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NYT, NYMag, WaPo, TIME Agree: Joe Stack Was One Crazy Teabagger!
National Review Online ^ | February 19, 2010 | Stephen Spruiell

Posted on 02/19/2010 2:50:57 AM PST by Zakeet

Responding to this post, a reader e-mails with a handy round-up of MSM attempts to tie Joe Stack to the tea-party movement:

Subject: NY times first MSM'er to make the "Tea Bag" connection

They had to stretch back 20 years to do it, but their crack researchers came thru in a pinch.

In April 1990, a firebomb packed with a tea bag — a reference to the Boston Tea Party — and addressed to the I.R.S. was placed in the mail in Royal Oak, Mich. It exploded, injuring a postal worker.

And while they appear to make it look like it’s all about anti-government and anti-IRS, they fail to mention his anti-Catholicism, anti-Bushism, anti-capitalism and pro-communism.

I guess it doesn’t fit the preferred narrative.

NY Mag piles on

“In fact, a lot of his rhetoric could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a tea party rally.”

WaPo's Capehart chimes in...

“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 Time slips this one in not so subtly:

“Toward the end of what appears to be his final note, Stack wrote, 'Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let's try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.' (See the making of the Tea Party movement.)”

So it goes...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: communism; josephstack; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; liberalprogressivism; mediabias; msm; smear; statism; teabagger; teaparty
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To: cripplecreek

I’ve taken to responding to the “teabag” moniker by referring to those consumed with hate for the movement as feltchers. I use the word to mean lying about and vitriolic hatred for the tea-party movement. There may be other understandings of the word available online at the urban dictionary, but just like the other side, I don’t mean it that way. But they’re feltchers just the same.


21 posted on 02/19/2010 4:53:14 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Servant of the Cross

If the O-Media discovers that Amy Bishop ever had just one cup of tea, she’ll be called a Tea Party member.

One of the O-”news” channels declared Stack’s rampage as “an act of domestic terrorism”, “absolutely”....

what about Ft Hood?
what about Bill Ayres?
what about Amy Bishop?
etc etc etc

It is sickening.


22 posted on 02/19/2010 5:28:33 AM PST by homegroan (Blizzard of 1978 Survivor / ILLIGITIMA NON CARBORUNDUM!!)
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To: jersey117

Signs of an Austin liberal:

1) plays in a band..check
2) loathes organized religion..check
3) believes capitalism is exploitative...check
4) Blames GW Bush for everything...check
5) has California roots...check
6) displays self pity...check


23 posted on 02/19/2010 5:30:22 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: homegroan
It is sickening.

Exactly.


24 posted on 02/19/2010 5:31:02 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

You just HAD to respond to the “writing on the wall” post, didn’t you, parsin?

Daniel 5:24-28 (New International Version)
24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.

25 “This is the inscription that was written:
Mene , Mene , Tekel , Parsin [a]

26 “This is what these words mean:
Mene [b] : God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.

27 Tekel [c] : You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting.

28 Peres [d] : Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.”


25 posted on 02/19/2010 5:35:01 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Zakeet
Good Morning America just did a segment on him, and the entire piece was what an anti-tax vermin he was. Not once did they mention his screed about corporations, churches, or lack of health care in the US.

They did say that his wife is planning a press conference this afternoon, so maybe we will get a little insight there?

26 posted on 02/19/2010 5:36:43 AM PST by codercpc
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To: Zakeet
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Graphic of Right-wing, Tea-bagging Racist scumbag

27 posted on 02/19/2010 5:37:34 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (D-R-I-N-K-Y-O-U-R-O-B-A-M-A-T-I-N-E)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
They can’t sit on the facts forever. Facts are stubborn things. Once more, egg on the faces of the liberal rags.

I agree and hope you're right (sooner than later). Anyone remember the same false crap narrative about James W. von Brunn?

28 posted on 02/19/2010 5:39:37 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: codercpc

GMA also did an interview with the husband of that nut mass murderer professor in AL. I didn’t see all the story but I’ll bet her far left views and love of BH0 were not mentioned.


29 posted on 02/19/2010 5:39:53 AM PST by TNCMAXQ
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To: concerned about politics
He wanted everybody else (not himself) to pay the taxes. That screams liberal to me. Tea Party enthusiasts point is that everyone (including themselves) are paying way to much in taxes.

The health care debate screed is what is the dead give away to me. He sounds just like my lefty brother, give everyone health care, but don't make ME pay for it!

30 posted on 02/19/2010 5:39:57 AM PST by codercpc
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To: Zakeet
Just to see what the Libs were saying I tuned into the Bill Press Radio show on the drive in to work this morning. It was worse than we expected. He was calling him the “Flying Teabagger” and he and all the callers were saying Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest need to be dragged in by the FBI and held accountable for this guys actions.

One caller even said, and I kid you not, “that the 1st amendment needs to be repealed, and all Right Wing Radio host should all be arrested”.

They picked apart the manifesto only quoting parts that made him sound like a person from the Right, ignoring the Communist manifesto, the anger against Bush, the anger against not passing Health Care reform, and the rest.
I Felt like beating my head against the wall listening to these idiots.

31 posted on 02/19/2010 5:42:49 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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He was personal friends with a DU’er!!!!!!
Played in a band with him for 3 years and was “mostly apolitical” but hated GW Bush! (sound apolictical to me).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7747831


32 posted on 02/19/2010 5:53:47 AM PST by codercpc
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To: Zakeet

First we have the crazy nut Obama lover radical leftist professor who killed three of her colleges then we have this Bush hating communist who probably voted for Obama or Nadar or some such left leaning political douche bag. Isn’t it time that conservative media point out these things. I bet even that murdering terrorist Muslim Hassan was an Obama supporter and an anti war nut. The guy of course couldve been gay crashing his plane to protest marriage equality and then of course the whole thing wouldve been swept under the rug in a media pink out.


33 posted on 02/19/2010 5:54:54 AM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: NavyCanDo

Oh please let them try.


34 posted on 02/19/2010 5:58:39 AM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Thought you might be interested in the DU connection to Joe Stack. Mr Apolitical, that just happened to HATE President Bush, and demanded Universal Health Care.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7747831


35 posted on 02/19/2010 5:59:57 AM PST by codercpc
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To: Servant of the Cross

Amy Bishop killed three African-Americans. A fact that the MSM does not promote.


36 posted on 02/19/2010 6:02:54 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: Zakeet

A page out of the Clintonian manual of political tactics.

I have been away from the news a bit, would not surprise me if they start chanting he was a Tea Party “leader” as well.


37 posted on 02/19/2010 6:04:17 AM PST by Eye of Unk ("Either you are with us or you are for the terrorists." ~~George W. Bush)
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To: cripplecreek

Yes, all with signs reading, “I am NOT Joe Stack.”


38 posted on 02/19/2010 6:08:18 AM PST by HGSW0904
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To: basil; txhurl

I don’t knnow if you are listening to KLBJ this morning, but there was some whacked out, liberal, moonbat gal who called in just before the 8AM news and said the previous TWO administrations had files on Stack and the Ft Hood shooter. Wonder what her DU screen name is?


39 posted on 02/19/2010 6:09:06 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: Zakeet
In fact, a lot of his rhetoric could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a tea party rally.

Tea Parties do not QUOTE KARL MARX, you lousy liberal lyin s**tforbrains.

Andrew Stack: "The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed."

Tea Parties do not DENIGRATE GEORGE W. BUSH, you lousy liberal lyin s**tforbrains.

Andrew Stack: "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."
Tea Parties do not IMPUGN THE CURRENT HEALTH CARE SYSTEM (PRESUMABLY TO EMBRACE OBAMACARE), you lousy liberal lyin s**tforbrains.
Andrew Stack: "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."
Tea Parties do not DISRESPECT THE CHRISTIAN OR CATHOLIC FAITH), you lousy liberal lyin s**tforbrains.
Andrew Stack: "In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God)."

But you already knew that. You are simply lying liars, telling lies about the lies you tell.

And you wonder why you are continuously shrinking in revenue and size.

May I live to see your demise.

40 posted on 02/19/2010 6:11:04 AM PST by Lazamataz
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