Posted on 10/24/2008 10:39:43 AM PDT by icwhatudo
A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed. More details to follow.
Excellent! I won $50 from a friend, taking the “I think this is a lie” side!!!
I called “BS” the first moment I saw the picture of her fake “cut”. Most cuts I’ve had actually broke the skin, unlike her smudge marks.
Forget it, it’s a volunteer, not someone who’s been vetted in any way. I could walk in a Hussein office tomorrow and get a job as a volunteer and do anything i wanted to embarrass the candidate. It isn’t as if she was put up to this sort of thing.
The media has been so discredited at this point any hysteria over this one instance of a totally unbalanced individual will be laughed at if anything. All the campaign needs to do is show shock and distance themselves from what the fool said. Maybe even offer to get her help would be a nice touch.
It’s getting play on Fox News and MSNBC so I’m sure within the hour it will be on all the networks.
"[T]his incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election. ... If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."One thing is certain: muckraking homosexual Matt Drudge has Judased conservatives and Republicans yet again. Don't just erase his site from your bookmarks -- friends don't let friends link to the damaging Drudge Report.
LOL, nobody cares, really.
So go ahead and call me a troll, even though I've been a member for a lot longer than you. I'll be laughing my ass off at you guys who are hyperventilating if this turns out to be a hoax. If it turns out to be true, I'll apologize for not immediately jumping on the bandwagon with the rest of the true believers.
I hope this is a lesson to those who really want to believe very badly, no matter how much contrary evidence stares them in the face. Can we not act like a bunch of reactionary moonbats in the future because you think you've got a good smear against a liberal?
I’m sure that was the plan all along. And many Freepers fell right in the trap. Thanks.
While the MSM is looking for every opportunity to tear down McCain and Palin, short of the moveon types playing it up, this should only be a one-day story. Fortunately, most reasonable people realize this has nothing to do with McCain personally. Any person who is ignorant enough to base their vote on this is already voting for Obama.
It figures it was a Paultard behind this.
Exactly. I don’t understand some of the hyperventilating, claiming that this somehow hurts McCain’s chances. How? Given that other attacks on McCain supporters ARE true, I don’t see how this in any way harms the McCain campaign.
You may kiss my feet. But don’t get kinky about it
Those righteously indignant Freepers are awful quiet now, huh?
We need to tie her together with that tywanna brawley kid and send them to Duke University.
Ohhhhhhhh! You got me! :)
Now take her back. Please??
Tried that one. I thought there was a .gov site with a search engine on these things. I remember using one during ‘04.
Better late than never, I suppose. ;)
shocker (not really)
Didn’t anyone think it was odd that she would be at the ATM and the guy wouldn’t demand that she use her card and take out more money? That’s what I thought of when I read this story. Why settle for $60 then hang around to beat her up?
But apparently, and this is something else, Obama thought it possible because he issued the statement hoping the perp be brought to justice. He didn’t defend his people even though there had been no proof yet.
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