Death of Bill Sparkman officially ruled a suicide

Remember the bizarre death of Bill Sparkman a few months ago? Sparkman was a school teacher and part-time US Census worker whose body was found in a remote cemetery in the Daniel Boone National Forest in Clay County, Kentucky. Early news stories seemed to indicate that Sparkman, who was found wearing only socks, with his hands and mouth bound by duct tape, and with the word “FED” written on his chest in black marker, had been brutally murdered.

As soon as the story broke, the Leftwingosphere utterly failed to follow the advice of its Chosen One and immediately blamed the “murder” of Sparkman on “inflammatory rhetoric of Beck, Bachmann, and Fox ‘News’” and “Southern populist terrorism, whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts.

Michelle Malkin, who has been following the story closely (and who was specifically targeted by Andrew Sullivan as one of those responsible for fomenting the “Kentucky lynching”) is now reporting that Sparkman’s death has officially been ruled a suicide. McClatchy News has the details:





His census identification card was taped to his head.







Naturally the left-wing smear cheerleaders like BradBlog feel that they did nothing wrong, and argue that they never for certain blamed Sparkman’s death on one or more crazed conservatives. Yet Brad Friedman’s original post included statements such as:

Given the deep-seated mistrust of the federal government, no doubt inflamed by many years of rightwing paranoia heard across the public airwaves, along with the community’s direct involvement with several federal stings that have rocked its local residents to the core, it’s probably wise to wait for more details to emerge before jumping to any direct conclusions, and pinning the tail on any particular elephants. (bold emphasis added, italics in original)



Objective speculation? No, I don’t think so either.

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