Late last week, fact-free blogger Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit was hyping a breaking news story about a pair of men who killed two policemen in Arkansas (they opened fire with AK-47's after a random traffic stop) and were then gunned down by law enforcement in West Memphis after they fled the scene of the crime.

Hoft really played up the mayhem, even posting a photo of the two dead gunman, sprawled out on the ground just moments after being shot by the police. Gateway Pundit doesn't usually blog police blotter items like that so obviously the right-wing hate site was suggesting there was a political angle to the cop killing. .

Why the interest by Hoftt? Because one of killers, Jerry Kane, may have kinda/sorta been a community organizer [emphasis added]:

They traveled the country to help people with foreclosure issues? And, he was driving around in a stolen car?
That's a bit strange...So Jerry Kane was helping people keep their homes but he's traveling around the country with an expired license, possibly stolen plates and living in a car with two dogs and a AK47 under his pillow?

Hoft promised reader he'd continue to update the story as developments warranted. But guess what? Hoft stopped updating the story when reporters discovered that Kane, rather than being a liberal community activist, was more like a right-wing, antigovernment nut:

He recently complained about being busted at a “Nazi checkpoint” near Carrizozo, N.M., where court records show he spent three days in jail before posting a $1,500 bond on charges of driving without a license and concealing his identity.

Clark County, Ohio, Sheriff Gene Kelly said he issued a warning to law enforcement about Kane in July 2004, after Kane said a judge had tried to “enslave” him by sentencing him to six days of community service for driving with an expired license plate and no seat belt. Kane claimed he was a “free man” and asked for $100,000 per day in gold or silver, Kelly said.

Members of so-called patriot groups don't recognize the authority of the U.S. government and consider themselves sovereign citizens.

Friends said that Kane had changed after the death of a baby daughter from SIDS in the 1990s. “He went off the deep end,” said Tim Baulky, who had served with him in the Army Reserve in the late 1980s.

Baulky said Kane had predicted he would die in grand fashion one day.

For some reason, Hoft didn't think his right-wing, antigovernment readers should be given that information.