2 Responses to “Police: McCain volunteer changes ATM attack story”

1. Roger the Burke
   October 25th, 2008 @ 20:45

   Admittedly just catching up on my WDYC, but why should I have to reinvent the wheel. If you’re interested here are my Huffpost thoughts from yesterday. The first before the confession, the next two after:

   If you’re interested, below are the 3 Huffpost I posted yesterday, on the “Ashley Todd/ ATM robbery / carved B in the face sagaone.” One before and two after the confession
   HUFFPOST POSTS 10/24/08

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   QUICK…with or without a mirror, draw a capital “B” with a marker on your right cheek. (Right or left handed shouldn’t matter. Tattoo-phobic,? Hold a piece of paper up to your cheek and draw on that.) I’m betting 9 out of 10 times the “B” will come out BACKWARDS. You”re writing the way you always learned. Never learned to draw one on yourself.
   Now draw a face on a pad of paper. Put a “B” on the right cheek. No problem, right? Carving another”s face rather than your own, it’s almost impossible to get it wrong. Sure looks self-inflicted. (It’s almost Halloween, what she couldn’t find a pumpkin to practice on?) Unfortunately, once you realize you’ve blown it, it’s kind of hard to erase an etching and start over. This isn’t your father’s face painting.
   Two qualifications: 1) I’m sure some have already posted a comment like this; since I”m working this had to be hit and run. 2) It’s possible the young lady was, in fact, mugged and “defaced?” as stated; we don”t want to totally commit to the automatic knee-jerk rationalization the right would spin if it were the other way around. But it”s still hard to believe somebody so desperate for money as to stake out an ATM for robbery would also be so socially committed as to stick around for the political statement. Even Patty Hearst got the hell out of there. Ashley Todd, meet Tawana Brawley.
   Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:49 PM on 10/24/2008

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   Wait! She”s a McCain supporter? And she”s nuts? Who”da thunk! But there are many plausible explanations for the backwards “B” on her cheek. Ever take a gander at the scar on McCAIN”S cheek? REPUBLICAN STIGMATA. This kid so identifies with her fearless leader, she sprouted an hysterical “B,” And even if it was out of the dirty tricks playbook, the image of Charlie Colson just appeared on my sandwich, and he seems to be to be weeping! They”re already bidding on Ashley”s face on eBay.

   Or perhaps she wanted to upgrade from campaign volunteer to poll worker, and was practicing writing her name upside down like they have to do? She only got as far as backwards, and couldn”t find the “flip/rotate image” button. Or the obvious. The kid is from College Station, Texas. It”s an AGGIE “B.” OK what about a Hollywood stunt promotion for the Queen Latifah flick, “The Secret Life of Bees.” What? It could happen. Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:17 PM on 10/24/2008
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   Take comfort in the thought that, she may be loony, sad, or even a GOP plant ” regardless MATT DRUDGE will still wake up tomorrow morning with a name that sounds like what you track into the house if you forget to wipe your feet.

   Sadly, from now on I can never see an ATM without thinking the initials stand for “Ashley Todd Made-it-up.”

   But, people, can”t we turn this whole charade into a positive life lesson, instead of just another ugly racial stereotype? I myself was once mugged at an ATM ” by an entire street gang, no less. Yet as I lay there bleeding in the gutter, I couldn”t help notice that while one of the muggers was indeed African American, another was in fact Anglo, a third appeared to have been Hispanic, and the forth seemed to be of Asian descent. And I thought to myself ” if these young people of different backgrounds could learn to work together like this toward a common goal�well isn”t that a lesson for the rest of us?

   OK, I made that up. This stuff is apparently transmittable.

   Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:23 PM on 10/24/2008

   Of course I missed the most obvious explanation. The “B” was only the first letter of the self-mutilation. Had the authorities bothered to remove that hideous orange sweatshirt, they would have seen the scarring continue down her neck and arm with the additional letters “I-T-C-H.” And the most obvious life lesson: When scratching a letter into your face, be it with a fingernail or a foreign object, so as not to get it backwards, it is always prudent to go with something either bilaterally or radially symmetrical – like “O” for instance.

2. derDunkelRover
   October 26th, 2008 @ 7:26

   Roger, thanks. You get A+ for your B effort. Do you have a B movie script ready yet?