The Significance of Insignificant People
The insignificant person that I am speaking of is, of course, Ashley Todd. Ms. Todd, a Texan working on the McCain Campaign was in Pittsburgh when she made the accusation that a black Obama supporter had attacked her for her choice for President. Drudge jumped on it. This is to be expected. Drudge’s stock and trade is unconfirmed rumors.
Ordinarily, this would be not much more than a young woman making a desperate cry for help and attention. But she did say that a black man had done this, so she may have desired to split white and black voters in her simple little mind. Perhaps she thought that if she could say that a black man had done this, a little fear of black violence would go a long way. In some parts of Pennsylvania, perhaps.
But now we have reports coming in that the communications director for McCain in Pennsylvania, Peter Feldman, was pushing this story to the local media. Feldman gave a salacious version of the story to the local TV stations that had actual quotes from the imaginary assailant. Feldmans world is going to suck for the next few days.
All of this would be little more than a bed news cycle for McCain, if for nothing else than it kept him off-message again even while Sarah Palin made her first policy speech. It would mean very little if it weren’t for the fact that earlier this week, McCain pulled out of several states that he thought he had no shot at winning. Instead, he decided that he was going to put all of his eggs on winning one state that he was fighting an uphill battle in already. That state was Pennsylvania, and this story will play right to McCain’s weakness there.
This young woman thought that she would do her part to help put John McCain in the White House, but I think that this stunt will reveal the underground southern strategy that the McCain campaign was trying to pull in the “Alabama” part of Pennsylvania. That strategy has just been killed by a sick woman with a dyslexic letter B on her face.
Tags: 2008 Presidential, Ashley Todd, John McCain, Pennsylvania
Beyond this potentially incendiary story being put in its place, I can’t begin to imagine what could have motivated this young woman to do what she did. She should be prosecuted (as should the McCain communications guy) but I do hope she gets some help.
Another member of the McCain/Palin cultists!
It’s all a plant by the Obama campaign.
The right wingnuts ate this story up pushed on by the likes of RUSH, HENNEY, FOX AND McSame’s people. OH YEA RIGHT MOOUCHER
Notice the B is backwards? She did it in the mirror.
mooch,
that would be funny, if not for the fact that some wingunts probably will probably advance that theory.
Jason,
Mooch isn’t wrong – this is being advanced (hoped for) by some posters on Free Republic. I’m really trying to wrap my head around this story. Obviously, this woman has some mental health issues but why would McCain’s campaign jump on this? How would a random act of violence be connected to Barack Obama himself? I guess these McCain people are really deep in the racial fears and that’s why I can’t wrap my mind around it?
Drudge has disappointed me the most this election season. That is really saying something given the roster he finds himself in this year.
drudge gets his stories from the GOP and that is how they get pushed out. finally something like this happens and people finally see how the GOP and Drudge work together, from their on to FOX news.
Pittsburgh is the “Alabama” part of Pennsylvania?
As a loyal Browns fan, I have many choice adjectives for the home of the Steelers, but that may be a bit of a reach.
It took them this long to figure it out? I guess the problem was that it was the DFHs who were saying this all along, and DFHs have no credibility since they were right about the war and George Bush.
No, but it ain’t far from the Alabama part either. As I recall the description, it is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.
Believe it or not, it’s Kentucky. They actually call it the “Pennsyltucky” region. I thought it was a joke until I saw it in some national press while they were talking about West Virginia trending towards Obama.
That’s pretty good, too. I’m going to try to incorporate that into my vocabulary.
“In Pennsylvania you’ve got Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, and Alabama in the middle” – attributed to Carville during 1992 campaign. In certain circles Central PA has been dubbed “Alabama in the middle.”
I do actually think that central PA is more like Kentucky than Alabama. But who knows, I’ve never been to either.
I prefer the term, “Pennsyltuckey”.
Wasn’t the dumb shit a member of the College
FascistsRepublicans at Texas A&M?Yeah right…an Obama plant…
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She was employed by the National College Republicans….
She was also a Paultard.
http://wonkette.com/403807/ashley-todd-our-greatest-hope-for-freedom
Do yourself a favor and read some of the comments to the wonkette post anonone linked to. Funny stuff!