Still No Apology From McCain... Drudge?

Another not well thought out McCain campaign gimmick

So this is all that's left of the McCain campaign and the McCain legacy-- the blood libel against black men concerning the defilement of caucasian womanhood. Did someone in the McCain campaign put her up to this or did typical Republican trash nutcase Ashley Todd think this racist stunt up herself?



Matt Grimm of Red Smear brings up a good point:

SOMETIMES WHEN WE CALL YOU 'RACIST' IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE

"If Barak [sic] loses his supporters will riot in the streets and kill many including white Obama supporters. If he wins we will see the turn of racism (what we tern reverse racism) and all races but black races will be treated as scum of the earth by the new socialist black majority. not only that we will see a collapse of the free market enterprise and the socialization of our Nation completed in the first 24 months of his presidency."

So sayeth some guy named Chet who posted this today over at Newbusters, the right-wing paranoiac site dedicated to proving that right-leaning mainstream media are left-leaning mainstream media. The post, as you can see, is in reference to the Ashley Todd story, the young Texan volunteer for the McCain campaign who claimed a big scary black man attacked her in Pittsburgh, mugged her, noticed the McCain sticker on her car, then went further to take a knife out and cut a B (for "Barack" according to several higher-up McCain campaign officials) on her cheek to teach her a lesson about being a pinched little white Republican. He happened to carve the B backward, as if in a mirror. The only problem was he didn't do any of that stuff because he didn't exist; she made it all up, which she has now admitted.

Of course, she admitted it after fear-fueled psychotics like Sean Hannity and the Fox News gang had raised holy hell out of it and after Sarah Palin and John McCain milked it for all it was worth publicity-wise. Sure, it turns out, the McCain campaign took the story and ran with it like a football, 
actively pimping it to its Republican mouthpiece media before most local news sources and cops even had a sense of what happened.
 
According to TPM, "John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established -- and even told reporters outright that the 'B' carved into the victim's cheek stood for 'Barack,' according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions."

The Republican PR assets at Fox and on talk radio dutifully leveraged Ashley's fake story exactly as she and they had intended, as the spark that allowed them to rage about the fire they genuinely see coming, an America taken over by savage, amorphously different infidels. And this time there is no Little Colonel and his intrepid Klansmen to ride to the rescue, as they had in Birth of a Nation. Well, there are, and plenty of self-rationalizing little '38'-ers, it's just that most of us-- you know, the non-twelve percenters-- don't fucking like Klansmen and are getting ever more sick of self-righteous Michele Bachmanesque reactionary base they represent.



As appalling as anything about the whole incident is the fact that JOHN McCAIN, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, phoned Ashley Todd to console her. What I would like to know of the McCain campaign is this: how many other mugging victims has the candidate taken time out of his busy schedule to place a personal call to? Three-to-seven? 50-75? Is there, like, a police-band radio on the StraightTalk Express by which they track muggings in major metros around the country?

Or did John McCain phone the girl whom he heard was the victim of some Rastus gettin' uppity? We fuckwell know that's why Hannity and Fox, et al., the mouthpieces of the lily-white fucking elite and their lily-white bible-thumping footsoldiers, jumped on the story, even though it never happened, because one Rastus gettin' uppity, whether as a presidential candidate or on a Pittsburgh street, portends a nationwide epidemic of "certain types" forgetting their place, enabled by those of us non-real-Americans here in the scary un-American cities where we sip scary non-American beverages, burn flags like tiki torches, teach our children science and compete to see who can be least American. 

Courtesy of Driftglass

Even some of the douchebags over at Newsbusters have admitted they fucked up, but, like Chet above, they're still qualifying their state of heightened wariness. It's justified, they say, because it could be true, and soon. That is, the wholesale fiction they just swallowed like a glory-hole load, spun by a racist Texan crazywoman they so desperately wanted to be their Ivory Girl martyr, just faithfully approximates the white-knuckled fearscape they tread every day of their sad fucking lives.