This is a photo of the woman who says that after she was robbed at an ATM machine, she walked back to her car and from across the parking lot the robber noticed she had a McCain sticker on it and then beat her up and carved a "B" in her face.

http://www.bobcesca.com/images/cut.jpg

I have a few questions here:

1) I find it quite odd that after robbing her at a bank ATM the robber didn't run away immediately. Why did he hang around and why would he notice a McCain sticker given his, most likely, heightened state of Adrenalin?


2) Why is the "B" backwards?

3) Why is her blackeye not swollen or her eye not bloodshot?

4) Why if the "B" was carved into her face is it not more of a traumatic looking injury, my tattoos looked worse and they were done with a tiny steril needle.


Bottom line is, this doesn't add up except as a shoddy response to the woman campaigning for Obama who was punched by the McCain/Palin supporter.

Otm nuggets

I agree Rover this looks like some attention seeking bitch seeking her 15 mins of fame.

The backwards B is the icing on the cake. Proof that this dumbass did it in the mirror.

Turns out now that the Pittsburgh police have serious doubts about her story, many inconsistencies and they are now looking at the victim as possibly filing a false report. One of those as a note was her refusal to seek medical attention until much later and only after the insistance of friends and family.

On a side note, the McCain campaign immediately grabbed on to this with a personal phone call from both McCain and Palin, different from Joe the Plumber she can be called "20 year old the bullshit artist".

That was my thought when I saw this on the news. It's difficult to believe this type of crime - an extremely unlikely scenario. It's like the classic little kid question of what happens on the way home from school if someone pulls a gun on you and forces you to take drugs. It's just not a criminal event.

It reminds me of a couple of men in Phoenix of middle-eastern descent who, after 9-11 and the anti-Islamic sentiments, beat themselves up and called the police. They later confessed that the entire thing was faked.

Strangely enough many times when I was in high school this guy would stop me on the way home from school and force me to buy weed and then go home and smoke it in my bed room.

I know that some papers invert images, perhaps this is the case in this picture?

invert

You mean mirror.

To me it looks like the B was crudly branded on her face.


Cheers,

Yeah they inverted it, as did the actual police officers who saw it. They have inverted eyes.

It's the liberal media inversion.

Or it could be the person who attacked her, didn't recieve a very good education, and draws his "B"s backwards.....
If only he would have recieved a proper education!

Pittsburgh police just confirmed this as a hoax. She failed a lie detector and she wasn't on any bank security footage at the ATM she claimed to be at.

I now nominate a backwards B as a symbol to stand for Bitch

Stay classy, Jedd ;)

If only Hillary had been nominated, this crazy wouldn't have been foiled by the mirror.

If only Hillary had been nominated, this crazy wouldn't have been foiled by the mirror.

OK, that's funny!

It seems to be coming out that this incident was actually thought up by the McCain campaign higher ups.



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 there. We preserved the three missing grafs from yesterday:


http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/images/KDKA-450w.jpg


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.

This is problematic because the McCain campaign doesn't want to have been perceived as pushing an incendiary story that not only turned out to be a hoax but which police officials said today risked blowing up into a "national incident" and has local police preparing to file charges against the hoaxster.

There's no evidence that anyone from McCain national headquarters put out a version of events like this.

After the story appeared on KDKA's site and this and other pieces in the local press started flying around the political world, an Obama spokesperson in the state angrily insisted to KDKA that it was irresponsible for the station to air the McCain spokesperson's incendiary version of events before the facts were fully known, according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

After that, KDKA went back to McCain's Pennsylvania spokesperson, Feldman, and asked if he stood by the story as he'd earlier told it, but he started backing off the story, a source familiar with the talks says. That prompted KDKA to remove the grafs.

Feldman couldn't immediately be reached, and a McCain HQ spokesperson declined to comment.