaulted by Joe six pack the plumber!

Comment by whatevernevermind

whatevernevermind — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:01:29 -0800

Strictly amateur hour from start to finish. Only the crazies ever took her seriously and now they just look even more crazy. Again.

Comment by apres_moi

apres_moi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:04:55 -0800

Like someone mentioned before, this definitely is reminiscent of the Susan Smith case back in the 90s, where she killed her children then lied and said she got carjacked by a black man. She got what she deserved - life in prison. In my opinion, life in prison is worse than death as a penalty for a mother who commits infanticide because they must think about what their children could've become if they were still alive.

Comment by spencer

spencer — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:07:13 -0800

She refused medical attention. That shiner is a decent makeup job. Why isn't her actual eye at all red? Why is there no swelling? Hilarious.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:18:30 -0800

Malkin is the ONLY right-wing kook who thought it was a fake. Most of them swallowed it whole.

Comment by Concerned Canuck

Concerned Canuck — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:22:50 -0800

@17 Why? Because it is impossible to get the "A" in "Arab" backward when putting it on yourself by looking in a mirror?

Comment by max solomon

max solomon — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:22:55 -0800

it's only fucked-up in that mccain is basically fucking up. it's nowhere near the MOST fucked-up.

i wonder if people who say this is the worst were actually alive in 1988. that SUCKED: content free, with nary a punch thrown by dukakis. it was unbearable.

Comment by Bauhaus

Bauhaus — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:35:15 -0800

I'm sorry, but....oink.

Comment by Heather

Heather — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:36:25 -0800

I suppose the backward B could mean the attacker was deslexic.

Comment by cochise.

cochise. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:37:18 -0800

Filing a false police report = Class D Felony

Class D Felony = No Vote.

lolzies!

Comment by mnm

mnm — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:40:16 -0800

this election is better than the most outlandish fiction anyone could write.

Comment by Jersey

Jersey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:47:53 -0800

I love the Fox VP quotes...possibly a black guy attacks a McCain supporter and therefore people should question Obama. By that logic because this young white republican girl lied all white republican girls lie. Oh wait, maybe it isn't so far off.

Comment by Christin

Christin — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:58:56 -0800

She should DEFINITELY have to pay for the forensic testing done here. (Bitch.)

Comment by the d

the d — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:01:40 -0800

@43 i agree, this is the most entertaining thing to ever happen to me. its too good to be true.....lets thank the philly PD!!!

Comment by EmmiG

EmmiG — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:05:11 -0800

Lol, I remember my baby sister once bit herself and told my mother that it was me, so that way I would go to the time out chair and she would get to play with my stuff. She was 6 years old. I have no idea how fully grown adults go through with plans like this. It requires absolutely no sense of shame or common decency.

This is worse than committing a crime and then blaming some hypothetical black person to get the blame off you, this isn't fabricating a crime so you can specifically blame someone that you hate, this is fabricating a crime just so you can blame a theoretical black person. Wtf?

Comment by ohbalto

ohbalto — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:05:12 -0800

My head hurts because of this story.

Comment by Sheryl

Sheryl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:20 -0800

@30 and 46 - It's Pittsburgh, actually. And I'm impressed all the more because the PD there had been under a consent decree for racism for a long time (don't know if it has been lifted yet or not).

Comment by Laurie Mann

Laurie Mann — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:06:59 -0800

I knew this story stunk yesterday. Bloomfield was primarily Italian, but is pretty mixed these days. The street where she claimed "to be assaulted" has lots of foot traffic well into the evening.

Ashley Todd could go to jail for up to a year and be fined $2,500. Yay!

That said, I don't think she should be on prison welfare at the expense of Pennsylvania. She should be charged, fined, and sent back to Texas.

Comment by jrrrl

jrrrl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:11:36 -0800

WOW. Props to the commenters who called this yesterday. It sounded fishy (especially the 6'4" black man who supposedly did it) but I didn't think anyone could stoop so low. I hope she gets to share a cell with a 6'4" black woman.

Comment by Jersey

Jersey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:13:34 -0800

#49 I didn't know about the consent decree regarding racism on the burgh police. I lived there most of my life (6 years in Bloomfield even) and have always said western Pa is the most racist place I've ever been and I've lived all over the country. Funny they'd need to import any from Tx though.

Comment by 30-30

30-30 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:14:09 -0800

Everyday, I consider beating up a McCain/Palin supporter, yet I refrain.

This is such a sweet payoff.

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:16:56 -0800

They're starting to flip out.

Kind of like the radical religious extremists always do in the first decade after every end of the century.

They always think they're getting a Rapture.

But they're always getting a Rupture.

Sad. Very sad.

Comment by Jen

Jen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:34:59 -0800

How much you want to bet Palin tried to get her on the campaign trail.

Comment by That kid from the Simpsons

That kid from the Simpsons — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:21:02 -0800

HA ha!

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:28:21 -0800

Yew shore gots a purty mouth, Ashley Todd. I'm gone remember that name.

Comment by keshmeshi

keshmeshi — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:36:54 -0800

@50,

Yeah, I actually looked up the intersection on Google Maps and looked at the street view, because I'm obsessive like that. There are restaurants and cafes aplenty within feet of that ATM. I can absolutely believe that a robber could get away with a mugging there, but a protracted assault? No fucking way.

Comment by bitchy not scratchy

bitchy not scratchy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:37:10 -0800

just didn't see this coming? i was just starting to switch over and vote for grampy after this innocent got beat down.

what a sick fuck. i still think it can get lower with the mcShame/grandma p *ahem* campaign.

Comment by inkweary

inkweary — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:15 -0800

It's John Bailo's sister!

Comment by Banna

Banna — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:43:51 -0800

I think the only McCain boosters left are the Jonestown-type people that would drink poisoned Kool-aid if they believed it would keep the "black muslin" out of the white house.

Comment by douglas

douglas — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:54:19 -0800

how fucking pathetic. hey john bailo, hey raindrop, where you guys at?

Comment by Jersey

Jersey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:53:14 -0800

This will be the picture that epitomizes the McCain campaign.