Friday, October 24, 2008

Pittsbugh Woman Attacked McCain Story Inconsistencies

FOX NEWS CHANNEL MEGYN kELLY COPS IN PA CASTING DOUBT ON STORY WHAT WE FOUND OUT SOME BIZARRE TWISTS, COMING UP... 10:09 AM

GREG JARRET: LOOKING FOR ANSWERS IN BIZARRE CASE AND WHETHER THE CLAIMS HOLD UP 10:17 AM

POLICE WANT A POLY GRAPH ATM AT SITE CONFLICT WITH HER (Todd's) STORY AND ALLEGED QUOTES FROM MYSPACE PAGE HER FAVORITE BOOK THE SCARLETT LETTER

MK: SADIE PGH POST GAZETTE CREDIBLE REPORT OR NO?

POLICE STILL INVESTIGATING... INCONSISTENCIES... ADDING SEXUAL ASSAULT SHE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS SHE SAYS SAYING NOT SURE WHETHER MAN SAW A BUMPER STICKER OR A BUTTON ON HER SHIRT

MK A B ON HER FACE IF ATTACK ON FACE WHY SO LIGHT WOULD HE BE SO GENTLE ON YOUR FACE NO SCAR...

REPORTER POLICE SAY TODD SAID IT WAS 4-5 INCH BLADE SHE WENT TO A NEAR HOUSE OF A FRIEND CLEANED HER UP??? LATER REPORT TO POLICE

STILL INVESTIGATING

MK ONE OF OTHER QUESTIONALBE ITEMS THERE WERE PUBLIC REPORTS ALREADY IN NEWS A DESCRIPTION OF SOMEONE WHO'D ALREADY ROBBED THE BANK AND REPORTS WERE OUT...

REPORTER: DIDN'T GIVE ANY INDICATION INITIALLY HOW HE KNEW SHE WAS A MCCAIN SUPPORTER... HER STORY HAS CHANGED... NOT SURE OF INCONSISTENCIES... POLICE INVESTIGATING STILL

MK AT FIRST SHE DIDN'T WANT MEDICAL TREATMENT THEN SHE WENT TO A FACILITY IN SHADYSIDE

YEAH, SHADYSIDE, GREG JARRET:

THE B ON HER FACE UPSIDE DOWN SOMEONE STANDING OVER HER FROM BEHIND OR IF ONE IS LOOKING IN MIRROR WOULD DO IT BACKWARDS, SAYS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER FINALLY GREG JARRET!

The above portion of the page was updated throughout the morning ending at 10:32 AM

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pre 10:32 AM

Developing... women's statements conflict with ATM evidence... suspicious possibility ... the B is backwards...

so somebody is taking a close look at the woman's story she was attacked for being a McCain supporter!

We wondered about the B, that's why we didn't post initially.

Seriously, perp has chance to carve a politically-motivated statement or sign into opponent supporter's face, chooses the B for Barack rather than the O? Maybe the perp wanted to carve BO? No cause that is not as well used as O. Plus making a B takes up more time than making an O. It would be an unconscious split-second choice and it is more likely one would use an O for Obama rather than a B for Barack.

And then there's how the carving occurred after - according to the woman - the mugger noticed her car bore a McCain bumper sticker?

Um wouldn't that require the man mugging her, taking her money, going to the back of vehicle, and 'returning' to the woman to push her to the ground and then upside down not standing over her face to face, but standing over the back of her head, slice a B that really now looks like a perfectly shaped letter B?

Wouldn't an O for obama have been easier?

something doesn't slice right. Note, the video link from Drudge isn't a surveillance video camera which may have captured the entire incident on tape.

It's a KDKA Pittsburgh news report.

Worse, the police did not take a photograph of the woman or of her face???

Why not? If it was an attack, why wouldn't the police take a snapshot?

Note it will be interesting to determine if indeed the woman was robbed and mugged whether the perp is right handed or left handed.

Fox News Greg Jarret asking the question, so it must be a 'fair and balanced' question.

Is the carving on the woman's face politically motivated or a hoax?

Awaiting the report at 9:53 AM ET Still waiting 10:08 AM

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More musing after 10:32 AM

What's sad is the police did not take a photograph of the woman's face at the time of the report.

Remember the photograph is a photograph and the B in the photograph is in reverse positioned on her right cheek.

OK Sirlock... next...uh txen... uh dyslexic woman?

Or dyslexic perp?

Again, why not make the O, much simpler.

Interesting point, maybe she took the photo herself looking in the mirror.

Maybe she took the photo herself, pointing the camera into the mirror. Could be a reverse image.

27 posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 11:20:29 PM by purplelobster

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113746/posts


But why not just have someone else take the photo of you? Or use the cell phone yourself - it's not difficult to get your face in the frame of the phone holding it at a mere arm's length.

But there isn't one? All we have is the woman's own photo? Not an official photograph a closeup as closeup of a photo as the one of Sarah Palin on the cover of Time Magazine???

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Horrifying attack on McCain supporter in Pittsburgh; Update: Daily Kos has no sympathy, neither do conservatives?
Follow this link for more Updates on this story. Is it real or a hoax? You tell me

According to the Pittsburgh police, Shortly before 9 p.m. October 22nd a woman was robbed at
...What all of you blind followers failed to see in the multiple updates of this story, is that the police want to administer a polygraph because the alleged victim, is changing specific details of her story. In addition, the police say the evidence at the scene and from bank surveillance cameras (not ATM camera), does not support her story that there was an attack.

There have also been law-enforcement officers that say the “B” is too, neat, superficial and shallow to support the type of attack and knife mutilation she claims. As for you ignorant people that want to claim the attacker somehow sat on her head,…ah backwards,…think about it,…how could the attacker carve a “B” into her cheek, so neatly and so shallow? Her face would have been in his crotch. AND, if it was upside down, what would he have held down the legs and torso from flailing about? Simple to dispel really. Just take your “significant other”, and sit on his/her head. Now, with a pen, see if you can draw a “I” (for ignorant) on his/her cheek, while they are struggling.

Oh, wait a minute…..this just in….when asked by the police, the alleged victim said the attacker sat on her chest and pinned her arms down with his knees, so that throws the acrobatic wresting move out the window.

http://thecollegepolitico.com/horrifying-attack-on-mccain-supporter-outside-of-pittsburgh/


Also, why a "B"? Why not "O?" (1+ / 0-)
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And if she had carved an O on her face, she wouldn't have had to deal with the mirror image problem.

by Sor Reo on Thu Oct 23, 2008 at 08:17:11 PM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/23/223311/88



Photoshop help

http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photoshop-help/7995-reverse-image.html

How do I reverse an image?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070713082453AAPXp2S


Maybe the "B" was for Bush.... or at least 90% of it

http://community.thenest.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/4716778.aspx


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"Politically Motivated" Mutilation - Real or Hoax?
Posted Oct 23rd 2008 6:50PM by TMZ Staff

Pittsburgh law enforcement sources tell TMZ they have serious questions about the authenticity of the alleged victim who says she had her face cut by a politically-motivated attacker.

We're told there are several things about the alleged attack that don't add up. A Pittsburgh PD official says they are conducting a "thorough investigation" and have not determined if the alleged attack is real or a hoax. But we're told there is definitely a level of skepticism.

As we reported, the alleged victim claims she went to an ATM and when she turned around, a large dark-skinned man took the money she withdrew. She says when he noticed she had a McCain/Palin bumper sticker on her car, he became enraged, knocked her down and cut a "B" in her face...

http://www.tmz.com/2008/10/23/politically-motivated-mutilation-real-or-hoax/

Now there may be proof that Ashley Todd wasn't telling the whole story. Police have admitted that there are "several inconsistencies" with her story.

Officials have reportedly requested a polygraph test be performed because her "statements about the attack conflict with evidence from the Citizens Bank ATM where she claims the incident occurred."

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212181240.shtml


PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― She calls it a political attack -- a McCain campaign volunteer says she was attacked in Bloomfield.

Ashley Todd, 20, claims it all happened because she supports Sen. John McCain in the presidential race.

Todd claims she was robbed at knife point then roughed up...

http://kdka.com/politics/attack.McCain.Bloomfield.2.847628.html


Drudge headlined

MCCAIN VOLUNTEER 'ATTACKED AND MUTILATED' IN PITTSBURGH...

Police Question Woman Over Politically Motivated Attack
Woman Robbed With Knife At Bloomfield ATM

POSTED: 4:03 pm EDT October 23, 2008

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html


MUGGER CARVED 'B' ON ME...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242008/news/politics/mac_hater_slashed_up_my_face_135034.htm

Video...

Grassroots headlined

SHOCK: MCCAIN VOLUNTEER ATTACKED AND MUTILATED IN PITTSBURGH…

Police: 'Inconsistencies' In Story Of Politically Motivated Attack
Woman Robbed With Knife At Bloomfield ATM

POSTED: 4:03 pm EDT October 23, 2008
UPDATED: 9:18 am EDT October 24, 2008

http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/17789356/detail.html



Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Carves Letter Into Her Face…

10/24/08 UPDATE: Police: ‘Inconsistencies’ In Story Of Politically Motivated Attack…


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Ashley Todd: political victim or hoax?
Posted by: topublisher2 on: October 24, 2008

In: Politics Comment!
A 20 year old Republican volunteer worker has reportedly been attacked by an Obama supporting mugger in Pittsburg.

Ashley Todd, 20 from Texas, alleges that she was robbed at knifepoint at an ATM and knocked down by a man who then carved a “B” in her face after noticing a sticker for John McCain on her car. The story first came to prominence from the SarahsArmy blog, then picked up by the Drudge Report who initially claimed Todd was a McCain campaign worker.

Police have told the media that they are exploring all angles, including the alleged political side.

Besides the timing this close to the election, the story raises some interesting questions. Was the attack on Todd politically motivated, or is it an elaborate hoax?

http://latestworldnews.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/ashley-todd-political-victim-or-hoax/


skeptics abound

Yeah, I saw it too. The "B" looked reversed in the image on Drudge. I sure hope that was a boo-boo by someone who handled the image, although in this post-photography era I don't see how one can mirror a digital image by accident.
Even without the issue of the mirror image "B," the idea that a guy would take time to hold a woman still while he scratched a letter on her face with the tip of a knife is very hard to buy in to. It would take at least a couple of minutes to do it if everything was calm and stationary. I just can picture a street thug taking time to do this. I'm sorry, I just can't. 95% of street toughs can't plan what they're going to do in the next 10 seconds. Mostly that consists of getting money, buying drugs, and looking for something to eat.


24 posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:41:19 PM by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Steely Tom
the more I look at the photo — the more I don't like this story... I'm afraid this young lady may be looking for attention in a very destructive and crazy way...
prior references to surveillance images are now gone...

The “B” is not persuasive — the shiner looks real but... something doesn't smell right.

I take the high road and say — I hope the story IS A HOAX — that it is exposed quickly and the young lady is forgiven and gets help...

but IF it is a hoax — it is a very dangerous and destructive one and it is hard not to be VERY angry...


25 posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:09:52 PM by NYC_BULLMOOSE ("extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" -- BG)
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Uh... the B is backwards (mirror image) or flipped, as if she made the mark herself while looking in the mirror. Otherwise, the attacker would have had to hold her head in his lap to make the mark, while she had her legs and hands available to fight him off? I’m skeptical. This could could be a “Darwin Award” candidate. I’m just sayin’...

I seem to recall that there was a fellow who carved the letters F-A-G into his forehead, and shortly thereafter called the police, claiming that he had been attacked by a gang of right-wing thugs. He garnered a bit of regional--and perhaps national--fame, but not for long.

You see, where this would-be martyr of the progressive faith went wrong was simple: He carved the letters into his brow backwards--unmistakably so. It took the police no time at all to uncover what really occurred. The entire story was fictional, but it didn't stop the true believers from holding this putative man up as a victim--even after he was charged for making a false assault claim.

26 posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 1:15:35 AM by Das Outsider (Conservativism, Inc. has filed for bankruptcy. It's the culture, stupid!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2113625/posts

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Why not an “O” which is more associated with B.O. and is non directional?

13 posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 7:11:05 PM by Anima Mundi

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113568/posts


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THE 'POLITICAL MUTILATION' CLAIM MAY BE FALSE!

At TMZ.com, today, the report of mutilation is being questioned by police:

"'Politically Motivated' Mutilation - Real or Hoax? Posted Oct 23rd 2008 6:50PM by TMZ Staff
Pittsburgh law enforcement sources tell TMZ they have serious questions about the authenticity of the alleged victim who says she had her face cut by a politically-motivated attacker...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-feldman/drudge-puts-dangerous-spi_b_137342.html?page=10

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to live "on the wrong side of Pittsburgh", she is referring to, very near where she said it happened. First it is a predominatly white area (Little Italy) and where she said it happened is a very busy place.--Although there really are a lot of Obama signs up, so maybe she was confused.

It seems strange that nobody would notice a 6'4" dark skinned black guy holding down a small white girl and carving her gently up with a knife. The area is well patroled by police (even a bit of a cop hang out area), and again, pretty busy.

That (and the carving=scratch and is backwards) makes me think the police will look into this a bit harder, than if she would have reported a $60 theft and that was it.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/23/223311/88

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