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…they will put themselves at risk:

So I spent nearly an hour talking to Mr. Miller, a 56-year-old native of Manchester who was quite helpful in understanding the community, the people and what little can be learned about the Sparkman murder investigation.

After we’d done talking, Mr. Miller introduced me to one of his young advertising reps, who lives in the vicinity of the cemetery where Sparkman’s body was found. Would she lead me up there? No way. Uh-uh. Too scary up there.

I suspect that this person isn’t just afraid of a cemetery.

Think about it, a native of the region is afraid to go to the area where he was murdered and yet Robert Stacy is looking to go. That is the difference between a stringer and going yourself.

He also asks some questions that are interesting:

If you want to speculate about anything, ponder this: Sparkman lived in London, Ky., in neighboring Laurel County, more than 30 miles east of where his body was found, with his truck parked near the end of the the dead-end road leading up to that cemetery.

Did Sparkman arrange a meeting up there with the person who killed him? If so, why? And if not . . .?

Of course if he was killed by more than one person one of the killers could have driven the truck, but that’s what a good reporter does, sees for himself, asks probing questions and presents what he sees. That’s more constructive than other things.

Is that worth a ten spot? I think so.

I do have one question for Robert Stacy: Any Sign of the MSM over there doing any shoe-leather work?

…concerning Robert Stacy McCain’s trip to Kentucky, he is a little more Explicit here:

There’s only one of me and I’m a freelancer. I don’t have an AmEx card for travel expenses like the big shots at the networks do. It takes a couple of business days for PayPal transactions to be processed, and until that tip-jar cash clears the bank, I’ll be pushing it to the limit just to get to Clay County, Kentucky, by Monday, and only hope I can avoid my checks don’t start bouncing before those payments clear.

Meanwhile, I’ve promised the American Spectator a column that’s already half-written and has to be turned in before I try to get some sleep, then depart before dawn in my 2004 KIA, so I can try to file something — at least a brief report — with a Kentucky dateline by noon Monday. Never mind that we’re a one-car household and my wife’s steamed because she’ll have to improvise her own transportation for a few days. (A rental car might cost $60 a day, nudge, nudge.).

As you know Things are a little tough here, but I figure I can spare a $10 spot to get an actual reporter to do actual coverage (and maybe risk his neck depending on what he finds). And I’ll bet you can too.

After all he is a professional where else can you hire a professional anything for a ten spot?

And if the Liberals can afford a starting bid of $500 for a couple of seats that held the Presidential posterior then we can spare $10 to hire a reporter to you know report, particularly since he gives us commentary every day for free.

Oh and for our friends on the left, if you don’t think that McCain’s reporting can be trusted, you can always actually go and cover it yourself. Send someone you trust like Oliver Willis, Soros can afford it and with his Washington Redskins losing to the Lions of all people , he needs a day out..

And no I don’t get a cut.

Update: Well they might not be dancing if Robert Stacy finds there isn’t a there there.