Race Baiting and the Carved "B"

This is just so far over the line of common decency.  The following story embodies the entire campaign of fear of the black man that the Republican strategy has centered around.  Still the McCain campaign has refused to comment on this case once all the details came to light, which is especially troubling when it was campaign staffers themselves who perpetrated this act and spread the false details about the circumstances in the first place.  It's shameful to say the least and I'm really disappointed that candidate did not even issue a statement denouncing the actions of his staff.

In a nutshell, a 20-year old female, who worked for the McCain campaign, claimed that after a night of making calls, she stopped at an ATM on the way home and was robbed and beaten because of the McCain sticker on her car.  To really drive home their point, she described the robber as a 6'4" black male who got angry upon noticing her McCain sticker, beat her, said he was going to teach her a lesson, and then carved the letter "B" into her face ("B" for Barack, as we were lead to believe).  A couple inconsistencies right away:

1.  How would the attacker know that was her car?

2.  Why was the letter "B" BACKWARDS on her face?

Just to name a few...anyways all the news sources and blogs were all over this thing, and speculation was pretty high.  Well as it turned out, it was all made up.  There was no attacker and no black man.  This part right here is the worst, making up a story is one thing, but blaming it on a black man is just crying for racist labellings when you're proven to be a liar.  So there was no black man.  The video from the ATM (they have those ya know) didn't show her at the machine.  The "B" was indeed backwards because she did it herself in the mirror.  And the news sources all quoted a McCain campaign staffer as relaying the initial story to them...so they were either misinformed from the beginning and have not apologized or attempted to set the record straight, or they were in on it from the beginning and won't admit they tried to propagate a story to whip up frenzy about racial stereotypes and fear of black people.  The campaign openly pushed this story with a clear racial agenda for political gain, but was proven to be a hoax of the nastiest kind.  The "victim" was later found out to have been kicked off the Ron Paul campaign earlier in the year for similar crap.  Nice vetting process there, red campaign.

Some more info on that here