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CNN's Sanchez and Velshi Omit Stack's Communist Sympathies
Newsbusters ^ | February 19, 2010 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/19/2010 6:17:57 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A trend is beginning to develop in the media reports concerning Joe Stack, the man who allegedly smashed a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas: his disgust for capitalism and support of communism must be ignored at all cost.

As NewsBusters previously reported, both Time.com and a blog posting at the Washington Post have conveniently skipped two crucial sentences at the end of Stack's suicide note:

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.

Clearly, Stack was no friend of capitalism. Yet, similar to other media members, CNN's Rich Sanchez and Ali Velshi addressed much of Stack's suicide note during "CNN Newsroom" Thursday EXCEPT for the part where he expressed his support for communism (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript):

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Ha haaaa!

Joke's on CNN. Nobody watches the Commie News Network so nobody will ever hear about this.

Well, except for people confined to hospital beds and nursing homes.

21 posted on 02/19/2010 7:12:50 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I forget. Which one is Sanchez? Is he the one who ran over a guy while driving drunk and then fled the scene?


22 posted on 02/19/2010 7:13:47 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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