Comments on: Todd the Fraud Blames the Media

By: cinnamonape

cinnamonape — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:18:08 +0000

Apparently Palin called the girl before the Pennsylvania McCain Campaign spokesman started shilling the incident to the media, though someone called the right-wing blogosphere beforehand. So this has crept all the way up the hierarchy and out to their net-roots before the MSM were contacted.

Somewhere along the way Malkin was “warned off” and there was some things on “Twitter” that seem to come from at least one of her “Team mates” that (s)he hoped that “Ashley’s lies get discovered”.

So why weren’t these concerns brought to the attention of the McCain-Palin bigwigs…why run with it.

And why suggest that it might even involve STALKING. The spokesman told the media “the alleged attacker said, “You’re with the McCain campaign? I’m going to teach you a lesson.”

One would not infer THAT from seeing a bumper sticker.

By: Fern

Fern — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:02:58 +0000

I know I’m coming back to this thread late and my comment will go unread.

But I agree with Jane. She reminds me of students I’ve had over the years who cut or burned themselves. All of them were or had been seriously unwell. All of them were abuse survivors.

I would be interested in a look at this young woman’s arms.

By: Gookie

Gookie — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:21:19 +0000

We started the day with the Palin makeup cost embarassment and then the made up, racist story of the backward “B”. Two makeup stories in one day – what are the odds of that? The McCain campaign continues to make history for levels of ineptitude large and small. Even if I were a lifelong Republican I’d be hard pressed to vote for McCain just based on the post-convention daily humiliations.

By: Kitt

Kitt — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:52:56 +0000

I don’t know that she is “quite clearly mentally ill. She did a weird thing. One could say that she did a really, really weird thing. But! She is 20 years old. She got involved with the College Republicans and their poison politics. She’s at an age where doing weird things does not always equate to being mentally ill. In fact doing weird things is pretty much par for the course at that age.

Maybe we’ll learn more about who this person is some day, and I hope she comes out of it all right. But, I’m not ready to conclude that just because she did a weird thing that she is ‘Mentally Ill’.

By: kdh22

kdh22 — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:25:59 +0000

I concur. Everyone is plagued with some variety and some degree of mental illness. She’ll get the help she needs.

Will AA males get what they need after this? ‘Cuz that genie is ONCE AGAIN out of the bottle not to be put back in.

This whole episode is sickening to me.

By: CTBob

CTBob — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:24:22 +0000

LOL! I was gonna photoshop the same thing; I’m glad Darkblack did it and saved me the effort!

By: STTPinOhio

STTPinOhio — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:18:03 +0000

Ashley can suck eggs. Yelling ‘fire!’ when there’s no fire is illegal ya dumbass and had anyone gotten hurt you would have been more reviled than you are now!

It’s a good thing she didn’t pick a black guy out of a line-up to pin this on. Can you imagine? Pisses me off.

We went round and round about this downstairs, and this is exactly were I was coming from as well.

If she has mental issues, then of course she needs help.

But what about the many people she could’ve harmed along the way?

As I said before, I’m tired of being the boogie man every time somebody’s life/election isn’t going well.

By: Blub

Blub — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:17:51 +0000

I actually think this story has kind of gotten enough MSM press (although it’s good we’re discussing it here). To date the coverage has been necessary (to make sure everybody in the country knows that the incident never occured), but now that this done, its probably time to lay off it (which MSM is generally starting to do, except for Fox which is still keeping it on page one).

The rethug meme on seems to be:

1. blame the media for daring to report the retraction/confession
2. demand that the young woman in question be subjected to all manner of bloodcurdling violence and cruelty
3. self-congratulatory - we admit when we’re wrong but all you lefties don’t
4. hint darkly that this is all somehow our fault
5. draw obscure parallels between this whole tragedy and Acorn/Ayers/Wright just to have another chance to say those three in one paragraph

It’s all sick. And I’m all the more disturbed that some on our side are calling for the girl to hurt too.

By: JimWhite

JimWhite — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:14:41 +0000

Hey BFL. Back from dinner.

Early voting good here, too. I voted Wednesday and my wife voted today. Both days the site was running at capacity late morning but there was no line. Just got the latest numbers for all of FL-6:

76,948 have already voted out of 519,018 in the district. Only about 6% of voters under 35 have voted yet, so we have to keep up the pressure on the youngsters. Over 27% of those over 65 have already voted.

The good news is that for registration info through Oct 1, our district has now evened up. We were 43% R and 39% D but now it’s even at 41-41. I’m liking the chances of our D challenger even more now, even though the Florida Times Union endorsed the R incumbent yesterday.

By: wobblybits

wobblybits — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:11:56 +0000

I disagree. The whole thing is sad all the way around. A mentally ill girl, her dangerous and vile race baiting and the pushing of the story by the campaign. It says much about america