Secret Service on Scranton 'Kill Him' Report: "We Have Yet to Find Someone to Back Up the Story"
Weekly Standard Blog — ... that someone shouted "kill him!" about Barack Obama at a McCain-Palin rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, while GOP congressional candidate Chris Hackett spoke. But today Andrew M. Seder of the Scranton Times Leader reports that not a single person interviewed by the Secret Service heard this outburst: ...

"Kill Him"
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Wednesday, October 15, 2008 [image] "Kill Him" [ Byron York ] Obama just mentioned it. Perhaps he hasn't read this . 10/15 09:33 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us ...

Did Someone Actually Yell "Kill Him" At A Palin Rally?
Ace of Spades HQ — Did Someone Actually Yell "Kill Him" At A Palin Rally? The Secret Service has investigated and could find no one who heard it besides the one reporter who claims he heard it. Yeah well that's nice but The Narrative must be served. Obama brought it up at the debate and I've already seen the clip played on a bunch of news shows. As the old saying goes, "A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on."

Secret Service: Media Claim of "Kill Him" Unfounded
Confederate Yankee — Secret Service: Media Claim of "Kill Him" Unfounded Don't have any proof of rage-filled bigots at McCain-Palin speeches, even though you just know in your shriveled little heart that they have to be there? Never fear. You can always just make it up . The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in ...

Paging Andrew Sullivan: How did Palin intimidate them?
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — ... October 15, 2008 Paging Andrew Sullivan: How did Palin intimidate them? Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded P.S. Didn't Obama bring this up in the debate? The lie, I mean, not the facts. I'm pretty sure he did. Posted by Jim Treacher at October 15, 2008 09:24 PM

Blah…
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler — ... So put the razors down, Eeyores. To give you an example of the blatant lies flowing effortlessly from the Obamastalin’s pie hole, there’s the old tired “kill him!” meme. The problem with this particular lie is that the people who’d know, the Secret Service, never heard any such thing : Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment. “I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune. He said the agency conducted an ...

“Baffled:” Secret Service can’t find anyone to corroborate reporter’s “Kill them” claim
Michelle Malkin — The “Kill Them” claim spread like wildfire across the MSM as evidence of “insane rage” on the Right. Barack Obama mentioned it during the debate. Now that the Secret Service has investigated and failed to find a single person to corroborate the reporter’s claim, I’m sure you’ll be seeing this on the front pages and nightly news lead stories in all the media outlets that spread it. Right? Riiiiiight. The Times-Leader reports: The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack ...

Secret Service: No One Shouted 'Kill Him' About Obama
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... "We have yet to find someone to back up the story," agent Bill Slavoski tells the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. "We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it." ...

Doubt Cast On ‘Kill Him’ Palin Rally Report
The Moderate Voice — A story by a Scranton Times-Tribune reporter that someone shouted “kill him!” about Barack Obama at a Sarah Palin rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania on Tuesday is now in doubt. The rival Wilkes-Barre Times Leader now reports that not a single person interviewed by the Secret Service heard the outburst. More here.

Surprise! It's a Hoax!... Secret Service Says "Kill Him" Allegation By Media Unfounded
Gateway Pundit — The liberal media does it again. The allegations that someone yelled "kill him" from the crowd at the Scranton Palin event this week were bogus. No one "heard" anything... Except for the liberal reporter from the Scranton Times-Tribune. The Times Leader reported: SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin ...

“Kill Him” Was, You Know, Made Up
Pirate's Cove — ... Hmmm, so the liberal meme about someone yelling “kill him” at a Palin rally? Apparently, a complete load: Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded ...

USSS Can’t Find Any Evidence Of “Kill Him”
Stop The ACLU — Hmmm, so the liberal meme about someone yelling “kill him” at a Palin rally? Apparently, a complete load: Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared ...

Secret Service: 'Kill Him' Claim Unfounded
JammieWearingFool — Does it surprise anyone that Barack Obama repeated the big lie promulgated by the left that someone shouted "kill him" at a Sarah Palin rally? Of course not. He's a liberal. Lying comes naturally. But now today all anyone is going to hear is that the "crazies on the right" want to kill Obama. Lovely . The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged ...

Matt Lewis: In Case You Missed the Memo: Nobody Said "Kill Him"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Heh. Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded By Andrew M. Seder aseder@timesleader.com Staff Writer SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that ...

Didn't Happen
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] I wonder how many corrections will come from this? (For the record, I used the story in my column, but I thought it was a nothingburger when I thought it was true . Still I regret the error): Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded By Andrew M. Seder Staff Writer SCRANTON The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled kill him when presidential hopeful Barack Obama s name was mentioned during Tuesday s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on ...

Secret Service finds no basis for “kill him” smear
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... The Secret Service investigation into allegations that someone yelled, “Kill him!” at a Sarah Palin rally has found no basis to the charge.  The story, which got picked up by the national media, came entirely based on the recollection of one man, a reporter for the Scranton Times-Tribune.  No one else at the rally recalls hearing it, including the Secret Service detail that listens for just that kind of threat: The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was ...

More lies and fiction from the left
Babalú Blog: an island on the net without a bearded dictator — More lies and fiction from the left The left has always created scenarios out of whole cloth in order to further their agenda. This campaign season it's no different: Those yells of "Kill him!" that they've been screaming about? Well, it turns out the Secret Service can't find a credible threat : The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged ...

The Pulp Fiction Of 'Kill Him'
Wizbang — Senator Obama's overt and explicit charge that McCain-Palin rally supporters have shouted "Kill him" when Obama's name had been mentioned is pure Pulp Fiction , a story concocted by a Scranton newspaper journalist. The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. [Ed.: ...

“Kill him” Allegation Turns Out to Be Bogus
The Sundries Shack — ... and the remainder of the MSM and the Obama campaign ran with it like their pants were on fire. The entire narrative this week has been about the “atmosphere of hate” that John McCain and Sarah Palin have been fostering and how the slack-jawed yokels are one invective away from grabbing up the nearest black person and lynching them. Meanwhile, the Secret Service, which has to work off of things like actual evidence, investigated the incident and guess what? It didn’t happen. No one, including the agents who were at the rally, heard anyone yell ...

We Demand A Correction, Etc.
Sadly, No! — ... Anyway, that was half a day ago, so it’s about time for another flaming catastrophe, chez Yankee. Let’s see what he’s gotten himself into this morning. Secret Service: Media Claim of “Kill Him” Unfounded Don’t have any proof of rage-filled bigots at McCain-Palin speeches, even though you just know in your shriveled little heart that they have to be there? Never fear. You can always just make it up. The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton ...

Like I Said Before
Right Wing Nation — Nobody shouted “Kill him!” at the Palin rally. Secret Service confirms. The best part? Only one person at the rally heard it — the reporter. Sure.

Stop the smears
Cold Fury — Just like the racism they see hiding under every Republican’s bed, at least one aspect of the “hate” and “ugliness” trope they’ve ginned up about the McCain campaign is just another damnable DNC-media lie . SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The ...

Secret Service: No One Shouted 'Kill Him' at McCain Rally
Little Green Footballs — ... Secret Service says ‘Kill him’ allegation unfounded. ...

Secret Service: “Kill Him” Shouts Allegation Unfounded
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — The MSM Obamoles aside, ya gotta wonder if Obamabots are peppering the McPalin crowds to do this shit so it gets grabbed by the mdeia and played the way it IS being played … By Andrew M. Seder - (Times Leader) SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site ...

Secret Service Says “Kill him” Allegation at McCain Rally Unfounded
Flopping Aces — Will we now get an apology from the Obama campaign for making this charge in last night’s debate? Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded By Andrew M. Seder The Times Leader Oct. 16, 2008 SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton ...

Bill Dyer: Reports of bloodthirsty McCain-Palin supporters are mostly exaggerated or simply false
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... Barack Obama, had shouted "Kill him!" at the Palin rally in Scranton, PA, which was the subject of my post. That prompted me to write an update in which, besides rejecting the ridiculous notion that either Gov. Palin or I condoned such actions, I pointed out that the report itself was suspicious. Now the Secret Service agents and other law enforcement personnel who attended the Scranton rally have all denied having heard anyone shout "Kill him!" there, according to a news report yesterday from the same local paper which had been cited by the commenter here (h/t to ...

Senator Obama’s Negative Campaign While Wearing a Halo
Flopping Aces — ... because no agents at the event heard anything. “The Secret Service did not hear any threatening statements directed at targets under its protection and no threatening statements were reported to us by law enforcement or citizens at the event,” Wiley told Radar. Also unclear: whether the remark was directed at Obama or Ayers if the words were actually “kill” and “him.” The Secret Service has since concluded that the allegation is unfounded: SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret ...

You Kidding Me?
Daily Pundit — Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded | Wilkes-Barre breaking news | timesleader.com - The Times Leader SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. Don’t look for a MSM retraction of the lie any time soon - or any place where you might actually see or hear it.

Secret Service: 'Kill Him' Allegation Unfounded
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — Interesting : SCRANTON -- The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the ...

Secret Service: No One Shouted “Kill Him”
PoliGazette — ... The Secret Service, meanwhile, decided to open an investigation into the matter, taking all such threats serious. The conclusion : the only person who ‘heard’ someone yell out “kill him” was Singleton. No one else, literally, heard the remark, nor is there any other available evidence proving Singleton’s story to be correct. ...

Unfounded Allegations
Corrente — Since Sarah brought up fears of an Obama assassination, I felt obligated to post from this article entitled “Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded”: By Andrew M. Seder aseder@timesleader.com Staff Writer SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged ...

All the fictional news that readers want to believe!
Classical Values — ... about the phony "race card" McCain is alleged to have "played" because unknown voices screamed things, I was assuming that the "Kill him!" allegation was at least factually correct. Surely (so I thought) no reporter would make up such a story. Wrong! It was either made up, or a figment of reporter Davis Singleton's no doubt overstimulated leftist imagination: SCRANTON - The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin ...

Palin Rally "Kill Him" Allegation Was False
Moonbattery — ... Sarah Palin for not objecting when someone shouted "Kill him!" after Obama's name had been mentioned at a rally, even though she wasn't even there at the time this allegedly happened? Turns out the media made up the whole thing: ...

Secret Service says (Palin Scranton rally) "Kill him" allegation unfounded
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... the comment. “I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune. He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton. ... When contacted Wednesday afternoon, Singleton referred questions to Times-Tribune Metro Editor Jeff Sonderman. Sonderman said, “We stand by the story. The facts reported are true and that’s really all there is.” Read more: http://www.timesleader.com/news/breakingnews/Secret_Ser...

Obama “Kill Him” Claim Unsubstantiated
Boots and Sabers — ... Well, well … The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama’s name a man in the audience ...

Shenanigans Called
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — Some people have some 'splainin' to do : The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Obama's name a ...

“Kill Him” Didn’t Happen
Rhymes With Right — But that won’t stop the Left from saying it did – after all, the truth quit mattering to them some time ago. The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate ...

Shenanigans Called
RedState: Conservative News and Community — Some people have some 'splainin' to do: The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled "kill him" when presidential hopeful Barack Obama's name was mentioned during Tuesday's Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing ...

Links for 2008-10-16 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Associated Press that its daily newspapers plan to drop the news service, becoming the first major newspaper chain to do so since the recent controversy over new rates began. ++++++++ The MSM is in trouble. More signs of it. Tribune, which owns nine daily papers including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, joins a growing list of newspapers that have sought to end AP contracts, or given notice of that, following plans to introduce a new controversial rate structure i Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded | Wilkes-Barre breaking news | ...

links for 2008-10-17
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: Joe_Wurzelbacher barack_obama mccain) Secret Service says "Kill him" allegation unfounded | Wilkes-Barre breaking news | timesleader.com - The Times Leader The agent in charge of the Secret Service field ...

Media Just Making Stuff Up Now?
Brain-Terminal.com — Well, as Dan Rather knows, it wouldn’t be the first time. One of the stories used to propagate the meme of “angry Republicans” apparently has no evidence to back it up: The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded. The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then ...

Yes, Fraudulent Registrations Lead To Illegal Votes
Dean's World — ... Meanwhile, the Secret Service calls “unfounded“ the claim anyone was actually shouting “kill him” at a Sarah Palin rally, as claimed by the MSM and Obama campaign (but I repeat myself; anyone want to bet which lever David Singleton will be pulling in November?). ...

Three Democratic Scandals, Minimal Media Coverage
GayPatriot — ... let’s not forget the “Subprime Six,” the five Democrats (and one Republican), including Christopher Dodd, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and Kent Conrad, Chairman of the same institution’s Budget Committee, who got sweetheart mortgage deals from Countrywide before that lending institution’s collapse. I guess Democratic scandals just aren’t newsworthy. UPDATE:  The media which excel at misrepresentations of Republican campaign events ignore misdeeds of Democratic elected officials.

Obama Supporter Beats Up McCain Supporter... Media Silent
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... While the unsubstantiated reports of nasty remarks and advocacy of violence from attendees at McCain's rallies remains the buzz from the Old Media establishment and as the Old Media points its accusing finger at Gov. Palin, constantly calling her a racist, real violence has been perpetrated on a McCain supporter at the hands of an Obamaton. Yet, strangely enough, the media has remained silent on the incident. ...

Obama Supporter Beats Up McCain Supporter… Media Silent
Stop The ACLU — -By Warner Todd Huston [image] While the unsubstantiated reports of nasty remarks and advocacy of violence from attendees at McCain’s rallies remains the buzz from the Old Media establishment and as the Old Media points its accusing finger at Gov. Palin, constantly calling her a racist, real violence has been perpetrated on a McCain supporter at the hands of an Obamaton. Yet, strangely enough, the media has remained silent on the incident. Oleg Atbashian informs us that the ...

No, Silly Media, The Police Aren’t Worried About a Horde of Angry Republicans on Election Night
The Sundries Shack — ... when Barack Obama’s name was mentioned. The Secret Service found the story full of hooey but it hasn’t stopped the likes of Terry Moran from ...

Ayers Plays the Victim, Fabricates Recent Events
JammieWearingFool — ... campaign trail, McCain immediately got on message. I became a prop, a cartoon character created to be pummelled. When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin got hold of it, the attack went viral. At a now-famous Oct. 4 rally, she said Obama was "pallin' around with terrorists." (I pictured us sharing a milkshake with two straws.) The crowd began chanting, "Kill him! Kill him!" It was downhill from there. Of course, as we all know, that was a fabrication by a reporter from Scranton and there was never any evidence anyone shouted that at a rally. But hey, when you're playing the victim, ...

Bill Ayers Speaks
Nice Deb — ... When Alaska Governor Sarah Palin got hold of it, the attack went viral. At a now-famous Oct. 4 rally, she said Obama was “pallin’ around with terrorists.” (I pictured us sharing a milkshake with two straws.) Oh! Tee hee! Bill Ayers is a funny guy. Now I know why Obama likes him so much! The crowd began chanting, “Kill him! Kill him!” It was downhill from there. That would be terrible if it actually happened. But it didn’t, and I bet the “small c communist” knows it. ...

So it's ok for liberal professors to spread dangerous lies because "Rupert Murdoch is Australian"?
All — These people are actually getting crazier.