Ashley Todd - Is this story real? (

[LeighAnn]

Run time: 00:17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpd208jYi0M   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 24, 2008 By DU Member: LeighAnn Views on DU: 892

 

[niceypoo]

1. But, but, the 'B' looked normal in the mirror!!

OK, that was bad, I know, but I just had to say it anyway.

[dixiedragon]

3. ROFL - Bbbbbut u r right, tttthhhhee B ddddd id look normal

This is so much hooey - why do supporters on BOTH sides do this crap??? It does so much more harm than good. Has there EVER been a clean political campaign? I should read more history because campaigns in my lifetime have just been outrageous by both - no, all - parties -- and it's not so much the candidates as their misguided neanderthal supporters - black eye my ass.:rofl:

[Connonym]

2. Meanwhile there was a REAL attack on an Obama campaigner in WI

And without the histrionics http://www.asianamericansforobama.com/obama-volunteer-attacked-in-wi

[dixiedragon]

7. AND there was a real attack on a McCain supporter in S. FL

that still does not make any of this right on either side - maybe I'm crazy but why can't we all just be Americans, fight clean campaigns even among supporters, vote for who we will, accept who gets elected then work through our representatives (like we have any) for a better America? I just don't see change happening on either side until we unite as Americans instead of political party members AND insisting that our representatives do the same.

[JustJon]

4. Is it real?

I tend to think it MUST be a real story.

Because, honestly, if The Right were going to concoct a story to promote this theme (you know, that "white women are under attack")... I don't think they would have been able to be this restrained. Think about it.

Right away, off the top of my head, I think they would have gone in a different direction casting the victim role, for one thing. Probably slightly younger-looking. Or perhaps a "special needs" girl of some kind, to segue nicely into Palin's platform of helping people in that area. If they could somehow work in an allergy with pork, that would work well as a tie-in to McCain's pork-barrel fetish. (Although, on second thought, qualms with pork might sound too Jewish for their targeted demographic on this -- so scrap that last bit.)

And, rather than simply produce a victimized girl, they would have swung for the fences by having the girl go missing. That's key. Women are mistreated every day for thousands of knucklehead reasons, and news networks don't seem to particularly care. But if it's a missing girl (who happens to be white)... that's when the media comes a-runnin'. Missing White Girls are the new High Speed Police Chases. It's TV gold. So they'd have had the girl go missing for a few days to suck all the media in, and then they "rescue" the girl with just enough time to tell us her tragic story that makes us all want to vote against Obama.

I'm thinking the rescue scenario would culminate with a good old High Speed Police Chase in primetime. Perhaps punctuated by Sarah Palin assisting with some sharpshooting from a helicopter piloted by John McCain. Or is that too much?

Also, it would play better if they got rid of the whole "she got attacked because she supported McCain" angle. The far better move here is to say that these Obama thugs attacked first and asked questions later (or never really asked any at all), that for all they knew they might have been attacking a fellow Obama supporter. That would work well. "My mind wasn't made up before," she might say, "but they settled it for me. I'm now voting for John McCain, and you should too."

So, no, it CAN'T be a phony story. If it were, they wouldn't have been able to resist the urge to make it much more outlandish.

[dixiedragon]

5. Good storyline -- but this goes on on both sides

and none of us should condone it.

[Connonym]

11. Nobody's condoning it

my point was that this is being reported all over the place but the other ones weren't. Is it because the media only focuses on attacks on young white females? Why are we all talking about this when it really seems like bullshit and there are other more credible attacks that have gone under reported?

ETA welcome to DU

[CJCRANE]

12. Nice try at pushing the "both sides are the same" talking point.

Thanks, but no thanks. We're not buying it here.

[DeSwiss]

9. Ummm, I don't think so.....

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/1023083twitter1.html">Smoking Gun and http://wonkette.com/403766/racial-mugging-victim-helpfully-twittered-her-tale">Wonkette got some screencaps of her Twitter feed that raise doubts about this stinker. And she being called out by her "friends" at her http://lifeinthefield.com/users/ashley-todd">own site.



And more importantly, the tell-tale signs of something this stupid is in-keeping with what those dolts running this shambles of a campaign would come up with. Steve Schmidt has proven once again that he is still the student as compared to The Master of Slime, Karl Rove.

- I don't know where they get these people....

K&R

[CJCRANE]

14. The RW takes the term "useful idiot" a little too literally.

Add her to the list that includes Joe the Plumber and Jeff Gannon.

[CJCRANE]

13. Good try at damage control

but remember Rumsfeld's version of Occam's Razor: "you go to war with the army you have, not the army you'd like to have".

In this case I'd say "you use the idiot you have and hope for the best".

[MichaelHarris]

6. My wife is a doctor

and is the hospitalist in a small college town hospital, i.e. people get beat up a lot. She said there is no way in hell that's a real black eye. No broken blood vessels or bloodshot eyes, color is no where near right, and absolutely no swelling.

[dixiedragon]

8. BUT

she does now sport that oh so flattering backwards B on her cheek even when she washes the eye make up off :rofl: I wonder, was I that dumb when I was THAT young? I think bong water got to her.

[alcibiades_mystery]

10. Expect a retraction from this imbecile by 11am Friday.

Fake as hell.