{"id":67,"date":"2009-09-26T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=67"},"modified":"2009-09-26T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T11:05:00","slug":"michelle-bachmann-and-glen-beck-are-you-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/26\/michelle-bachmann-and-glen-beck-are-you-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Bachmann and Glen Beck: Are You Proud?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since my return I have expressed concern that the hateful speech coming from the GOP to stoke fear in the American people would result in violence.  Some of you have been warning against this outcome longer than I.  Sadly, our concerns have been realized.<\/p>\n

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And this is the fruit of their efforts.<\/p>\n

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\"Bill-Sparkman\"<\/a> BIG CREEK, Ky. \u2014 One of the witnesses who found a part-time census worker’s body hanging in a Kentucky cemetery says the man was naked and his hands and feet were bound with duct tape.<\/font><\/p>\n

Jerry Weaver of Fairfield, Ohio, told The Associated Press on Friday that he was among a group of relatives who discovered the body of Bill Sparkman on Sept. 12.<\/font><\/p>\n

Sparkman was a substitute teacher who worked part-time for the census. Law enforcement officials have released very few details on his death, only saying he died from asphyxiation.<\/font><\/p>\n

Weaver says the man also was gagged and had duct tape over his eyes and neck. He says something that looked like an identification tag was taped to the side of his neck<\/strong>.<\/font><\/p>\n

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.<\/font><\/p>\n

BIG CREEK, Ky. (AP) \u2014 Authorities said a U.S. Census worker died by asphyxiation but were releasing few other details about the mysterious case nearly two weeks after Bill Sparkman’s body \u2014 with the word "fed<\/strong>" scrawled on the chest \u2014 was found hanging from a tree near a family cemetery secluded by Appalachian forest.<\/font><\/p>\n

The word appeared to have been written with a felt-tip pen, Clay County Coroner Jim Trosper said Friday. He did not elaborate\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Michelle Bachmann and Glen Beck, you have done it.  You have stirred peoples fears until some poor ignorant fool acted on your foul lies and deranged Census Bureau conspiracy theories, and now a man is dead for nothing more than doing his job.  The two of you helped kill him.  Is this what you wanted?  Are you proud?<\/p>\n

I offer my deepest condolences to the Sparkman family. I ask Republicans everywhere and Democrats with a  Republican Representative or Senator to contact these elected officials and ask, no beg them to stop this madness and stop looking the other way, or in come cases, fuelling the fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever since my return I have expressed concern that the hateful speech coming from the GOP to stoke fear in the American people would result in violence.  Some of you have been warning against this outcome longer than I.  Sadly, our concerns have been realized.   And this is the fruit of their efforts. BIG […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}