Liar liar...

Wow. So what a tall tale we have here. First there was this story that Matt Drudge went ape-shit over yesterday about a 20 year old female mugging victim named Ashley Todd. Why did Drudge go nuts on this story? Because of the details of this mugging. Todd told the story of a black man, who, in the midst of mugging her, saw a McCain sticker on her car, decided to beat her up and carve the letter B into her face to remind her of Barack Obama.

It was a horrible story, and it definitely wasn't going to help Obama's press. The story: crazy Obamaniacs not only hate McCain, but they'll brand you for feeling otherwise.

But then things got a little fishy last night when a picture of this young woman was released. See that B. It's backwards. So our mugger is not only a shameless evil criminal, he's also mildly illiterate or dyslexic or something comparable.

Or, you know, he's imaginary. Because it turns out Ashley Todd is a big, fat, liar, liar pants on fire. That's right. The cops today looked over the evidence and became a tad skeptical, and so they decided to put her to a polygraph, and she broke down and decided to tell the truth. Her mugger didn't carve the B into her cheek, and she wasn't even mugged. She just made it up, and she carved the B into her own cheek.

It's absolutely horrible to do something like this, but I gotta say, if she's really die hard for her candidate, I'm not terribly surprised. Think about it. Things are not looking good for McCain. She's young, naive, desperate, and so she thinks "man, if people just finally realize that Obama supporters are evil, they'll vote for McCain, and if I do this, it'll work. I'll say it's a black guy because that'll scare them even more, and then McCain will win and he'll fix the country and we won't have to deal with the socialist."

Admittedly I'm putting words into this girl's mouth, and I could be wrong in my interpretation, but I've got a hunch her motives originally were something to that effect. I think there's a number of reasons to be glad she didn't get away with it, but really I feel bad for her, because if that cut's deep enough, chances are she's going to have to live with that reminder in her cheek for the rest of her life.