Right-wing blogger wonders if murdered census worker was a pedophile
September 29, 2009 8:02 am ET by Eric Boehlert
What far-right bloggers lack in common decency them make up for in blinding ignorance. And FDL's right, this is just beyond belief, even for the morally-challenged GOP blogosphere.
The blogger is Dan Riehl and his twisted premise about the census worker who was recently tortured to death in Kentucky and was found with "fed" scrawled across his chest, is this:
Was Census Worker Bill Sparkman A Child Predator?
Classy the way Riehl puts the dead man's full name right in the headline next to "child predator," right?
Keep in mind, Riehl quickly admits he doesn't have the slightest idea why the census worker was killed, and that the "child predator" thing is just, y'know, a hypothetical. He's simply "speculating" and "keeping an open mind." But he's gonna float it anyway. And then he's gonna open up his comment section to more right-wing crazies who are invited to invent conspiracy theories blaming the murdered census worker for his own death.
Question: Is anybody within the right-wing blogosphere going to denounce this kind of heartless idiocy from a high-profile hate merchant like Riehl?
UPDATED: Right-winger Roger Hedgecock, based on no facts, suggests the census worker was killed because of a "our still open border with Mexico."
Many posters on Glenn Beck's site are claiming "it is obvious that the death was a suicide."
Lack of intelligence, indeed. As Keith Olbermann said the other night, "if you're going to fake your own crucifixion, remember that you will only be able to drive in two of the nails."
I don't know who Dan Riehl is, but I now know he is a failure as a human being.
To me, it seems that is a conservative tactic. Increasingly, it seems that conservatives just "float" ideas, until they see which one works the best, and then they run with it.
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Print the pages quick, before Riehl slimy takes them down.
Slam dunk defamation suit.
Wrong. Questions need to be asked by Riehl's decency.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001114----000-.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_00001111----000-.html
This is Cornell's website, the blog was at Democraticunderground.com
No decency whatsoever.
Let's just assume though that this guy was a child predator, does this justify his hanging death at the hands of this person, or persons yet to be found? No, it does not. And of course, once again, there is no proof that this man was a child predator, but yeah, this slime ball is just asking a question.
I can't wait until they find the person, or persons who did this, and find out that they've got the Glenn Beck and Michelle Backman chronicles on their bookshelves, and then FoxNews will have an ever increasing body count on their hands.
And I just love the rationale here.What the hell does this have to do with anything? Like any number of pedophiles aren't married with children of their own? Wouldn't it be a good idea to find out such a basic fact about the victim before using it as grounds for speculation anyway? And you can't want to teach kids for the sake of it, or what?To send a message and humiliate the victim, maybe?
And yes, stripping someone down naked, and hanging them was meant to humiliate the victim even more. I'm sure he didn't do it himself.
Wonder how long it will take for some right wing nut-jub to link this Obama?
I'm just wondering if it might be true that Dan Riehl is a Fascist Nazi. Perhaps he has been indoctrinated by the American Nazi group and he is not responsible for what he posts on his blog. His mind shrinking blog could be used by Nazis to try and confuse those who read his blog into believing that Dan Riehl is a Nazi. After all he considers it a possibility that Mr.Sparkman was responsible for his own murder so why is it not also a possibilty that Dan Riehl is a Fascist Nazi? Perhaps if Dan Riehl is a Nazi his blog will get even more traffic since if Dan Riehl is a Nazi his readers would include other Nazis. It wouldn't be too far of a leap of logic to think the people who read Dan Riehl's blog are Nazis too. If Dan Riehl is a Nazi then the people who read Dan Riehl's blog are Nazis too. Perhaps Dan Riehl is a Nazi and the people who read his blog are Nazis. Otherwise why would people think Dan Riehl is a Nazi unless his readers where Nazis too? So if Dan Riehl is a Nazi then it would explain why the readers of Dan Riehl's blog are Nazis. I'm just saying...