Ashs & Ashs: McCain Campaign Staffer Asked To Choose Between Prison And Seeking Mental Health Treatment

The Republicans have cranked up their dirty tricks machine into high gear and are out to sow as much discord and confusion as they can in preparation for what they hope will be the biggest election fraud in world history. See that photo above. The man on the left is Ashwin Madia a former marine who served in Iraq and is now running for Congress against a right wing extremist in Minnesota. The picture on the right? That's a doctored pic of Ash that the Republican Party has doctored to make Ash appear... "other." Is it racism? It's from the GOP. And they say they stand by their racist ad. Could we expect any less? After we saw the McCain campaign staffer, Ashley Todd claiming last week she was mutilated by a "big black man" who carved a "b" into her face. The fact that the "b" was carved by "someone" looking in a mirror tipped off the police that Ashley, like virtually all McCain supporters, is a- very stupid and b- very racist. Under gentle questioning she admitted she manufactured the whole incident.

Today a woman who was about to rise to the ranks of a Joe the Plumber in the McCain-Palin hagiology, Ashley the Campaign Worker/Martyr, was released from jail after agreeing to seek mental treatment.

How dare I assert that McCain and his supporters are all stupid? I forgot to mention where I got that from: Republican Fox News shill Neil Cavuto. Cavuto, one of the media's biggest advocates of Greed and Selfishness, to McCain:

Cavuto: Frankly, neither of your numbers adds up. But I’ve come to see a consistent pattern in Obama's. For the life of me, Senator Straight Talk, I see no such straight thing with yours...

You rail against big government, yet continue to push cockamamie spending plans that make a mockery of it. That's why you're losing right now, Senator McCain.

Not because you don't have the courage of your convictions. But because on economic matters, you have no convictions, period.

No convictions... ahhh... so that's why the campaign's been so erratic. And now they're just trying to blame everything on Palin. How do you blame Palin without bringing up McCain's horrendous judgment and cynicism, his penchant for gimmickry and his sloppy and apparently dangerous vetting process?

John McCain's campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.

And it has decided on Sarah Palin.

In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”

Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?

Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”

Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?

McCain has surrounded himself with nasty smear artists and his campaign is all about fear and smear... and disenfranchising as many voters as possible in as many battleground states as possible. That's why we've included this:

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Rep Frank Wolf (R-VA)-- The Mirror Image Of Ashley Todd

The McCain campaign made a big production out of some unfortunate-looking campaign worker of theirs, a demented Texan named Ashley Todd, who claimed to have been attacked and beaten and mutilated by a great big BLACK man. The primitive drums of racism were being pounded on by McCain, Palin and everyone remotely connected to the campaign. "Violent Negroes attacking our women" was the message. Then it turned out that the McCain campaign worker was... well exactly like everyone involved with the McCain campaign at all levels: a congenital liar. After a lie-detector test, she admitted that she made the whole thing up-- and badly, having carved a "B" (for Barack we were told by another McCain spokesperson in Pennsylvania) in a mirror... backwards. Neither McCain nor Palin has apologized for this outrageous, divisive and racist stunt perpetrated on the electorate by their campaign. Instead McCain supporters are still trying to cover up the fact that it was nothing but another discredited McCain gimmick.

Last night there was more campaign violence. But this time it involved a demented old Republican congressman, Frank Wolf, from northern Virginia's 10th CD. Wolf's startling rubber stamp voting record has finally caught up to him in a year when Virginia voters are sick of the GOP and in a year when he has a spectacular opponent (Judy Feder) who is well-financed and running an exemplary campaign. Wolf is freaking out and hysterical. With McCain trailing and Wolf's pal/extreme right Senate candidate James Gilmore III down by 30 points-- even higher in VA-10-- Virginia could well see 4 red congressional districts turn blue, career-ending cataclysms for Virgil Goode, Thelma Drake, and Wolf. (The 4th GOP likely loser is extremist new-comer Keith Fimian, given up by the GOP as road kill 6 weeks ago.)

Wolf is especially concerned this year because he stands out as the worst member of Congress on veterans issues. Not a single member has a worse voting record when it comes to America's military vets. Since November, 2002, Wolf has participated in 24 roll call votes concerning our military vets. He voted against them all 24 times. Hard to believe from someone who voted with Bush and Cheney on every single Iraq-related item. Even when other Republicans were looking for common ground with Democrats on behalf of peace and for the safety of our fighting men and women, Wolf was blindly agreeing to every failed policy Bush and Cheney spewed out. There are very few members of Congress as completely worthless as Wolf. Since the October 10, 2002 bill authorizing the use of force in Iraq, there have been 64 roll calls on Iraq. Wolf was with Bush on every single one of them.

With a record like Wolf's, it's no wonder he doesn't like answering questions from his constituents or from the press. And it helps put into perspective his campaign's violent fascistic reaction to a man asking questions. Frank Wolf is not part of the political mainstream. It's time for him to retire. The folks in McLean, Winchester, Chantilly, Manassas, Front Royal and way out in Frederick County are lucky that just when Wolf has finally gone off the deep end-- along with Michele Bachmann, Robin Hayes, Scott Garrett, Steve King, and some of the other extremists-- Judy Feder is making a case about how she will be a far better representative for northern Virginians than Wolf has been.

Please consider making a donation to Judy's campaign, while you watch Congressman Wolf's version of democracy:

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.