Sparkman Committed Suicide

From Stacy McCain comes the news that the KSP and FBI have ruled Bill Sparkman's death a suicide. God have mercy on his soul.

Stacy writes:

An Associated Press report said the FBI was "investigating whether anti-government sentiment" played a role in Sparkman's death. Law enforcement officials criticized that story, but the liberal blogosphere seized on it as proving that conservatives had fomented a killing rage among the yokels.

"Send the body to Glenn Beck," Internet pundit Rick Ungar proclaimed Thursday, also indicting Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann (a Republican who had warned that census data could be abused) among right-wingers presumed complicit in Sparkman's murder.
Saturday, the Atlantic Monthly's Andrew Sullivan fretted over "the most worrying possibility," namely that Sparkman's death was "Southern populist terrorism whipped up by the GOP and its Fox and talk radio cohorts."

Once again, the mainstream media – plus ideological fringe players like Andrew Sullivan – were quick to leap to the conclusion that the man had been murdered by hill apes exhorted to commit mayhem by right-wing talk-show hosts. And once again, the idiots wind up accidentally self-administering suppositories made with their own bottle-rockets. How about a little remorse, fellas?


"Apology accepted”

Update: More from the Washington Times on the "speechlessness" of lefty bloggers. How long before Andrew Sullivan begins questioning the suicide ruling and theorizing that Sparkman was killed because he was Trig Palin's real father?