Yeah, I'm linking to Michelle Malkin.
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?
Michelle Malkin a voice of reason in the storm? Yes, I'm as surprised as you are, but there's no denying that Malkin has responded to this story with simple calm good sense. Good for her.
Read Michelle Malkin's "Why that McCain volunteer’s "mutilation" story smells awfully weird."
Now predictably, there are Republican bloggers who have seized on this story and are running with it. Some are openly calling for retribution for this "crime," which Malkin sensibly notes bears all the signs of a self-inflicted hoax.
I want to pose a simple question to Republicans who may read this blog: if it turns out that Ashley Todd has lied about the alleged "attack" on her, but we don't find out the truth until after some Republican hothead has gone out and retaliated for this phony "attack," what do you think the long-term impact on the Republican Party will be?
If Ms. Todd was lying, but some gullible Republican goes out and murders an African-American or a Democrat in order to "avenge" the phony "attack", what will the impact on the Republican Party be?
I submit to you that it would be the end of the Republican Party as we know it.