Liberal Media Bias: Underwear Bomber and Ft. Hoot Shooter vs. Joe Stack

Vocal Minority ^ | 2/18/10 | EricTheRed

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

When the mainstream media finally admitted to the radical Islamic background and motivations of these perpetrators, we were always cautioned like little schoolchildren not to get carried away and jump to conclusions. The media was concerned of a backlash against Muslims from the “far right.”

Well now look who’s getting carried away, jumping to conclusions, and creating the backlash against conservatives: Mainstream media outlets like Washington Post and Time Magazine.

Just hours after an I.R.S. building is struck by a private plane, its deranged suicidal pilot Joe Stack is associated—without a single shred of proof—with the right wing, specifically the Tea Party movement.

Next, at the WaPo’s “Post Partisan” opinion blog [also h/t NS @ NB], Jonathan Capehart writes:

There’s no information yet on whether he was involved in any anti-government groups or whether he was a lone wolf. But after reading his 34-paragraph screed, I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.

Get it? A radical Muslim terrorist shouts Allahu Akbar from the mountains before shooting or blowing up the place, and the lib media goes: “Shhh, we mustn’t jump

[highlander_UW]

Progressives are the poster children for the term hypocrite...no surprise there.

[SmokingJoe]

The liberal media still don't get why their circulation, sales, profits, stock price have been collapsing for years.
With biased news coverage like this, expect more staff sackings in the liberal media in the coming years for a long time to come.

[GeronL]

Don’t forget the Holocaust Museum shooter socialist portrayed as a righty

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

good point.

[The_Reader_David]

Not so, to be a hypocrite, one must have a conception of virtue and fail to live up to it. “Progressives” deny that there is such a thing as virtue, and thus cannot be hypocrites, but see all assertions of the existence of virtue as a basis for flinging accusations of hypocrisy against others.

They are, in fact worse than hypocrites, not being modern-day analogs of the Pharisees whom Christ denounced as hypocrites, but modern-day analogs of the false prophets who cried “peace! peace!” when there was no peace and of the evil Kings of Israel who set up abhominations.

[krogers58]

After having read his manifesto, I'd have to say he was a leftist. Here's a quote from his manifesto:

"The recent presidential puppet GW Bush and his cronies in their eight years certainly reinforced for all of us that this criticism rings equally true for all of the government."

Then there was this gem:

Yet at the same time, the joke we call the American medical system, including the drug and insurance companies, are murdering tens of thousands of people a year and stealing from the corpses and victims they cripple, and this country’s leaders don’t see this as important as bailing out a few of their vile, rich cronies. Yet, the political “representatives” (thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags is far more accurate) have endless time to sit around for year after year and debate the state of the “terrible health care problem”. It’s clear they see no crisis as long as the dead people don’t get in the way of their corporate profits rolling in.

It's clear to me, after reading his entire manifesto that he is a leftist and I will not remain silent as the left attempts to use this tragedy to tar the right. Everyone should get on all the blogs they know of, and fight back, now.....write all the newspaper editors you know of. His entire manifesto can be found here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

He tells the truth in much of the entire piece, whether some of you want to see it or not. His actions after writing that are despicable and selfish, but his words ring true. I have solid, concrete evidence that much of what he has written is true, especially about religion and corporations. The selfish actions of many in power are causing a rise in radicalism.

It would be better to get the whole story before jumping to any conclusions in this case. That is, if you can now get the truth of all that happened prior to today's event. I'm sure much of it will be covered up.

[bgill]

I didn’t see anywhere in his long letter that he mentioned his political affiliation. What I did see was he was from California which is liberal and that he moved to Austin which is about as liberal as anyone can get in Texas. The city motto “keep Austin weird” says it all.

[yarddog]

It has been going on for a long time.

I remember when president Kennedy was killed, the media somehow managed to blame Southern Conservatives, especially NRA types.

Well I guess Oswald technically was a Southerner but his ideas were exactly the opposite of most. The fact he was a Castro loving Communist was hardly ever mentioned. In fact I don’t think the regular nightly news types ever mentioned it.

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

Thanks. Added to the post and cited.

[piytar]

What’s more is we have actual evidence — as in Stack’s own words — that he was a leftist.

Goebels wouldn’t have even tried this!

[Arthur McGowan]

After reading these excerpts from his screed, it’s striking to me how similar his beliefs are to those of Barack Obama and the people who follow him.

[FBD]

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[TankerKC]

But after reading his 34-paragraph screed, I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we’re hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.

Then the author did not read the same opus that I did. In it he rails about health care and the last eight years. All lefty talk.