http://www.jedreport.com/2008/10/the-which-drudge-blare-project-1.html
Three points:
1. No reporter should ever listen to anything Matt Drudge ever says again, period. He's done. Over. Toast. Proceed at your own risk.
2. The young woman who made up this story is deeply disturbed and needs help. She sought to inflame racial tensions at a point in our country's history when we could finally be overcoming some of them. That is a hideous sin, but rather than wanting to see her punished, I want to see her recover, because this is a cancer that we can no longer afford in our nation.
3. Conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin who held their fire (edit: actually, expressed their skepticism) deserve credit for not trying to inflame the divisions in this country. I won't say this often, but thanks. My only hope is that they could be this honest more often.
This would just be a sad pathetic story of yet another immature white ascribing blame to 'some black guy' except that Drudge, McCain, and Palin bought into the story to some degree, even with the "B" etched backward into the girl's face.
McCain and Palin both called her to offer condolences and Drudge, of course, ran with the story in a big way. I don't blame McC/P. for this, but please, it had stink emanating from it at the git-go. Why so eager to jump on the band-wagon?
In addition, John Moody, exec VP at FOX News, had this to say at his blog:
If Ms. Todd’s allegations are proven accurate, some voters may revisit their support for Senator Obama, not because they are racists (with due respect to Rep. John Murtha), but because they suddenly feel they do not know enough about the Democratic nominee.
If the incident turns out to be a hoax, Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.
http://foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/10/23/jmoody_1023/