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  • STILL NO SCANDAL

    No Wrongdoing With Benghazi
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    Right-Wingers Fuel Racism And Paranoia

Monday, September 28, 2009

Strolling, Not Jumping

Bill Sparkman, a US Census Bureau employee in Kentucky, was found hung to death with the word "FED" written on him with a marker.

Naturally, people are guessing his tragic death was caused by some right-wing radical, due to the inescapable fact that Conservatives constantly generate paranoia about the Census.  And of course, conservatives (you know, the party that always lies and jumps to conclusions) are scrambling to say "Don't jump to any conclusions!"

Kathy Kattenburg points out: "It seems that haunting right-wing refrain about waiting for all the facts to be in only applies to liberals and Democrats. There’s been a fair bit of speculation about who might have killed Bill Sparkman and why, based on the relatively few facts that are known in the case right now, but here Dan Riehl has gone and started speculating on the possibility that Sparkman was a child molester – based on no facts at all."

What's interesting about this, is that since the overwhelming majority of child molesters are conservative Christians (and that's not even including all the child-molesting Republican politicians), Riehl has inadvertently made the speculations that the murderer was a conservative nutjob even stronger.

A casual stroll isn't a jump.