A. Todd quote from "other" Pittsburgh newspaper

[stoge18]

The Tribune-Review is a right-wing rag. Still, their report of the hoax is the fourth most read story on their site today. I found this gem of a quote about three paragraphs in:

"She was upset with the media for blowing this into a political firestorm."

Here's a link if anybody would care to see the whole Trib-Review account:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_595166.html

[Midlodemocrat]

1. Well, she can always place the blame on the fact that she's mentally ill.

What an asshole she is.

[rocktivity]

2. There would have been no firestorm if you hadn't struck the match, honey

:grr:
During interviews yesterday, Todd told detectives she remembers being in her car, driving around the city and seeing the letter on her cheek when she looked into the rearview mirror. She said she immediately thought of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama when she saw the "B"..."She said she doesn't remember doing it but knows it must have been her who did it," Bryant said.

Doesn't anyone know good stigmata when they see it? And the rethugs say that God is on THEIR side.

:headbang:
rocknation

[malaise]

3. So is Garcia the person who sent the photo to Drudge

and contacted the Rethug campaign?

Garcia said he accepted her story, partly because Todd told him that she was a student at Texas A&M, where he had graduated in May. It was important, he said, to get out the message to other alumni and Republicans.

[stoge18]

4. This is a good question.

How many others were involved in the planning and execution? Clearly, this was a planned event (albeit poorly planned), as evidenced in those posts to her Twitter account.

[malaise]

7. Something is really wrong here

Garcia said he met Todd among Republican circles in College Station. They were not close friends but had been virtual friends on the Internet site Facebook. Traveling around New York and Pennsylvania to campaign for the McCain-Palin ticket, she had spent the previous Friday and Saturday nights at his house, but Garcia said he had not seen her since then.

Todd called Garcia's cell phone at 8:56 p.m. Wednesday and asked if she could come over. When she arrived, Garcia thought the etched "B" looked like it could have come from the pin of a campaign button.

Seems like a rather calm request to come over. Why wasn't she screaming in fear and why wasn't he rushing out of his house to go and pick up his 'attacked' friend. According to the report she told him about the attack when she 'came over'. That alone should have raised doubts in his mind.

And yet he not only believed this crap, he also thought he should spread it in Rethug circles.

I'm shaking my head re these two comments:
"I believed she was telling the truth," said Garcia, 32, a first-year University of Pittsburgh law student. "This seemed like the real deal."
and then:
"I don't trust anything she told me," Garcia said.
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Seriously he is studying law?

[parasim]

6. Ha ha, I'm guessing he regrets hitting "send" on that message...

Nothing like damning your whole alumni!

[yardwork]

8. He sounds like a complete idiot.

[47of74]

5. Running for Governor of Texas

"Todd had talked of running for Texas governor in 2006 as a write-in candidate."

Uh...ok. Something's very wrong with this woman. Boy, McCain and Palin are a magnet for all sorts of people.