Ethics

The Obama Attack Hoax

By Ed Brayton

The conservative blogosphere was all abuzz when reports came out that a McCain volunteer had been attacked by a 6'4" black man because she had a McCain sticker on her car. And here's the reaction of Fox News VP John Moody, who only seemed to be surprised that it hadn't happened before:

It had to happen.

Less than two weeks before we vote for a new president, a white woman says a black man attacked her, then scarred her face, and says there was a political motive for it.

Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old white volunteer for John McCain's presidential campaign, says she was mugged at an ATM machine in Pittsburgh (my hometown) by a big black man. She further says he threw her down, then disfigured her by carving the letter "B" into her face with a sharp implement when he saw that she supported McCain, not Barack Obama.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).