Not One Person Can Back Up Obama’s Claim That “Kill Him” Was Yelled At A McCain/Palin Rally
Not even one, yet Obama, ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, and it is simply not true! The Secret Service at the rally could not even corroborate the story:
The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.
The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”
News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.
Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.
“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.
He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.
Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”
“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”
It is true that when the name Ayers came up, someone did in fact yell “kill him,”
“And, according to the New York Times, he [referring to Ayers -- P] was a domestic terrorist and part of a group that, quote, ‘launched a campaign of bombings that would target the Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol,’” [Palin] continued.
“Boooo!” the crowd repeated.
“Kill him!” proposed one man in the audience.
I fail to see how that is surprising or news worthy. Ayers should be tickled about this. This brought back memories of the Republican National Convention. The anarchists were committing violent acts and the press and the left cheered. When those anarchists were arrested, those very same people cited the Constitution..you know that piece of paper that anarchists don’t believe in..until they need it…
Others blogging:
- Blatant Anti-Palin Bias in the Liberal Media: A Collection (113 Cases) « BUUUUURRRRNING HOT
- The Big Lie: Secret Service: No one yelled “kill him!” at McCain-Palin rally. | I’m Surrounded By Idiots
- “Kill Him” Was, You Know, Made Up » Pirate’s Cove ” Barracuda Patrol!
- USSS Can’t Find Any Evidence Of “Kill Him” | McCain Blogs
- USSS Can’t Find Any Evidence Of “Kill Him” : Stop The ACLU
October 16, 2008 - 06:15 PM on October 16th, 2008
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