After Scranton Times-Tribune’s David Singleton reported that a member of the crowd at a McCain-Palin yelled out “kill him” when Obama’s name was mentioned, other members of the media and, of course, the far-left blogosphere ran when it. It was published everywhere. Keith Olbermann, the worst partisan hack on American television (yes, even worse than Bill O’Reilly), mentioned it on television, saying how horrible those darn Republicans were and how violent.

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press all reported about it, none of them willing to check whether Singleton was right.

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.

I will not accuse Singleton of fabricating a story just to make headlines, but I will point out that members of the ‘mainstream media’ have never been as openly supportive of one candidate and biased against another in history.