Race-Baiting Bullshit, Pt. 2

The story about the girl who faked the story about an attacker carving a "b" into her face has been gnawing at me since I heard it.

It was not terribly long ago that the reaction to such a story would have resulted in mobs lynching whoever they could find. It wouldn't matter if it was false or not, a half-a-dozen Black men, and possibly one or two women, would be beaten, shot, hung and burned because of that phony story.

In some tame version, that was just the sort of reaction that the McCain campaign was hoping for. The McCain campaign's pushing the story was race-baiting, pure and simple.

But that's about what I have come to expect from one of the most despicable campaign operations since Joe McCarthy quit politics.