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NEWS ALERT: Kentucky State Police Will Announce Sparkman Investigation Result UPDATE: Official: It Was Suicide
NEWS ALERT: Kentucky State Police Will Announce Sparkman Investigation Result UPDATE: Official: It Was Suicide
UPDATE 2:15 p.m .: It's now official : Bill Sparkman committed suicide . So much for " Southern populist terrorism " -- and the credibility of Andrew Sullivan. So much for " Send the body to Glenn Beck " -- and the credibility of Rick Ungar. UPDATE 2:40 p.m . : The official report : Frankfort, ...
Police: Sparkman Committed Suicide, Made It Look Like Murder For Insurance Scam
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Census worker Bill Sparkman committed suicide and deliberately made it look like murder as part of an... insurance scam, Kentucky state police have concluded . State police, working with the FBI, said at a press conference moments ago that Sparkman had ... (more) Police: Sparkman Committed Suicide, Made It Look Like ...
Kentucky Census right-wing lynching fake hate-crime suicide schadenfreude update
Kentucky Census right-wing lynching fake hate-crime suicide schadenfreude update
rsmccain.blogspot.com — Let's start with this: If Bill Sparkman really did commit suicide and stage it to look like... he was murdered by demented right-wing Kentuckians , he's a bigger loser than Andrew Sullivan . And that's quite an achievement. So now that conservatives are ... (more) Kentucky Census right-wing lynching fake hate-crime ...
Calling For Sparkman Apologies
legalinsurrection.blogspot.com — The Kentucky state police announced that the death of Bill Sparkman was an elaborate suicide made to... look like a murder so that Sparkman's son could collect on his insurance policy. Robert Stacy McCain has all the details and updates. I'll let others ... (more) Calling For Sparkman Apologies
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What Do You Know? It Was A Suicide
Clayton Cramer's BLOG — ... I didn't blog about it when it was first reported, because while it looked bad to find a U.S. Census worker dead with antigovernment slogans on it, there could be other explanations. And now The Other McCain is reporting that it has been ruled a suicide. ...

Legal Insurrection calls out Online Left for retractions, apologies.
RedState — ... for the insurance money (H/T: R.S. McCain) - which means that he was not murdered by conservative monsters from the id, or murdered for ideological purposes - or, in fact, was murdered at all.  I’m sure that this would be an embarrassment for everyone on the Other Side who flogged this particular narrative, except this would imply that they cared about Sparkman in the first place.  Which they didn’t, so expect a grudging bare minimum, at best. ...

It's Official: Census Worker Supposedly Murdered Due to Right Wing Anti-Government Extremism Really Committed Suicide
The Jawa Report — November 24, 2009 It's Official: Census Worker Supposedly Murdered Due to Right Wing Anti-Government Extremism Really Committed Suicide Look, I'm one who actually believes there are such things as right wing extremists. That is, I don't imagine the Klan sitting around reading Chomsky or Marx. But extremists , by definition, are on the fringe . And it's a long way from Glenn Beck to The Anarchist Cookbook . By Rusty at November 24, 2009 02:07 PM | | l ...

Kentucky Census Worker Officially Comitted Suicide, The Left Completely Pwnd
Pirate's Cove — ... based on evidence and witness testimony, has concluded that Mr. Sparkman died during an intentional, self-inflicted act that was staged to appear as a homicide,” Rudzinski said. Maybe, just possibly, y’all might want to dial back your insanity in the future, lefties, and wait for the full information, prior to beclowning yourselves. The Moderate Voice is gracious and offers an apology. Thank you. The Raw Story just offers the story, and nothing else. Others: The Other McCain , Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion , CBS News , The Jawa Report ,  ...

Kentucky Census Worker Officially Comitted Suicide, The Left Completely Pwnd
Stop The ACLU — ... based on evidence and witness testimony, has concluded that Mr. Sparkman died during an intentional, self-inflicted act that was staged to appear as a homicide,” Rudzinski said. Maybe, just possibly, y’all might want to dial back your insanity in the future, lefties, and wait for the full information, prior tobeclowning yourselves. The Moderate Voice is gracious and offers an apology. Thank you. The Raw Story just offers the story, and nothing else. Others: The Other McCain , Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion , CBS News , The Jawa Report ,  ...

Census Worker Hanging Suicide, Not Right Wing Murder
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... wonders, “When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear against conservatives?”  Stacy McCain piles on: ...

Census Worker Suicide
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... wonders, “When will the Left retract the Kentucky census worker case smear against conservatives?”  Stacy McCain piles on: ...

Right-Wing Hate Not Confirmed, But MSM Lunch-Eating in Full Force!
The Sundries Shack — ... this release of information. The investigation indicates that Mr. Sparkman died of asphyxiation/strangulation at the same location where he was discovered in Clay County, Ky. Despite the fact that Mr. Sparkman was found hands, feet and mouth bound with duct tape, rope around his neck and the word “FED” written on his chest, analysis of the evidence determined Mr. Sparkman’s death was self-inflicted. Stacy McCain, who has been on this story from pretty much the very beginning, has all the relevant links and you shouldn’t miss his post. It is the culmination of the ...

The Other McCain moves to a new domain
BatesLine — ... and from eastern Kentucky on the census worker suicide staged to look like a hate crime .) There's even something endearing about his relentless rattling of the tip jar. His co-blogger, Smitty, adds incisive comment that goes beyond the news of the day to consider the long-term picture. Stacy and Smitty have successfully relaunched ...

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rsmccain.blogspot.com 9/28/2009 — FAIRMONT, W.Va. -- Stopped here and hopped on the computer in a motel lobby, to file a quick report on my progress en route to Clay County, Ky., and give you an update on the latest headlines surrounding the murder of Bill Sparkman. First, speculation ...
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truecrimereport.com 11/24/2009 — UPDATE: UPDATE: See Bill Sparkman's Death Ruled a Suicide ... This has all the makings of some anti-government goober taking his half-wit beliefs way too far. On September 12, the body of 51-year-old Bill Sparkman was found hanged in the Daniel Boone ...
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usatoday.com 11/24/2009 — A news release from Kentucky State Police said Tuesday that Bill Sparkman died at the same location where his body was found Sept. 12 near a cemetery in a heavily wooded area of southeastern Kentucky. A man who found the body in the Daniel Boone ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 10/28/2009 — Are investigators edging away from the idea that Census Bureau worker Bill Sparkman was killed in an act of anti-government violence? Kentucky police have been largely silent for weeks now on the probe of Sparkman's case, in which the part-time ...