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So lemme get this straight... this unusual lady went on and beat herself up and possibly carved a backwards B onto her own face (Backwards? Kinda like what would happen if you did so while looking into a mirror...) and then blamed it on the mystical creature known to god-fearing Americans as the "Black Man" ?

Gee, this kinda sounds like that one lady who pushed her car with two infants into a river and blamed it on this elusive "Black Man".

You know what, I really didn't post this thread. The "Black Man" did.

John McCain's Pennsylvania communications director told reporters in the state an incendiary version of the hoax story about the attack on a McCain volunteer well before the facts of the case were known or established -- and even told reporters outright that the "B" carved into the victim's cheek stood for "Barack," according to multiple sources familiar with the discussions.

John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain's Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack that included a claim that the alleged attacker said, "You're with the McCain campaign? I'm going to teach you a lesson."

Verrilli also told TPM that the McCain spokesperson had claimed that the "B" stood for Barack. According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack, who has since admitted the story was a hoax.

The KDKA reporter had called McCain's campaign office for details after seeing the story -- sans details -- teased on Drudge.

The McCain spokesperson's claims -- which came in the midst of extraordinary and heated conversations late yesterday between the McCain campaign, local TV stations, and the Obama camp, as the early version of the story rocketed around the political world -- is significant because it reveals a McCain official pushing a version of the story that was far more explosive than the available or confirmed facts permitted at the time.

The claims to KDKA from the McCain campaign were included in an early story that ran late yesterday on KDKA's Web site. The paragraphs containing these assertions were quickly removed from the story after the Obama campaign privately complained that KDKA was letting the McCain campaign spin a racially-charged version of the story before the facts had been established, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

The story with the removed grafs is still right here. We preserved the three missing grafs from yesterday:



A source familiar with what happened yesterday confirmed that the unnamed spokesperson was communications director Peter Feldman. Feldman was also quoted yesterday making virtually identical assertions on the Web site of another local TV station, WPXI. But those quotes, which we also preserved here, are also no longer available on WPXI's site, for reasons that are unclear.

Whole thing smells fishy.

I think that's more of a bad stereotype than a truth. Everyone seems to have this idea that since the south is majorly Republican (and has a reputation for extreme racism), that most republicans are racist. They're probably not.

And there are Republicans that fed that during this campaign that McCain had to propmtly fire and also supporters of his.

the same can be said for liberals and democrats- they are far more scary than us republicans. we have a better understanding of laws. the way they were intended to be. liberals stretch them and think money grows on trees. wed be in FURTHER debt than we already are in now since they expect the government to handle all of americas "problems"

I won't believe this until you get in a time machine with Bill and Ted and show us this horrid dystopia of the future! Truthfully, I don't feel it would've ended much differently if Gore was president while the **** hit the fan. I can safely guess that a lot more people would hate Democrats.

Whomever is on watch gets blamed for the troubles of America, it's as simple as that.

Trust me; I LIVE in the south.  Moved here from northern Illinois a few years ago.  I know a lot of people are racist down here.

@Jill/TLC: If that's true, why is it that every time a Democrat has been in office, the national debt has declined, while it's always risen when a Republican has been in?

Trust me, we know how to manage money.

I fixed it for you. Also, I'm assuming you are referring to the Bush years. Yes, debt has raised a lot, due heavily to the spending relating to anti-terror stuff (which was too much IMO, but the American people demanded it). Clinton... well, he was a pretty republicanish democrat in regards to spending (southern democrat, after all).

I'd also like to point out how much the debt has increased since the Democrats took over the Senate. Yes, Bush and the GOP were increasing the debt, but it was slowly being reigned in. When the Democrats took the Senate, it jumped to double digit increases (year-over-year).