The Drudge Report headline is startling. MCCAIN VOLUNTEER 'ATTACKED AND MUTILATED' IN PITTSBURGH...
What kind of sick human being would do something like this?
Sorry for the shit storm caused by posting the headline before the link was available.
I wanted to stay ahead of it as soon as the freepers and LGF posters started going crazy about it on the site I post on that has both liberals and conservatives.
More on the flip.
I know all our hopes and prayers go out to this volunteer and her family.
As soon as we can learn more, I hope like billysumday suggested, that we can send her cards and well wishes.
Like Neko608 suggested, I too hope Obama goes and visits her.
Here's the link.
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 the woman’s car, Pittsburgh police said.
Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, was using an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in Bloomfield just before 9 p.m. Wednesday when a man approached her, put a knife to her throat and demanded $60, police said.
Todd handed the man $60 she had in her pocket and stepped away from him, investigators said. The man then noticed the bumper sticker on the woman's car, which was parked in front of the ATM. The man became very angry, made comments to Todd about John McCain and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground, police said.
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"He continued to kick and punch her repeatedly and said he would teach her a lesson for supporting John McCain," said police Chief Nate Harper.
The man then carved the "B" into Todd's right cheek. Todd, who isn't familiar with the area, drove to a friend's house nearby and told her friend she wasn't sure of the exact location where the robbery took place but remembered a green sign above the ATM. The friend called police and the officer met them on Cypress Street in Bloomfield, police said.
UPDATE 2:
leptoo points out, Michelle Malkin is having doubts about this woman's story being true.
She refused medical treatment after reporting the incident to police. Why on earth would she do that?
The woman has been identified as GOP volunteer Ashley Todd of Texas. Her Twitter page is here and I find it, well, odd.
This seems to me to have shades of Paul Mirecki (note that there was a photo in that case, too), Sarah Marshak, and Tawana Brawley all over it.
If I’m wrong, I’ll apologize. If I’m right, will this woman?
It needs to be said — and since it is not said often enough by those on the other side of the political aisle, I’ll say it again:
We have enough low-lifes and thugs in the world running loose and causing campaign chaos and fomenting hatred without having to make them up. I’ve been blowing the whistle on the real, left-wing rage not on the front page and in-your-face tactics throughout the election season.
So there you go with that update.