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AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case (AP)
AP - Law enforcement officials say they doubt a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest was killed because of his government job.
The Associated Press: AP sources: Probers eye census worker's insurance
google.com — 4 hours ago WASHINGTON Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a census taker found hanging from... a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest are examining whether he manipulated the scene in order to conceal a suicide and make a life ... (more) The Associated Press: AP sources: Probers eye census ...
The Associated Press: AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case
google.com — 15 hours ago WASHINGTON Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a... tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he ... (more) The Associated Press: AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. ...
AP sources: Probers eye census worker's insurance (AP)
news.yahoo.com — AP - Investigators trying to solve the mystery of a census taker found hanging from a tree... with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest are examining whether he manipulated the scene in order to conceal a suicide and make a life insurance claim possible ... (more) AP sources: Probers eye census worker's insurance (AP)
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AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... continue to look closely at suicide as a possible cause of Sparkman's death for a number of reasons. There were no defensive wounds on Sparkman's body, and while his hands were bound with duct-tape, they were still somewhat mobile, suggesting he could have manipulated the rope, the officials said. Sparkman's naked body was found Sept. 12 hanging from a tree yet in contact with the ground in a remote patch of the Daniel Boone National Forest near Manchester, Ky. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/u... I would point out that The FBI has blamed 3 ...

REPORTS OF A LYNCHING BY VIOLENT HILLBILLY “TEABAGGERS” MAY HAVE BEEN PREMATURE: AP sources: Suicid…
Instapundit — ... REPORTS OF A LYNCHING BY VIOLENT HILLBILLY “TEABAGGERS” MAY HAVE BEEN PREMATURE: AP sources: Suicide eyed in Ky. census worker case. ...

In “Jumping the Gun” News
Blogs For Victory — ... Remember that census worker found hanged with the word “fed” scrawled on him? Remember how our liberal friends were hinting darkly at the growth of evil, mean, wicked, racist, knuckle-dragging conservatives out to get Obama? Well, it wasn’t quite like that: ...

The Instant Verdict
Shot in the Dark — ... , some of us said; law enforcement hadn’t even had a chance to look at the case. And now that they have…? (Echo echo echo echo echo ) Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said no final conclusions have been made in the case. In recent weeks, however, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government. The officials said investigators continue to look closely at suicide as a possible cause of Sparkman’s death for a number of ...

Dissecting Leftism — ... KY: Census worker hanging may have been suicide: "Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word ‘fed’ scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. … In recent weeks, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government. The officials said investigators continue to look closely at suicide as a possible ...

Dead Census Worker Apparently NOT Linked With Tea Parties, the GOP, the American Right Or Anything Else Alleged By the Nutosphere
The Jawa Report — November 06, 2009 Dead Census Worker Apparently NOT Linked With Tea Parties, the GOP, the American Right Or Anything Else Alleged By the Nutosphere Remember that census worker who was found dead with "Fed" scrawled across his chest? You know - the one whose death was a DIRECT RESULT of conservative protesters protesting Obama's idiotic health care legislation (according to the knuckle-dragging cretins across the nutosphere)? Yeah - investigators are now saying its is more likely that it had nothing to do with tea parties, protesters, health care legislation or anything else and ...

Reason Morning Links: ObamaCare, the PATRIOT Act, a Climate Bill, and More
Hit & Run — ... • The Fort Hood shooter is alive after all. • At least 10,000 tea partiers protest ObamaCare in Washington. • The House Judiciary Committee defies the White House by rejecting the PATRIOT Act's "lone wolf" provision. • The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee passes cap and trade while Republicans boycott the vote. • Investigators "increasingly doubt" that the census worker found dead in Kentucky was killed for political reasons. • Former NYPD chief Bernie Kerik ...

WAR: A Man of Indeterminate Religion
Baseball Crank — ... , to blame conservatives for a death of a federal worker in Kentucky that authorities now believe was a suicide. Note how Maddow, despite obviously not having all the facts, immediately speculated that this was "a crime related to anti-government sentiment" and trying to draw inferences from the federal government's behavior to support that argument. ...

Libs get their wish: more dead soldiers
Cold Fury — ... everywhere? The AP reports today that investigators increasingly doubt he was murdered and are looking now at suicide. Just something to bear in mind when the tut-tutting over making assumptions about Hasan begins tomorrow. Ah, but remember: Left-incited violence is never indicative of anything beyond a reasonable reaction to Wingnut!™ depredation — while citizens expressing dismay, via peaceful protest and petitioning of their elected representatives, over the incremental steps towards totalitarianism they’ve been pushing for years is TERRORISM!!!!eleventy!! Nice little ...

Chris Matthews: We may never know if religion was a factor at Fort Hood
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... it’s okay to start speculating about Hasan’s motives when cops find a Glenn Beck book on his bookshelf. In fact, if the same “PTSD by proxy” elements had been present in Hasan’s bio but it turned out he’d attended a tea party or two, we’d already be well into hour 30 or so of a full-on media speculation orgy. The nutroots needed much less time than that to pronounce conservatism collectively guilty of murder in the case of that hanged census worker, even though, as it turns out, he probably wasn’t murdered . But then, we’ve been ...

First as tragedy, next as farce, after that…?
Cold Fury — ... You’ll know it’s okay to start speculating about Hasan’s motives when cops find a Glenn Beck book on his bookshelf. In fact, if the same “PTSD by proxy” elements had been present in Hasan’s bio but it turned out he’d attended a tea party or two, we’d already be well into hour 30 of a full-on media speculation orgy. The nutroots needed less time than that to pronounce conservatism collectively guilty of murder in the case of that hanged census worker, even though, as it turns out, he probably wasn’t murdered . But then, we’ve been over this ground before. For now, let’s simply ...

Sparkman Update
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The case of the census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "FED" written on him gets murkier. ...

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Census Worker Death May Be SuicideDrudge Retort
Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, two unnamed officials told AP. Bill Sparkman, 51, ...
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Remember the case of the Census worker who was found hanging from a tree with the word ‘fed' scrawled across his chest? You remember - he died at the hands of right-wing commentators and anti-government tea partiers. He was killed because of an overwhelming case of right-wing paranoia. He ...
Census Worker Bill Sparkman: Suicide SuspectedRiehl World View
h/t JL in email. Sad, of course. It seems police are increasingly less convinced Census worker Bill Sparkman met with foul play due to his government job. While not yet drawing conclusions, suicide is said to be the way their investigation is going . Don't wait to the Left to care. They got ...
Bill Sparkman, Kentucky Census Worker Found Dead, May Have Committed SuicideThe Huffington Post | Full News Feed
WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told ...
AP: Authorities Look At Possibility Of Suicide In Death Of Census WorkerTPMMuckraker
Anonymous officials tell the AP they are looking at whether Bill Sparkman, the Census worker found dead in rural Kentucky in September with the word "fed" written on his chest, may have committed suicide. The wire service reports that investigators have recently "grown more skeptical that ...