Alleged Mugging Of McCain Campaign Woerker A Hoax

I had hesitated to report on this one at first. The whole thing sounded like a fake to me from the beginning and sure enough it was.

The story goes, Ashly Todd, a 20 year old student from Texas working on the McCain campaign, told police she was mugged while using an ATM in the Bloomfield, PA area. She told police that the attacker first robbed her and then upon seeing a "McCain/Palin" sticker on her car he came back and beat her and carved a "B" on her face. The "B" was supposedly for Barack.

The problem is the ATM cameras do not record such an attack, and the "B" was backward. That backward B looked like something you would do if you were trying to do it in a mirror....as in to yourself.

Well it only took a few hours before every right wing blog was touting the violent mugging by an Obama supporter. The Drudge Report still has the story pasted on its front page. Fear and terror in the streets! Yeah right!

Funny thing, turns out when the alleged victim was tested with a polygraph, the whole thing looked fishy and she confessed she made it up. No doubt the fake story will continue to circulate and grow exponentially, fanned by McCain supporters who see his campaign failing and in need of a boost. Truth would be a nice thing to hear from the McCain camp for a change, but don;t count on it.