When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear?
Reminder: This was the smear graphic spread on far Left blogs that accuses prominent conservatives of contributing to the death of Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman. Note the caption at the bottom: “He reaped what they sowed.”
When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear against conservatives? I’m not holding my breath since I raised this question 11 days ago and there’s been no response. But I’m not going to let it go.
On Nov. 13, I wrote:
Do you remember when the Left convicted prominent conservatives, myself included, in the death of the Kentucky census worker in September?
I do.
Andrew Sullivan pointed his finger at “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts” in a post titled “No Suicide,” which decried the “Kentucky lynching.”
When I called him and other nutroots opportunists out for exploiting the case and when I reiterated that authorities had NOT ruled out suicide, he smugly nominated me for his “Malkin Award” and wrote: “Many of the details she pooh-poohs have now been confirmed. In fact, the murder seems even grislier the more you examine it.”
Oh, really?
In fact, law enforcement officials are still investigating the case as a possible suicide — and are raising the possibility of an insurance scheme by Bill Sparkman for his son…
Ready for the bombshell confirmation? This afternoon, the Kentucky State Police and FBI made it official and announced that Sparkman had indeed killed himself:
A U.S. Census worker found dead in a secluded Clay County cemetery killed himself but tried to make the death look like a homicide, authorities have concluded.
Bill Sparkman, 51, of London, might have tried to cover the manner of his death to preserve payments under life-insurance polices that he had taken out. The policies wouldn’t pay off if Sparkman committed suicide, state police Capt. Lisa Rudzinski said.
“We believe it was an intentional act on his part to take his own life,” said Rudzinski, who helped lead the investigation.
Bill Sparkman, the census worker found hanged Sept. 12 in a remote patch of Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County. An autopsy report is pending. Photo courtesy of Corbin Times-Tribune. AP – FILE – In this undated 2008 photo, Bill Sparkman speaks to a 7th grade class during a lesson about sound waves. Authorities have released Sparkman’s body to his family nearly a month after he was found dead with a rope around his neck in rural eastern Kentucky. (AP Photo/The Times-Tribune, File)
Sparkman’s nude body was found Sept. 12 by people visiting the cemetery. There was a rope around his neck tied to a tree, and he had what appeared to be the word “fed” written on his chest in black marker.
His census identification card was taped to his head.
The bizarre details of the death caused a firestorm of media coverage and widespread speculation on the Internet, including that someone angry at the federal government attacked Sparkman as he went door to door, gathering census information.
There has been some anti-census sentiment in the country this year, and Sparkman apparently tried to capitalize on that with his ruse.
That’s right. It was a set-up from the start. Sparkman’s enablers on the Left and in the media have still failed to acknowledge their culpability.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good smear campaign, eh?
As I wrote on Oct. 9:
Bill Sparkman was tied to a tree by the neck (his feet touching the ground when discovered) and the word “fed” had been scrawled on his chest with a felt-tip pen. Police are still investigating and haven’t ruled out three possibilities: suicide, accidental death or homicide. “We’re not responding to any of the speculation, the innuendo, or the rumors,” Don Trosper, spokesman for the Kentucky State Police, told the Christian Science Monitor last week. “The Kentucky State Police concerns itself with facts.”
But this hasn’t stopped rabid opportunists from convicting outspoken conservatives in the media of the unresolved crime/non-crime/incident.
The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan immediately fingered “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts.” Author Richard Benjamin acknowledged that the area where Sparkman died is an infamous drug haven, but zeroed in on “anti-government bile” as his favored culprit. Benjamin singled out GOP Rep. Michele Bachman of Minnesota for her criticism of ACORN and the Census.
“Progressive” talk show host Stephanie Miller blamed the Tea Party movement for inciting violence. Echoing the unhinged liberal base, New York magazine indicted conservative talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh, “conservative media personalities, websites, and even members of Congress.”
They did this with the abortionist George Tiller shooting in Kansas and the Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C., and the Binghamton immigration center shooting in New York. Motives had yet to be determined and bodies were still warm, but that did not stop the liberal stampede from redefining conservative political expression as an incitement to violence.
This cynical move to demonize criticism of the census is part of a larger drive by the Left to muzzle limited-government advocates at every opportunity. Who needs the Fairness Doctrine? The criminalization of conservative dissent is well underway.
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More fakery: Dan Riehl notes that law enforcement officials say there was no evidence he had cancer, as he had claimed to family, friends, students, and neighbors.
Flashback: I killed the Kentucky Census worker — along with every conservative in America
Andrew Sullivan’s too busy nursing his Palin-induced psychosis to own up.
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I wonder how long it will take Andrew Sullivan, et al., to apologize to you, Michelle.
….crickets…..
I also wonder how long it will take Andrew Sullivan and all the other leftist pundits to apologize to the fine people of Kentucky.
….crickets…..
ECS
Apologize? Surely you jest. They’ve already moved on.
And even if they hadn’t, there’d still be no apology forthcoming. The left’s hatred of its political opposition trumps all else, including objective truth, intellectual consistency and moral decency.
It just got posted on Drudge.
Nazi Pelosi…I await your apology for calling me someone who carries swastikaaahs
http://rsmccain.blogspot.com/
did a super job covering the story with
boots on the ground.
Michelle, you have to look to FOX if you want vindication. The leftist/communist media will NEVER retract their vitriol. This would be a great O’Reilly or Hannity segment.
Continue to expose those sick bastards for what they are.
OH and PS:
There is not “anti-census sentiment” as the article stated.
There is OUTRAGE that obambi had hired ACORN and moved the census into the
whitehouse from commerce.
Prayers to his guy’s family and loved ones in their time of sorrow.
Apologize?! No, dear. The left will be going with the Mary Mopes “Fake but True” meme on this one.
At this point, the first assumption upon the death or even the reported insult toward a liberal has to be that they made it up to frame some instated conservatives. Liberals are the weakest creatures in the world.
And yet, we are supposed to wait to determine the motives of any muslim killers of our military here in the U.S.
Today, the left’s response is… “a census worker died in Kentucky? When did that happen? Never heard about it.”
Sparkman killed not only himself but the credibility of the left.
May their reputation rest in pieces.
If he had remembered the block of ice to stand on, the investigation might have taken longer.
JWF,
How cruel of you imply they have any reputation left to lose, don’t tease them like that
Alright. ENOUGH. It’s time to start calling “progressives” what they actually ARE: “assgressives”. Nothing “progressive” about them other than the name of the insurance company owned by George Soros, noted socialist capitalist billionaire.
It’s still your fault Michelle! You spew out so much hate and vitriol you drove him to suicide!
No need to apologize when it’s obviously a vast right wing conspiracy.
The left doing anything involving integrity?
LOL !!!!
I ask a simple question. When is it time to dispose of the idiots who are in charge? Tomorrow? And how many tomorrows do we have? Do we have any weapons left?
OT but related
Speaking of Census – has anybody else received “The American Community Survey” from the census bureau? The envelope says “Your response is required by law”. Which law?
I fully expect the libs who cried wolf to desperately attempt to spin this to blame conservatives for the suicide and also blame conservatives for them jumping the gun. They just refuse to accept responsibility for their actions. Until they are held accountable for their errors and slander they will continue to do so hiding behind their misinterpretation of the 1st amendment.
Liberal: What? He wasn’t killed by right wing extremists driven by conservative talk show hosts spewing hate?! Suicide, you say? Well obviously he was driven to suicide by conservative talk show hosts spewing hate!
this gubmint (_?_) tried to sucker the police, but only succeeded in conning the left. the left have proven over and over they are too stupid to ask the questions, much less come up with the answers. obama is sooo smart, he’s a harvard lawyer, who had a job as a street mouthpiece. clinton was a rhodes scholar, who flunked out of cambridge because he was too busy smoking dope and marching in communist may day parades. REAL MEN OF GENIOUS!
It was reported that his body was discovered with his feet in contact with the ground. I really hope that the left is actually deluded enough to think that republicans would be that stupid.
It’s very simple, now that it has been confirmed to be a suicide you and other conservative bloggers should sue them for libel and defamation of character.
But Sullivan forgot the Kentucky backwoods toothless trailer trash analogies, must have been an off day for him.
Exactly! The progressives will tell you if we had universal health care, he could have gotten treatment for his illness and he never would have committed suicide.
The left will respond with, “Even though it has been confirmed as a suicide, we feel certain that Bush and certain bloggers, like Malkin, drove him to it.”
Rus,
that has been a huge topic of late on a local radio station here. You can infact be arrested for not filling it out. That said it is very rarley done and when done the person will often get off due to a defense of prejudice eg:
not everyone was arrested.
My suggestion is to shutup and claim you never got it. If called deny you got one, when they knock on your door deny you got one, please send and deny you got it etc am sure you get the drift.
graysonret, you are correct…. just stopped by HuffPo. Or, even better, the big bad insurance companies paid off the police department so they would not have to pay out the policy!
I won’t claim to not receiving it…I will however ask for what constitutional legal authority authorizes them to ask such questions and demand answers. Constitution says count the population once every 10 years but it doesn’t say find out whether I had cherios or wheaties for breakfast.
C’mon…Pull an ACORN and get creative filling it out. Send Michelle a photo of it filled in. Maybe we can start a new contest. A la Repub. fundraising letters.
Apologies are not in their Official Playbook.
HuffPo readers are not buying suicide:
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I am still convinced it was a conspiracy. I have it on good authority that the late Mr. Sparkman was actually Trig Palin’s father, and that Sarah Palin had herself shipped to Kentucky inside a large Fed-Ex box in order to avoid detection. When Mr. Sparkman signed for the package, thinking it was a new set of luggage he’d ordered from LL Bean, she pounced on him and brained him with a moose antler. Then, she hanged him from a tree while she was unconcious. She was obviously the one who wrote FED backwards on Mr. Sparkman’s chest, since we KNOW that she is such a moron and can’t spell (she didn’t go to Harvard, after all).
That’s why they won’t let Andy Sullivan do a DNA test on Trig Palin…it would expose their conspiracy for all the world to see!!!!
Wow, wouldn’t it be great to have THAT kind of persuasive power huh? We could get back the government in no time!
Hmmm? … What is it exactly that sets off lemmings running in the direction of a cliff?
As I pointed out in a previous thread, an article in New York Magazine revealed that long-term AIDS patients like Sullivan have been developing dementia from taking the drugs over the course of 15 years or more. What better explanation is there for his deterioration as a writer?
Actually, Republicans who liked McRINO may fall into that catagory. Porch lights on but nobody home.
Conservatives are another matter.
When will the sun burn out?
It’s the United States of Obamica. I thought the left knew this.
The left is too prideful to apologize. In fact, I would not be surprised if they bring this sorry story up again next fall before the mid-term elections.
Rush Limbaugh said it today, Conservatives live in the real world, liberals live in a fantasy world.
Well, Andrew Sullivan has posted the news on his blog that Sparkman’s death has been determined to be suicide, but there is no commentary about it nor is there an apology to those whom he defamed. I guess he’d have to be a man to own up to his failings.
ECS
Bright side: if Andrew Sullivan were found hanging from a tree who could doubt it was suicide? Go Green-plant a tree.
Hey, I’m sure whatever was said after the body was found was accurate in spirit, if not in fact. Right? What’s the big deal? {sarc off}
Didn’t Dan Rather say something like that when he was making excuses for CBS?
I’m more saddened by this story than I am outraged by any lunatics on the left.
A family lost a loved one. We’re discussing this like we are the aggrieved, when they, and not we, have to suffer this Christmas without their dad/son/brother.
So, I’m sad.
We are the aggrieved. We’re the ones who were accused of killing him.
aggrieved – feeling resentment at having been treated unjustly.
The left apologize for any pain and suffering caused by their own arrogance and stupidity? Did we as conservatives forget that regardless of what happens or who’s at fault it’s the liberals who are always the victim?
And it’s getting quite obvious that they can’t take care of themselves, their desire for a complete and total Nanny State MUST be fulfilled. I’m sure North Korea, China, or Cuba would welcome them with open arms. Just as long as they get the hell out of here.
You’re right, flenser; I used the word incorrectly.
Can we agree that Mr. Sparkman’s family is suffering a pain more personal than are those of us who belong to a group who got maligned?
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Since this didn’t work maybe the “democRATS” / liberals / socialists / statists / marxists / communists can stage a REICHSTAG STYLE FIRE somewhere to justify their martial law edicts.
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They really love our country–and like the song says, “LOVING MEANS NEVER HAVING TO SAY YOU’RE SORRY!”.
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John Bibb
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No, we don’t know in fact that they are. When it comes to suicide it’s better not to assume anything concerning the family. Yeah, they might be grieving but then again they might be delighted or they…. might even be the reason.
I am still shaken by the hateful response of the conservatives here.
Don’t you understand that it was the policies of George Bush (both of them), Ronald Reagan, and even the thought of that wicked witch Salin Palin maybe one day being president that caused this man to kill himself?
That’s right, you bad, bad, bad people are still, no, even more cupable in the death of this worker. Why just looking at the Newsweek Cover of that Bear Killer makes me look to the branches of my cactus and wonder if it could support over 240 lbs.
Have you no shame?
Raaaaaacists! All of you.
Since when did liberals need facts?
I actually heard Stephanopoulis say ‘Climate Change’ on TV this morning; in the context of things that India can help us deal with…
But they’ll never talk about the turd that won’t flush–(‘climategate’)
oops; wrong thread
He looks like David Letterman without the gap tooth. Ugh.
Just like the recent revelation that
global warming, sorry climate change data was falsified through a coordinated effort, the left will completely ignore the truth here, too.Don’t expect an apology; watch instead for the left to blame us for his death because if Bush hadn’t made the economy suck he wouldn’t have needed the money, or that our concerns over the census made him feel bad and drove him to kill himself.
Never underestimate the power of the left to blame us for everything that goes wrong.
Nope. Not me. You?
Hope is not a plan; not all change is good! WE are the civilian national security force! Condolences to Mr. Sparkman’s son, and a pox on those who blamed us for his murder. The resistance is here! The resistance is now! And the resistance is getting a Ruger Mini-14 for Christmas! RESIST!!!!
ECS
I have no shame apparently because I couldn’t care less about this loser.
He was such a loser in fact, that he tried to stage his suicide in a way that would cause the Right to be blamed.
So my post was just kidding about the guy checking out. I save my real concern for real victims.