Professional "badass" pulled similar hoax during primary

Does the media even bother to check things out before it lapses into noise machine mode? (No.)

Now it turns out that not only did the McCain volunteer who staged a phony robbery lie about having leukemia and about graduating from Texas A&M. Back during the primary, she pulled a stunt strikingly similar to her Pittsburgh ATM feat.

Early this year, back in her home state of Texas, she claimed her tires were slashed because of her political views and Republican campaign paraphernalia was stolen out of her car. This turned out to be a lie.

If only the media had just bothered to check this before reporting the staged Pittsburgh robbery as if it was real.

But get this: Following the Pittsburgh incident, she's blaming the media for eventually reporting the fact that it was a hoax. Boo hoo hoo!

On her MySpace page, she lists her occupation as "being a badass." Yes, I know, that's something you'd really want to have on your resume, isn't it? I really don't think the job market is that good out there for professional badasses.

But maybe Republican campaigns pay badasses pretty well.

(Source: http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/25/one-more-on-ashley-todd)