McCain campaign pushed mutilation hoax, even added their own incendiary "facts"

Remember the deranged McCain staffer who made up a story yesterday that she was supposedly attacked and mutilated by a crazed Obama fan (of course a black man) while she was trying to get money from an ATM? Well, we now know the woman is a liar and filed a false police report, apparently having carved her own face in an effort to throw the election for her boss, John McCain.

Now we learn that McCain's Pennsylvania communications director pushed the hoax mutilation story to the media, even claiming that the supposed "B" carved on the victim's face stood for "Barack Obama." Reportedly, McCain and Palin both called the hoaxer to offer their support. Imagine the judgment, or lack thereof, of McCain and Plain. There's that vetting problem again. TPM has more:

This is problematic because the McCain campaign doesn't want to have been perceived as pushing an incendiary story that not only turned out to be a hoax but which police officials said today risked blowing up into a "national incident" and has local police preparing to file charges against the hoaxster.