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Census worker death looking more like a suicide.

Remember that case in Kentucky where census worker Bill Sparkman's body was found hanging from a tree, yet in contact with the ground too, stripped naked with the word "Fed" scrawled on his chest?  Remember how the breathless nutroots were so eager to declare him the victim of wingnut, tea-baggin', militiamen gone wild; more than willing to see an ideological motive that would conveniently allow them to bludgeon their political opponents?  Yep, I do too, but it turns out that just might not be the case:

Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest increasingly doubt he was killed because of his government job and are pursuing the possibility he committed suicide, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press.

Two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case, said no final conclusions have been made in the case. In recent weeks, however, investigators have grown more skeptical that 51-year-old Bill Sparkman died at the hands of someone angry at the federal government.

The officials said investigators continue to look closely at suicide as a possible cause of Sparkman's death for a number of reasons. There were no defensive wounds on Sparkman's body, and while his hands were bound with duct-tape, they were still somewhat mobile, suggesting he could have manipulated the rope, the officials said.

So it seems that this is comparable to the young women who scrawled the backwards "B" into her head and fabricated a story about being assaulted by black male Obama supporters.  But I would argue that this is even worse, since Sparkman could not be tripped up by any inconsistencies in his story, nor was there any ATM cameras nearby to record it.  Unfortunately though, savvy detectives and coroners can tell almost as much about an incedent as could a live witness; DAMN THOSE WINGNUT RACIST INVESTIGATORS DECONSTRUCTING A USEFUL META-NARRATIVE!1!!!1!eleventy

Still, Sparkman will go into the nutroot hall of fame on the first ballot, for giving his all on behalf of a political agenda in perhaps a failed attempt to paint his opponents with the broad brush stokes of racism, via their opposition to the "fed"-hence Obama-as well as the spectre of lynching, and as an armed anti-social mob.

Rocketman