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When will the Right retract the Kentucky census worker case smear?  

November 25, 2009 10:33 am ET by Eric Boehlert

As noted below, Michelle Malkin is demanding lots of retractions in the wake of the police finding that the federal census worker who was found dead in Kentucky two months ago actually hanged himself. Malkin wants everyone on the "Left," to apologize for ever suggesting right-wing activists, or the culture of anti-government hate they created, might have been responsible for the death.

But oops, the blame game runs both ways. And if Malkin's suddenly the new apology chief in town, than I anxiously await her demands that right-wing blogger Dan Riehl offer up his sincere apology in light of the fact that back in September, Riehl (with zero proof) floated the hateful claim that the maybe the Kentucky census worker was killed because he was a pedophile. (Stay classy Dan.) 

Worse, get a load of Riehl's reaction to the latest police news from Kentucky about the suicide:

Update: Michelle Malkin recounts the smears that came our way from the "reality-based" lunatics on the Left- including randy Andy Sullivan!

Do you see the twisted genius of how the right-wing blogosphere functions? In September, a fact-free name-caller like Dan Riehl wrote up a post where he was simply "speculating" that the dead census worker was kinda/probably a "child predator." Alleged proof? Riehl stressed that the dead man "certainly did gravitate towards children." Whatever that means.  

But now when local police announce the death was a suicide with possible insurance money implications, Riehl, who smeared the dead man far worse than anyone else, demands that "lunatics" on the left be held accountable for their "smears."

UPDATED: Uh-oh, more housecleaning for Malkin. Also back in September, at the right-wing online fever swamp WND, Roger Hedgecock claimed the dead census worker "was yet another victim of illegal drug operations on national forest land, and possibly also a victim of our still open border with Mexico."

Good luck getting Hedgecock to now cough up an I'm-sorry, Michelle.

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    • Author by shaggles (November 25, 2009 12:54 pm ET)
         
      Funny how that works.
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    • Author by wzwriter (November 25, 2009 2:38 pm ET)
         
      Roger Hedgecock should be rotting away in a prison cell.
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    • Author by aBeck in 10-O-C (November 25, 2009 7:28 pm ET)
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      According to the official police narrative of the crime, the census worker planned and manipulated crime scene evidence to give the appearance of a murder motivated by anti-fed animus. So why should anyone who wrote about possible implications of the murder case have to apologize for initially accepting the crime scene evidence as authentic?

      Now, if the Ft. Hood investigation concludes that Hasan's murder spree was not motivated by terrorism, will the right wing be willing to apologize for their anti-Muslim hysteria and smears?

      I won't hold my breath.
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