Fox News VP: If McCain Worker Story is a Hoax His Campaign is 'Over'

It has drawn wide local and national--even political attention, with some of the candidates for president/vice president weighing in or even calling -- but now the Ashley Todd story seems to be falling apart. Police in Pittsburgh are relating "inconsistencies" in her story -- to say the least -- and have given the worker for John McCain a polygraph. She had claimed that an Obama fan carved a "B" into her face.

And now 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. If Ms. Todd's allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee.

"If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain's quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting."

He titles his posting: "Moment of Truth." Indeed. Matt Drudge, who had trumpeted the story for nearly 24 hours, just added a new link titled "B...or B.S.?"

It started yesterday afternoon with Drudge screaming at the top of his site this afternoon in red type -- but no siren -- that a Pittsburgh campaign worker for McCain, age 20, had been viciously attacked and the letter "B" carved into her face, presumably by a Barack Obama fan. Her name, it soon emerged, was Ashley Todd and she had come to Pittsburgh from College Station, Texas, to help out.

It started to appear overblown (Drudge downgraded it to smaller, black type) as the police noted that it seemed to be a robbery ($60) and she did not seek medical attention. But later press reports said she would visit a hospital, Sarah Palin and maybe John McCain had reportedly called her and Obama has condemned the alleged assault, although McCain/Obama angle to story not yet confirmed.

Still later, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin, and some others, grew skeptical. For one thing, the "B" was carved a little too lightly and perfectly -- and backward, as if done using a mirror. Smoking Gun probed a too-pat "Twitter" angle and Gawker and Wonkette looked at her MySpace page.

Now police say that evidence from the ATM that she reportedly visited did not match her account. And it turns out she has changed her story, admitting that her assailant did not see a McCain bumper sticker and adding to he raccount a sexual assault and losing consciousness.

UPDATE from AP: "Pittsburgh police say a McCain campaign volunteer who said she was held down by a black man who cut the letter "B" in her face has changed her story. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard says investigators gave the 20-year-old woman a lie-detector test and are "looking at some inconsistencies" in her story.

"Police say bank surveillance footage doesn't show her at an ATM where she says she was attacked. Todd, who is white, now says she was knocked unconscious and doesn't remember being cut. She now says she only discovered the wound later."


UPDATE!!!!

Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.


At a news conference this afternoon, officials said they believe that Ashley Todd's injuries were self-inflicted.

Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.

Todd initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

Todd told investigators that she didn't remember what happened.

Police say they do not believe any other people were involved; and her friends believed the story about the attack.

WATCH GIBBS BITCH SLAP RACIST FOX NEWS SEAN HANNITY

ITS CLEAR KKK SEAN HANNITY IS PISSED THERE BOY GRANDPAPPY IS LOSEING
BTW, Turner and Hannity were friends, and Turner is a well known white supremacist

You got to give credit to the American people, who managed to get through an entire evening of debate without ever once asking a question about William Ayers. It's almost as if the public has more pressing things on their minds these days. Of course, this is what everyone's been talking about since the weekend! What if they gave a debate and no one came with discussion of the voguish idiot question du jour?

Well rest assured, America, after the debate there was one venue where discussion on Ayers came hot and heavy: the Fox News Channel. I think it's all they talked about, actually! Everytime we tuned over to Fox, it was "YAAAAAAGHH OBAMA'S TERRORIST PAL!" Fred Thompson wanted to talk about it! Karl Rove wanted to talk about. And most of all, Sean Hannity wanted to talk about it with Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, who'd already endured the business end of Mark Halperin's idiot vlog on the subject. Well, finally, Gibbs decided he just wasn't having any more of it, and in precisely the sort of parry that one wanted to see turned the guilt-by-association game on Hannity, asking him, "Are you anti-Semitic?" Soon, the conversation was a mess of yelling and crosstalk, with Gibbs loudly asking why Hannity would give a hatemonger a primo forum, and Hannity responding, "BENJAMIN NETANYAHU BLURBED MY BOOK! YAAHHHH! LOUD NOISES!"

Why'd he ask that? Oh, because Sean Hannity built an entire smear-job "news" program around the lunatic ravings of an anti-Semitic loon named Andy Martin. He's not the only man of that ilk that Hannity pals around with, either. Hannity protested that he's a friend of Israel, and that it's important for Fox News to respect the viewpoints of crackpots like Martin. Not to repeat ourselves, but that's why Hannity puts the "Sean" in "shonde."

BILL O'REILLY NEEDS A SERIOUS ASS BEATING

My GOD why do dems even go on faux!! the whole DEM party needs to boycott FAUX news and I pray that if and when Obama gets elected he will step on that whole network!! its clear all of faux bias staff are terrified of Obama, Barney you did great but you cant get nothing through a A-holes head O'reilly needs a serious beat down!! (hes a A+ F#$kIN IDIOT)

NASTY FOX NEWS TELLS A$$ HOLE STEVE DOOCY TO CUT MIKE ON A GUEST THAT WAS BACKING OBAMA

AT 3:05 You can here the producer says "cut his mic"
What Faux News was expecting was a hatchet job on Obama. When it didn't quite work out that way, they cut Papatonio off. In All FAUX NEWS CAN GO TO HELL WHERE THEY BELONG!!


The Keating Five scandal, and John McCain's role in it, has received relatively little mention in presidential campaign coverage, and at least one Fox News host seems dedicated to keeping it that way.

Appearing Thursday morning on Fox & Friends, radio host Mike Papatino tried to remind viewers about McCain's intervention with federal regulators on behalf of real estate mogul Charles Keating, who was trying to avoid regulations of a savings and loan he owned during the S&L crisis of the 1980s.

F&F's Steve Doocy told Papatonio to "pipe down," called him "rude" and demanded he "cut it out." A show producer could be overheard saying "cut his mike."

As Papatonio tries one last time to explain the details of the Keating Five scandal, Doocy again cuts him off.

"This is not the History Channel," he says.

Papatonio's apparent crime was interrupting fellow guest Michael Reagan, the conservative radio host, who was arguing that it would be unfair to judge McCain based on his actions 20 years ago.

"It has everything to do with what's happening today," Papatonio said before being told to pipe down.

Regardless of whether Papatonio was being rude, preserving an orderly debate certainly could not have been Doocy's goal in silencing the guest. Not two minutes before his admonition that Papatonio was "being rude," Doocy repeatedly interrupted his guest to deliver talking points that might as well have been written by the McCain campaign.

At least three times Doocy interrupted Papatonio as he argued that McCain's political gambit to "suspend" his campaign and delay Friday's debate was more a response to his flagging poll numbers than an attempt to fix the economic crisis. Doocy wasn't buying it.

"If Barack Obama wants to do so much for the economy, why doesn't he go to his day job and work in the us senate?" he asked Reagan, cutting off Papatino's argument.

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Slo'Reilly Factor

This is so stupid and yet so funny

MEDIATAKEOUT BROKE THE TRASHMAN STORY

"Trashman" Nabbed For YouTube Threats
JULY 31--A New York City man was charged today with posting YouTube videos in which he claimed to have poisoned thousands of bottles of Gerber baby food in a bid to kill black babies. According to federal investigators, Anton Dunn--using the alias "Trashman" and wearing a ski mask in his clips--created three videos claiming that the baby food had been tainted with cyanide. In one video, according a federal criminal complaint unsealed today, Dunn, filming himself from inside a shower stall, claims that his "plan is in motion" and that four babies had already died. Dunn, 42, claimed that he would not be caught, despite "attempts to 'rat him out,'" adding that he had the police and FBI on his "payroll." A copy of the two-count U.S. District Court felony complaint filed against Dunn can be found below. In April, federal investigators were alerted to Dunn's first video by a Gerber representative, and Food and Drug Administration investigators subsequently identified two other threatening videos.The Harlem resident, who has previously posted videos in which he claimed to have infected numerous female sex partners with the HIV virus

see full article and arrest report
HERE

BIG UPS MTO & THE SMOKING GUN

Rapper Nas Delivers Fox News Petition, Says Network Is "Scared"

YES IT'S ABOUT TIME SOMEONE TOOK ON RACIST ASS FOX FIX NEWS!!!!!!!!! WITH ITS SLIMY AND RACIST PEOPLE I.E SEAN HANNITY AKA RACIEST A--HOLE, KARL THE CROOK ROVE, THE BIGGEST BIGOT Bill O'Reilly, THAT SICKING STATION NEEDS TO BE SHUT COMPLETELY DOWN!!!

About four hours after the announcement that his controversial, politically charged ninth album was number one in the country, Nas was on a small podium in front of Fox News headquarters in New York City protesting what he sees as racist attacks against Black Americans and presidential candidate Barack Obama. In a brief prepared statement, the multi-platinum rapper pointed out examples of what he and ColorOfChange see as a long racist smear campaign against the Obama family: The onscreen graphic that referred to Michelle Obama as the Senator's "baby mama"; Bill O'Reilly casually using the phrase "lynching party" to refer to attacks on the Senator's wife; referencing to the couple's infamous fist thump as a "terrorist fist jab." Said Nas, "Fox poisons this country every time they air racist propaganda and try to call it news. This should outrage every American that Fox uses hateful language to talk about the person that may be the first black president."


The rapper stood next to 19 neatly stacked cardboard boxes, with the number 620,127 taped to the side of each one -- over 600,000 signatures gathered by ColorOfChange demanding that network president Roger Ailes "find a solution to address racial stereotyping and hate-mongering before it hits the airwaves." Fox rejected the petitions, but Brave New Films says that Comedy Central's The Colbert Report will accept them instead.

T4R-Nas is on point and this makes us respect him even more. Someone needs to take on racist Faux News and the moron Sean Hannity. I am sick of the way he assaults Obama every night on his show. Colmes is a total weakling and does not stick up for Obama. I can't stand O'Reilly either

Sign Nas's petition - better late than never!

GO HERE TO SIGN



here's the music video for Sly Fox, Nas's takedown of Fox News (some explicit lyrics):

GET READY 4 DAY WORK WEEKS COMEING!!!!

Utah this summer will become what experts say is the first state to institute a mandatory four-day work week for most state employees, joining local governments across the nation that are altering schedules to save money, energy and resources.
Gas prices spurring switch to 4-day week
SEE FULL ARTICLE HERE

Leona Lewis Dubiously Honored as PETA’s Sexiest Vegetarian

Lewis—whose album Spirit made her the first British artist to top the U.S. Billboard chart with a debut album—has a squeaky clean history. And when it comes to the dirty business of animal abuse, she’s a woman of action. “I am vegetarian so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. … I’m on a mission,” she says.

Hold up.

That bag you see there on the right? It’s Prada. It costs $990, and it’s leather. Plus it has feathers — from birds.

And then there was the time in January when she went on MTV’s TRL and wore a leather jacket.

And before that, she didn’t seem to object when X Factor (which is kinda the U.K.’s version of American Idol) made her over and slapped a pretty slammin’ leather bomber on her.

Is this really the best PETA can do?

Truth4Real Esclusive!! On Geraldine A. Ferraro

I think that the G. Ferraro speech is more disturbing than what this priest had to say. I have been saying the same thing - that Hillary feels that she is entitle to this position - an now that she has lost she is crying and blaming everyone else for her poor performance. It is getting sad that some women cannot accept the fact that this woman did not work very hard initially because, she believe she was going to be the next president and then when she looked around this man (Obama) had out organized, raised more funds, and drew more people, had earned the right to be the Dem candidate for president. The bottom line is that for years we have been told that if we wants something - we have to work harder(200%)and never have an attitude - Senator Obama has worked very hard, very smart, and has always been respectful of Hillary. Read Geraldine's speech hear and understand what she is saying, it is very distrubing.

READ SPEECH HERE

THE TRUTH ABOUT SEAN HANNITY, THE WORLD NEEDS TO NOW ABOUT

Sean Hannity’s Relationship With Neo-Nazi Leader Confirmed

Sean Hannity, co-host of FOX News Channels popular nightly program Hannity and Colmes has for years come across as both a racist and blind ideologue. Viewers are often inundated with his incredibly extreme, and narrow minded view on situations ranging from race relations to the United States involvement in Iraq, and his take on things is often times nauseating. For a long time, legitimate media, and right minded individuals have viewed Hannity as nothing more then a blow hard neo-conservative, who championed the use of slanderous journalism. Well it seems as though recent events have provided us with further insight into what makes Sean Hannity tick, this information comes in the revelation of Hannity’s long time friendship with neo-Nazi mainstay Hal Turner. Hal Turner, Hannity’s close confidant, has acknowledged that indeed he has known Hannity quite well, and for many years. This comes on the heels of Hannity’s initial claims that he didn’t know Hal Turner, the Nazi/White Supremacist.

On Wednesday, March 19, Malik Zulu Shabazz (a racist in his own right) of the New Black Panther Party appeared as a guest on Hannity & Colmes to discuss the Obama / Reverend Wright controversy. During that appearance, Sean Hannity asked Shabazz if Barak Obama shouldn’t be judged by his past affiliations with Reverend Wright, to which Shabazz replied by asking Sean Hannity “Should you be judged by your past association with Hal Turner, a neo-Nazi?” First Hannity denied knowing Turner, then he said he had long ago banned Turner from his show. Then, in a tacit admission, Hannity said something along the lines of, “Well I’m not running for President.” Below you can view the Hannity and Colmes segment from March 19th which shows Hannity’s denial:



Hannity’s claim that he did not know Hal Turner came as news to a lot of people, including of course, Hal Turner. Who earlier today discussed their close friendship on his blog, Turner writes in great detail about his past with Hannity:

I was quite disappointed when Sean Hannity at first tried to say he didn’t know me and then went on to say that I ran some senate campaign in New Jersey. In fact, Sean Hannity does know me and we were quite friendly a number of years ago.
When Hannity took over Bob Grant’s spot on 77 WABC in New York City, I was a well-known, regular and welcome caller to his show. Through those calls, Sean and I got to know each other a bit and at some point, I can’t remember exactly when, Sean gave me the secret “Guest call-in number” at WABC so that my calls could always get on the air.
When I utlized that call-in number, Sean would very often come onto that line during commercial breaks so we could chat before I went on the air. Our off-the-air chats grew to an exchange of other phone numbers, me giving Sean my home and cellular number and Sean giving me his direct dial-in number at Fox News channel.
In 1993, My wife got pregnant and around a month later, Sean reported that he and his wife were expecting their first child. We got to talking about things expectant dads talk about and the relationship grew.
My wife gave birth to our son in June 1994, Seans wife gave birth to their child about a month later.