Comments on: “B”

By: yesterdaygone

yesterdaygone — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:02:49 +0000

so is that a real black eye? or make-up? if it is real, was it self-inflicted?

By: merl

merl — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 06:37:34 +0000

I laugh every time I see the picture of that pathetic loser.

By: Rightwingsnarkle

Rightwingsnarkle — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 03:30:48 +0000

Apparently, this was not her first attempt at a hoax.

By: Jan Kees

Jan Kees — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:17:30 +0000

The mug shot invites us to wonder who she is and what’s going on behind her de-faced cheek. Crazy or not, an interesting psychological story may be told about her some day when all the facts are in.
But she’s not the important story. Nor, really, is Fox, Drudge, Palin, or anyone else’s specific encouragement of her fraud. The real psychological thriller lies in each of us, progressive and reactionary and middle-of the road, white and black alike: the huge jump to generalization we all make at the drop of a hat in a case like this, or that we try equally urgently to prevent others from making — that one crazy violent black man’s actions would suddenly reflect on all black people, including that audacious black man who would be President. We feared, and Ms Todd hoped, that White America’s stereotype of the Violent Black Man would kick into action. This stereotype is actually a projection, one that has served Euro-Americans well to assuage guilt and avoid having to come to terms with the ugly details of owning African people as property for 250 years, an institution as American as apple pie, one upon which the early economic success of this nation was built. It is the power of this stereotype that explains Ms Todd’s action, Fox’s eagerness to believe her, and our sigh of relief when we heard it was not true this time.
But in a nation of 300 million people, what didn’t happen this time may well happen next time, and it will be no more proper to turn it into a symbol when it really happens than it was when it really didn’t.
By the same token I’d rather not take Ms. Todd as a symbol of anything, and certainly not as a symbol of what is wrong with the McCain campaign. Assess its errors on the merits and demerits, and assess her on hers.

By: Exredstater

Exredstater — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:56:54 +0000

Anybody else see this leaked 527 spot?
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Leaked_Pro_McCain_527_Negative_Ad_Small_Town_Fear_Itself/

By: bushwahd

bushwahd — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:17:44 +0000

Seeing the backwards B, I immediately assumed george bush had attacked her.
Democratic muggers/hoaxers–being literate and doing well on those SAT 3-D questions–would have carved an H to feed the islamoredneck conspiracy theorists’ bloodlust/racefear and simultaneously avoid the mirror issue.

By: jtfromBC

jtfromBC — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:02:52 +0000

Sarah, please tell us it aint so
“…According to Verrilli, the spokesperson also told KDKA that Sarah Palin had called the victim of the alleged attack,…”
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/mccain_aide_gave_reporters_inc.php

By: Stan B.

Stan B. — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:42:58 +0000

Anyone recall the previous right wing “mugging victim” with mirror image facial etchings?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E3D61231F933A05751C1A9679C8B63

By: Annie

Annie — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:03:48 +0000

Commenters already touched upon the major issues underlying this:
Untreated mental illness
Republican messaging is a manifestation of mental illness (anger, rage, obsessive/compulsiveness, fear, suspicion)
Criminalizing mental illness (using incarceration and criminal justice system to access mental health services – BTW – over one half of ALL inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons – we just shifted institutionalization from hospitals)
The pornification and victimization of this person by the McCain campaign demonstrates misogyny, stigmatization of mental illness, racism, bigotry, anti-intellectualism
This is really awful on so many fronts.
I worry, most of all, about the youth who did this. She needs – and is deserving of – adequate health care, of which she isn’t getting. That should be the follow-up to the McCain campaign.

By: Cointreau

Cointreau — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:13:25 +0000

can anyone make a pumpkin stencil of this?