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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: Le Chien Rouge
Austin is a magnet for left wing nuts.

Personally I think someone needs to look into the IRS agents that were making this guys life a living hell.

Being Austin, I wouldn't be surprised to find a bunch of left wing nuts in the IRS abusing their authority.

41 posted on 02/19/2010 6:15:17 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: jersey117
His words and his picture scream liberal to me.

Yep, and not many conservatives wear that type of c*** sucker hat either.

42 posted on 02/19/2010 6:26:16 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: jaydubya2
Amy Bishop killed three African-Americans.

I like to think I'm fairly well read and I didn't know that at all.

43 posted on 02/19/2010 6:31:18 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: jaydubya2
Amy Bishop killed three African-Americans. A fact that the MSM does not promote.

Two of them appear to be. Gopi Podila appears to be of south Asian ancestry. All three of the wounded survivors appear to be white.

44 posted on 02/19/2010 6:52:37 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: Arrowhead1952

No—I don’t have the radio on yet—but great heavens!

Well the poor demented pilot wasn’t the last of Austin’s crazies—by a long shot!

Thanks for the heads up—I’ll turn it on.


45 posted on 02/19/2010 7:05:19 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: ReignOfError; Servant of the Cross
You're mostly correct. I should clarify my statment since it's not entirely accurate. Sorry about that. Here's what I found:

"On the other hand, the media has had no interest at all in the question of race, although Bishop shot almost every non-white faculty member in the department. (She also shot and wounded two white victims, a professor and a staff member.) She killed both African-American professors in the department (one of whom was too junior to have had anything to do with Bishop’s tenure decision). She killed the department chair, who was ethnically South Asian. A Latino faculty member was wounded. There may only be two non-white faculty left in the department. Whether she intended it or not, Amy Bishop effected a racial purge of the Alabama Huntsville biology department. But the press isn’t interested in asking whether or not she intended it. Perhaps the question isn’t exotic enough."
46 posted on 02/19/2010 7:12:03 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: Zakeet

Hundreds of thousands who read his screed agree:

Joe Stack was a lefty.

He ended his ramblings with this - a clear attack on capitalism:

“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.

Joe Stack (1956-2010)

02/18/2010”


47 posted on 02/19/2010 7:14:11 AM PST by Let's Roll (Stop paying ACORN to destroy America! Cut off their government funding!)
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To: basil

I think all the Austin crazies are calling this morning. One basically said SGT Sam is an idiot.


48 posted on 02/19/2010 7:27:02 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: Zakeet; humblegunner

I’m bad, but I did just think, “I wonder if he was a Debra Medina fan”.


49 posted on 02/19/2010 7:40:32 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Zakeet
NYT, NYMag, WaPo, and TIME ..... must ..... bury ..... the ...... truth ..... it's ...... what ..... we ...... do ......best.
50 posted on 02/19/2010 8:00:07 AM PST by cranked
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To: cranked
must ..... bury ..... the ...... truth ..... it's ...... what ..... we ...... do ......best.

unless it's revealing our military and national security surveillance efforts!

51 posted on 02/19/2010 8:04:25 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Zakeet

Joe Stack was: anti-corporations, anti-religion, pro-health care reform, and a tax cheat.

Sounds like a moonbat to me!


52 posted on 02/19/2010 8:13:52 AM PST by avacado
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To: avacado
Joe Stack was: anti-corporations, anti-religion, pro-health care reform, and a tax cheat.

And despite all his woes with the IRS and complaints about "social justice" he was still flying around in his own private plane. Certainly sounds like a moonbat progressive to me. Taxes are for the little guy and anybody richer or poorer than he.

53 posted on 02/19/2010 8:16:22 AM PST by riri (Resistance-It's the New Black)
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To: Let's Roll
Joe Stack was a lefty.

I can't tell from my brief online searches, but does anyone know for certain what political party might this genuine creep have affiliated and registered?

.

54 posted on 02/19/2010 8:18:54 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: basil

I don’t know if you are listening now, but this woman currently talking on KLBJ is the MOONBAT caller of the day.


55 posted on 02/19/2010 8:31:49 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Yeah—I’m listening——some of it just makes you want to tear your hair out! But, it is Austin-—and it’s slogan seems to be “Keep Austin Weird”............


56 posted on 02/19/2010 8:36:20 AM PST by basil (It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
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To: NavyCanDo
“Flying Teabagger”

So he was talking about a gay pilot?! Bill Press is not very smart, he just thinks he is.

57 posted on 02/19/2010 8:37:02 AM PST by kcvl
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To: basil

I think her name was Joan. Her braindead rant had all the typical “victim” excuses used by the left.


58 posted on 02/19/2010 8:40:56 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (Hey zero, It is NOT Bush's fault anymore.)
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To: Zakeet

It is beginning to appear that he got the person he was after in the building. The authoritites are so hush, hush about who was killed, it’s becoming obvious Stack hit his target.


59 posted on 02/19/2010 8:17:46 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Vernon Hunter was a supervisor at the IRS office. He must have been Stack’s target.


60 posted on 02/20/2010 9:03:37 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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