Ashley Todd, McCain Volunteer Who Faked Attack in Pa., Gets Probation
PITTSBURGH — A former John McCain campaign volunteer who falsely claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh because she had the candidate's bumper s...
PITTSBURGH — A former John McCain campaign volunteer who falsely claimed she was attacked in Pittsburgh because she had the candidate's bumper s...
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 04.13.2009 | Media
The first two Presidents on 24 were Black men. The first was assassinated and the second was responsible for allowing nuclear bombs into the country, causing mass destruction.
Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 03.25.2009 | Media
Almost all black men recognize the contemptuous look Jonathan Martin gave Obama on Thursday.
Erik Ose | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics
With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.
Stephen Elliott | Posted 12.02.2008 | Politics
For Halloween I stopped by the John McCain office in Pompano Beach, Florida.
AP | JOE MANDAK | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics
PITTSBURGH — A volunteer for John McCain's presidential campaign agreed Thursday to enter a probation program for first-time offenders for false...
Mitchell Bard | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
As a lifelong Democrat who has seen my party lose winnable races, I can't help thinking about how things can go wrong this year. These are the four factors that keep me up at night.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.28.2008 | Politics
You really have to commend the people who supported the candidacy of Ron Paul. Sure, those guys dressed up in weird costumes, and aspired to fly aroun...
Stu Kreisman | Posted 11.27.2008 | Style
Hey Joe the Plumber, have I got a girl for you! She's young, a republican, desperately seeks the limelight and lies, so you two should have a lot in common!
Susan Straight | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
Last week's news, that the Ashley Todd story was made up, that she has no idea how she got a backwards B carved on her face, was not a surprise. Convenient big black guys are always around.
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 11.27.2008 | Politics
I hope McCain's team of Karl Rove wannabes make 20 or 30 more mistakes in the final days before the election.
Karen Russell | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
Did the McCain campaign want to stir up the racial tensions in PA? Is there a race baiter on McCain's staff? Is this Willie Horton 2.0?
Disgrasian | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
As we said before, committing physical violence against someone who holds a different opinion from your own is reprehensible and not to be tolerated under any circumstances.
Max and the Marginalized | Posted 11.25.2008 | Politics
We're a little late to the party on calling McCain/Palin out on all their hard work firing up the ugliest tendencies in their supporters, but this venture into dub reggae territory is our contribution.
The Media Consortium | Posted 11.25.2008 | Home
NOTE: After you click a link, click the title of the item to get the full text or video. "We've got them just where we want them." With each bit of b...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
Palin is so desperate not to characterize the Eric Rudolphs of this world as terrorists that she forges a severely narrow definition of the act that even lets Mohamed Atta off the hook.
Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
All I know is that I drove into the 'right' side of town with an Obama-Biden sticker on the back of my car when I was approached by thugs riding snowmachines.
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
TPM's Greg Sargent reports: John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story ab...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The big political story of the day revolves around what turned out to be a non-story. Several media outlets (the vast majority conservative) were left...
Erik Ose | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
According to one of the actual police reports documenting the charade's unraveling, Ashley Todd says she can't remember whether she mutilated her own face, or had someone else do it.
Phillip Martin | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The fact that Ms. Todd felt she could get away with telling yet another false story about a black boogie man, suggests that some in this country have not gotten the memo.
HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
The national committee of the College Republicans went into damage control mode Friday afternoon after a college-aged McCain volunteer confessed to fa...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
John Moody, executive vice president at Fox News, has commented on his blog that "this incident could become a watershed event in the 11 days before the election.
Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: REPORTERS: MCCAIN AIDE PUSHED OBAMA MUTILATION HOAX See which media outlets fell for the hoax... The latest from the AP: A McCain campai...
AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics