WaPo columnist: That insane pilot sounds kind of like a tea partier, huh?
posted at 5:27 pm on February 18, 2010 by Allahpundit
Dedicated to my pal Michael Roston, who thought it was silly of me to cite examples at dKos and DU of people blaming this on tea partiers. Those are mere partisan echo chambers, after all, and such nonsense is to be expected.
Fair enough. Should we also expect it of WaPo contributor Jonathan Capehart?
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.
Follow the link and note the parts of the manifesto quoted by Capehart. Yes, of course the anti-Bush rhetoric and screeching about health care is omitted, but something even more revealing is omitted too. Here’s how Stack’s manifesto actually ended:
Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
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
And here’s how Capehart quotes the ending:
Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, let’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
Joe Stack (1956-2010)
02/18/2010
What’s missing?
Capehart’s not the only offender. Reader Craig S. is e-mailing me new examples every 20 minutes or so. New York magazine’s Daily Intel feature slides this into a post on Stack just ahead of another long quote from the manifesto omitting the less narrative-serving parts:
5. 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.
Yeah, it could, although I confess to not having noticed a strong “capitalism is for suckers” vibe at rallies that are, let’s face it, driven mainly by laissez faire libertarian impulses. Meanwhile, Time magazine, while mentioning the anti-Bush passage, slipped the following hyperlink into its story on Stack:
According to news reports, 199 IRS employees work in the building, and all are accounted for. 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.)
The irony of all this is that violent IRS-hating cranks have been around for decades, long before tea parties were a twinkle in Rick Santelli’s eye. The NYT, to its credit, puts today’s attack in context by highlighting a few examples from over the years — while also taking care to note that a firebomb set in 1990 came packed with a tea bag. (Wink wink.) And a bonus irony: Taxes have actually been a surprisingly minor issue for tea partiers thus far, due in part to the fact that Obama and the Dems haven’t made any aggressive moves on that front yet. The tea party, in my experience, has focused much more heavily on cutting spending, ending bailouts, and auditing the Fed than dismantling the IRS, let alone flying planes into it.
Exit question: Isn’t part of the problem here that tea partiers haven’t decided yet precisely what they stand for in concrete terms, making it extra easy to associate them with disaffected nuts of all political stripes? Revisit this WaPo piece from a few weeks ago. Quote: “I am coming to realize at this convention that we are very, very different in terms of our beliefs.”
Update: PoliPundit supplies a lengthy, yet perhaps not complete, list of everyone Joe Stack was mad at. It wasn’t just the IRS.
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Well lets go over his list and see what adds up!
GM executives (“commit unthinkable atrocities”)
Left, could be Right as well not enough info.
- The American medical system (“murdering tens of thousands of people a year”)
- Left, could have come from Obama himself, cutting off feet for profit!
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- Politicians (“thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags”)
- Even a broken clock is right 2 times a day.
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- The Catholic Church (“vulgar, corrupt”)
- Left
- Organized religion (“monsters”)
- Left
- The American public (“incredible stupidity”)
- Left
- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (“sleazy”)
- ???? WTF? he’s been dead for how long? 7 years?
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- The airlines (“rich, incompetent cronies”)
- Left
- Austin, TX (“a highly inflated sense of self-importance”)
- Left
- The Justice Department (“on the take”)
- Left or Right
– The FAA (“a tombstone agency”)
WTF?
- George W. Bush (“presidential puppet”)
- Left
- The IRS (“Big Brother”)
- Left(“Big Brother”) The IRS Right
- Communism (“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”)
- Right
- Capitalism (“From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.”)
- Left
9 are left wing wacos points
1 is Right wing waco
3 could be either Left or Right, not enough info
2 Are out there no idea WTF he’s talking about
and 1 that he is correct on!
Politicians (“thieves, liars, and self-serving scumbags)
DSchoen on February 18, 2010 at 7:46 PM
I’m so steaming mad at this phony journalist piece of waste named Jonathan Capehart I can barely see straight. The way he selectively quoted Stack’s death manifesto to try to tie him to the tea party movement goes way beyond journalistic sloppiness. This man is downright despicable.
2Brave2Bscared on February 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
What, the Berkeley student newspaper hasn’t covered it yet? I’m sure Pravda has something up, give us a link to them.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
misterpeasea on February 18, 2010 at 7:50 PM
Is this better? He posted on the Free Republic, any link I give you will just be a cached version of his postings.
All I can do is put the facts in front of you. If you choose not to accept them, it’s not my problem.
crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Don’t mind crr666, she’s just trying to hijack the thread again by deflecting the subject away from this guy.
But citing “Free P*bic”? That’s pretty sad.
Del Dolemonte on February 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM
She said as she linked to HuffPo.
Next.
Del Dolemonte on February 18, 2010 at 7:56 PM
I read it an laughed. He wrote, in 2008, that we knew nothing about Obama. Which is correct. He listed 20 forms of documentation that have not been released regarding Zero, and exactly 2 have to do with a birth certificate (actually 1, the two requests are redundant). This was a rant about the MEDIA not vetting Obama. This was a rant about electing a ‘blank slate’ (Obama’s words) as POTUS. Does asking for school records and law client lists make one a birther? Sorry, not good enough…
joejm65 on February 18, 2010 at 7:57 PM
violent IRS-hating cranks have been around for decades
Lazarus Long, anyone?
I R A Darth Aggie on February 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM
All I can do is put the facts in front of you. If you choose not to accept them, it’s not my problem.crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Like with global warming, huh?
misterpeasea on February 18, 2010 at 7:58 PM
How about the liberal obsessed with Obama woman who killed a shot up a campus and killed a couple of people?
right2bright on February 18, 2010 at 8:02 PM
No! AP, you are totally being a journalistic fraud here by posing this exit question. In fact, you could probably write about any event and then pose that question. The tea partiers have been pretty clear in what they stand for. I find this a very weak ending to your write-up.
marge on February 18, 2010 at 8:03 PM
Very nice. I actually meant those tax-evading nutbirds who end up getting sent to federal prison every few years for telling people to stop paying their taxes. Point is the Hardball guest was making a connection between an unnamed, unestablished fringe-group that invariably hails from the right.
Anyway, I like your answer much better.
The Race Card on February 18, 2010 at 8:04 PM
Yeah, all those taxpayers are just a bunch of teabagging terrorists anyway. They oughta be rounded up.
/sarc
Aitch748 on February 18, 2010 at 8:08 PM
I’m waiting for final confirmation of his right wing extremism to be confirmed by the New York Times interviewing an unidentified source who saw him at the big Tea Party gathering in Washington DC last fall and this witness specifically recalls that Joseph Stack definitely picked up all his trash. We all know that the extremist Tea Party wackos cleaned up after themselves compared to the garbage that patriotic liberals left at the President’s inauguration. Pulitzer Prize reporting probably being written by Ms. Dowd or Paul Krugman at this very moment!!! David Brooks will get a Front Page spot on Sunday explaining that Republicans have no choice but to openly reject the Tea Party movement once and for all.
wtng2fish on February 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM
I love the claim from earlier that anti-Semitism is the province of the Right (paraphrasing). Funny, Nazis are socialists. It’s been almost canon all my life that Nazis are at the opposite end of the political spectrum from communists.
Except forms of government can best be show on a circle graph, not a linear one. In practice and basic philosophies, there’s little difference between the Soviets and Nazis. The Soviets had their anti-Jewish pogroms, too.
Amazing how some come here not only to annoy, but to distract from a thread and dilute its point. Such people just can’t really reason.
Liam on February 18, 2010 at 8:14 PM
I’m a conservative, and my daughter is dating a young black man. Does that make me a anti semite? A racist? No. Because I have no issues with it. I’ve told my kids, as long as the person is good to you, and cares about you, and you’re happy…that’s all that matters.
The fact that you use a site (Huffpo) as your link is telling. They ban people for admitting they’re conservative. I’ve known a few people that have gone over, registered, and posted, and let everyone know upfront, they were conservative. Without getting another post in, they were banned. Huffpo is biased, and liberal. They will skeew a story in their favor if need be. Please find a more unbiased, legitimate site please?
capejasmine on February 18, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Dr. Amy Bishop was not available for comment.
A Balrog of Morgoth on February 18, 2010 at 8:26 PM
Gee, never saw that coming.
Cylor on February 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM
God you are an idiot. A totalitarian ideology is neither representative of center right or center left. The fact the socialism exists in the name means nothing.
After WWWI and the ensuing depression, Germany rejected both liberalism and conservative thought and sought an alternative.
This alternative bears no resembalance to either party that exists in America today. As much as the far left screamed it from 200-2008 and morons like you are sceaming it now, neither party is as evil, and repulsive as the totalitarian ideology that ruled Germany in the 30′s and 40′s.
To make that comparison disrespects millions of dead.
harry on February 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM
crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Fail.
And judging from your body of work here, Hot Air-and by extension-the entire right wing, is nothing but a bunch of logical fallacies defending Obama.
A Balrog of Morgoth on February 18, 2010 at 8:30 PM
How many millions died because of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc.? What did the the initials USSR stand for? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
I can guess your answers already: ‘Zero’ and ‘It doesn’t matter.’
Liam on February 18, 2010 at 8:33 PM
harry on February 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM
Actually, there was an avowedly socialist wing of the Nazi party. One that was profoundly disappointed when Hitler aligned himself with the major industrial concerns.
A Balrog of Morgoth on February 18, 2010 at 8:36 PM
Yes. Honestly, I don’t understand why you list anti-Bush rhetoric as suggesting he’s not a Tea Partier. Are Tea Partiers explicitly pro-Bush in general?
(that said, I think this guy is more “general nutcase” than anything else, and I don’t think it’s fair to tar the Tea Party crowd by associating them with him)
orange on February 18, 2010 at 8:38 PM
cr66.. the press ignored the shooting at the Jewish center in Seattle a few years ago. You have to admit that most of your leftist friends support Islamic causes and they definitely hate Israel and Jews and about everyone else. That Seattle story barely was a blip on the news for a half a day. Enjoy your Beloved MSM.
garydt on February 18, 2010 at 9:01 PM
Yet, you, drrr6, and everyone else on the left says that we never criticized Bush over his spending like we are Obama. Amazing what fantasies you filth on the left will create to argue the meme of the moment.
Seriously, it takes a seriously mentally disturbed individual to be that warped and disingenuous. Please don’t go pirate MS Simulator.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM
Wait is drrr6 pulling out the Anti-Semite card. Really man?
Do I need to start quoting your dear leaders spiritual leader, the Reyyyyyyyyyavyund Wright?
Please, lets start listing the jew haters in your party.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Do you need a clarification, crr6? The out-of-control spending inevitably leads to higher taxes (and a devalued dollar), especially if we are borrowing out the wazoo to pay for this growing federal government.
Do you have a job?
onlineanalyst on February 18, 2010 at 9:23 PM
You’ve only criticized Bush’s spending after the fact. You didn’t criticize it when he was in office. You do so now, so that you can say “see we criticize Bush too!!!! We’re not hypocrites!!”.
crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 9:24 PM
I have sent the following to NPR:
At 4pm PST today NPR news reported that the manifesto left behind by this deranged individual “ended with”:
This is also being reported by many news outlets as part of an effort to link the person with conservatives and/or the Tea Party movement.
Unfortunately for that agenda, this quote is not accurate. Immediately after the passage quoted by you as the “end” of the tirade, there was this:
I request that you please issue a correction. The motive for omitting this actual closing is transparent in that it negates a narrative that many in the media wish to propgate. I will give NPR the benefit of the doubt and assume that you simply reported from another source which performed the actual omission – as long as you correct it.
If you do not issue a correction, you will have self-confirmed that you will not report the truth in matters such as this even when you are confronted with it by someone doing the job of verification that you should have done… and the motive that is transparent must then be assumed to be yours also.
drunyan8315 on February 18, 2010 at 9:29 PM
You are wrong. What really disrespects millions upon millions of dead are the leftwing nuts in the whitehouse who are so seeped in communist ideology that they can put the image of a the biggest mass murderer in history as a decoration on the Nation’s Christmas tree!
The Great Democrat hero, Mao, is a mass murdering communist who our President allowed to decorated our Christmas Tree! Obama hired people to work in the whitehouse who worship Mao!
You socialists who run this government now… are party to every murder commit by any of them from Hitler to Stalin to Mao.
There is no such thing as good socialism. Only socialism that has not come to it’s full natural end YET. The end where millions of people will die in the name of the state.
This is the politics of murder your party has brought to our country.
You would feel more at home in Europe where they are naive enough to fall once again, and again, and again, for the same old socialist propaganda.
We see through it here.
It’s no wonder Democrats are uncomfortable in the presence of real Americans like Sarah Palin and Scott Brown they are nothing like the murders you would like us all to become in the name of the state.
petunia on February 18, 2010 at 9:33 PM
I guess you missed the whole amnesty debate along with Harriet Myers. That’s okay. Nobody expects you to be honest. You are what your. A lying Leftist troll.
TheBigOldDog on February 18, 2010 at 9:34 PM
Stack’s suicide note: “…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…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.”
ThinkProgress: Stack “was allegedly a right wing extremist who wrote on a website that violence “is the only answer” and expressed anger at the IRS, the federal government, and health care reform.”
Damian P. on February 18, 2010 at 9:37 PM
ThinkProgress link here, if you can stand it.
Damian P. on February 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM
“That insane pilot sounds kind of like a tea partier, huh?”
No, he sounds like Chris Matthews.
AcronisF on February 18, 2010 at 9:40 PM
There you go with your lefty wet dreams again. Every conservative I know was disgusted by Bush’s “compassionate” conservatism, but he was all we had at the time.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2010 at 9:41 PM
You need help.
harry on February 18, 2010 at 9:42 PM
What do amnesty and Harriet Myers have to do with spending?
Geez. Talk about dishonest.
crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 9:44 PM
crr6 on February 18, 2010 at 9:44 PM
Are you really that stupid?
God, I hope not. That is a prayer for you, that you truly have more brains than that post would indicate.
ORconservative on February 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM
or maybe you’re drinking. I hope that’s it.
ORconservative on February 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM
Excellent.
rrpjr on February 18, 2010 at 10:00 PM
Cr66 ,,,,doesn’t amnesty and Harriet Miers (sp) support the belief that Bush was not all that conservative? Remember Stalin hated and the Jews as much as Hitler did. Right before he died he was about to unleash a murder campaign on the Jews in the Soviet Union. Both extremes right and left have always hated the Jews. The lefties usually hate all forms of traditional religion.
garydt on February 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM
It’s so pathetic that the Left has to resort to imagining what conservatives were thinking during the Bush administration rather than confront the actual facts that, as you say, many were disgusted by the spending (the Medicare drug benefit was the worst, in my opinion. Just what we need, another so-called “entitlement”), as well as the half-hearted attempt Bush made at privatizing Social Security. I would have given up my entire contribution to Social Security to-date to have the ability to direct my future Social Security contributions the same way I can direct my 401k (for now).
venividivici on February 18, 2010 at 10:02 PM
Another thing is that When GWB supported more of the lefty agenda in his attempt to bridge the gap between the Democrats and the GOP he only drew in hatred from the Demo side while disgusting the rank and file GOP. Its seems to be better to stick to your guns then trying to make friends across the aisle.
garydt on February 18, 2010 at 10:05 PM
It will be a great day when the murderous ideology of the statist Left, and the murderous ideology of Islam, are subject to the same scrutiny the Right constantly receives.
Hawkins1701 on February 18, 2010 at 10:16 PM
Maybe we should let these MSM writers know how we feel about this.
I would love to see millions of us outraged enough at their depiction and stereotyping of us that we crash their servers and phone lines overnight. Maybe they will get the message then. Or maybe not.
newton on February 18, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Despite te CW on this topic, the realit is that the Nazis and the Communists were not very far apart at all philosophically. But for Hitler’s insane anti-Semitism and belief that Soviet bolshevism was “too Jewish,” he and Stalin probably would have found more common ground than they did. The notion that Nazism is a right-wing ideology in either theory or practice is a fiction.
NoLeftTurn on February 18, 2010 at 10:45 PM
Here, Harry, have another cup of coffee. Non-white, with no cream or sugar.
Del Dolemonte on February 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM
I get these people, having seen them in my business before. However, they are wrong in their approach to making a point. I posted my opinion at my website:
http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/02/18/austin-texas-and-a-first-shot-across-the-bow-of-the-government/
This has happened before when people are feeling pressured and scared by their government. As usual, the nuts crack first, but I’m afraid there will be more, especially as I say in my post this government reacts badly and figures this is an opportunity to take advantage of. (DHS has already set the “Domestic terrorist” table, and Rahm’s “let no crisis go to waste” attitude is not encouraging.)
If you read up on some of their thought process you’ll see intelligent people unable to accept certain realities, such as not all that happens are conspiracies. Sadly, enough are which re-enforces their paranoia.
I hope cooler heads prevail inside the Obama administration. Nobody wins when citizens and the government start shooting at each other.
archer52 on February 18, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Much of the alleged difference between Nazism and Communism of the Soviet sort is that Hitler left a lot of the corporate power structure in Germany in place, thus “proving” he was not a socialist. Well, big frickin’ deal. The Communists killed the leaders of the corporate power structure and became the corporate power structure. End result was that both systems were ruled by a corporate power structure consisting of a small elite, with the only difference being that in Germany that elite was primarily the same people after the Nazis took power as it was before, while in Russia, the pre-Communist elites were “liquidated”.
It’s a distinction without a difference, yet it’s an important component of the Left’s “big lie” so they wield it like it proves some cosmic difference exists between Nazism and Communism. Utter BS, just like everything else they say.
venividivici on February 18, 2010 at 11:00 PM
So according to the super smart journalist here….if you say something similar to what might be on a sign in some protest…it is proof you represent them..
.(funny how all that “guilt by association” does not apply now that we are not talking about Obama/Bill Ayers/Rev. Wright)…
So let’s take this liberal logic and apply it to what crr6 had to say:
Well here is a leftist rally held in support of Gaza…
..the Palestinian victim hood is of course a very big liberal agenda….
…………Wonder if there is any antisemitism here????
http://zombietime.com/gaza_war_protest/
Would love to see crr6 back up her pathetic rehtoric with some proof of the Tea Party or any conservative group that is anti-semitic.
Would also love for crr6 to square the circle of how Mr. IRS making a few quotes that are similar to grievances echoed by the Tea Party make him a supporter …..
…….but Obama conducting his first fund raiser in Bill Ayers house,having him babysit his kids,working on a board where they wasted over 160 million dollars,and sat in Rev. (America deserved 9/11)Wright’s church for 20 years was just “guilt by association”.
…….could crr6 be anymore of a total Moron than to push this line after spending all of Obama’s campaign defending all of his Marxist ties…..
….total fail.
Baxter Greene on February 18, 2010 at 11:01 PM
FIFY
Del Dolemonte on February 18, 2010 at 11:02 PM
The bottom two lines of his manifesto says it all.
Johan Klaus on February 18, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Yes. Yes he is.
29Victor on February 18, 2010 at 11:13 PM
Mr. Stack complained about what the left wants (big government and high taxes), but blames the right and in the end seems to support communism. No contradictions there.
Johan Klaus on February 18, 2010 at 11:16 PM
I agree that it means nothing, except that they were Socialists. You’re just guessing at history, aren’t you?
29Victor on February 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM
No.
KittyLowrey on February 18, 2010 at 11:20 PM
No one can beat Ron Pauls uncle for bad as*ed anti gubmint one madman army action.
BL@KBIRD on February 18, 2010 at 11:24 PM
So, the USSR, North Korea, ect., were not totalitarian? I beieve that the USSR had socialism in their name.
Johan Klaus on February 18, 2010 at 11:32 PM
Back to the trailer question, it doesn’t matter whether the Tea Party movement has an avowed credo or not in this circumstance. When a party is willing to edit something to the point that the meaning is changed as fully as the Washington Post did, then one can change a message to affiliate it with any group one wants, or even edit that groups position to match the desired message.
To put it bluntly, the Washington Post lied about the contents of his “manifesto” in order to tie it to the Tea Parties. They would be just as will to lie about the Tea Parties to tie them to his “manifesto” in turn. What the Tea Parties do or do not believe or profess to believe has no bearing on that.
Voyager on February 18, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Agreed, tho I would add that while Hitler left much of the industrial complex in place, Nazism and big business were so closely intertwined such that it bore little resemblance to any notion of capitalism as we know it. Also, the cynic in me would submit this was an alliance made more out of necessity than any sort of authentic pro-business sentiment on Hitler’s part. Who knows what might have happened had he won the war? It’s not inconceivable to me that he might have nationalized some businesses.
NoLeftTurn on February 18, 2010 at 11:43 PM
Is this supposed to be a serious statement….
……With this logic,you could be a member of the “Aryan Brotherhood” but the fact “Aryan” is in the name means nothing????
Racist????….uh..what do you mean….I am not a racist. Oh,you mean because I am a member of the Aryan brotherhood….so what….it’s just a name….
…just like these swastikas on my arm are just “tattoos”.
Baxter Greene on February 18, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Yes, I’m sure Hitler was just being pragmatic. A failure of the German industrial complex to meet production goals would have undermined his desire to build up for another war. As the Soviet experience proved (and we are finding in our own housing market thanks to the revolving door of Dem hacks at Fannie and Freddie), putting a bunch of political hacks in charge of an industry just because they share your ideology is a pretty stupid move. Turns out is isn’t just “bourgeois ideology” to require that the people running a business operation actually know something about business and that studying the Marxist-Leninist theory of how a business should be run is a poor substitute for that experience.
I guess if one wanted to argue that Hitler wasn’t a “socialist”, one might make the case that it’s true precisely because he wasn’t stupid enough to believe things that socialists believe. Imagine that, Hitler had more common sense than the typical socialist moron.
venividivici on February 18, 2010 at 11:52 PM
So if you write something that looks like a sign at a tea party you’re a tea partier.
But if you quote from Marx you are not a marxist.
Honestly, the reaction of the left and Legacy Media has been entirely predictable. Can’t we just call people who are generally crazy, crazy?
BadgerHawk on February 19, 2010 at 12:12 AM
F U WaPo contributor Jonathan Capehart
Cordially,
Yakko77
Yakko77 on February 19, 2010 at 12:16 AM
Rick Santelli and his rant were about 3 days late – and likely INSPIRED by Tea Party protests that were already occurring.
Rick Santelli is not a father of the Tea Party movement. He is a follower.
Mr Purple on February 19, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Now.. if only this guy screamed allah ackbar before taking the plunge, and all MSM will analyze how society can be engineered so to avoid this events.
His letter is very articulate, and I think it will serve as model for other actions.
Rookie on February 19, 2010 at 3:13 AM
That crazy professor that killed her fellow professors over tenure…she kinda sounds like a liberal doesn’t she?
Practiced before killing to insure good hits. Obamabot. Plenty more.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Now if a nut can be construed to be associated in some way with whatever the left determines the Conservative demon of the week to be…the media is most happy to accommodate.
Army Brat on February 19, 2010 at 6:33 AM
Next Up: Johnathan Capehart’s expose on why Unabomber Ted Kazinsky was an early Tea Party advocate.
BigAlSouth on February 19, 2010 at 6:36 AM
Well said. While I have to agree with some of the points in his letter, his final act was that of a homicidal maniac. And unfortunately this is only the beginning of the actions of people who feel they have lost everything.
ronnyraygun on February 19, 2010 at 6:39 AM
With it’s corporatist leanings the Nazi Party was anything but left wing. However, I wouldn’t dare, like some here do yo the Dems, compare the right wing in the US to the Nazi Party.
Trying to link the exisiting Democratic Party to the Nazi’s is sick.
But hey, have at it.
It makes great quotes on other sites, pointing out the lunacy of some posters here.
harry on February 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM
What an assinine name for that Forum- “Post Partisan”
Idiotic.
drjohn on February 19, 2010 at 6:54 AM
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Mr. Stack came from Northern California to relocate in Austin not only to start another software engineering business but to be part of the Sixth Street music scene.
“Billy Eli, a band member of Stack’s, has known the man for about five years and said he never suspected Stack had any political feelings.”
Mr. Eli said that for the 5.5-6 years he knew him, Stack was a down the middle sort of guy. Stack was the bass player in Eli’s country rock band, though other accounts wrote bass and piano, or even “rhythm bass” as if bass is rhythm guitar. No one has written whether or not Stack was still in the band until yesterday.
From the band’s website: “Eli’s songs, like Eli himself, are a beautiful mash-up of longing, misadventure, and what-the-hell fun.” Biography: “You know, man, life’s pretty easy till you mess it all up.” Eli was born to play in beer halls.
As likely as Stack never mentioning anything while drinking beer with his band mates is the more reasonable possibility that they all joked around about going crazy. People make stupid dares and come to stupid conclusions with alcohol and drugs.
What a cowardly shame murder suicide is. As if the tragedy of the deaths aren’t enough to lament for families missing loved ones, or the pain of massive burns isn’t a horror, whoever did this is making the tax payers pay for the terrorism, and insurance rates increase, and giving fuel to the progressive socialist Marxists who will clamp down on society by rescinding what liberties remain.
One thing Bush managed early on was influencing a “kinder, gentler” IRS. Then the heavy hand of Obama and Geithner brought the nation to such turmoil. So much for lower taxes.
maverick muse on February 19, 2010 at 6:56 AM
His problems with the IRS seem to have been happening for a bit longer than a year
harry on February 19, 2010 at 6:59 AM
It was only the image.
maverick muse on February 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM
Some one has even gone as far as creating a Face Book page,
painting him as a Tea Party guy ex post facto.
Tony Soprano on February 19, 2010 at 7:20 AM
If teaparties are held around specific issues or messages, then the people who agree on those will congregate. If they are some kind of general meeting to protest vague dissasifactions, then the type of people generally mad at government will congregate.
I wouldn’t show up, personally, to a general “I hate government” rally. LOL* That would not be my idea of interesting, nevermind fun.
Teaparty organizers need to establish a purpose for the gatherings. Otherwise, it’s ridiculous.
AnninCA on February 19, 2010 at 7:23 AM
What the he!! are you talking about.
The Post directly addresses your statement stating that having the name “socialism” in the name of your country does not mean you are a socialist.
Not anywhere in my post to I compare the democratic party with the Nazi party.
You have a serious comprehension problem.
But since you want to go on about ”
Trying to link the exisiting Democratic Party to the Nazi’s is sick.:
Here is some reality for you to “quote on other sites”.
“Bush is Hitler!!!”
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qwNGaeCRkvY/SnpmR2aWagI/AAAAAAAABKk/DRIgjuVlmRw/s1600-h/bhjpg.jpg
Bush as Hitler, Swastika-Mania: A Retrospective
Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:24 am
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=612
Pelosi Condones Rep. Grayson’s Nazi Smear of Conservatives
Video: Chris Matthews compares the GOP to the Khmer Rouge
posted at 8:30 pm on February 1, 2010 by Karl
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/01/video-chris-matthews-compares-the-gop-to-the-khmer-rouge/
I know this does not fit your self righteous narrative but
the truth is …nobody is more hateful and as you put it “sick” than the democratic party…so take a look in the mirror before you start whining with your selective outrage.
Baxter Greene on February 19, 2010 at 7:26 AM
This event has much more in common with Bill Ayers and the Weathermen than with the Tea Party.
drjohn on February 19, 2010 at 7:27 AM
I see, a BECKBOT–EPIC FAIL!
BobAnthony on February 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM
What is totally insane about this is I bet no one can put forth any proof that Tea Party supporters have actually committed any violence unlike the democrats have at these rallies.
We have democrats biting people’s fingers off…
We have democrats beating down black men in the streets while yelling racial slurs at them….
We have democrats smacking elderly people and knocking women out of wheel chairs….
…on and on and on democrats are committing acts of violence while the MSM and liberals try to paint the Tea Party as militant.
Pravda could not lie like this with as much consistency as the liberals do.
Baxter Greene on February 19, 2010 at 7:32 AM
You have to remember…Bill Ayers the marxist,domestic terrorist friend of Obama, is only considered by liberals as having committed a “few acts of vandalism”.
It’s Sarah Palin that is the real enemy, she wrote on her hand….
Baxter Greene on February 19, 2010 at 7:34 AM
True enough but sometimes this stuff happens without a political connection. Could it be possible that Joseph Stack is nothing more than an unhinged nutjob? There doesn’t seem to be any agenda further than sticking it to the IRS (compare to McVeigh who had plans well beyond the Murro Federal building).
highhopes on February 19, 2010 at 7:37 AM
of course when the whacko professor in Alabama shot her tenure board and one lone small newser had a blurb saying she was a devout Obama follower there was silence, I assume the msm had that news too, which in the end means sqaut in and of itds self, but you get the point. The new yorker mag and wapo, well hey they get a p[ass for being bores.
imperator on February 19, 2010 at 7:42 AM
I’m guessing the tea partiers all stand against crashing planes into buildings.
On whatever else they may have agreed or disagreed is immaterial.
Disturb the Universe on February 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM
When liberals can get done with their cut-and-paste smear jobs and lies that they are putting out about Americans practicing their 1st Amendment rights….
…maybe they could address a real serious issue.
The democratic VP states:
Yet we still have people able to fly airplanes into buildings.
When is the Obama administration going to take National Security seriously???????
Baxter Greene on February 19, 2010 at 7:52 AM
Let’s also remember that when asked about the possibility of attack within the next six months all the key players said that it was a certainty. Given that context, Biden is a complete idiot to say what he said.
highhopes on February 19, 2010 at 7:59 AM
OT: ED WILL BE ON CPAC STAGE INTRODUCING MICHELLE BACHMANN AT 12:20 PM.
ProudPalinFan on February 19, 2010 at 7:59 AM
At least he is consistent….consistently stupid…but consistent.
Baxter Greene on February 19, 2010 at 8:04 AM
Way to go out on a limb! :-0
Seriously, I simply do not see a political angle to this story. Sometimes an unhinged nutjob is nothing more than an unhinged nutjob. In this case, I see a guy who was fed up with the IRS so he decided to check out and take all his toys with him by burning down his house before taking out the office the was the focus of his rage. He was not yelling “death before taxes” “Allah Ahkbar” or any other political/terrorist type slogan as he was checking out.
highhopes on February 19, 2010 at 8:04 AM
The WaPo author behaves like a racist.
BottomLine5 on February 19, 2010 at 8:08 AM
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