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red states rule
02-28-2010, 06:10 PM
Once again the liberal media smears anyone who stands up and openly opposes the Dems tax and spend policies






The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged

By FRANK RICH
Published: February 27, 2010

No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on which political event will prove the most significant of February 2010, I wouldn’t choose the kabuki health care summit that generated all the ink and 24/7 cable chatter in Washington. I’d put my money instead on the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen.


What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it. Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner. That rant inspired like-minded Americans to create instant Facebook shrines to his martyrdom. Soon enough, some cowed politicians, including the newly minted Tea Party hero Scott Brown, were publicly empathizing with Stack’s credo — rather than risk crossing the most unforgiving brigade in their base.

Representative Steve King, Republican of Iowa, even rationalized Stack’s crime. “It’s sad the incident in Texas happened,” he said, “but by the same token, it’s an agency that is unnecessary. And when the day comes when that is over and we abolish the I.R.S., it’s going to be a happy day for America.” No one in King’s caucus condemned these remarks. Then again, what King euphemized as “the incident” took out just 1 of the 200 workers in the Austin building: Vernon Hunter, a 68-year-old Vietnam veteran nearing his I.R.S. retirement. Had Stack the devastating weaponry and timing to match the death toll of 168 inflicted by Timothy McVeigh on a federal building in Oklahoma in 1995, maybe a few of the congressman’s peers would have cried foul.

It is not glib or inaccurate to invoke Oklahoma City in this context, because the acrid stench of 1995 is back in the air. Two days before Stack’s suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow’s chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. The Patriot movement. “The New World Order,” with its shadowy conspiracies hatched by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Sandpoint, Idaho. White supremacists. Militias.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28rich.html

Kathianne
02-28-2010, 10:06 PM
Fisking Rich:

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025709.php


WHO'S OBSESSED AND DERANGED?

February 28, 2010 Posted by John at 4:47 PM
Frank Rich of the New York Times retired as a drama critic in order to take up his new role as the paper's full-time drama queen. As an op-ed columnist for the Times, his assignment, apparently, is to write in such a hysterical fashion that Paul Krugman seems rational by comparison.

Currently, the most-recommended article on the Times web site is Rich's column, "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged." The "axis," as described by Rich, includes 1) a murderer, 2) kooks, 3) Tea Partiers, and 4) Republican politicians and Presidential candidates. The point of Rich's column is to suggest, in his usual subtle fashion, that these groups are more or less interchangeable.

Rich starts with "the murder-suicide of Andrew Joseph Stack III, the tax protester who flew a plane into an office building housing Internal Revenue Service employees in Austin, Tex., on Feb. 18. It was a flare with the dark afterlife of an omen." The last sentence is classic Rich. I'll hazard a guess that Stack's murder-suicide was not an omen of anything, and will not ignite a rash of intentional airplane crashes.

Rich admits that "Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a 'Tea Party terrorist.'" No kidding: Stack had zero connection to the Tea Party movement. None. So why would it occur to anyone to refer to him as a "Tea Party terrorist"? This is not guilt by association, this is guilt despite a complete lack of association. Rich suggests that the answer lies in Stack's online political screed:


But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner.

No, it doesn't. Stack's essay is left-wing, not right-wing; it ends with a denunciation of capitalism and a quote from the Communist Manifesto. The Tea Party is a highly diverse movement, but you will find very few Communists in it....

Insein
02-28-2010, 10:28 PM
I still don't understand how people think the Dude with the IRS building was a Tea Party guy? In his little farewell letter he chastised Obama for not getting HealthCare passed or some nonsense didn't he? He blamed the IRS for ruining lives but wanted government to take more. The guy was all over the place. I think its funny how the media is so quick to label him a "terrorist" and paint him as a tea-party member when they still won't call "Islamic Extremists," terrorists.

BoogyMan
02-28-2010, 10:29 PM
This is standard sick liberal rhetoric and it is only going to get worse as America stands up to the sociallists and Marxists and shuts them down.

HogTrash
02-28-2010, 11:15 PM
I suppose since liberals are terrified of Tea Party folks, they are in a sense "terrorists". :dunno:

This is a good thing! :salute:

red states rule
03-01-2010, 08:03 AM
Now the libs are trying to start their own version of the Tea Party - they call it the Coffee Party

Now let me get this straight. The Dems run both the House and the Senate - and have the Whiye House; so they are starting this group because nothing gets done in DC?

Bet the lefties go after only Republicans and ignore the fact it has been Dems who have prevented bills from getting passed




The Coffee Party and the Tea Party
February 27th, 2010 · 13 Comments
A group calling itself the Coffee Party has begun to make waves in the political blogopshere following an article on the new organization published in the Washington Post yesterday. Independent progressive blogger Liberal Arts Dude looked into the group and has written up a post describing the organization and its aims, its relation to the tea party movement and its future potential. Some excerpts:

It all started with documentary filmmaker Annabel Park venting her frustrations on her Facebook page about media coverage that made it seem that the Tea Parties were representative of the “real America.” She vehemently disagreed and her comments on Facebook got a lot of feedback from people who similarly felt pent-up and frustrated.

Their name the “Coffee Party” directly references the Tea Party movement and presents itself as an alternative. Park argues elected officials who represent us should work towards positive solutions to the problems the country faces instead of adopting obstructionist political tactics that play on peoples’ fears and which are driven by deliberate misinformation.

The Coffee Party is currently organizing nationwide. It is stressing the message that its members are voters who intend to hold elected officials accountable to holding up progress. Its members will participate and be engaged in the political process. . .

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2010/02/the-coffee-party-and-the-tea-party/

Little-Acorn
03-01-2010, 03:04 PM
These leftists are desperate to divert attention, both from their own plans for the country, and from their failure to achieve many of those plans. So they'll make up stuff like this night and day, trying to get people talking about ANYTHING but the Dems' own cupidity.

No accuracy necessary (fortunately for them). If they can get people to lambaste them for saying silly and dishonest things, then those people will not be busy analyzing the likely effects of socialized health care, expanding government, govt-run Ponzi schemes (aka Social Security, Medicare etc.) and a national debt larger than the country's GDP.

The Democrats would MUCH rather have people talking about the bad things they said, than talking about the bad things they did and are still trying to do.

Articles like this are a win-win scenario for the Democrats. Or so they think.

Gaffer
03-01-2010, 11:29 PM
When something is successful the left tries to copy it and they always fail. Expect coffee party to be about as popular as air america. With the same out come.

red states rule
03-02-2010, 06:21 AM
When something is successful the left tries to copy it and they always fail. Expect coffee party to be about as popular as air america. With the same out come.

This is more like The Instant Coffee Party

and they will have minorities and women getting them the coffee as usual

Kathianne
03-02-2010, 06:30 AM
This is more like The Instant Coffee Party

and they will have minorities and women getting them the coffee as usual

Oh, but they will get the coverage, they already are:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/01/surprise-nyt-now-covering-lefty-coffee-party/


Surprise: NYT now covering lefty “Coffee Party”
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First WaPo picked up the beat, now the Times chimes in with a flattering profile penned by Kate “Is Jason Mattera a racist?” Zernike. The first blog post on the CP website is dated February 23, as is the “About Us” page, which means it took the two biggest papers in America less than a week after the new site started posting in earnest to catch lefty grassroots Coffee Party fee-vah. (Their Facebook page has been up since last month.) Fancy that.

It’s good to be the king.


It had nearly 40,000 members as of Monday afternoon, but the numbers were growing quickly — about 11,000 people had signed on as fans since the morning…

The slogan is “Wake Up and Stand Up.” The mission statement declares that the federal government is “not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges we face as Americans.”...

red states rule
03-02-2010, 06:37 AM
Oh, but they will get the coverage, they already are:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/03/01/surprise-nyt-now-covering-lefty-coffee-party/

Oh, the liberal media will give them glowing coverage, much as they did the lefts answer to talk radio

Anyone remember Air America?

Yet the same members of the liberal media who attacked the Tea Party as a bunch of white government hating racists will adore and cheer on the big government liberals of the Instant Coffee party

I do not think it will work however

red states rule
03-02-2010, 10:08 AM
and of course you still have the usual suspects in the liberal media smearing anyone who has a different POV

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