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The acid attack hoaxer is just one in a line of women who have faked terrible things, in part to get attention. And while the result is often despicable, their motives can be complicated. More »
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'"I have that exact doll in my house," said Elizabeth Russell, a dollmaker from Buffalo who had been following the blog. "As soon as I saw that picture, I knew it was a scam."' More »
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Ashley Todd, the woman who claimed to have been mutilated by an Obama supporter in a mugging, has reached a deal with prosecutors in her case. In a program for first-time offenders, she'll be released from jail and go into therapy. If she keeps her nose clean and completes therapy, the state of Pennsylvania will expunge her records. Pictures of her own, personal scarlet letter will live forever, though. [MSNBC] More »
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For a campaign that has whined about sexism in the media, it ends up being awfully ironic when you read how the dudely McCain advisers chose Palin because she would look good on magazine covers or when the men in charge of the campaign try to pin Wardrobe-gate on the other visible woman in the campaign. Luckily for us (and for her), McCain aide Nicolle Wallace doesn't suffer fools lightly, or in silence. Someone else who doesn't give a shit what you want her to do is Swampland's Ana Marie Cox, who joins us from the campaign trail with wit, bacon and tales of zombies. It is almost Halloween, after all. More »
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Ashley Todd, the McCain volunteer who falsely claimed that an African-American Obama supporter assaulted her, has a history of lying. Todd, a native Texan, originally worked for the Ron Paul campaign during the primaries, but was fired after she posed as a Huckabee worker and called his supporters asking for "their strategies." Todd also claimed her car had been attacked because of her Ron Paul bumper stickers and she told her hometown's GOP chairman that she was being treated for cancer and had lost all her hair. [NY Post] More »
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With the confession today that she made the whole thing up, Ashley Todd joins the ranks of Susan Smith, Tawana Brawley and - if you believe the prosecutors and not her new memoir - Crystal Mangum as another disturbed woman willing to exploit race for some sort of personal gain. In this case, it seems likely that Todd intended her report of a being robbed, beaten and mutilated by a "6' 4" black Barack Obama supporter to play into people's deepest fears in order to affect the presidential campaign. It was as well thought-out as her plan to carve a B into her own face in the mirror. But her actions do say something about how people like Todd, Smith, Brawley and Mangum think that their stories will be enhanced by playing the race card. More »
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