Drudge had this story developing for a while, and now the details are out and they typify the mindset of Obama supporters. From WTAE:
PITTSBURGH — A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, police said.
Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard tells Channel 4 Action News that the victim was robbed at knifepoint on Wednesday night outside of a Citizens Bank near Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street just before 9 p.m.
Richard said the robber took $60 from the woman, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim’s car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter “B” into her face, Richard said.
Richard said the woman refused medical treatment after the assault, which happened outside the view of the bank’s surveillance cameras.
The robber is described as a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes. The man was wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes.
I’m shocked that an Obama supporter would running around robbing young women at knife point. It isn’t as if liberal barometers Pandagon, DailyKos and Democratic Underground support criminality, violence and demonizing their ideological opponents to such an extent that barbarity of this nature becomes acceptable.
What are the chances of lefty blogs or the MSM picking up this story? I say slim because this is secretly what they all want for America. This is the true face of liberalism. They call us “The Crazies” but when was the last time you heard of a Republican carving a big fat “W” on the head of some hippy?
Arm yourselves. This violence is coming to your home sooner than you think.
The Post-Gazette is also covering this. Ace of Spades and Hot Air have the skepticism of people who haven’t been jumped in bad areas. Note to Ace, crime drama aside you’re lucky if a camera in a bank even works in most bad sections of a city, much less if cops can get a look at the film right after the crime. If they care at all, after I’ve been attacked on the street I got a cop who took a statement, nodded sagely and told me I could go look at mugshots “if I wanted” so you’ll forgive me if I’m not suspicious of the fact cops aren’t all over this.
Both have photos up however. I doubt the girl pounded herself in the face just to help McCain get elected, but then again I’ve been jumped before in bad neighborhoods so I know such things aren’t “too-perfectly-awful-to-be-true” but are in fact the price of allowing liberals to run places. Some of our Conservative brethren could use a field trip to Pittsburgh, or my hometown of East Orange, N.J. it seems.
Having been jumped, and shot at, specifically because I’m bi-racial (and thus not “Black enough”) I can tell you criminals are often motivated by leftist nonsense. If the victim, Ashley Todd, made it up she’s the most hardcore little bastard in the G.O.P. because she’s got a black eye that only comes from being hit hard in the face. I couldn’t do it to myself and I don’t think she could either.
Fox is reporting McCain called to check on Ashley. That’s class. We wish her the best.
Update: Police claim it’s a hoax. The police also claim Rodney King deserved the beating he got and that Malcolm X was shot by random assailants. If it was a hoax it distracted from several incidents of real violence against Republicans.
Update: Ashley Todd joined the college Republicans in June and worked as a contract worker for them, not McCain. Sounds like a Moby to me.
Update: She’s a Paulnut! This explains everything:
In March, Ms. Todd was asked to leave a grass-roots group of Ron Paul supporters in Brazos County, Texas, group leader Dustan Costine said. He said Ms. Todd posed as a supporter of former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and called the local Republican committee seeking information about its campaign strategies.
“She would call the opposing campaign and pretend she was on their campaign to get information,” Mr. Costine said last night. “We had to remove her because of the tactics she displayed. After that we had nothing to do with her.”
About a month earlier, he said, Ms. Todd sent an e-mail to the Ron Paul group saying her tires were slashed and that campaign paraphernalia had been stolen from her car because she supported Mr. Paul.
Jenn Q Public has more.
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Looks like make-up to me. Have you ever been beat up? Doesn’t look like this.
Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story! She cut herself, but you won’t feel silly when the facts come out because the facts won’t jibe with your story arc.
Yes Josh, I’ve been savagely beaten more than once. I also was shot at once and had guns pulled on me twice. I was one of three Bi-racial people who lived in East Orange NJ.
Her story sounded exactly like what happens in muggings, including the muggers attempts to humiliate the victim.
And Butters it doesn’t change my mind about the violence coming. Ashley’s story distracted people from this story that happened the same day, or the Coleman’s house being attacked, or the fact that somebody from keeps leaving comments here using the email address “KKK@Nigger.com” and yes, he’s one of your fellow Obama supporters.
Ashley sucks (she’s probably a moby) but war in the streets is still coming, thanks to people like you who laughed and snickered when protesters at the RNC tried to blind and old man by throwing chemicals in his face, or tried to murder Republicans by dropping concrete from overpasses on their vehicles.
Being in possession of “LIBERTY” will never mean one has a paid bodyguard provided by your local Government. It does mean each individual can carry and use a firearm. That is unless the controlling government has imposed infringements on FREEDOM.
We are fortunate to live in a time when TASTERS are available to all citizens. NO PERMIT REQUIRED, CARRYING CONCEALED. All though your local, City Counsel Socialists is masturbating to a rhythm of restriction in the name of safety. By the way, “WHO’S Safety?â€
Ignorance of the Law is not an excuse, even though a three quarter ton pickup truck is not big enough to haul all the pages of the California Penal code, every citizen is expected to know all of it, or suffer the conquinces of Prison Fine or Death.
The American Government needs to be executed. Government should be required to mind the borders and some other negoatablely defined areas and stay out of peoples lives. Anarchy has a special way of working things out. A very special way . “CIVIL WAR”
Balkanization is coming, my hope is that in the so-called “red states” there are enough freedom loving individuals to create the kind of free states we can live in.
“This is the true face of liberalism. They call us “The Crazies†”
Yes they do and that’s why people like me have fled the Republicans this year. The young woman is a flake. Out of thousands of campaign volunteers, it’s no big deal that a single unbalanced campaign worker pulled a crazy stunt like this. It could have happened with a Clinton worker, an Obama worker or a Ron Paul worker. It’s an isolated incident.
The problem is not what that young woman did. The problem is your reaction–the wanton gullibility–the intense desire to believe a very shaky accusation, the resistance to mounting contrary evidence–shamelessly reducing yourself to suggesting police of misconduct–and, then, the Pièce de résistance of lunacy, suggesting that she is actually a liberal. It’s clear that the facts will always be interpreted (over and over if necessary) to serve your beliefs.
But you are not an isolated case like the woman who pulled this bonehead stunt. You are representative of the new political right that rejects evidence and can’t deal with reality–the kind of people who can’t admit to the normal kinks in their own armor or the kinks in their own belief systems. This attitude of yours, shared by so many on the new right, has been deservedly dubbed ‘crazy.’
This attitude has moved me and many people I know out of the Republican party this year. I will vote for a Democrat for president for the first time in my 32 years of voting because I don’t want a president who is beholden to people whose thoughts and beliefs are immune to fact and completely inaccessible to persuasion. I’ll put up with some liberalism as protection from the stupid arrogance of blind belief.
McCain might not have been a bad president, but now he owes too much to the crazies. I am confident that McCain’s clock will be cleaned in a couple of weeks thanks to you and your ilk. You have made McCain’s election distasteful to decent, honest people. While I’m disgusted by what you’ve written here, a part of me welcomes it. It will push a few more people off the fence because they don’t want any part of such nonsense.
I’m just a messenger. Very shortly the message will be a reality that no amount of kidding yourself will alter.
Are you claiming that the example’s I used, Rodney King being beaten, are illegitimate? or are you claiming that the other attacks on Republicans are false also?
Or are you just some Obama supporter running around stroking themselves. Like I said, too late. If Obama wins we riot. This girl faked her injury but the people attacked at the RNC didn’t, nor did Norm Coleman fake the vandalism to his house, etc etc.
Republicans aren’t going to lay down and continue to be White liberals punching bags, Ashley Todd be damned. This country is split down the middle and civil war is coming soon. At this point I’m happy it is, because the alternative is a slow slide into Sovietism where people like me end up in camps.
I’ll see you on the field I guess.
Jeff A wrote: I’m just a messenger.
No, Jeff. You’re what we call an astroturfer and a shill. But I’ll play along so your friends have something to read when they come along.
People were so ready to believe that an Obama supporter would commit this act because a highly visible segment of his supporters have demonstrated that they are willing to win this election by any means necessary. Voter registration fraud? No problem. Illegal voting? Sure thing! Race baiting, intimidation, violent behavior? Whatever it takes.
Jeff, your lies about your political alignment are easier to spot than Obama’s lies about his questionable associations. No one who truly believes in the Republican ideals of freedom and self-reliance could in good conscience vote for Obama. Like your candidate, you are a nanny stater and a fraud, and while I’d very much like to see you reap what you’ve sown, I’ll have to miss out on that when President McCain wins the presidency.
Rod Taylor.
You made my case quite nicely.
The case that the left has spent the last ten years pushing us to the point of war? Agreed. You on the left will be getting your wish in the next few years.