Some liberals are using the death of a Census Bureau worker in rural Kentucky to bolster their wild claims that criticism of Obama is sparking political violence. But evidence is lacking, speculation is rampant, and left wing accusers are coming up short in their efforts to portray opposition to the president as somehow dangerous.
"This is the kind of violent event that emerges from a culture of paranoia and unsubstantiated attacks," writes Allison Kilkenny, a Huffington Post contributor and liberal radio host who, according to her bio, "makes sh***y world news funny." She was referring to the probable murder (authorities have not officially ruled it a homicide) of Bill Sparkman, whose body was found with the word 'Fed' carved into his chest.
'Fed', by Kilkenny's account, "has taken on a derogatory meaning in right-wing circles where fear and paranoia reign supreme... Such paranoia and anger isn't contained in the woods of Kentucky. The problem is systematic."
So in her desperate attempt to blame conservatives for Sparkman's death Kilkenny draws from the three-letter message on the victim's chest that the killer was a conservative, that he or she was trying to send Obama a message, and that he or she was driven to violence by vitriolic hate-sermons on conservative talk radio. "Violent rhetoric begets violence, and no one should act surprised when a Sparkman-like killing happens again," she states.
Ever since the Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning of the violent threat posed by "right-wing extremists," many liberals have seized any opportunity to place the blame for violent acts on the conservative movement.
DHS's claim that "the economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment" has been echoed by statements from a number of prominent liberals, including Nancy Pelosi, who likened the current political climate to 1970s San Francisco, which saw much politically-motivated violence.
Pelosi neglected to mention that most of the violence in San Francisco at the time was perpetrated by leftists. This omission was but the latest symptom of a liberal amnesia. The left has tried to tie criticism of the president to random acts of violence supposedly perpetrated by 'right-wing extremists'. But liberals had no such doom and gloom predictions or indictments of their own when someone fired multiple gunshots through the window of a Bush/Cheney campaign office or ransacked the campaign's Orlando headquarters in 2004.
This is the same amnesia that causes liberals to deride Tea Party protests because a couple offensive signs were present, yet remain silent about the signs at anti-war rallies during the Bush years comparing the president to the devil and to Hitler, calling for the destruction of Israel, and advocating the imposition of communism.
It is the same amnesia that brought liberals to characterize August town hall protests as 'un-American' 'astroturf', and Joe Wilson as a racist, while forgetting their own support for the disruptive and vulgar Code Pink anti-war protesters.
Mike Lux, a liberal political consultant and Huffington Post contributor, offered some advice that leftist accusers of political violence might do well to take to heart: "I think it is extremely important that progressives be very slow and very careful in calling conservatives fascist or supporters of political violence unless they actually show themselves to be that." Of course Kilkenny does not show any of her right wing villains (Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Andrew Napolitano, etc.) to be supporters of political violence, because they aren't.
Kilkenny certainly draws a lot from an event about which she can only speculate. Suicide has not been ruled out (though it would, as she notes, be a bizarre suicide). It was most likely a murder, but no one has been officially (or unofficially) accused of the crime, so the only indicator of motive is the cryptic inscription on the victim's chest--not exactly definitive evidence of 'political terrorism' or 'right-wing extremism.'
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Another brainwashed
September 24, 2009 - 14:46 ET by mattmAnother brainwashed 20-something ignoramus heard from.
not all but some
September 24, 2009 - 15:00 ET by jon_torlinThey all can't be like Hannah Giles.
-Jon
Ah, but hope springs
September 24, 2009 - 15:02 ET by HockeyKidAh, but hope springs eternal!
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
"the problem is
September 24, 2009 - 14:50 ET by HockeyKid"the problem is systematic."
"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." - Inigo Montoya
Time to go back to secondary school, Miss Kilkenny. Maybe you'll get a prom date this time.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Sounds like a "revenuer" to me. "Fed "is easier to spell
September 24, 2009 - 14:57 ET by upcountrywaterMust of been one of those long forms...
page 59: ... home based income, inspection is needed, fines, plus fees..
THIS SOUNDS FAMILIAR
September 24, 2009 - 14:57 ET by Lord-come-soon-please"This is the kind of violent event that emerges from a culture of paranoia and unsubstantiated attacks,
Like the nasty vicious and unsubstantiated attacks on the Bush administration for the previous eight years. Remember Bill Maher wishing Cheney would be assasinated? Remember the regular incendiary language from Pelosi and company? How convenient that this pinhead only sees danger in Conservative speech.
"How convenient that this
September 24, 2009 - 15:27 ET by black47211"How convenient that this pinhead only sees danger in Conservative speech."
So true. I reckon it's because some of us Conservatives believe and support the US Constitution and carry handguns as is our right. So once a Conservative acts all uppity, the libs freak out, expecting at any minute guns will be brandished and so forth and rights will be violated and blah blah blah...
This chick needs to be sent back to Emily Dickinson College for Spinsters.
http://www.pelicanmarsh68.blogspot.com
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Emily Dickinson College
September 24, 2009 - 16:25 ET by Lord-come-soon-pleaseIsn't that where Fawn Lebowitz was killed in a Kiln explosion?
I'd say it's fairly
September 24, 2009 - 15:00 ET by ConservativeRexI'd say it's fairly hazardous to go pokin' around someones meth lab, especially if you're a fed.
yes
September 24, 2009 - 17:23 ET by Kekela WardYes, I heard that postulated by a poster on another blog who lived in that county.
Not a very good area.
It would be a real drag to be collecting cencus information only to knock on the door of a meth lab.
Sam: "I hurt somebody's feelings once"
That picture
September 24, 2009 - 15:26 ET by RukusIs that Janeane Garofalo's little brother?
Gary
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Tom Paine
I remember at least one murder where the perpetrator tried...
September 24, 2009 - 15:39 ET by Tailgunner...to make it look like a hate crime to distract the investigators.
And the left has a long and dishonorable record of falsifying hate crimes either to push an agenda or escape punushment for their own actions.
Give the forensics teams a few days to sort it out.
They'll probably discover things are not what they seem (IMHO).
Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.
Democratic Senator Robert K Byrd is a recruiter and leader in the KU KLUX KLAN-a white supremacist group. Where in the HELL do Dems get off lecturing ANYONE on racism?
I'm with you gunner.
September 24, 2009 - 15:42 ET by RukusGary
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Tom Paine
'punishment'--edit
September 24, 2009 - 15:57 ET by TailgunnerNationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.
Democratic Senator Robert K Byrd is a recruiter and leader in the KU KLUX KLAN-a white supremacist group. Where in the HELL do Dems get off lecturing ANYONE on racism?
It seems to me shine makers
September 24, 2009 - 15:50 ET by Dan The Man 2It seems to me shine makers were really wary of the Feds as they called em. And this days in the boonies shine and other illicit stuff is still run around. Meth users and makers are also known to be paranoid and kill people for no other reason than stubling on their "stills".
This idiot liberal should have a better education to think about this possibility.
Well, I never!
September 24, 2009 - 16:10 ET by ammo johnAs a Kentuckian, I am offended by this Miss Goody-Two-Face!
She looks like she's trying to emulate that hack 'celebrity'(?) Assinine Barfofolo with those corny glasses.
GMTA!
September 24, 2009 - 16:35 ET by RukusOr at least on the same page, see my post up the page. : )
Gary
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace. -- Tom Paine
Who killed the pro-lifer two weeks ago...?
September 24, 2009 - 16:19 ET by superconWas it Glen Beck...?
" if Republicans are able to stop Barack Obama on health care, 'it will be his Waterloo, it will break him...." -Sen. Jim DeMint
Carved???
September 24, 2009 - 16:27 ET by slickwillie2001Re "...Bill Sparkman, whose body was found with the word 'Fed' carved into his chest."
This is the first account that implies that the word 'Fed' was 'carved into' the man's chest. Every other article I read inferred that the word was 'written' or 'scrawled'. I read many articles yesterday because I had to in order to simply find out that the man was a middle-aged pasty white guy. It would have been so much better for the liberals had he been black.
Sounds like someone has puffed up reports of the incident to serve their objective.
→ She did it!
September 24, 2009 - 16:33 ET by Cool ArrowI read "scrawled" also. That little piggy seems to know a little more than the police have divulged yet.
She's jumping to delusions!
September 24, 2009 - 17:42 ET by CrashFor all we know the guy could have knocked on the wrong door to find a meth lab, happened upon a jihadist training camp, a government conspiracy in the making hosted by hate whitey* types like Jeremiah Wright & Van Jones, pissed off his lover's crazed ex, or a government educated illiterate who meant to spell "FEED".
* I'm assuming he was caucasian because Al & Jessie are silent.
We will probably find...
September 24, 2009 - 17:24 ET by Thinking.ManProbably the Daily Kos founder or Perez Hilton, I always get those two confused, wouldnt put it past either of them though.
When the truth comes out if it's a lefty it will be "A lone nut" if it can in any way be linked with conservatives or liberatarians then it will be a "Violent movement"
I notice that the left has no problem with "Violence" that is happening at the G20 by their anarchist buddies?
Pathetic imbeciles
The desired result of the
September 24, 2009 - 17:33 ET by celatorThe desired result of the Obamatron reeducation exercise we now know took place in the New Jersey elementary school is a radical left wing dolt like Allison Kilkenny.
She's a textbook example of what can happen to a child when parents aren't paying attention to the political swill hammered into a kid's head in our government schools every day.
I smell Bill Ayers all over this induced trance those kids are being led into--clear case of child abuse.
No citizen's right to life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, or property is safe as long as Obama is President of the United States.
Drudge has it posted - AP lied again.
September 24, 2009 - 18:38 ET by WorriedI felt this was going to be the real story.
With the constant attack on freedom-loving Americans for using their 1st Amendment rights from left wing lunatics this was bound to happen because nobody has really done anything other than tell the Obama Communists that they are destroying our country and we know it!
Wow
September 24, 2009 - 18:43 ET by slickwillie2001More Than 40 Drug Dealers Arrested Near Site of Census Worker's Hanging in Past Month: http://confederateyankee.mu.nu
I would like more information on what they mean by 'near site', but this is stunning. Other articles have mentioned the drug connection but not to this extent.
slick... Interesting
September 24, 2009 - 21:55 ET by bigtimerslick...
Interesting info, I know I posted something along the lines of asking if they still made moonshine in that area, never thought of the drug angle, behind times that way, makes one wonder how deep this really is, going to be interesting when all of the real info comes out.
Census worker undercover ....
Msm will remain mum when it does.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Dang Facts!
September 24, 2009 - 19:26 ET by chuckkIsn't it tragic when the facts mess with your liberal agenda?
http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/949349.html
"This is the kind of
September 24, 2009 - 20:14 ET by Kevroy"This is the kind of violent event that emerges from a culture of paranoia and unsubstantiated attacks,"
If you want to see violence incited by paranoia, just turn on the television and check out the LEFTISTS at the G20 who are attacking police and creating all kinds of mayhem. It's not conservatives you need to worry about. It's the violent LEFT.
What was fully scrawled
September 24, 2009 - 21:30 ET by Chattychitowas Fed Up. it was his suicide note.
I agree he could of did it himself, stumbled on some illegal activity. But not a Jihadist camp because the folks in that area are not to keen on foreigners
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effect of folly is to fill the world with fools."
Herbert Spencer's "State Tamperings with Money Banks"
Zowie, another skanktastic Garofolian moonbat...
September 24, 2009 - 21:40 ET by SickofLibs"The Ideal Woman" to our regular you-know-whats here.
Mmm, mm, mmm, enjoy!
Actually, I really do think
September 24, 2009 - 22:17 ET by RR GOPActually, I really do think there's quite a few guys out there quietly cleaning their rifles. They don't blog, they don't post on sites like this, many probably don't even know how to turn on a computer. They don't yell at their TVs. They don't go to Tea Parties or health care debates.
Whatever sets one of these guys off will set them all off.
I can figure out what a Marxist is thinking about, somewhat, but not these fellas. Sometimes I think they really don't exist...but I can't shake this feeling that they do. I can't imagine how many of them there are. Thousands of Gordon Kahls out there maybe who would be cool as a cucumber if there is any violence. Coldly efficient and uncompromisingly patriotic. Ultra conservative. Beyond being pissed off and feeling rage anymore.
It's not a good idea to mess with them, and it is irresponsible for these Leftards to egg them on with their juvenile nonsense. Their constant harangues could end up lighting a powder keg.
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.
RR... Bulls-Eye. 'Doubli
September 24, 2009 - 22:27 ET by bigtimerRR...
Bulls-Eye.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
RR GOP...
September 24, 2009 - 22:52 ET by JerAnd you think these "coldly efficient, ultra conservative, beyond-pissed-off super patriots" will react responsibly in the face of recurring insinuations--if not outright accusations--that our President is a foreign-born, America-hating, Marxist thug whose goal is the actual destruction of this great nation?
Scary indeed.
Jer
As long as they do what
September 24, 2009 - 23:11 ET by Dan The Man 2As long as they do what needs to be done, is that not how leftists think? The ends justify the means?
Jer: So far there has been almost nothing to justify...
September 24, 2009 - 23:24 ET by Tailgunner...the constant alarmist rhetoric that the leftwing media is irresponsibly promoting.
While liberal terrorists tear down radio towers, Muslim extremists plot actively to blow up airliners and subways, and anarchist thugs destroy property at global summits, the MSM is literally fabricating evidence of an impending rightwing reign of terror.
You know very well the left is PRAYING for something to happen that could be blamed on the right; most of the perpetrators of past instances were later proven to be leftwingers or off-the-chart lunatics.
They WANT a 'Reichstag'.
The MSM will be calling for curfews, gun confiscation and suspension of habeas corpus.
And the politically tone-deaf incompetent Obama, who never really had any truck with the Bill of Rights in the first place, will be right there to sign the orders.
And THEN you're going to see some fireworks.
Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.
Democratic Senator Robert K Byrd is a recruiter and leader in the KU KLUX KLAN-a white supremacist group. Where in the HELL do Dems get off lecturing ANYONE on racism?
There's a concept called 'Leaderless Resistance'...
September 24, 2009 - 23:06 ET by Tailgunner...better known as 'lone wolf'.
And as a former military policeman with a background in counterterrorism, I can tell you that's the kind of guy that keeps security officials awake at night.
We have a lot of very 'bad' dudes (Rangers, SEALs, just about ANY Marine) in this country. I've met some of them and worked with some of them.
(Next time you meet one...look in his eyes. There's nothing there.)
When they commit to a mission, they'll take it all the way.
Napolitano was right to fear ex-military personnel.
Only thing she was wrong about was how easily they would 'snap'.
It'll take a lot, but our leaders will be in for a hell of a ride when they do.
Nationalized Healthcare is a DEATH SENTENCE.
Democratic Senator Robert K Byrd is a recruiter and leader in the KU KLUX KLAN-a white supremacist group. Where in the HELL do Dems get off lecturing ANYONE on racism?
Mercenaries come to mind
September 24, 2009 - 23:19 ET by bigtimerMercenaries also come to mind regarding your post Tg...I've known a couple in my life and travels.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
Just an
September 24, 2009 - 23:27 ET by SvenJust an observation/question:
Why is it so many liberal women like Ms. Kilkenny opt for the "Jeneane Garafolo, I haven't bathed for a week look?"
Sadly, like Jeneane, and other lib women, she's probably angry and miserable 95% of the time, and could care less about her appearance.
Ms. Kilkenny, I offer you some advice...and this really does come from my heart: Try using a little makeup, get your hair done, find a nice guy to go out with, and enjoy life for a change!
Take a look at Ms. Garafolo, and you'll see what 24/7 rage and anger will do to you! Please take my advice...it's not too late!
One word I never want to hear again: Bipartisan! -Sven
Sven... Heck, look at
September 24, 2009 - 23:35 ET by bigtimerSven...
Heck, look at MoDo...she is a prime example of a bitter, hate-filled. lonely older gal now...cleanliness comes from the inside as well.
'Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea'~Breitbart
bt
September 24, 2009 - 23:56 ET by SvenSorry if my post came across like I was trashing this lady for her physical features...I was not.
It was just an observation that these people should get a life outside politics, release some of their bitterness, take some care in their appearance, and enjoy life!
You know, Ms. Garafolo used to be pretty good looking, but after she became obsessed with radical left-wing politics, and was pi$$ed all the time...she just quit caring about her appearance.
I agree with you about cleanliness coming from the inside.
reeducation
September 25, 2009 - 03:12 ET by sudmufI'm sure Ms Kilkenny would have no problem sending anyone thought to be in the "violent movement" to reeducation camps.
Oops!
September 25, 2009 - 08:38 ET by Crash"Investigators haven't ruled out suicide."