From BuzzFlash
Last week, a troubled young woman handed the McCain campaign a Willie Horton-style race card, and the media helped them play it.
The attack of a 20-year-old college student was seized upon by the Drudge Report as a "mutilation," and other conservative Web sites as fodder against the surging Obama campaign. Ashley Todd filed a report with the Pittsburgh Police Department alleging a 6'4'' black man robbed her, then carved up her cheek and sexually assaulted her because he saw that she was a McCain supporter. It turns out the story was made up, and that Todd's black eye and the backwards B scratched into her cheek were most likely self-inflicted.
Something was missed in the reporting of the story, however. Though Todd was an employee of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) -- as confirmed today to BuzzFlash by a representative there named Ethan Eioln -- nearly every report demoted her to the role of volunteer. In fact, she was hired by the CRNC and promised a contract wage of $3,600 from August until Election Day. After she was charged by police for filing a false report, her employment with the CRNC was terminated.
You can read more about it at the link above the clip.
Honestly, is anyone even surprised anymore? The political world is full of corruption. No one really cares about anything other than securing their position, and they'll do so by any means necessary -- including paying peons to do the dirty work for them. This is just another example.
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