Earlier today, I wrote a piece in which I noted that the leftymedia – specifically, the City Pages’ <\/em>generic hypstr drone of the month Matt Hoffman, and DFL tabloidblogger Dusty Trice, had beaten the FBI to solving the Sparkman murder in Kentucky; Sparkman, the reports when, was found hanged from a tree with the word “Fed” supposedly scrawled across his chest.<\/p>\n Hoffman:<\/p>\n \u00a0Now a census worker has been found in what appears to be an anti-government lynching. Does [conservative MN Representative Michele] Bachmann own some responsibility?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Trice:<\/p>\n I\u2019m going to say it again because sadly I feel it bears repeating. I strongly believe that the inflammatory rhetoric Rep. Michele Bachmann thinks passes for policy debate is going to end in violence.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As I noted in my piece – the biggest violence was against fact and journalism.\u00a0 As of the time Trice and Hoffman wrote their pieces, investigators\u00a0weren’t even sure it was a murder, much less politically motivated<\/a>.<\/p>\n And six hours later, they still aren’t!:<\/p>\n A spokesman for the Kentucky police told TPMmuckraker last night that police were still looking into death, that an autopsy has been scheduled, and no cause of death has yet been listed.<\/p>\n And the commander of the state police post handling the case told the Lexington Herald-Leader<\/em> today that the police hadn’t confirmed it was a homicide. “There are too many unanswered questions for us to lean one way or the other,” she said. “Every scenario is still on the table. We have not ruled this is a hate crime against a federal employee.”<\/p>\n