Wow. Insult to injury.

We'll know what we know when we know it. Guessing is pointless.

Disgusting. Never mind that the guy was killed in such a fashion, never mind that there's no evidence for Riehl's accusations, he's going to smear the murdered census worker with said accusation.

What an asshole.

I wish I could say I'm even mildly surprised. Quite frankly, a nuanced response Riehl would have been much, much more shocking to me than him accusing a murdered man of pedophilia.

él está loco

Now, I'm not saying he is a child molester I'm just saying it's not not a possibility.

Wow, you're a Riehl douchebag.

I think Dan's living in the sur-riehl world.

I'm not saying he was abducted and killed by aliens, but why else would he only be wearing socks?

?wtf?

re: #5 bosforus

Even douchebags are nicer than Riehl. At least they serve a purpose that is good.

re: #5 bosforus

Now, I'm not saying he is a child molester I'm just saying it's not not a possibility.

Wow, you're a Riehl douchebag.

I'm not saying that the core of the earth is really molten chocolate, I'm just saying it's not not a possibility.

I'm not saying that eagles are really super-intelligent aliens ruling us by mind-rays, I'm just saying it's not not a possibility.

I could play this game all day.

There is no evidence to suggest a connection between the direction of Dan Riehl's speculations and his real life experiences.

To quote one of Ronald Reagan's appointees, "which office" does Bill Sparkman "go to get my (his) reputation back?" should Riehl's miserable speculations prove incorrect?

re: #11 MJ

To quote one of Ronald Reagan's appointees, "which office" does Bill Sparkman "go to get my (his) reputation back?" should Riehl's miserable speculations prove incorrect?

Might I suggest that his family should try at any attorney's office, followed by a quick trip to the courthouse? They might not get his reputation back, but there might be something else they could get there...

It's bad enough that this man died a horrifying death but for the wingnuts to slander the victim is just depraved.

re: #13 Killgore Trout

It's bad enough that this man died a horrifying death but for the wingnuts to slander the victim is just depraved.

Has Malkin picked this up and started flogging it yet? It isn't like her to waste an opportunity to smear slime all over herself.

From the ABC story on Bill Sparkman:

Sparkman, his mother said, had moved to Kentucky to take a leadership position with the Boy Scouts of America, himself an Eagle Scout.

A single father and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, Sparkman was working two jobs, as a census worker and a substitute teacher, while he waited for a permanent teaching position to open up.

Census Worker Found

So, he was an Eagle Scout, had moved to take a leadership position with the Scouts, a single father, a lymphoma survivor, and wanted to be a full time math teacher.

Riehl - you'd better be damn sure of the "facts" you bottom feeder.

re: #14 SixDegrees

Has Malkin picked this up and started flogging it yet? It isn't like her to waste an opportunity to smear slime all over herself.

She's working on it and racist blogger RS McCain is actually traveling to the area to investigate the crime himself.
/not kidding

re: #16 Killgore Trout

She's working on it and racist blogger RS McCain is actually traveling to the area to investigate the crime himself.
/not kidding

Can't wait to see what the Wizard McCain finds there. Bound to be astonishing to the world, and yet to confirm his expectations, I'd wager.

re: #16 Killgore Trout

She's working on it and racist blogger RS McCain is actually traveling to the area to investigate the crime himself.
/not kidding

RS McCain travels to the backwoods of the Deep South.

Gee - I wonder where that might lead? /

It's possible that he was murdered by an athiest homosexual illegal immigrant who ran a meth lab, grew pot, and thought Sparkman sexually abused children.

Hey, nobody else has any ideas.

/

re: #15 subsailor68

From the ABC story on Bill Sparkman:

Sparkman, his mother said, had moved to Kentucky to take a leadership position with the Boy Scouts of America, himself an Eagle Scout.

A single father and non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor, Sparkman was working two jobs, as a census worker and a substitute teacher, while he waited for a permanent teaching position to open up.

Census Worker Found

So, he was an Eagle Scout, had moved to take a leadership position with the Scouts, a single father, a lymphoma survivor, and wanted to be a full time math teacher.

Riehl - you'd better be damn sure of the "facts" you bottom feeder.

BSA does background checks and requires references. Our scoutmaster doesn't want to give them his SSN for them to do a background check, so he went to the police department, paid for them to do a background check, and submitted that.

re: #18 SixDegrees

RS McCain travels to the backwoods of the Deep South.

Gee - I wonder where that might lead? /

With any luck, he'll run across a clan of Hell Billies, as they're called. They don't care who you are or what you say you're doing there - they don't know you, and you got no business there.

re: #19 Danny

It's possible that he was murdered by an athiest homosexual illegal immigrant who ran a meth lab, grew pot, and thought Sparkman sexually abused children.

Hey, nobody else has any ideas.

/

You forgot to add ACORN to the mix.

re: #21 Guanxi88

With any luck, he'll run across a clan of Hell Billies, as they're called. They don't care who you are or what you say you're doing there - they don't know you, and you got no business there.

Can we start putting the word out that McCain is a revenuer?

re: #23 SixDegrees

Can we start putting the word out that McCain is a revenuer?

I don't think we have 100% confirmation of that yet, but we can't definitively rule it out, either.

re: #22 Guanxi88

You forgot to add ACORN to the mix.

Well, there you go. Case solved.

I don't have any evidence, but I'm pretty sure Riehl molests farm animals.

re: #24 Guanxi88

I don't think we have 100% confirmation of that yet, but we can't definitively rule it out, either.

And what do we do with information like that?

Well, publish it all over the Interwebs, obviously. Why else would God drop such conveniently unverified-but-unfalsified truths in our lap?

re: #20 EmmmieG

I was an active Boy Scout for about 8 years (by active I mean scout meetings once a week and several activities per year). I knew of one pedophile - the head instructor at the rifle range at the yearly camp we went to (that I went to 3 or 4 times). Personally, I saw him maybe 5 times and had absolutely no contact with him. I never ever felt endangered or scared of the "boogey Scout master pedophile".

re: #26 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I don't have any evidence, but I'm pretty sure Riehl molests farm animals.

Fits in with many other things about him that we have no possible way of knowing.

It's not enough he's murdered for being a census working, Dan Riehl has to piss on his grave--what an asshole.

re: #28 bosforus

I was an active Boy Scout for about 8 years (by active I mean scout meetings once a week and several activities per year). I knew of one pedophile - the head instructor at the rifle range at the yearly camp we went to (that I went to 3 or 4 times). Personally, I saw him maybe 5 times and had absolutely no contact with him. I never ever felt endangered or scared of the "boogey Scout master pedophile".

They left him in place?

re: #13 Killgore Trout

It's bad enough that this man died a horrifying death but for the wingnuts to slander the victim is just depraved.

I wonder if his family can sue. This is pure character assassination. And completely unnecessary.

re: #32 Sharmuta

I wonder if his family can sue. This is pure character assassination. And completely unnecessary.

GMTA:
re: #12 Guanxi88

Might I suggest that his family should try at any attorney's office, followed by a quick trip to the courthouse? They might not get his reputation back, but there might be something else they could get there...

re: #31 EmmmieG

Sorry, didn't elaborate on that point. Absolutely not. He was caught after I had stopped going to the camp, though.

Way to slam BSA Dan...

I did a google search for Dan Riehl denies being a satanist and received the following result:

No results found for "dan Riehl denies being satanist".

Using Riehls logic, that must mean he is a satanist.

What the heck is wrong with these people. Oh, I forgot. Dan Riehl, "best of the right-wing blogs" blogger. His only supporting "evidence" is that he's a bit of a "crime blogger." That and the "sexual nature" of the nudity.

re: #36 Reginald Perrin

I did a google search for Dan Riehl denies being a satanist and received the following result:

Using Riehls logic, that must mean he is a satanist.

There's certainly no evidence to suggest that he isn't a Satanist.

Some people have a very unnatural fascination with the sex lives of others. It's creepy enough as it is when they rant about homosexuals and pre-marital relations, but when they have to go to the extreme and make crap up- that's just sick. Trying to smear Mr. Sparkman as a pervert just makes dan riehl look like one.

re: #38 SixDegrees

There's certainly no evidence to suggest that he isn't a Satanist.

That's good enough for me. Satanist blogger Dan Riehl slanders the memory and reputation of one slain by one of his co-religionists.

re: #38 SixDegrees

There's certainly no evidence to suggest that he isn't a Satanist.

re: #40 Guanxi88

That's good enough for me. Satanist blogger Dan Riehl slanders the memory and reputation of one slain by one of his co-religionists.

While we're on the subject, how do we know that Danny Boy himself didn't do it? I mean, do we have any evidence to show he wasn't there?

Hello lizards. Looks like this sad story has brought out the kooks from the far right & far left before the investigation produces any evidence.

What is wrong with people?

re: #39 Sharmuta

+1 upding for saying what we're all thinking. I've always just assumed in the back of my mind (without any supporting evidence, but according to Riehl, who needs any?) that people who have some sort of obsession with something that should be private are dysfunctional in that way. Like the sister-in-law who insists on butting into my marriage because her own is less than ideal.

re: #41 Guanxi88

While we're on the subject, how do we know that Danny Boy himself didn't do it? I mean, do we have any evidence to show he wasn't there?

It's not not a possibility.

re: #41 Guanxi88

While we're on the subject, how do we know that Danny Boy himself didn't do it? I mean, do we have any evidence to show he wasn't there?

And how do we know Rhiel isn't a homosexual? Which strongly implies that he's a pedophile, right? I saw a picture of Dan Rhiel once, and he was naked under those cloths he was wearing, which suggests sexual perversion, which suggests homosexuality, which suggests pedophilia.

I'm putting in an order for a few dozen torches and pitchforks right now, so me and a few dozen of my closest buds can launch an investigation into Rhiel's criminally perverse lifestyle.

Dan Riehl is a Sick Fwisted Tuck!

This isn't new ground for Dan. He's also speculated that Obama was molested as a child.

[Link: www.riehlworldview.com...]

re: #47 Thanos

This isn't new ground for Dan. He's also speculated that Obama was molested as a child.

[Link: www.riehlworldview.com...]

A clear case of projection.

And what's with this opening statement?

Before any more people start going bonkers that I'm accusing Sparkman of anything, take a breath. I've done a fair amount of crime blogging mixed in with politics over time

Are those your credentials? Criminal blogging?

re: #47 Thanos

This isn't new ground for Dan. He's also speculated that Obama was molested as a child.

[Link: www.riehlworldview.com...]

Starting to wonder of Dan Riehl isn't engaging in some sort of projection. I don't have any proof, but I'll wonder anyway.

re: #43 thedopefishlives

It is a dysfunctional on the part of others. But let's say for a moment there was some evidence dan "pervert" riehl had produced. Unless it's somehow relevant to his murder- what it the point of bringing it up? There would still be a murderer on the loose, and Mr. Sparkman would still deserve justice.

I think what's really going on is a paranoia from some far right-wingers who have helped whip up anti-government sentiment that this is going to blowback on them.

re: #48 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

GMTA!

I'm simply speculating on one possible alternative, however impolite.

IMPOLITE? Impolite is not holding the door for someone who has an armload of books. What Riehl has done is disgusting and noxious. Fuck him.

re: #49 bosforus

And what's with this opening statement?

Are those your credentials? Criminal blogging?

"Stand back! I've watched every episode of CSI and I know what to do here!"

When is anyone going to investigate the rumors that Riehl almost died in 2002 from a auto-erotic asphyxiation? Why isn't the media covering that potential story?

re: #47 Thanos

This isn't new ground for Dan. He's also speculated that Obama was molested as a child.

[Link: www.riehlworldview.com...]

What a scumbag. This kind of mindset that Riehl is displaying that makes the Nirthers think they can make up some bullshit that sounds vaguely possible, then require the accused to prove innocence.

re: #51 Sharmuta

Even if there was evidence, the fact that he's bringing it up is still evidence of an unhealthy fixation. The fact that there is NOTHING to suggest this is the case makes that unhealthy fixation painfully obvious.

There must be something in the water.

re: #57 thedopefishlives

And as Thanos points out in #47- it's apparently a running theme of riehl's.

Maybe he should talk to a professional. I'm not kidding.

re: #58 idioma

There must be something in the water.

Something to weaken our precious bodily fluids?

re: #60 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Something to weaken our precious bodily fluids?

Quick. More pure grain alcohol!

re: #61 MandyManners

Quick. More pure grain alcohol!

I don't think Riehl's imbibing something as benign as alcohol.
But I don't have any proof that he's not not doing it.

It is a great peril to abandon civility like this, Mr. Riehl.

re: #62 Honorary Yooper

I don't think Riehl's imbibing something as benign as alcohol.
But I don't have any proof that he's not not doing it.

Well, there's all the proof you need.

I hope that Sparkman's family doesn't hear about this rot.

re: #60 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Something to weaken our precious bodily fluids?

"Fluoride has no business being in the water supply. There is no evidence at all that it has reduced tooth decay in children." - Some QUACK in a book that a health-moonbat coworker asked to me "check this out it will help you with (insert any illness or bad feeling here)".

re: #65 MandyManners

I hope that Sparkman's family doesn't hear about this rot.

The Internet is an echo chamber, and by front-paging this, it's now almost guaranteed that it will come to the family's attention.

A very great pity.

I reckon Riehl feels safe in the knowledge that you cannot libel the dead.

re: #67 Dianna

The Internet is an echo chamber, and by front-paging this, it's now almost guaranteed that it will come to the family's attention.

A very great pity.

I hadn't thought about that.

I hope the victims family has a good lawyer... Riehl should pay big time for this disgusting post.

re: #70 CapeCoddah

I hope the victims family has a good lawyer... Riehl should pay big time for this disgusting post.

There are no grounds for a suit. You cannot libel the dead.

re: #71 MandyManners

Which is probably why this idiot felt safe in posting that.

re: #65 MandyManners

I hope they do, and sue Reihl into the next millenia.

re: #71 MandyManners

Too bad. Maybe file a suit to cost him money anyway.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

re: #69 MandyManners

I hadn't thought about that.

I did.

With the Dan Rather issue and the ACORN investigations, independent, investigative journalists were doing some impressive work. Dan Riehl is definitely not helping anyone's reputation here. This post is not journalism, there is no investigation and there is no logic used.

For instance, Riehl says: "You'd think a moonshiner, or Meth head would have just buried the guy. Why hang him and invite the Feds into it by writing Fed on his chest?"

Well, if someone did murder him for some sort of sexual, revenge thing, why would they scrawl "FED" on his chest? Even the most whifty conspiracy theorist is more consistent than Riehl.

re: #21 Guanxi88

With any luck, he'll run across a clan of Hell Billies, as they're called. They don't care who you are or what you say you're doing there - they don't know you, and you got no business there.

Not totally OT, and susceptible of interesting you: the Melungeons of Appalachia:

[Link: www.southernledger.com...]

re: #74 CapeCoddah

Too bad. Maybe file a suit to cost him money anyway.

Yeah, well, that's a SLAPP suit that could get you in trouble. I do wish there was something they could do, though.

I just hope no one connected to Riehl gets murdered in some strange fashion.

When I was in high school, there was this sick geek that had a modem and was connecting to other users. (I'm about to give away my age). This was unusual back then. He claimed he kept a car battery next to the computer that he used to surge other people's computers. (My husband said this was impossible; I wouldn't know.)

How much do you want to bet this guy currently has an ugly website somewhere screaming out his anger at the universe?

(No, his name was not Dan Riehl.)

re: #78 ryannon

Not totally OT, and susceptible of interesting you: the Melungeons of Appalachia:

[Link: www.southernledger.com...]

My favorite crypto-ethnic people!

re: #78 ryannon

Not totally OT, and susceptible of interesting you: the Melungeons of Appalachia:

[Link: www.southernledger.com...]

Elvis was one, and who knows how many others suppressed their membership in this, the first truly multi-cultural, multi-racial group in the Nation.

re: #83 Guanxi88

Elvis was one, and who knows how many others suppressed their membership in this, the first truly multi-cultural, multi-racial group in the Nation.

Elvis?

Wow.

I recently learned of their existence, but for the moment, I can't remember where - other than it was on the Net, and had something to do with speculating on the disappearance of the inhabitants of the Jamestown Colony...

re: #81 EmmmieG

When I was in high school, there was this sick geek that had a modem and was connecting to other users. (I'm about to give away my age). This was unusual back then. He claimed he kept a car battery next to the computer that he used to surge other people's computers. (My husband said this was impossible; I wouldn't know.)

Your husband is right. Said l33t hacker wouldn't blow anyone's rig by calling them up and putting 12 volts across the phone lines. He would be more likely to damage the electronics in his own modem if he did this, and if he disconnects his equipment beforehand, it's equivalent to "hanging up" on his victim. LOL

re: #84 ryannon

Elvis?

Wow.

I recently learned of their existence, but for the moment, I can't remember where - other than it was on the Net, and had something to do with speculating on the disappearance of the inhabitants of the Jamestown Colony...

There's been a lot of speculation about The King:
[Link: melungeons.blogspot.com...]

He had the look, though, no getting around it. Think I've seen maybe a dozen in my whole time in Appalachia - and they are distinctive. First one I ever saw, I though he was a Lebanese.

What a classy and thoughtful gentleman that Dan fella is.

Douchebag.

re: #86 Guanxi88

There's been a lot of speculation about The King:
[Link: melungeons.blogspot.com...]

He had the look, though, no getting around it. Think I've seen maybe a dozen in my whole time in Appalachia - and they are distinctive. First one I ever saw, I though he was a Lebanese.

An etymological aside: the very word 'Melungeon' remains a linguistic mystery. For me, it resembles a corrupted form of the French mélanger (to mix) or mélangé (mixed) as in an individual of mixed races...

re: #78 ryannon

Well, I just spent a fascinating half-hour learning about the Melungeons. Thanks for the link.

re: #89 EmmmieG

Well, I just spent a fascinating half-hour learning about the Melungeons. Thanks for the link.

My pleasure. On LGF, even the reactions to the ravings of a douchebag like Riehl can lead to interesting discoveries...

Since nobody knows what happened yet, one speculation is as good (or bad) as another. It is no more loathsome to guess that he was a pedophile than to say that conservative bloggers killed him with their terrible 'hate' speech.

Reading comments at Hot Air and Riehl's whacko theory I'm convinced that these conservatives know exactly why Sparkman was killed and are now just grasping at straws for any reason that won't smear their movement and new leaders.

re: #71 MandyManners

There are no grounds for a suit. You cannot libel the dead.

You're probably right, though there is a possibility his Estate could sue if he had anything created by him who's value could suffer from the defamation of his name. it'd be a longshot though.

re: #91 scrubjay

Well, accusing the victim of being a despicable person (implying perhaps even that he deserved being killed) - without evidence, is in a whole other category than placing blame for his death on a movement, is it not?

re: #94 cenotaphium

Not really. The conservative bloggers are also innocent. Accusing someone of being responsible for another person's death, also without evidence, is just as bad.

re: #95 scrubjay

Let me illustrate with an example; man is gunned down. Some people draw attention to lax gun laws. They might be misguided, they might have a point. Another person claims that the man who got shot is perhaps a rapist and bunny strangler and in any case it's no great loss.

I think it would be stupid to call it a moral equivalence. The latter person is clearly an order of magnitude more offensive.

re: #4 MikeySDCA

él está loco

No, el es loco.

He says in his "update": "One doesn't rule anything in or out without some firm answers."

OK. I think the murder might have been personally ordered by Dan Riehl. We don't yet have any evidence to the contrary.

I think his mother is a whore. I don't have any evidence to that, but I know it for a fact.

Oh, playing this game is fun until you get burnt.

These folks resent Charles like they resent their own consciences, which they - but not he - check at the cyberdoor when they access the internet.