Yeah, I dunno. Ed says it's checking out, his boss says it doesn't feel right, and I'm inclined to take it as a too-good-to-check non-confirmation of exactly what you'd expect from a populist utopian paranoid movement. So yeah, I dunno:

A 20-year-old woman who was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield was also maimed by her attacker, apparently because of her political views, police said. According to WTAE's news exchange partners the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Ashley Todd, of College Station, Texas, was using an ATM at Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in Bloomfield just before 9 p.m. on Wednesday when a man approached her and put a knife to her throat. Police spokeswoman Diane Richard said the robber took $60 from Todd, then became angry when he saw a McCain bumper sticker on the victim's car. The attacker then punched and kicked the victim, before using the knife to scratch the letter "B" into her face, Richard said.

I have a passing familiarity with the Pittsburgh College Republicans and, at least during my years there, they are fairly politically astute people. They'd know well enough that a hoax would get uncovered and backfire. But an extended robbery and assault in Bloomfield before 9pm? Doesn't seem right. But seems so wrong that you'd be insane to stage it that way if you were going to fake it. But if you're going to fake it, you're not in your right mind anyway. So yeah - no idea.

References:
* McCain supporter maimed for her politics by robber; Update: Photo; Update: College Republicans on the record [Hot Air]
* Why that McCain volunteer’s “mutilation” story smells awfully weird [Malkin]
* The Paranoid Style in The Left's Anti-Palin Viciousness [MR]
* Woman Attacked At ATM, Assailant Scratches Letter Into Her Face [WTAETV]

Previously:
* Obama Now Actively Channeling Rabid Anti-Israel Academics, Adopting Their Dumbest Anti-Israel Euphemisms
* Farrakhan: Obama Is "A Herald Of The Messiah... A Savior" (Plus: Obama's Followers Attacking Conservatives, Fantasizing About Shooting Palin)
* Palin Speech Now Online, Liberal Jewish Groups Reach New Heights Of Pro-Obama Denials, Fabrications, And Smears