All the fictional news that readers want to believe!

When I wrote an earlier post about the phony "race card" McCain is alleged to have "played" because unknown voices screamed things, I was assuming that the "Kill him!" allegation was at least factually correct. Surely (so I thought) no reporter would make up such a story.

Wrong! It was either made up, or a figment of reporter Davis Singleton's no doubt overstimulated leftist imagination:

SCRANTON - 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 Obama'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.

Naturally.

Hey, maybe Singleton could team up with Philip Berg, and report the "news" no one can confirm!

MORE: Noticing that they're still belaboring the false report, Glenn Reynolds calls this "Keeping up the narrative, regardless of the facts!"

posted by Eric on 10.16.08 at 01:32 PM





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