Shocking I tell you. The left in America are known for their fairness and even temperament. From the TimesLeader.com:

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.

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.”

In law enforcement circles if you can’t “back up the story” the assumption is that you’re lying. I think reporter David Singleton has some explaining to do.

Ed Morrissey adds motive to what seems like an outright case of a reporter lying about what happened:

This was deemed so damaging to Republicans that Barack Obama mentioned it in last night’s debate. However, only Singleton managed to hear it in a crowd of thousands. The newspaper says it will stand by its story, but the reporter never bothered to look around to get a description of the alleged offender, and never bothered to get confirmation from the many people standing around him at the time.

That’s not exactly a great piece of journalism, is it? And the Times-Tribune’s editors seem a little too credulous to run an allegation, even if witnessed by their reporter, without having him get at least a couple of bystanders to agree with his recollection. We can make the same criticism of the national media, who seemed so eager to paint McCain-Palin rallies as gatherings of Deliverance-style mutants to bother checking the quality of the report.

The easier to convince people to kill us of course.

Gateway Pundit is also on this story.

Liberals won’t care however, because the myth of a hateful Palin rally is easier to accept than the idea that people simply don’t agree with them on many important issues. Liberalism is secularized dark ages Christianity where to challenge with the orthodoxy makes you, in the Liberals mind, not just wrong but deliberately rejecting the Truth and thus evil. Tell a liberal raising taxes on large companies means they’ll raise prices on products and lay off workers and you’ll be accused of shilling for them and working against “the people” even if you’re just some guy running a few websites for a living. Tell that same liberal you support the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms and you’re called a redneck or worse, despite often being much better educated. Support a candidate they don’t and they’ll try to destroy your business.

Be a woman who became successful and holds traditional values, the values Liberalism’s light was to burn away from we heathen masses, and you’ll find yourself on the butt end of a smear campaign where any lie about you, no matter how nonsensical (I’ve heard she’s a “witchhunter”) is taken as having to be true.

Years from now, despite the report by the Secret Service, some liberal will be lecturing Republicans about our hateful rallies, while studiously ignoring Liberal calls for Republicans to be put in camps. We are closer to civil war than we have been since the late 1800s and I only hope we on the right understand the threat this naked hatred and dementia represents and are prepared to fight to protect our homes and families. We Republicans have been been so vilified that violence against us is becoming increasingly common. If Obama wins, it will become public policy as his “civilian defense corp” takes to the streets SS-style and starts the pogrom all Liberals secretly wish would happen.