CBS NEWS/AP While she may not be the Schmuck of the week by its best definition, she is the prevaricator of the week. Yesterday, when the Drudge Report led the site on Ashley Todd, a 20-year-old McCain volunteer that claimed she was attacked, and that a B was carved on her face, other websites picked it up. Even the SCHMUCKRAKER made reference to it in its random rakings section yesterday.. But now it turns out, as some online suspected, the story of Ashley Todd has gone down in flames .. it was false, according to police investigating the incident. Perhaps the backwards B should have.. well, tipped everyone off? She told police Wednesday that she was attacked by a black male.. Today she can't explain why she made the story up.. AP suggests that police were initially suspicious, again, because the B on her face was backwards. She says that she doesn't remember carving the B on her own face, but admits that she must have since the rest of the mugging/mutilation story was false.. A morbidly twisted tale, the ends even more on the morbid note.. My hope is that she makes a quick recovery, and that she has mental analysis done. And that the media leaves her family alone--and leaves her alone. Something about this story is very sad...

The other interesting aspect of the Ashley Todd story: Drudge vs Wonkette.. Wonkette won.

Can't wait for this election to end. It's been weird.

Labels: Campaign 2008, Election, Odd, Politics, Schmuck of the Week, sick