And of course the second Michele posts a story about a LEFTY LIB violently assaulting someone in the name of Obama…what does the LEFTY LIB do? Lament that such are part of his or her party? No. Agree it is offensive, shameful and a sad part of the Obama supporters? No. Display any grief over such behavior by an Obama supporter? No. They just cry and complain Michele didn’t highlight a story about offenses by McCain supporters while taking Michele to task for reporting this story in the first place and not praying for the woman (I guess Nathan can read minds to and knows whether Michele is praying or not)…but wait…it would be okay to report a story on a McCain offense? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What shear hypocrisy and duplicity. You nitwit LEFTY LIBS are so screwed up it isn’t funny. On the one hand someone is suppose to be ashamed for reporting a story and on the other hand when it serves you someone SHOULD report a story. LORD I know these people brought their idiocy upon themselves!
Next Please!

This Michele is what was pointed out on your other post.
You’re demonizing all Democrats, all liberals, all moderates.
And you have Guy Arthur Thomas posting filth that violates Beliefnet’s ROC, but he gets away with it.
Fine, don’t deal with it. But it can be reported to the New York staff, and they can decide why you let posts that violate the ROC but defend you stand.

While I disagree with GUY’s tone (and wish it would stop) I do agree with the sentiments.

Michele, Guy…if you can tie this attack to the Obama campaign, go right ahead. Otherwise you are simply helping spread the violence.
By the way, Michele, I see the McCain supporters are not wasting any time of their own:
http://www.wisn.com/politics/17754232/detail.html
“CALEDONIA, Wis. — Police in Caledonia are investigating the assault of a campaign volunteer as she was canvassing for Senator Barack Obama Saturday afternoon.
In an exclusive interview with 12 News, 58 year-old Nancy Takehara of Chicago says she was going door-to-door when she came across a disgruntled homeowner.
“The next thing I know he’s telling us we’re not his people, we’re probably with ACORN, and he started screaming and raving,” Takehara said. “He grabbed me by the back of the neck. I thought he was going to rip my hair out of my head. He was pounding on my head and screaming. The man terrified me.””

Both should be repugnant. Both should be publicized.
Both should be prosecuted.

Y’all need to cool down for a bit! Have we become so partisan that we cannot take a second to actually condemn an act of violence? Have we become so partisan that the only violence we see is that done by the “other side”?
First, Michele plays politics with a woman who has been brutally attacked. Then commenters can’t even muster the honesty to say that this was an atrocity, lest it give Michele a political point.
McCain supporters have been attacked, as have Obama supporters. Can either side truly say that they condemn ALL of the attacks, or is it only the opposition that does nasty things?
Way to witness for Christ, folks. Nice job.

You forgot to report something, Michele. You overlooked this portion of the story you linked us to.
“Meanwhile, late this afternooon, the Obama-Biden campaign released a statement, saying: “This is a horrendous act of violence. Our thoughts and prayers are with the young woman for her to make a speedy recovery, and we hope that the person who perpetrated this crime is swiftly apprehended and brought to justice.”"

Ah, one other thing, Michele. Your handler over at Hotair.com seems a bit more skeptical of the matter than you.
michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird/
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Why that McCain volunteer’s “mutilation” story smells awfully weird
By Michelle Malkin • October 23, 2008 06:43 PM
Throughout my career, I’ve covered dozens of fake hate crimes — campus hate crime hoaxes, Muslim hate crime hoaxes, fake noose hangings, etc., etc., etc. Most were perpetrated by liberals, but there have been some shameful ones on our side of the aisle as well.
I’ve reported on the great lengths that warped attention-seekers have gone to in perpetrating fake hate crimes, including beating themselves up, carving swastikas on their dorm room doors and walls, locking themselves in bathroom stalls, and burning down their own houses.
Which is why I’m not jumping up and down with outrage over Drudge-promoted story of a McCain volunteer claiming to have been attacked by a black man whom she accused of carving a “B” in her face after spotting her McCain bumper sticker.
She refused medical treatment after reporting the incident to police. Why on earth would she do that?
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For once I agree with Michelle Malkin…something seems odd here. If in fact the attack and scarring occurred as reported, then I’ll apologize for doubting the woman right along with Malkin. However, if this turns out to be a fake, I’ll expect an apology from the woman…and from our host here at Reformed Chicks Blabbing.

I have also read the theory that it may be a hoax. Passions are running very high on both sides…and along with that comes very poor judgment

You have *no idea* whether an Obama supporter carved a B in this woman’s face. So far, this is an allegation. As a longtime news reporter, I take issue with the headline. It is critical in the case of an early crime report that we don’t serve as investigator, judge and jury.

The newspaper seems to be backing off the aggressive headlines a bit in their latest update.
kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
McCain Campaign Worker Allegedly Attacked
Reporting Ralph Iannotti
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ? She calls it a political attack — a McCain campaign volunteer says she was attacked in Bloomfield.
Ashley Todd, 20, claims it all happened because she supports Sen. John McCain in the presidential race.
Todd claims she was robbed at knife point then roughed up.
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Alleged…claims…calls…maybe some skepticism is starting to seep into the local news reporter’s attitude. Hopefully the ATM video will give some evidence on this, one way or another.

Um, what does the poster mean by suggesting Obama supporters want to “spin this one”? Is that sort of like saying, “Black people like Obama are violent, and someone’s going to try to ‘spin’ things differently?” Think for just a moment about what you’re saying. If a white man attacked a black woman and carved an M on her forehead, would we be saying the man somehow represents McCain?
This is clearly, inadvertent or otherwise, a festering October surprise (which some will want to claim, because in their sick minds it’s ‘whatever works’), and surprise, it happened in a crucial McCain desperatoin state, PA, two weeks before the election, to a passionate McCain supporter who has dedicated her whole life for a year to electing the man. If the situation were reversed, how long do you think it would take for the innuendo about the victim to begin?
But that would be wrong, from Malkin or anyone else. Unless we have evidence to the contrary, the only assumption is that a woman who went to a bad part of town in the dark became a crime victim (we believe rape victims, right?). This story is not “she was attacked by an Obama supporter.” That’s bogus logic. He was a thief with a broad streak of cruelty. Do you really believe Obama would claim such a rotten soul? If you do, check the condition of your own soul.
Oddly for a “Christian” site, too many folks who post here see things through “colored” lenses, but they know it’s shameful so they find ways to slant it differently. Bigotry is not a Christian attitude. You ought to knock it off–I don’t care how much you believe the Republican Party is God’s favorite. Live your Christian identity, life like Jesus wants you to live, or call yourselves something else.

The police are investigating. The ATM will have video footage, and other cameras in the area might as well. Hopefully they will show the incident happening and give the police a good ID on the perpetrator, so they can arrest him.

James 26 If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue, he deceives himself and his religion is worthless.

though I know you will
Then you’d be wrong. Again.
The guy who attacked that woman and disfigured her like that fails at life. I don’t care who he supports politically, that’s never an excuse to rob or physically assault someone. Those are crimes and are not defensible by any stretch of the imagination.
Of course, you don’t care about that. You just want to slam anyone who supports Obama so you can pretend you’re morally superior to anyone else.

Minnie: where has Michele ever proclaimed herself morally superior – considering that others feel so free to question her Christianity so easily?

Oh come on. All the constant derision of Obama supporters, or liberals is nothing more than Michele presenting herself as morally superior to anyone else.
Just look at this post. She suggests that Obama supporters would automatically try to spin a woman being beaten and attacked. And before this post, she suggested that Obama supporters shot and killed a bear cub, stapled Obama signs to the corpse, then dumped it on a college campus just so they could blame the Republicans.
The way she presents everything, liberals and Democrats are evil thugs who would shoot a bear cub or spin a brutal attack on a woman when she’s at the ATM. I find that insulting condescending. And it’s nothing but a way for her to project her fake moral superiority on everyone else.
Ever notice how Michele conveniently ignores anything negative that the Republicans do? That’s because in her world, they presumably don’t do anything wrong and are completely moral because they’re not Democrats or liberals. It’s all okay if you’re a Republican, but if not, then everything is your fault.

I’m extremely skeptical about this “alleged” attack. And in the meantime, voters in Florida are being forced to stand in line for up to five hours in EARLY VOTING because Republicans passed legislation limiting the hours at polling places to working hours during the week and only eight hours spread over the two-day weekend, forcing senior citizens to stand in the heat and working people to sacrifice nearly an entire day in order to vote early.
And today a Republican spokesperson, in response to a question about Palin’s shopping spree at Neiman’s and Saks on the RNC’s dime, criticized Obama for taking a campaign jet to SEE HIS GRAVELY ILL GRANDMOTHER. Republicans are just plain ugly. And your remark in response to a previous post, MzEllen, putting quotation marks around the “working poor,” calling that term a euphemism (for what, precisely?) is frankly no better. It reminds me of McCain’s sneer at the very mention of allowing abortions “for the health of the mother.” You just don’t get it. You have no idea how you come across or why tactics and attitudes like yours turn people off and make them not want to know you–not even be in the same room.
There is NOTHING Republicans will not politicize. Nothing they will not lie about. Nothing they will not do if they think it will improve their chances of winning an election.
I think it’s poetic justice that Palin is now turning on McCain, basically kicking him in the head with her red stiletto while he’s down, so she can get him out of the way as she starts her run for the 2012 nomination. He wanted a pit bull; I guess he didn’t reckon on her slipping her leash and coming after HIM with her teeth bared and a fresh coat of lipstick.

I’m skeptical that this event happened as reported, but not without any reason at all.
Several years ago down here in Texas an aspiring Republican politician campaigning on a law and order platform was “viciously attacked” and shot by “African-American intruders” at his office. There was a hullabaloo in the papers, and then the politician himself went to jail for false report. It turned he banged his own head on his own furniture and testing for gunpowder residue and the angle of the shot led police to conclude he had shot himself, too.
So do I believe the lady’s story? No. And real muggers (I’ve been mugged myself on my soujourns in the American northeast) don’t usually read bumper stickers. She does has my sympathy for whatever scratched her face, but if she did it herself to stir up anxieties about African-Americans, she is to be pitied for a different reason.
The one thing I feel sure about the stories is, there will be more until the election. Then they will stop.

OK, mods, if you’re going to censor me, then I just want to say this to you: you have some nerve suggesting that the dead bear cub last week was planted by Democrats to blame on McCain supporters WITHOUT EVIDENCE, yet you refuse to publish the EVIDENCE that the woman in this story has staged her “carving” attack to falsely harm Obama and stir up racist fears. Shame on you. Post the facts.

OK folks, you need to visit Michelle Malkin, 236, TMZ, etc etc — this story is a HOAX and the evidence is plain as day. Policeman and prosecutors are openly stating that none of the “carving” claims add up. This woman scratched the ‘B’ into her face using a mirror. Please try to refrain from the knee jerk emotional responses and do your research. This is gutter politics at its worst, and this girl’s little plan to hurt Obama is going to backfire big time.
There’s no need for us to spin a complete lie, McGinty.

I do find the backwards ‘b’ rather odd.
Well, it would make sense.. if a person were doing it themselves, while looking in a mirror.

By the way, anybody take a close look at the supposed “B” on the poor lady’s face? Was the attacker dyslexic, or was the “B” self-imposed? It’s a shame–but it’s not a political statement by an Obama supporter, I think.

am i also the only one that saw that the reports said “scratched” but michele saw need to exaggerate this to “CARVED”? i was afraid to view the picture for fear that the woman’s face was filleted. i see this style of exaggeration in “reporting” sometimes when the perpetrator is allegedly black or hispanic. in michele’s case, i think it’s because the perpetrator was said to be a mccain detractor.
regardless, it should be said time and time again that such violence (even in the case of self mutilating) is detestable.

Don’t worry. I saw it. Even the one writing was talking about how a woman would never ‘SCAR HER FACE’. I can’t imagine this leading to more than a day or two of redness. The black eye is another matter.
However it was done, it doesn’t even look like it drew blood. For something done with a knife, it oddly looks more like an abrasion than a cut.

And, of course, it likely needs to be said again..
Mugging, of any time, is horrifying. Being held up at knife point is a traumatic event, no matter who does it, or why. And, of course, if it really happened as related, was totally inexcusable.
Just finding the account, including not going to the doctor, rather.. suspicious.

MarcM
October 23, 2008 6:38 PM
Michele, Guy…if you can tie this attack to the Obama campaign, go right ahead. Otherwise you are simply helping spread the violence.
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As usual the LEFTY LIB mentality blames someone else for the actions of their own. No one is spreading anything other than the truth about the VIOLENCE of a sizable chunk of the LEFTY LIBS who support Th Obamanation. Clueless one…quit blaming other people for the violent decisions of the LEFTY LIBS.
Next Please!

Karen Brown
October 23, 2008 11:56 PM
I do find the backwards ‘b’ rather odd.
Well, it would make sense.. if a person were doing it themselves, while looking in a mirror.
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Not when it involves a LEFTY LIB OBAMANATION supporter. Ah yes….the sweet smell of Obama’s defeat is right around the corner.
Next Please!

The story has now largely been debunked and it appears the “victim” made it all up.

The blood runs cold when I agree with Dreher on anything, but his tag line on this is the right one. It’s BS.

Even Fox News is beginning to suspect this is a hoax.
Get your facts straight before stepping up to criticize an entire group. Obama supporters are not the ones openly lying and filing false police reports.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/mccain-volunteer-says-mugged-b-carved-face/

I’m thinking this would be a great juncture for Michelle to make one of her apologies, which I hope many of us will graciously accept.

Suspecting something to be false and proving it false aren’t the same…it appears right now AMBER you need to get YOUR facts straight and learn the difference between a fact and a suspicion. Typical mouthy LEFTY LIB.
Next Please!

I just copied this from the KDKA.com page, which is the local CBS station:
“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.”
A little discernment would help, but I guess that’s not a Reformed characteristic?

Actually, Guy, the police have come out and said that Todd admitted the whole thing was a hoax. This matter has now moved from suspicion to fact.

Per KDKA in Pittsburgh:
Breaking News: 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.
http://kdka.com/
So Michele, when will you apologize to Obama supporters for suggesting they’d automatically spin an attack on a woman, especially now that the Pittsburgh police are saying that this McCain volunteer has confessed to making it all up?
I won’t hold my breath, but the decent thing to do would be to admit you were fooled by this college kid.

A more updated link from KDKA in Pittsburgh:
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
This was a hoax. It never happened.

Again, it needs to be asked. Why does Steven Waldman allow this blog to take up space on his website? Does he ever come in here and see what a mess it is?

“There is no letter. I made it up.” – Columnist Ann Mitchell in Capra’s Meet John Doe.
My second plug for a great, old political-junkie movie!

Michele, this is now proven to be a HOAX.
EVEN MICHELLE MALKIN DIDN’T BELIEVE IT.
This is what you get when you listen to the crazy-makers on right wing hate radio, and other paid liars like Hannity.
Maybe someday you will learn not to draw your water from a polluted well. Sad.

Police: Campaign Worker Admits Making Up Story
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A Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Ashley Todd confessed to making up the story & is facing charges
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ? Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter “B” in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.
Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.
Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.
Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and “the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction.”
This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.
The commander added that Todd will face charges; but police have not commented on what those charges will be.
According to police, investigators working on the interview process detected several inconsistencies in Todd’s story that differed from statements made in the original police report.
Pittsburgh Police Public Information Officer Diane Richard released a statement earlier today, saying: “Because of the inconsistencies in her statements, Ms. Todd was asked to submit to a polygraph examination which she agreed to do.”
No photos of Todd are being released by Pittsburgh Police at this time.
The investigation is continuing as officials determine what charges will be filed.

it’s official. while guy arthur thomas seems to be the only one here hoping that the story was true, apparently the girl has now confessed to making the whole thing up.
“A Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Ashley Todd confessed to making up the story & is facing charges”
http://kdka.com/local/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html
pathetic race baiting.

Which means she would have had to have given herself a black eye also. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What an clown. But don’t kid yourself, this is just what America will get with The Obamanation. A scarred country and a black eye from a MARXIST tax policy. If you think the DOW is bad now I suggest you pray The Obamanation doesn’t get elected because if so, that week the DOW will fall even further…grossly down into DEPRESSION!
No one hoped anything, they took the woman’s word. My Lord what is the world coming to when someone takes the word of another! Oh goodness the SKY is falling. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Next Please!

Which means she would have had to have given herself a black eye also.
Anyone who’s ever seen a real black eye would know that hers was fake. This is a real black eye:
http://www.ebbtiderugby.org/Pictures/20030209%20Gord%20Black%20Eye.jpg
Note the swelling of his eye and the reds, blues, and purples in the bruising. Her “black eye” is gray and black, and her eye isn’t swollen at all. It’s a bad make-up job at best.

“I defy the Obamanite commenters to spin this (though I know you will)”
how’d we do? did we meet your expectations?
“Yeah, the rage is on the right, isn’t it?”
considering that this mccain supporter made the whole thing up, and we were here offering solace even when her story didn’t pass the smell test… and all the time she was race baiting… tell us again, where’s the rage?
i guess she thought her story would be more believable if her attacker was a 200 pound, 6’4″ black man with a knife.

So.. Obama, who isn’t even in office, gave the woman a black eye from his tax policy?
Wow, ok, Guy. That makes perfect sense. I see it all now. A candidate’s policies can rise up and physical attack voters.
And yes, either she could’ve gotten the black eye another way, and decided to use it for this hoax, or yes, you CAN give yourself a black eye.

I’m sure that repeating the same thing over and over will make it even more true, Guy. UP there with the ALL CAPS, and the maniacal laughter.
She said it was a hoax. She said she faked it. She said she had mental health issues. She wasn’t even AT the ATM at the time when she said she was attacked, and drew out no money.
Guess she didn’t realize/know/remember that ATM’s have always had time stamps for any activity going on there, and now have cameras just because of their vulnerability to people being robbed at them, especially late at night.
But go ahead, talk about how someone’s tax policy gave her a literal black eye.

Karen Brown
October 24, 2008 2:33 PM
So.. Obama, who isn’t even in office, gave the woman a black eye from his tax policy?
Wow, ok, Guy. That makes perfect sense. I see it all now. A candidate’s policies can rise up and physical attack voters.
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Now KAREN let’s review what I said:
Which means she would have had to have given herself a black eye also. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! What an clown. But don’t kid yourself, this is just what America will get with The Obamanation. A scarred country and a black eye from a MARXIST tax policy.
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Okay hon? You see? I didn’t say Obama’s tax policies gave the girl anything, I speculated she must have given herself the black eye.
Okay hon? Got that so far.
Now the remainder of what I said…and I know this might be beyond your comprehension level but try hon…was metaphorical. I used the literal black eye I speculated the girl gave herself as a metaphor for what will happen to America with MARXISM under The Obamanation.
Okay, all better now hon? See, you don’t have to remain ignorant with someone to guide you out of it. Now get a dictionary and learn what a metaphor is.
Next Please!

Perhaps with fewer caps, absent the maniacal laughter, the constant use of ‘Next Please!’, people might be able to, well, parse what you were writing (I would say ‘make sense’, but.. that would be asking a bit much) a little more easily.
I can disagree with the Marxism, I can disagree with what you think will happen to the country.
But using this incident as an example, the effects wouldn’t be due to an external party.
They would be fake, self inflicted, and a ploy in order to get attention, likely sparked by their self admitted mental illness.
I don’t think you want to be making those kinds of metaphorical connections to the incident.

Wow. What an incredibly sexist and condescending post.
I’m wondering if it’s not just a really elaborate troll designed to say the dumbest, most offensive things possible to generate controversy.

Karen Brown
October 24, 2008 2:49 PM
Perhaps with fewer caps, absent the maniacal laughter, the constant use of ‘Next Please!’, people might be able to, well, parse what you were writing
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Boo hoo, blame your troubles on someone else, it’s all big bad GUY’S fault you can’t decipher what everyone else can…more LEFTY LIB mentality.
And the METAPHOR was the BLACK EYE, not the method of how she got it. Good Lord KAREN, do you eat stupid for breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Next Please!

It is an admitted hoax. She made it all up. See you in four years you filthy, racsit Republican pigs.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003877824

Mouthier lefty lib
October 24, 2008 3:02 PM
It is an admitted hoax. She made it all up. See you in four years you filthy, racsit Republican pigs.
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And please don’t bring The Obamanation back for your nominee! After McCain whips him and you spend 4 years crying at least take enough time to find a decent nominee!
Next Please!

No, what I’m saying is that it is HIGHLY unlikely this woman was trying to show some sort of metaphor.
She went to the cops. She filed a phony report. She made up a story, kept changing it (Obama wasn’t even mentioned in her first account, just the supposed mugging..).
She never said a thing about Obama, himself, other than the mugger was supposedly trying to make her a ‘Barack Supporter’. Not a word about his policies.
Later, SHE, herself, both admitted it was a hoax, and that she has a mental illness.
But if you want to think this was some sort of performance art piece, feel free.
It isn’t a lack of understanding. It is thinking the very idea is ridiculous.
This was just a cry for attention from someone not even smart enough to know that ATM’s record who takes out money, and when.

Once again, grade school guy proves himself unable to converse on an adult level.
But it’s good that he posts. We need to see the Republican slime machine in its full glory, before the public sends it to the sidelines for good. Perhaps then they will slither under the rock they emerged from for a while.
The people who peddle the Hannity-capped rumors and lies deserve the public humiliation they are about to get.
And the public’s not going to let these cretins near the reins of power for a long time.
The Nazis thought they were pretty tough . Decent people shun them now.
The Republicans deserve the same fate, for the same reason.

“Boo hoo, blame your troubles on someone else”
yeah, like this mccain supporter blaming her troubles on a “mythical” black obama supporter.
or like you blaming the countries woes on obama when he hasn’t even been elected yet.
we understand your embarrassment for being wrong here, but nobody is buying your metaphor excuse. your excuses in defense of your character and poor judgment remind me of the beheaded chickens still flailing around when i lived on my parent’s small farm. flapping and bleeding all over the place not even knowing how dead they were.

RG
October 24, 2008 3:17 PM
The Nazis thought they were pretty tough . Decent people shun them now.
The Republicans deserve the same fate, for the same reason.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!
This is what you poor LEFTY LIBS are reduced to? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You pathetic slugs…nothing left but calling people NAZIS? HAHAHAHAHA!
Next Please!

Meanwhile… we’re still waiting for a retraction from FOX news and Michelle.
i’ve asked this before. Why is this blog STILL under the beliefnet banner??? It’s unseemly. Michelle certainly has the right to express her ideas, her points of view and to editorialize as much as her heart sees fit. But this is a spiritual/religious web site and Michelle purports to be of the Christian persuasion. Why is this GOP mouthpiece allowed to shamelessly shill within this medium?
i suppose if we all stopped reading her and encouraging her venom by commenting…

i suppose if we all stopped reading her and encouraging her venom by commenting…
If her writing bothers you so much…go for it.

“You pathetic slugs…nothing left but calling people NAZIS? HAHAHAHAHA!”
So, does this story mean “the right” has nothing left, either?
GOP clerk passes around Obama ‘black Hitler’ claim
4 hours ago
FRANKLIN, Ind. (AP) — A Republican county clerk distributed to two employees an Internet blog posting referring to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a “young, black Adolf Hitler.”
Johnson County Clerk Jill Jackson said Friday that she had apologized to the employees. One had complained to police.
The employees, who had voted for Obama in the Democratic primary, discovered the printouts at their desks after returning from Labor Day weekend, sheriff’s Deputy Doug Cox said in a police report made public this week. A surveillance video showed Jackson placing an item on one worker’s desk, he said.

Michele: I defy the Obamanite commenters to spin this (though I know you will)
KDKA is reporting that the police say the woman made up the story. Is a retraction in order, Michele?

“I defy the Obamanite commenters to spin this (though I know you will)”
Hey Michelle – Guess you spoke too soon, eh? Turns out the McCain supporter made the whole thing up! It looks like you’re the one needing to do some “spinning” about this story.

Meanwhile… we’re still waiting for a retraction from FOX news and Michelle.
To their credit, Fox News has a big story about this on their website, revealing this story as a hoax:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/24/mccain-campaign-volunteer-admits-alleged-attack-hoax/
As for Michele retracting anything or apologizing to Obama supporters for being so quick to smear them over this bogus “attack”, I wouldn’t hold your breath. She’s not about to admit that a Republican did anything wrong, or that she used this hoax to unfairly smear Barack Obama and his supporters.

Oh goodness, how horrible, someone believed the woman! Just awful. The only person needing to retract anything is the woman caught lying. The only thing here is that it was reported. All you can do is report the new story of the LIE but no one did anything wrong reporting the initial story…that is also part of the news you NIT WIT LEFTY LIBS!
You LEFTY LIBS make mountains out of molehills.
Next Please!

No. It came with more than belief.
It came with a package of assumptions about the man, all Obama supporters, even, once disproved, a rather ludicrous scenario that would excuse the woman and said it was all intended as some kind of ‘metaphor’.
Reporting the story is one thing. The side commentary ABOUT the story, and about posters was quite another.

Michelle
You are a gossip, and beared false witness. For the sake of politics. Politic’s is your God. What is the reformed view of being a gossip?

per MzEllen:
‘If her writing bothers you so much…go for it.’
Actually, i think i’ll take you up on that. Consider this my last comment

Michelle, your retraction, please?

I’ve noticed that since Beliefnet changed their format, the double-posting has become much worse.

Truegoy
October 24, 2008 6:06 PM
per MzEllen:
‘If her writing bothers you so much…go for it.’
Actually, i think i’ll take you up on that. Consider this my last comment
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Good and consider this but one of many comments by me…your hypocrisy won’t be missed.
Next Please!

Robert
October 24, 2008 6:17 PM
Michelle, your retraction, please?
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Dude, the woman admitted she lied, it has been retracted. Get over yourself.
Next Please!

Michelle, your retraction, please?
Not just a retraction, but an apology as well.
The sort of classless garbage that Michele spews in this post is unacceptable. Ashley Todd lied and spread a vile, racist hoax just to score political points for her side. Michele should apologize for falling for it, and for using that hoax to unfairly smear Obama supporters.

I’ve noticed that since Beliefnet changed their format, the double-posting has become much worse.
True. Each of the comments I submit is met with a deceptive failure message, then the comment appears 15 minutes later!

What a surprise. Turns out the McCain campaign was pushing this story to reporters before all the facts were known:
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php
Oops.

Michelle, with all the sticking of your foot into your mouth that occurs here, I’m surprised you don’t have athelete’s tongue.
Of course, by the same metaphor, this Thomas fellow would have hemmoroid lip.
Feel proud! Still the most abysmal blogger on Beliefnet!

I have written to my contact in New York asking that Thomas’s posting privileges be reviewed, and was told they would look into it.

Truth needs no spin.
Of course, if this HADN’T been a hoax, I might have said that one shouldn’t generalize the acts of one onto an entire group.
Wouldn’t that be the Christian stance?

wake up church . mccain is acting like saten. lie after lie money money money . and palin is lieing they do not work for the lord they have fooled the church . there saying obama is evil . yet there acting like the devil. and pastors who are blind because there rich . its all about money. money money.money money . and many have left the faith 1 tim 6 . you watch mccain its all about money . if JESUS TOLD HIM TO GIVE ALL HIS MONEY TO THE POOR WHAT WOULD JOHN CALL JESUS? plus whis wife owns a beer compeny . people better read there bible GOD HATES LIARS . AND YOU GOT BLIND BELIVERS THINKING mccain is on the lords side . mccain has mocked the poor he has mocked the king and there is no doubt he will lose . read prov 6-12-19 prov 17-5 hay rejoice all you poor the lord of glory has herd your cry

The “Obamanite spin” would be that you shouldn’t judge a candidate or a campaign by the actions of a loonie.
It’s worth noting that the woman who made the false charge was actually on the McCain campaign, while even her imaginary attacker didn’t claim to be an Obama worker.
Should we now wait for the “McCainiac spin” on how it’s unfair to judge a candidate or campaign on by the actions of a loonie?
Or is that only lame when Obama supprters say it?

Oops. Forgot to put my name on the above post.

Oh, and just in case anyone else is talking about the unlikelihood of her giving herself a black eye.. Here’s the latest news story.
It features her in cuffs, hauled in for filing a false report. What seems to be missing is.. that ‘black eye’.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27350530
I’ve had a black eye before, it takes weeks for all the rainbow (all ugly, for the most part. Goes from black, red and blue, to lovely shades of brown, yellow and green) to disappear.
Seems that bruise had to do more with makeup than any attack.

teehee! thanks karen!
dang, she’s a quick healer. i doubt that michele’s “black eye” will heal as fast. (there’s a metaphor for you, guy arthur thomas).
she looked happier with the faked up bruise than she does being hauled off in cuffs, don’t you think? hey, where’s her mccain button? she should be wearing it proudly on her sweatshirt.
the headline can now be rewritten: mccain supporter has ‘mental health issues’.

SHE LIED !!!!!

Anyone with an ounce of sense saw right through this from the beginning. You CONS really are, collectively, a challenged group.

Oh, Mr. Robert Morwell who wants to make sure his name is tagged to that great comment…
How I love people on the right who jump at these situations, trying to point out some non-existent leftist rage.
Robert, I hope when you found out the story wasn’t true, you felt complete embarrassment.
Apology accepted, thank you Robert.

Dear Lefty…
Aside from not knowing how to avoid posting numerous times, you obviously didn’t actually READ my post.
I am an Obama supporter, you doofus. I made no reference to non-existent leftist rage and I took Michele to task for her condescending remark about how “Obamanites” would spin what she instantly thought was an attack that somehow made al of us Obama supporters complicit.
I didn’t feel anything but relief and vindication when I heard the story was false…Because I was always skeptical about it…unlike Michele.
Geez! Pay attention, will ya?

sad how the repubs were hopeing this was a way to make the dems look bad .. only shows the people who are working for the republicans are unstable .

Well I do apologize for criticizing your posting abilities. Apparently something is wrong with the system. (I wonder if Michele will blame this problem on Obama, too?)
But you still need to actually READ my post. You couldn’t have been more bass ackwards in your interpretations of it.

So I would love to see your McCainiac spin on this one-HAHAHA!!!
You should issue a retraction and apology for running with this obvious lie that any sane person could see was a hoax from the beginning. If not, your credibility will be shot, not that you have any left any way.
I’ve been a black bet in Taekwondo for years and had numerous black eyes and can honestly say that I’ve never had one turn black an hour after being hit. Duh….. Michele use your brain next time.

“Yeah, the rage is on the right, isn’t it?”
Yes it is, Michele. Maybe you should look in the mirror.