Who else. When you got the crazy, go all in. I’m a bit disturbed at the attention the hoax is getting in Pittsburgh simply because we are talking about a 20 year old girl who is obviously troubled. Hopefully the false report charges will lead to her getting some mental health help. However, the Illinois Review went all in on it:
Read the small print on your McCain/Palin bumper stickers. They should say: “This display could be hazardous to your health.” Today a 20 year old Pittsburgh woman was robbed and maimed because she supports McCain…
Not the first time, and likely not the last, that con partisans have been pwned as a direct result of their fervent desire to be regarded as martyrs.
Didn’t they ever stop to wonder how the fake attacker just happened to figure out which car was hers on that busy street (this hoax was based on a pretty good neighborhood, with lots of restaurants and other activity)? And really, didn’t anyone at Ill Review ask themselves why the “B” was backwards (or why it wasn’t an “O” instead)?
My hunch is that Ms. Todd cut her own cheek with a backwards “B” because she was looking in a mirror while doing it.
She was already dipsy enough to claim to the cops that it happened right at the ATM… in front of the ATM’s camera… which upon police review promptly showed absolutely nothing, hence her confession of self-mutilation and filing a false police report.
You have to wonder how mentally unstable this McCain volunteer really is; and are there more like her out there getting ready to do real violence to others instead of themselves.
[…] ArchPundit reveals Ill Review editor Fran Eaton (mentioned above) bought this hoax hook, line and sinker. Not […]
WORST PART OF THIS:
The McShameful Campaign was pushing this story before investigating.
It was a McShameful spokesperson who, in early versions of the KDKA story, first claimed the non-existent “attacker” shouted anti-McShame comments and carved the “B” for Barack Obama.
McShameful himself should DENOUNCE, REPUDIATE, and FIRE the employee who released that statement to the press. He should do it publicly and immediately.
Anything less confirms John McCain is a flaming, dishonorable racist.
An off-topic observation about the Illinois Review site:
Look at their banner. It’s a photo (a good one, I’ll note) of a country road. The slogan is “crossroads of the conservative community.”
Doesn’t crossroads mean an intersection, or at least two roads? How can a single road be a “crossroads”?
Vasyl,
I can’t answer your question for certain, but I am going to guess that, just as many who write for and comment on IR have family trees with no branches, their blog is a crossroads with no intersection.
Seriously though, it is a fine metaphor for them. Because a REAL crossroads of the conservative community might be an intersection of, say, supply siders and evangelicals.
IR has no intersection, because theirs is more like a wild, Suessian bus full of self-righteous, Pharisitic bleating conspiracy theorists, who pick up like-minded mouth-breathers along the way.
@ JonShibleyFan:
Indeed! It’s amazing, the depths to which they reach into fantasy to piece together their national and world commentary. I have never seen so many conspiracy theorists in one place! It’s remarkable.