That’s right. We did.
Never mind that the police aren’t even finished investigating, have no suspects, and know very little about the case.
But we’re guilty just as if we had actually done it ourselves.
We first blogged about it here and pointed out how al-AP slanted the article so badly as to implicate anyone opposed to Our Lord and Savior’s agenda.
More details are emerging. For example, contrary to the al-AP story we cited earlier, Bill Sparkman was not hanged from a tree but rather had a rope around his neck and was tied to a tree. The cause of death was asphyxiation.
From the Washington Compost:
The Census Bureau employee who was found dead and tied to a tree in Kentucky this month died of asphyxiation, according to a preliminary medical report.
State and federal law enforcement officials on Thursday dismissed the suggestion from a news service report that the man, William Sparkman, 51, may have been targeted because he worked for the federal government, calling that speculative.
The body of Sparkman, a part-time field worker for the agency, was found Sept. 12 in the Daniel Boone National Forest in rural southeastern Kentucky. A rope was wrapped around his neck and tied to a tree; his feet were in contact with the ground, according to the Kentucky state police and the FBI.
The cause of Sparkman’s death is under investigation, and authorities have not ruled out suicide, an accident or homicide, said Kentucky state police spokesman Don Trosper. A full medical report on Sparkman’s death is not complete.
That’s right. Law enforcement officials have not determined a cause of death, have not even determined it was a homicide or a suicide, and are blasting away at the biased news reports already attempting to indict ordinary Americans opposing the government in his death.
They don’t even know if Sparkman was performing census work when he died.
State and federal officials would not say whether Sparkman was found with the word “fed” scrawled on his chest, as the Associated Press reported Wednesday, citing a law enforcement source. They would also not discuss whether he was working on census matters before or at the time of his death.
“I think to give this impression that he was strung up because he was a federal employee is giving a bad impression to the nation,” said David Beyer, spokesman for the FBI field office in Louisville, which is working with state officials on the investigation.
None of this mattered, according to Michelle Malkin, who was accused by a moonbat at DUmmyland of being personally responsible.
There are some other good links as well:
- Via NewsBusters, Allison Kilkenny from the PuffHo blames “right-wing fear and paranoia” eminating from Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.
- Via Allahpundit at Hot Air, a particular disgusting graphic showing a hanged man with the word “FED” on his chest and the words “he reaped what they sowed” on the bottom. The rest of the image contains names and phrases implicating the usual suspects (Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, criticisms of socialism, ACORN, SEIU, ObamaCare, etc.)
- Brian Maloney at Radio Equalizer finds a leftwing talker blaming Rep. Joe Wilson as well as conservative talk radio.
Malkin writes:
To recap:
1) Police have not determined yet that this was murder.
2) He wasn’t hanging from the tree.
3) It hasn’t been determined if he was even working as a Census data collector at the time of his death or whether that job had anything at all to do with his demise.
But:
I killed the Kentucky Census worker — along with every man and woman in America who is guilty of having said or written anything critical of government.
The criminalization of conservatism continues.
