Update: Hoax SHOCK: MCCAIN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH UPDATE: PHOTO ADDED UPDATE: POLICE TO ADMINISTER POLYGRAPH

Posted by on 10/23/2008

'B' CARVED INTO 20-YEAR OLD WOMAN'S FACE... DEVELOPING...

A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank’s surveillance cameras.The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.

H/T to Drudge

Via Ed:

The woman who was attacked has identified herself as Ashley Todd, who is a College Republican field representative.  Here’s the photo:

Update Via Michelle Malkin: Via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

A knife-wielding man robbed a McCain-Palin campaign volunteer and etched a “B” into her face after he saw a McCain bumper sticker on her car, the woman told Pittsburgh police.

Police planned to administer a polygraph test to Ashley Todd, 20, because her statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred, police said.

HOAX:

“She just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth,” Bryant said. “She was upset with the media for blowing this into a political firestorm.”

She told Detectives J.R. Smith and Scott Evans varying stories about how she ended up with two black eyes and a backward letter “B” etched onto her right cheek late Wednesday. She said she remembers being in her car, driving around the city, and seeing the letter on her cheek when she looked into the rearview mirror. She said she immediately thought of Barack Obama when she saw the “B,” Bryant said.

“She said she doesn’t remember doing it but knows it must have been her who did it,” Bryant said.

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89 Comments.

  1. SHOCK: MCCAIN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH - pingback on 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 02:38 PM
  2. Crystal Diane Stevens 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 02:53 PM

    This is what conservatives are dealing with every day courtesy of the crazy liberals who, while pretending to be anti-war, don’t think twice about resorting to violence. This is the latest in a string of bursts of violence against conservatives by Obama supporters. Meanwhile, there’s some idiot who has a carboard Sarah and Bristol Palin cut outs on their lawn next to a dead animal with its guts cut out and people are invited to “shoot” at the cut outs with pellet guns.

  3. chris anderson 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 02:57 PM

    :-? This seems like a police blotter story, not a political story. She was accosted by a crackhead who wanted money, not because she was a McCain supporter. Kind of like the Republicans of Wall Street taking all of our pensions, then blaming the democrats.

  4. Pam 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 03:14 PM

    chris anderson- It doesn’t seem like a political story to you? Can you read? He had the money, she was attacked after he saw the bumper sticker.

    Please explain how the Republicans took your pension..

  5. Clifford 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 03:16 PM

    “Blaming the Democrats”?…The Wallstreet ninnies are Democrats you fool!

  6. mccain volunteer attacked - pingback on 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 03:38 PM
  7. liberal bastard 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 03:43 PM

    Hey Clifford. The wall street “ninnies” you refered to, are not all Democrats. In fact, most are hardcore right-wingers.

    Get a clue dude.

  8. Pam 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 03:53 PM

    really LB? Why are “most” of them donating to Democrats? Open Secrets has the info on that..why don’t you go get a clue dude and get back to us..

  9. liberal bastard 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 04:37 PM

    They donate to both parties Pam. And they usually make their donations the same way a gambler places a bet at the track. They try to pick the winner. Seeing as how donating money to a loser won’t buy you much political influence. But I’m sure you’re intelligent enough to figure that out.;)

    Historically, wall st. has been primarily affiliated with the right. For reasons ranging from tax policy to market regulation policy. Also, CEO’s of major investment banks, Paulson of Goldman Sachs comes to mind, have also primarily been republicans.

  10. Samuel Cohen 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 07:13 PM

    I cannot believe you think this stupid woman is telling the truth. She wouldn’t even file a report with the police.

    Republicans, bend over. What goes around, comes around. Have a nice November 5th.

  11. Pam 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 07:19 PM

    Good God the trolls are getting dumber…She declined to go to the hospital last night after filling out the police report, but did go early this morning!

  12. hoax 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 09:14 PM

    Um…that “B” is a freaking scratch, how does that qualify as mutilation? It didn’t even break the skin, if he actually used a knife she would need stitches. HOAX.

  13. Eben 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 09:21 PM

    [url]http://www.palinaspresident.us/[/url]

  14. Mark Hansel 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 09:57 PM

    As a doctor, I can tell you that at least from what one sees in the picture, this abrasion is by no means caused by a knife, it is likely self made with a pencil eraser which caused an abrasion that will fully heal. I have seen carved flesh with a sharp instrument and it is a scar for life. What this lady has will fully heal. I believe this lady is going to be in trouble soon for faking this, unfortunately.

  15. Robert 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 10:32 PM

    As an Obama campaign operative, who along with others is monitoring this website, I will post any kind of excrement to undercut any news, posting, or anything whatsoever that is negative to our Messiah and Savior, Barack Saddam Hussein Osama bin Obama.

    Isn’t that what you really mean, Mark Hansel, Hoax, samuel Cohen, and your comrades?

  16. Sphincter 10/23/2008 at October 23, 2008 - 10:39 PM

    Uh, yeah, this is obviously phony and a hoax. Those scratches were made by a pencil eraser, and the phony black eye is done with mascara. Anybody can see that.
    The robbery is fake too, she probably donated that money to Palin’s $150,000 makeover fund!

  17. Dave 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 12:25 AM

    Republican HQ Manager’s Home Shot Up Over McCain Signs

    http://www.local6.com/politics/17784129/detail.html

    Hope, Change and Molotov Cocktails

    http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2008/10/hope-change-and-molotov-cocktails.html

    Obama Supporter Assaults Female McCain Volunteer in New York

    http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-supporter-assaults-female-mccain-volunteer-in-new-york/

    Yesterday we asked why the media was reporting a McCain supporter calling Barack Obama an “Arab”and completely ignoring Obama supporters calling Sarah Palin a c*nt, even wearing T-shirts with the phrase “Sarah Palin is a c*nt”on them.

    http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/2008/10/13/wow-staffers-also-wear-sarah-palin-cnt-t-shirts/

  19. Christian Anderson 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 06:01 AM

    She made this up to cover up for her boyfriend, the abusive alcoholic boyfriend Joe Six-Pack. An extension of McCain-Palin’s desperation tactics: LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE SOW RACIAL MISTRUST LIE LIE LIE BUY SOME NICE CLOTHES LIE LIE LIE LIE

  20. libbie basher 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 06:30 AM

    Well what more would you expect from crazies who combine the worst parts of Islamic extremist, Commies, and Nazi’s but attacks. Just think how much worse it will get in America if the New Hitley wins in Nov.

    Pam

    Don’t try talking sense to a piece of fecal matter like Liberal Bastard or any it his, her its ilk. You can always tell a Liberal, but you can’t tell them much. Their little minds are clogged with their warped views.

  21. Luigi Vuoto 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 06:47 AM

    I’m sorry, but this is so fake that it’s almost funny.

    Do people really hate blacks so much that they’ll go to these lengths to try to make them look bad? I’m sorry for you.

  22. AKD 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 07:48 AM

    I don’t doubt that there has been (and will be) violence. My sister is volunteering at a campaign headquarters for Obama in Ohio and they’ve had a number of death threats called in.

    I wish that we could have a campaign where people talked about the issues and tried to determine what was best for the country. Instead we have fear-mongering and violence. This doesn’t do either side any good.

  23. Pam 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 07:50 AM

    Your sister will be ok AKD, but I bet you worry..Good for her for volunteering..I’m sorry to hear she is going thru that!

  24. Mark 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 09:32 AM

    Some conservative writers are now wondering if this incident is a hoax. See Michelle Malkin as an example:
    http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/23/why-that-mccain-volunteers-mutilation-story-smells-awfully-weird

    The young woman involved is now being re-questioned (including polygraph)in light of inconsistent testimony and security Video.

    Be VERY careful or we’ll get sidetracked into bogus stuff again (like the API Michelle Obama audio fakery).

  25. Samuel Cohen 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 10:00 AM

    All you REPUBLICANS need to prepare to BEND OVER.

    What goes around, comes around.

    Have a happy November 5th.

    Now say after me: “President Obama, President Obama, President Obama…”

  27. Patrick 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 12:10 PM

    Sorry, wingnuts. Her story turned out to be about as credible as McCain’s plan to win Pennsylvania.

    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.

  28. Robert 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 12:20 PM

    Samuel you may have a point. With all the fraud and corruption of Obama’s campaign plus the thuggery of Obama’s supporters, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Obama brownshirt organizations sprouting up everywhere. Criticize Obama and it’s off to the Gulag for you!

    Now say after me: “Barack Saddam Hussein Osama bin Obama”

  29. Gene Callahan 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 01:13 PM

    “This is what conservatives are dealing with every day courtesy of the crazy liberals who, while pretending to be anti-war, don’t think twice about resorting to violence. This is the latest in a string of bursts of violence against conservatives by Obama supporters…”

    Except it was a fake. The woman just admitted she made it all up. Like, probably, were all the other “bursts of violence” you mention.

  30. Robert 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 03:21 PM

    It turns out that her claim is about as credible as Obama’s claim he sat in Wright’s church for 20 years and never heard any hate-Americam hate-Whitey speech…yep, just as credible…

  31. Pam 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 03:23 PM

    Or that Ayers is just a guy from the neighborhood.

  32. Arliss 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 03:30 PM

    Republicans always fabricate violent acts against them to deflect attention away from the actual violent acts committed by their supporters.
    Get a clue Pam!
    She faked this just like every other story has been faked!

  33. Christian Anderson 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 03:36 PM

    I’ve met Bill Ayers, I’ve met Barack Obama. Just about everyone who works in education reform in Chicago in the past 20 years has met them, worked with them, I will say this: Ayers comes across as narcissistic asshole. But he has paid his debt and has done good works. Most of your kids teachers have read his books. To demand remorse for acts 40 years ago smacks of the Inquisition. No surprise, considering the source.
    As for Obama: one of the most intelligent, humble, present-in-the-moment kind of guys I’ve ever met in my 52 years. Very impressive. A listener. The strongest presidential candidate, ideology aside, to come across in my lifetime. We knew it then. A biracial, talented candidate who may help heal our most gaping wound, our founding national hypocrisies: manifest destiny and slavery.

  34. Robert 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 04:42 PM

    “But he has paid his debt and has done good works.”

    Depends on your definition of good works. Working to poison the minds of college students with radical Leftist ideology is not good in my book.

  35. Christian Anderson 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 06:49 PM

    Call it constructive instead then. My point is, they are mainstream books, hardly leftist in their approach. This man is no terrorist, and certainly no threat to anyone, unless you think researching and thinking about the educational system is threatening.
    Conservatives are out of fresh ideas, have wrecked the economy, bungled a war, have bad candidates this time around. Tehy feel they have no choice but to scare, divide and smear.

  36. Christian Anderson 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 06:51 PM

    and it hasn’t worked. They have actually repelled the reasonable centrist voter away.

  37. Pam 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 07:34 PM

    Who has paid for their acts? Ayers never paid for them nor does he regret what he did. Ayers is not a good person. He is a communist and a terrorist who got away with murder. He wishes they would have bombed more.

    Education reform? He and Obama blew $150 million and made the situation worse, not better..that is in the archives..

    Republicans did not wreck the economy, we both know it was the Democrats. Hell, even Bush was smart enough to leave a paper and audio trail warning these idiots, some cll the Democratic leadership, to put the proper regulations in place.

    There isn’t a snowballs chance in hell that Obama will heal anything..

  38. Chuck Wolber 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 08:04 PM

    No Pam, the bankers (not Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac) who were leveraged to the tune of 40-1 (or worse!) were to blame for this mess. What should have been a small blip caused a cascading failure that is now rippling around the world.

    The CDS (Credit Default Swaps) issue was caused by Democrats fighting for de-regulation so that poor people (read: People who couldn’t afford to pay for a mortgate and shouldn’t have gotten one in the first place) could get into houses. It *SHOULD* have been just a blip on the overall financial radar.

    Unfortunately Lehman Brothers was not able to unwind all of those CDS transactions to cover the failing sub-prime mortgages. Since they and all of the rest of the bankers were so heavily leveraged, it caused liquidity to dry up in the credit markets which basically caused the entire global economy to seize up.

    This is more complicated than “THE DEMOCRATS DID IT NEENER NEENER NEENER!”. The banking industry has been slowly de-regulated for decades and this is the final result. The best and the brightest in the financial industry from both sides of the table are now admitting that voluntary oversight was just a plain bad idea.

    ..Chuck..

  39. liberal bastard 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 08:56 PM

    In your face Pam! Turns out this chick is just another right-wing, race baiting, pitch fork carrying wingnut. HAHA!

    Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside to be able to rub this in the faces of the so called ‘conservatives’. But it’s nothing compared to the feeling I’m gonna have Nov. 5th.

  40. Robert 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 11:12 PM

    “and it hasn’t worked. They have actually repelled the reasonable centrist voter away.”

    We’ll see on election day.

  41. Robert 10/24/2008 at October 24, 2008 - 11:20 PM

    “Republicans did not wreck the economy, we both know it was the Democrats.”

    Absolutely true. Why?

    Bush inherited the Klinton recession, brought on by the massive Klinton tax increase. Klinton himself even acknowledged later it was too much of an increase.

    The Democrites have kept this country from enacting any sort of workable energy policy (Nuclear energy + developing our own resources). That is the most fundamental issue affecting our economy, and has handicapped it while bankrupting us.

    The Democrites, starting with Klinton, pushed the concept of giving loans to people who could not pay them back. They (Barney Frank and others) sat on committees that were supposed to have oversight. When Bush, McCain and others sounded the warnings years ago, the Democrites kept the status quo and said “no problem”.

    So this is a DemokkkRat-caused problem. And what is the solution? Give more power and control to the vermin that caused it? Doesn’t make sense to me. But that’s because I have common sense…

  42. Figaro Croe 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 06:33 AM

    So…when will the Republican fear tactics stop? It is sad that here in Texas it has worked perfectly!! No wonder this girl is from College Station – there is no more of an urban redneck town than that. I thought McCain was different but he has allowed RNC cronies of Bush to blur his campaign and stoop to these tactics, sadly. I just pray that it will not work come Nov 5th…just hope that America is bigger than this fear mongering. Bush used it against Kerry and McCain (and Palin) are using it too…

  43. Christian Anderson 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 07:06 AM

    Notice no repubs address my comments about the qualities of Obama that make him an exceptional candidate and will make him an exceptional, maybe even transfromative president.

    This is because the Republicans are out of ideas. They must rely on lies, sowing fear, and outright hoaxes like this one.

    The right is now out of touch with the American mainstream. They can’t run a competent presidential campaign, they pick a not-ready-for-primetime vp and blame the media because the electorate can plainly see that she is not ready (60 perent of voters see Mrs. Palin as unqualified.

    The Republicans find themselves in the same lace as the Dems after McGovern in 1972: out of touch, out of ideas, played out. That’s what happens when you get too extreme, right or left.

    So yes, I am hopeful. But I am not naive: I can see from many comments on this site that fear and racism are alive and well in this country. And those who say healing is not possible are just saying that they would rather live in anger and fear than open up their minds and hearts. Something happened to them as individuals to make them so vicious and scared. Not sure what, but I ho[e they find peace with this new era.

  44. Pam 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 07:50 AM

    No Chuck, it did start with Fannie and Freddie and cascaded from there..

  45. Christian Anderson 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 11:01 AM

    I just watched McCain’s stump speech on CNN. Keep up the good work. Keep looking like an angry dwarf, with your booing, howling mobs and negative attacks. Keep acting like a bunch of yahoos. Those scenes are so appealing to the swing voter.

    And make sure you keep having only white people in the background. And Cindy always makes sure she’s in the shot.

    Don’t have your advance people coach the crowds a little, suggest they don’t scrunch their faces into those angry, unpleasant looking scowls. Not necessary.

    Keep making stuff up. Keep up the class warfare (what a reversal, what a joke!)

    Keep blaming the media. Classic loser talk.

    If Obama wins, we will have fresh ideas, positive energy, someone who seeks to unify rather than divide. That is the choice swing voters are looking at.

    So keep fighting, Senator McCain; with every boo and catcall and pandering to negativity and even racism you and your supporters grow smaller and smaller to the good-hearted people of America.

    Obama’s running Reagan’s 1984 campaign and kicking ass. That makes McCain Dukakis. The pendulum swings. This is history.

    CA

  46. JMarra 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 02:03 PM

    HAH HAH HA HA Ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!

    BIG PHYLLIS DILLER LAUGH!

    This is RICH! A LAUGH RIOT!

    Watching the Morons For McCain indignantly snatch up the White Virginal Purity Sullied banner–

    –and then drop it like a hot potato, after their racist pants are pulled down!

    LOVE IT. Rightvoices–WRONGCHOICES!

    HAH HAH HA HA Ha ha ha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!

  47. Robert 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 11:12 PM

    Hey Christian, what are you going to after the election? When your job on the Obama campaign netsurfing and posting team ends—Are you hoping someone higher up will notice you now and you’ll parlay this into a full time gig?

  48. Robert 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 11:19 PM

    “Notice no repubs address my comments about the qualities of Obama that make him an exceptional candidate and will make him an exceptional, maybe even transfromative president.”

    Where did you post all that? Not in this thread. All I’ve seen you post is attacks on Republicans.

    Yeah, I’m sure Obama would be a “Transformative” President—instead of marching down the path to Socialism, we’ll be running…

    But if you are one of the Party members, that’s a good thing for you. Just like in the old Soviet Union where the masses were ruled by Marxism, but the party members had the champagne and caviar parties. Perhaps that’s what some of these persistent Obama supporters posting here are hoping for: they’ll get a party membership as a reward for their efforts.

  49. Robert 10/25/2008 at October 25, 2008 - 11:21 PM

    “Bush used it against Kerry and McCain (and Palin) are using it too:”

    Kerry lost because he is a douchebag and many voters were smart enough to figure it out.

  50. Christian Anderson 10/26/2008 at October 26, 2008 - 05:50 AM

    The Cold War is over, dudes! “socialism” and capitalism are worn out buzzwords. In the global economy, we can’t afford to think in those outdated terms anymore. It’s simply another worn-out fear tactic.

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