The Bee Lady

This election has been a carnival of stupid, so it's fitting that the "October Surprise" is unbelievably stupid as well.

A Pittsburgh police commander says a volunteer for the McCain campaign who reported being robbed and attacked near a bank ATM in Bloomfield has confessed to making up the story. Police say charges will be filed. More details to follow.

This was the woman who claimed that an Obama supporter - a black man - mugged her and beat her up because he saw her McCain bumper sticker. And that he carved a "B" into her skin. Only the "B" was perfectly situated, not jagged in any way, and it was backwards, as if it was carved while using a mirror. Turns out that she immediately started changing her story, and it looked bogus to anyone who spent more than two seconds with it.

And, you know, it was.

Didn't stop half the conservative blogosphere from running with it - and I say only half, because Michelle Malkin and some others were sleptical.

FAIL.