B is for Barack. Or maybe Black.

A woman in Pittsburgh claimed to have been attacked by "a dark-skinned black man, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 200 pounds with a medium build, short black hair and brown eyes ... wearing dark colored jeans, a black undershirt and black shoes" for having a McCain bumper sticker.

Quoting sarahsarmy.blogspot.com (a pretty awesome blog, one of those whose hilarious earnestness and horrible grasp of everything from logic to formatting makes me wonder why we bother to try to be funny at all), in a post now deleted but still cached on Google:

More Hope, Change and Mutilation...

The McCain volunteer Ashley Todd, 20, of College Station, Texas, was robbed at an ATM then had the letter “B” carved on her face by her Obama-supporting robber.

McCain has called the Ashley's family-- The attacker said the mugger was screaming about McCain when he beat her.

But that's horrible! A "B" you say? B for... Barack?!

Wait a second. I'm pretty sure that even poor, angry, criminal & illiterate minorities can write a B in... how do you say... not-reverse. What's the word for when something looks like it wasn't written while looking in a mirror? Yeah, I'm pretty sure even black people can make letters look like that.

P.S.- the attackers were black.

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And in case you were wondering, Ashley Todd is currently being held in county jail for filing a false police report. The original story has been removed from most news sites, but it's still up here.


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