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Thursday, October 23, 2008
More on the Anti-McCain Hate Crime
Posted by: Matt Lewis at 5:14 PM
Carl Cameron reports the 20-year old victim of this attack was Ashley Todd, a phone bank volunteer.  Sen. McCain has phoned Todd today.  My only question is why she did not ask for medical help.  Developing...

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Bryan  writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 5:21 PM
Matt...

I've worked in violent crisis centers and you can't discount a woman's story because she doesn't ask for medical attention. That happens all the time. That's not suspicious.

The fact that there's no real suspect, no video, and the photograph just doesn't look like a knife wound to me is suspicious. I would have expected a major scar. A penetrating wound. The "B" is remarkably well composed to have happened during a fit of anger. It's backwards. Also, if the assailant hated the victim enough to scratch a letter in her face, she's got pretty gentle bruising from that attack.

But I urge you to not discount a woman's story if she refuses medical attention. Dangerous ground, that.
karmic backlash writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 5:43 PM
Troubling
While this woman is hurt, the spotlight turns on McCain calling her? What's that all about? This is a Nancy Grace moment and it is very weird. Grasping at straws and using this woman as a handhold to make some kind of "point" is not a good thing. It can and most likely WILL backfire, and yet who can tell a faltering candidate not to "go there" when the entire campaign is ridden with opportunistic, desperate and craven shills.
Theophilus writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 5:46 PM
Ace has the photos
I always attempt to exercise some restaint before either dismissing or accepting a story like this.

Ace has the photos:

http://ace.mu.nu

If this is true, then this is worse than despicable.

It does not reflect on Senator Obama, but it does bring to light the amount of vitriol that exists for McCain supporters.

Although I beleive that there are certainly crazy characters on both sides. I have not seen any attempt to address the hatred that is being shown towards McCain supporters.

Bill writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:02 PM
Obama Hate Crime
C'mon, folks, this is what 5the Obama / Acorn thugs do!
Brian writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:08 PM
Double Standard
When things like this happen to Obama it's a hate crime, racism at its best.
When a McCain supporter is battered it's opportunistic desperation that will backfire.
Let me ask you Obama supporters a couple of questions. Do you support Obama because he is a prolife anti-abortion candidate or because of his stance against stem cell research? Or is it because he is going to keep the troops in Iraq until we win the war? Which one is it? Or is it all the above? You tell me.
kelley writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:18 PM
AWWW poor Nance..
Nancys jealous,SHE wants a big B craved on her kisser.
Allen writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:36 PM
Probably the same reason...
When I got hit on my motorcycle by a van that i did not want to go to the hospital. Because they would have sent me to the emergency room, I would have had to sit around for hours, I would have gone through many crappy tests just so they can tell me that I there is nothing they can do for me. Take a couple asperin and call us if you feel worse. That will be $600 for X-Rays, $6600 for the MRI of your brain, $250 for the just coming in and making us fill out paperwork, and do not forget that the ambulance that the police forced you into is going to be about $5250.

Thanks but no thanks. Just to be clear, even if I had insurance to pay for all that crap, I probably would have ended up paying for the worthless MRI, half the ambulance bill, and some amount of the rest. Not to mention the hours wasted, my towed motorcycle that if I was not forced into a ambulance I could have pushed home for free. Sorry, but blaming the victim for not desiring to being further traumatized in order to validate your need for official documentation in order to beleive her is completely LIBERAL big government nanny state.
Allen writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:38 PM
Backwards B?
Not if the perpetrator was on top of her. She was on the ground. WTHIWWYP?
K.G. writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:48 PM
The Violent Hostility Seems to be Coming
...from the Left. Palin and Joe the Plumber get investigated to the nth degree. Barack and Biden are unscathed by the MSM, whose job it is to vet them.

A Lexus with a McCain sticker was vandalized to the tune of $5000. KOS claims they are investigating Mormon donors to Prop. 8. A Mormon family with a Prop. 8 sign on the lawn got death threats in a letter.

Angry mobs shouting the worst kinds of obscenities surround the Mormon temple in Oakland.

Prop 8 and McCain signs disappear nearly as fast as they go up. School children supporting McCain are harrassed at school.

Michele Bachmann's house is vandalized.

The MSM has refused to do its job by vetting Obama. Hollywood is positively hateful. And yet Obama supporters absourdly claim the McCain campaign is ginning up hate.

If Pubs were doing the same things Obama supporters are, there would be hell to pay--and everybody knows it. But they get a pass because they are the "oppressed."
K.G. writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 6:54 PM
However, if you scratch the "B"
...into your face by looking in the mirror, it will be backwards if you're not careful. Might want to be a little careful with this one.
animalgirl writes: Thursday, October, 23, 2008 10:27 PM
K.G.
The same night Bachman's house was vandalized, the houses of both Minnesota senators and four representatives were vandalized using the same words (and quoting Psalm 2). Half of the victims were Democrats.
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