You're trying to have it both ways here: "If it happened, I'm going to gloat and gloat, but if it didn't, well, I'm covered there too because I'm skeptical."
Sorry, if you don't believe the guy is credible, then you should not have to qualify every statement mocking the oaf, especially considering that he's fine.
Take very careful note of his words, it wasn't "Well, it was scary, but I'm glad to be OK and I just hope they catch the thugs." It was "It's those right wingers" [that's you, bud, he's widened the net of blame] "and they won't believe me without seeing blood (and I wasn't going to pay some guy to do that to me, what do you think I am, crazy?) uh, and how can you not take my every utterance at face value? Can't you see, via this phone interview, that I have a boo boo?"
Even the title is misleading because "hospitalized" implies he was admitted. He was not, he was treated as an outpatient and released.
You're trying to have it both ways here: "If it happened, I'm going to gloat and gloat, but if it didn't, well, I'm covered there too because I'm skeptical."
Who's gloating? I understand that all groups have scumbags in them. I have never associated them with all creationists, or tarred all creationists with this brutish brush.
What I have done is taken creationists to task for comments made on these boards, from gleefully cheering these scumbags to simply remaining silent and not condemning them. Posters here are responsible (and only responsible) for what they say and do on these boards.
If I'm qualifying, it's because I reserve judgment until the facts are in. Unlike the posters here who glorify this violence....