[af_vet_rr]

As a relatively thick and fatty substance, cheeks have a lot of “give” and will not easily slice with knives.

I was just pointing out what others had said and really hadn't made up my mind, but in your case, I'll play devil's advocate - if there is "a lot of give" in that area, in your words, then why would the "B" look so neat? I've carved a lot of turkeys in my time, and any time there is "a lot of give" in an area, it get very difficult to keep a consistent line, curved or straight. If I had been angry, it would have been very difficult to keep a consistent line, curved or straight.

While you and the vast majority of conveniently-just-joined-to-complain

Yes, it was very convenient of me to join 10 years ago and then again six years ago when I created another account (after having spent a few years overseas with limited internet access). I was so bored waiting for this one thread, I posted several thousand times over the last six years.

Even her local police department thinks things are a little weird, and her case is not helped by her blog postings after the attack.

[Candor7]

This woman has two black eyes. SHe was likely hit on the bridge of her nose. Had a few shiners like that myself.

Putting a neat B on her cheek is no problem. You just grab the face and use a sharp point, like a nail or needle,and write it right between thumb and forefinger.

The woman did not move, and was either scarred stiff or completely limp and semi sensless on the ground from the blow, or a threat to kill.

If the B is backwards , it means that it was done with the woman laying head to the attacker.

I would love to see her blog postings. Does anyone have a link?

Now why would this woman make it up? Attention? Via self mutillation. The only wway we can tell is via a personality profile. I doubt that a campaign worker would fit a self mutillation/attention seeker stereotype.Simply because such work is quite repetative, and requires a patient, methodical individual, hardly in keeping with anyone who would go to self mutilation for attentions sake.

Meanwhile we have physical evidence that what she says is true. It will be good to see the followup on this in terms of the kind of person she is.

Keep in mind that every politically correct official will be trying to say that she did this to herself. Its the easy way out.

[flintsilver7]

I don’t know why the B looks so neat. I don’t really think it does. I do know that it’s not actually that easy to cut skin with a knife. The bladed edge of a scalpel requires some pressure to cut. It seems like a lot of people are expecting the B to look like it was made by Zorro. The truth is we have no idea what type of knife was used (if it even was a knife).

And I do apologize for being unclear. I wasn’t suggesting you had just joined. I was accurately stating that you seem to be saying the same thing as many of them. One of the most vocal “she did it to herself” people on these threads has been here for one year but only active for less than a month and in that time has really done nothing but complain about Palin. I’m not saying you are a troll as I can see you’ve been here a while, but you are encouraging them.

I personally have no idea what happened, so I’m waiting to see what (if anything) comes of it. If we don’t have enough information then we shouldn’t rush to judgment one way or the other. I’m not saying that you are, but a lot certainly are.