Secret Service: No One Shouted “Kill Him”
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.
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The non-incident was in Scranton, PA on the 14th. The one mentioned by Olbermann, O’Reilly and practically everyone else in the media was in Clearwater, FL on the 6th.
I would encourage you to do some searching on You Tube…the event you speak of, the Kill Him statement was made. What the Secret Service said, was THEY DID NOT HEAR it. If you doubt the Radical Right Wings hate speech and racism, I would encourage you to visit my blog Washington Scandal, and read the article about the Conservative Republican blogger who put up a picture of Obama paired with a noose. There is nothing wrong with bare knuckled politics, there is something wrong with spreading hate, and the Republicans (specially Sarah Palin) have been spreading hate.