A lone nut job, mad at everyone, crashes his plane into an office building housing the IRS in Austin, TX... and automatically the media's knees start jerking about "tea partiers" and "far-right terror."

Washington Post: "Joseph Stack was angry at the Internal Revenue Service, and he took his rage out on it by slamming his single-engine plane into the Echelon Building in Austin, Texas. We now know this thanks to the rather clear (as rants go) suicide note Stack left behind. 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."

New York Magazine: "He was mad at the IRS, and left what CNN reports was a suicide note on a local website, detailing his trials with the agency. In fact, a lot of his rhetoric could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a tea party rally."

Time Magazine inexplciably added this link in the middle of their coverage:

(See the making of the Tea Party movement.)

Newsweek, while acknowledging Stack's right and left-wing screed, focuses on right-wing terrorism and cites Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center on this rise of "antigovernment 'patriot' movements...driven initially by nonwhite immigration for the last 10 years, which is reflected in the person of Barack Obama."

I don't know about you, but I have yet to notice much anti-Bush, anti-capitalist, pro-communist sympathy in the Tea Party, yet that's exactly what the Austin plane crasher gave us.

Has the mainstream media completely lost touch with reality or just decided to abandon all sense of objectivity?

In his rambling manifesto he fingers Republicans as much as Democrats .According to his rant he's anti-Bush anti-Catholic ,anti-business, pro-communist and doesn't like paying taxes. Hmmm... doesn't like paying taxes... he could almost be an Obama cabinet secretary.

I note that they did not make a big deal about Amy Bishop , the nut job teacher who shot up the university of Alabama, being a big Obama fan.She went over the edge because she did not get what she felt "entitled " to... She was just a bitter clinger

So all the tea party activists are crazy? Is that the connection MSM wants to make?

Tom, could I borrow your 747? I need to visit the Time-Life building.

"When we received the forms back I was very optimistic that they were in order. I had taken all of the years information to Bill Ross, and he came back with results very similar to what I was expecting. Except that he had neglected to include the contents of Sheryl's unreported income; $12,700 worth of it. To make matters worse, Ross knew all along this was missing and I didn't have a clue until he pointed it out in the middle of the audit. By that time, it had become brutally evident that he was representing himself and not me."

So why isn't there an airplane sticking out the side of his accountants house?

Why do they have to make it deeper then what it is? He was a crazy person who had enough and in his crazy mind this was the best idea he could come up with for revenge. I guess just being crazy doesn't sell papers anymore.

I just have difficulty feeling the empathy thingy for a guy who feels so put upon by the IRS that he would fly his private plane into a bulding potentially killing off honest workers who get in their used autos to get to work every day.

There are farmers in California who have experienced a government induced drought this year who have a much bigger beef against the government who haven't stormed the Capitol brandishing pitch forks... yet.

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I just have difficulty feeling the empathy thingy for a guy who feels so put upon by the IRS that he would fly his private plane into a bulding potentially killing off honest workers who get in their used autos to get to work every day.

There are farmers in California who have experienced a government induced drought this year who have a much bigger beef against the government who haven't stormed the Capitol brandishing pitch forks .....yet.

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I think the key word is "yet". If it's the same thing Im thinking of taking place in central California. Just wait and see what is going to happen by the end of this month. Cap and Trade is suppose to start hitting us. I think that is why they government and its minions are starting to notice the disconnect they have. You can't just run rough shot over people over and over again and not expect them to rise up.

Don't worry ,Governor Moonbeam is ready to make his comeback with fresh ideas about how to bring California back from the brink.

Maybe the gubinator needs to eat more fish :)

Hmmmm... smoked delta smelt for breakfast ,fired delta smelt for lunch ,baked delta smelt for dinner. Vegetables have to be imported .

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hmmmm ....smoked delta smelt for breakfast ,fired delta smelt for lunch ,baked delta smelt for dinner. Vegetables have to be imported .

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Don't forget pickled delta smelt for that refreshing anytime snack. Also good for gifts too.

It's California, got to be delta smelt sushi

Yeah, the blame Bush mantra is getting tired.

The left needs a new whipping boy, and it's the Tea Party.

Are we terrorists?

I hope we strike terror into certain politician's hearts, I really do.

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I hope we strike terror into certain politician's hearts, I really do.

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There's a few in Carolina already feeling the heat.

Typical left-wing rhetoric. How come the left never mentioned Islam when that army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage?

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Typical left-wing rhetoric. How come the left never mentioned Islam when that army psychiatrist went on a shooting rampage?

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They were scared somebody would use such emotion laden words as "sabotage" and "mutiny" and, God forbid, "TERRORIST"

Speaking of Major Hasan,Bret Stephens of the WSJ creates an alternate universe where the responsible officers reacted timely with the already known and available information about Hasan .

He compares the Hasan case with a similar incident in 2003 .

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In 2003, Capt. James Yee, a Muslim chaplain serving in Guantanamo, was arrested on suspicion of sedition and espionage. Eventually the charges were dropped, officially because of "national security concerns that would arise from the release of the evidence." The political fallout was swift. Sens. Ted Kennedy and Carl Levin demanded a full investigation. "This incident," wrote one terminally outraged blogger, "is particularly noxious at a time when we need to reassure patriotic Muslim-Americans that they are not going to come under clouds of suspicion for their faith or their identity—especially Muslims who are actually serving this country in uniform."

Capt. Yee went on to write a book and cast a nominating ballot for Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.

In another life, something similar may have been Maj. Hasan's fate. In another life, eight officers could be under a cloud for casting aspersions on him based only on his identity and beliefs. In another life, too, 13 men and women would be with us today. That they are not reflects more than the failure of eight fall guys. It is a failure, by people far more senior, to heed a more fundamental military command. It's called Know Thine Enemy.

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Bret Stephens: Major Hasan: The Counterlife - WSJ.com

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I note that they did not make a big deal about Amy Bishop , the nut job teacher who shot up the university of Alabama, being a big Obama fan.She went over the edge because she did not get what she felt "entitled " to... She was just a bitter clinger

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Bishop was brilliant, part of the "intelligentsia," so smart she has trouble relating to the world.

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Bishop, 45, grew up in suburban Braintree, about eight miles (13 kilometres) south of Boston. Her mother, Judith, was active in local politics as one of 240 elected town meeting members. Her father, Samuel Bishop, was a Northeastern University art professor whose former students include David Bushell, a producer on films including the Academy Award-winning "Sling Blade."

The Bishops were friendly and academically minded parents, often urging their children, both gifted students and violinists, to get their work done, Dan Shaw said. He was frequently over at their house as a child visiting the Bishops' son, Seth.

Shaw didn't know Amy Bishop well but remembered her "exceptional intelligence" and that she wasn't shy about giving her opinion.

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