I'm probably making too much of his initial headline, but he had "McCain volunteer attacked" up for an hour without a link. My initial thought was that he was alleging Obama supporters had attacked a McCain canvasser doing her rounds. Then the real story is that she was at an ATM and the guy flipped out over a bumper sticker. It's Drudge being sensationalistic and misleading.
I understand your skepticism with regards to the story, but the idea of a young woman freezing out of fear or after being told by an assailant with a weapon to not move is believable to me. I don't think that it's all that uncommon. Though, I do agree that the story sounds fishy.
bill o isn't buying it.
I do. It's news, it should be delved into.
Although I'm sure we both know that before this story dies, we will know every last aspect of her life. It won't matter whether she is a plant or an actual victim, she is going to be under even more scrutiny than Joey da P.
What would a better headline have been?
"A non-canvassing McCain volunteer might have been attacked while at an ATM or might have gone emo. Developing .............."
she's already had billo become a non-believer.
If she is a plant, won't she deserve any negative coverage she gets? That would be a pretty large scale scam.
Of course.
If she is an actual victim, then what?
Can we all agree that whatever the case is, it doesn't change the respective characters of either McCain or Obama?
Then I'm 100% for protecting her privacy, if that's what she wants.
Where was this truce when Obama supporters claimed McCain was behind an attack on a lady even though the guy was pissed at ACORN and never even mentioned McCain specifically?
It's also interesting to me that Drudge had the fact that she was a McCain volunteer before the first local news station he initially linked to.
TMZ is claiming to have law enforcement sources that doubt the validity of the attack, but unless someone's going on the record it's just another rumor:
http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/23/politi...-real-or-hoax/
All the stories say she wrote about it in her twitter, but she's blocked it now. I can't say I blame her considering how vile some of the comments I've seen are. Some people really have no sense of perspective.
There is this in one of her friends' twitters:
http://twitter.com/meganritter
@taylorrhodes @whithyman @a_cooper @atodd Have you seen the news? J-Mac is diverting resources to PA and making his stand here. LET'S DO IT. 9:48 AM Oct 22nd from TwitterBerry in reply to taylorrhodes
Probably completely innocent - maybe the "let's do it" refers to some fundraising goal or something. But the day before the incident. Creepy.
It'll be too late.
She's screwed either way. She's either a liar and will be disgraced by everyone or she's a victim who will have her whole life exposed to the world.
she should have thought about her privacy before she called the police after what she'd done.
i remember a lady that killed her kids in the car and blamed a black man.
This has got to be one of the weirdest elections I've seen in my lifetime.
Then she deserves sympathy and the story should die a quick death.
Yeah and there should be world peace.
Out of curiosity, how would you prefer people to be responding this this story? If you had your druthers?
I had no part of that. Obama supporters share as many variations in personality, temperament and intelligence as McCain supporters, and Americans in general.
How about first wait until they review the ATM video tape. Is that asking too much?
So, you're of the opinion that we shouldn't be discussing it at all yet?
Discussion is fine. Full blown investigation before the police have even indicated one way or another that this a legit claim can cause more damage than it can help.
How do you want this to be handled?
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