A campaign worker who claimed she was the victim of a politically-motivated attack in which she was beaten, kicked and cut, now admits that she made the whole story up.
According to Pittsburgh police spokeswoman Diane Richard, Ashley Todd, 20, told investigators today that she “was not robbed and there was no 6′4″ black male attacker.”
Chris Rodda the hate baiter behind the fear mongering STORY about the PEPPER SPRAY incident at a Dayton Mosque titled “Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After Obsession DVD Hits Ohio”, blaming right wingers and John McCain is a disgrace. Now faced with what would normally be shame and embarrassment after the police said NO SUCH THING HAPPEND, Rodda at Huffington Post says;
So, I don’t regret for a minute my decision to use the headline that I did. And, when I crossposted the piece at Talk2Action.org and here at HuffPo, I didn’t change that headline because, unlike the Dayton Daily News, once I write something, I don’t take it back.
Rodda spills out 2500 words blaming the Dayton News for her saturating hate baiting buffoonery.
Unbelievable! Wait it’s the Huffington Post…completely believable.
CNN embarrasses itself (not that it cares) by bending over backwards and outright lying in order to defend Barack Obama and his assertion that he would meet unconditionally with Iran’s leader Ahmadinejad.
Sarah Palin said in last nights debate that Barack Obama “would be willing to meet with” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “without preconditions.
CNN goes to work covering and lying for Obama:
Obama addressed the issue in a July 23, 2007, Democratic debate, when candidates were asked if they would be “willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?”"I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them — which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration — is ridiculous,” Obama answered.
Verdict: Misleading. While Obama has said he wouldn’t rule out meeting with any foreign leader, he never specifically said he’d meet with the Iranian president.
QUESTION: In 1982, Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel, a trip that resulted in a peace agreement that has lasted ever since.
In the spirit of that type of bold leadership, would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea, in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?
COOPER: I should also point out that Stephen is in the crowd tonight.
Senator Obama?
OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them — which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration — is ridiculous.
Last time I checked and at the time of the democratic debate the Iranian President Ahmadinejad was a LEADER in Iran!
It drives me crazy when McCain doesn’t call out and debunk nonsensical ignorant left wing talking point myths like “we were not greeted as liberators” in Iraq.
The United States and our troops were greeted as liberators, that’s a fact.
Events that transpired in Iraq following the initial toppling of Saddam Husein due to the lack of any workable plan to control Iraq’s infrastructure and the insurgency is a failure of the administration that is well documented and will be taught in West Point for generations to come as “what not to do”, but to conflate the two is willful ignorance and a slap in the face of the great Men and Women of our Military.
Much
of Baghdad became, in a moment, a showcase of unbridled enthusiasm for
America, as much as it metamorphosed into a crucible of unbridled
hatred and contempt for Mr. Hussein.
When the city awoke to find
that the American capture of the government quarter in west Baghdad on
Monday had been followed overnight by a deep American thrust into the
city’s eastern half, the fear ingrained in most Iraqis by nearly 24
years under Mr. Hussein’s brutally repressive government evaporated, to
be replaced by a bursting, irrepressible urge for freedom, and, among
the looters, a carefree, joyous defiance of law that lapped over, at
many major government buildings, to setting places afire.
American
troops, but almost as much any Westerner caught up in the tide of
people rushing into the streets, were met with scenes that summoned
comparisons with Europe’s liberation from the Nazis.
Iraqis on
foot, on motorscooters, in cars and minivans and trucks, alone and in
groups, children and adults and elderly, headed for any point on the
map where American troops had taken up positions — at expressway
junctions, outside the United Nations headquarters, at two hotels on
the Tigris River where western newsmen had been sequestered by Mr.
Hussein’s government — and erupted with enthusiasm and gratitude.
Shouts
to the American soldiers of “Thank you, mister, thank you,” in English,
of “Welcome, my friend, welcome,” of “Good, good, good,” and “Yes, yes,
mister” mingled with cries of “Good, George Bush!” and “Down Saddam!”
Obama spokesman Bill Burton said he has since asked the Post for a correction. Burton said Obama only met Raines once briefly at an event, and that Raines sought an introductory meeting with Obama Senate aide Mike Strautmanis. At that meeting, Burton said no advice was sought from or given by Raines, who also had served as President Clinton’s budget director.
On the campaign trail today Barack Obama said that John McCain and the Republicans did not say one word about the unemployment rate news that came out today.
Ummmm….The Key word is “TODAY”,the unemployment rate numbers came out this morning and the Republican convention ended last night.
Think Progress claims President Bush, regarding his not golfing, telling Mike Allen of Politico that he felt “it’s just not worth it anymore to do.”, doesn’t hold water?
In an interview with Politico’s Mike Allen, President Bush claimed he gave up golf after UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq. “I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad…I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do,” Bush said. De Mello was killed on Aug. 19, 2003. The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin reports today: “Bush’s story doesn’t hold water“:
The Associated Press reported on Oct. 13, 2003, that he’d spent a “cool, breezy Columbus Day” playing “a round of golf with three long-time buddies.
Bush never said “he gave up golf after UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed in Iraq” as Think Progress says.
Q: Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?
Bush: No, I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it anymore to do.
Think progress…not thinking or reading and lying as usual.
I think TPM’s Josh Marshall should look up the definition of the word “libel” and “infanticide”.
