I'm starting to feel pity for McCain.

[DRoseDARs]

Upon seeing the photo, I knew immediately she was faking the story. She claimed the attacker had carved the letter into her face. Set aside the fact that it's backwards, I saw a better-quality photo of the victim's face and her supposed injury. Knives cut, they cut thin lines, cuts that will then swell and ooze. Look at her face. The lines in that B are broad, like fingernail-broad, and are only a little discolored, like fingernail-discolored, and certainly not swollen. Plus, who the f*ck holds perfectly still while being brutally attacked and having their face carved with a knife? Jesus Christ, that ANYONE who had seen the picture (I'll forgive those who only read about this; pictures paint a thousand words) bought this story to begin with.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Arrian
The cops never believed it.

-Arrian

Good for them

Remember the supposed anti-Semitic attack on the woman in Paris a couple of years ago? Same type of thing. Cut hair, racial slurs drawn on her. Attacker described as young Muslim male. Most of these fakes are perpetrated by 20-something women.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Sheehan is a loon. She was raving about catching someone bugging her phone at her hotel during the DNC. When she has those kinds of credibility issues, it's natural the media will ignore it.

How do you know she didn't catch someone doing just that? You just think she's a loon cuz she's against your beloved Democrats.

[KrazyHorse]

Male attackers do not go to the trouble of disfiguring or humiliating their female victims in most cases. Those that do are of the serial killer type. They do not leave live victims.

[DanS]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Set aside the fact that it's backwards

Actually, I think that's an artifact of somebody inadvertently flipping the picture. I have "fixed" it.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Comrade Snuggles

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Sheehan is a loon. She was raving about catching someone bugging her phone at her hotel during the DNC. When she has those kinds of credibility issues, it's natural the media will ignore it.

How do you know she didn't catch someone doing just that? You just think she's a loon cuz she's against your beloved Democrats.

Maybe it's because using a screwdriver to implant a physical bug in a phone is a method that went out of date in the late 1980s.

No, I think she's a loon because she is a raving loon. One only need look at her masterfully-designed campaign website to see many, many examples.

The simple fact is that she is not now nor never has been a threat to Pelosi. So there is no incentive whatsoever for the Pelosi campaign or anyone else to play all these dirty tricks on her. She's making **** up because she can't get any attention otherwise. But I guess she's found a few dupes who are willing to believe her nutball claims.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by DanS


Actually, I think that's an artifact of somebody inadvertently flipping the picture. I have "fixed" it.

Even the craziest rightwingers haven't made this claim. You, sir, are a tool.

[KrazyHorse]

^actual tool^

[Q Classic]

Whether or not it was flipped is a moot point, since she's confessed to making it up.

Again, with supporters like that, who needs opponents?

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
^actual tool^

I lolled.

[DanS]

Originally posted by DRoseDARs
Even the craziest rightwingers haven't made this claim. You, sir, are a tool.

Ha, I refer you to KH's comments that were directed toward you.

[Q Classic]

Oh, jeebus. Some freepers are now suggesting that maybe she's an Obama plant...

[Victor Galis]

Ooh, I thought this was about the NY Times Editorial about John Lewis's comments about McCain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/opinion/24rymer.html?ref=opinion

JOHN McCAIN deplored them, Barack Obama distanced himself from them, but the comments that Representative John Lewis of Georgia delivered on Oct. 11 may turn out to be some of the most trenchant — and generous — of the campaign. Mr. Lewis charged Mr. McCain and Sarah Palin with “sowing the seeds of hatred and division” in their fervently red-meat rallies, not unlike “a governor of the State of Alabama named George Wallace” whose race-bating rhetoric, Mr. Lewis noted, contributed to the 1963 bombing of the Birmingham church in which four young girls were killed.

The context of Mr. Lewis’s critique is not as has been presented: a saint of the civil rights movement likening a decorated war hero to an infamous racist. Rather, it was a collegial (if rough) caution from one brother to another, about a third, politicians all.

Mr. Lewis’s authority to chastise Mr. McCain comes not from his Bloody Sunday stand on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in 1965, but rather from his subsequent record on the hustings. His mettle was tested not only in Selma but also in three tough campaigns, characterized by tactics of personal destruction.

The first was his race in 1966 to retain the chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. For three years, Mr. Lewis had used his office to promote SNCC’s early emphasis on black and white activists working hand in hand. But by 1966, that inclusive and nonviolent climate was under siege. Peaceful marchers found themselves shadowed by a volunteer bodyguard of shotgun-wielding black militants, and a group known as the Atlanta Separatists was demanding that all whites be expelled from the civil rights leadership.

Things came to a head at SNCC’s convention in May that year, when late-night, back-room maneuvering elevated Stokely Carmichael to the chairmanship, ousting Mr. Lewis. Whites were purged from the organization, and its longtime white supporters were vilified. Carmichael’s successor, H. Rap Brown, changed the group’s name to Student National Coordinating Committee and directly advocated violence. Mr. Lewis’s long labor for racial comity lay in tatters.

In 1982, Mr. Lewis, along with other newly elected black Atlanta city councilmen, faced sound trucks rolling through their neighborhoods accusing them of race treason for not supporting a major road project favored by Mayor Andrew Young. Mr. Lewis stood his ground. He confided to me, then a reporter for The Atlanta Constitution, how upset he was at some of the bullying aimed his way.

In his first bid for Congress, in 1986, the battle that counted was the Democratic primary, where he faced off against Julian Bond. Mr. Lewis was running behind, crippled, some said, by his lack of eloquence. Partisan portrayals (not necessarily perpetrated by Mr. Bond) rewriting his role in civil rights history angered him, and hardened his steel. He fought his way into office by outworking his opponent and — eloquently enough — outdebating him. He brought to Congress not only a visceral understanding of what it’s like to be clubbed into unconsciousness, but also a deep familiarity with the damage inflicted by take-no-prisoners political campaigning.

So to call Mr. Lewis simply a Freedom Rider is to give incomplete acknowledgment to his political struggles.

Likewise, to describe George Wallace as a simple racist is to give his biography short shrift. As a circuit court judge in the 1950s, Wallace was respectful toward blacks, and as a legislator from 1947 to 1953, he was a moderate. In 1948, when Strom Thurmond led the Southern delegations out of the Democratic convention to protest the party’s pioneer civil rights plank, Wallace stayed in his seat. Though no fan of the plank, he was yet more Democrat than demagogue, and was instrumental in rallying the other Southern alternate delegates to save the convention’s quorum, and pass its platform.

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[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Mrs Snuggles
Oh, jeebus. Some freepers are now suggesting that maybe she's an Obama plant...

Yes, because if there was one thing the frontrunner with a 7-8 point lead needs to do, it's to set up such a situation which would contain a massive risk of getting exposed were it true.

[Naked Gents Rut]

My bull**** detector went off the scale when I read the story this morning.

I think everyone's bull**** detector went off when they read about this.