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...
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...
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...
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.
Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
CLINTON, Miss. There he goes again. John McCain's instant acceptance of the highly suspicious story that one of his female campaign workers had b...
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...
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