It’s getting tiresome that the liberal media will use the ramblings of any extremist on Twitter and try and associate them with the conservative movement. CBSNews.com [on their 48 Hours Mystery page] blogged the AP and the New York Daily News reporting that Austin suicide pilot Joe Stack has fan pages on the Internet:
"Finally an American man took a stand against our tyrannical government that no longer follows the Constitution," wrote Emily Walters of Louisville, Ky.
"Joe Stack, you are a true American Hero and we need more of you to make a stand," tweeted Greg Lenihan of San Diego, according to the paper.
...If they think that’s not a sop to the left, the Daily Kos rejoiced at the story:
I don't find it that surprising that teabaggers have adopted Joe Stack as their "True American Hero" (a big attaboy to CBS News for correctly identifying Mr. Stack as a "domestic terrorist"). When your movement is led by the likes of Glenn Beck and Orly Taitz, you need all the fresh heroic figures you can get.
But it gets more bizarre, as "Crashing Vor" ties Joe Stack to Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin:
After a moment's thought, however, their choice of new role model falls neatly into their preexisting pantheon. He'll fit nicely in the frame with the guy named Joe the Plumber who is neither, the half-term governor who proved that a winner never quits by quitting, and the legions of power-tied, blow-dried yammerheads reading their condemnations of teleprompters--from teleprompters.
The teabagger--oh, sorry, Tea Party--movement raises as its standard bearers the most mediocre of American wits, and its members justify their choice of mentors with a perverted sense of egalitarianism. Why are Palin, or the Joes Stack, Wilson and Plumber, inspiring? Why, because "they're just like me!"
At least the blogger derides himself as an old crank, and suggests he would never be a hero to the left. Like Markos Moulitsas is, for publishing this kind of lazy guilt by association?
[Hat tip: Rock Me Bob and Betty]
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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A stupid story from begining
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:42 ET by Mitchell BlattA stupid story from begining to end. Here's the last line:
Facebook has since deleted the "Joe Stack" fan page, but others seem sure to follow.
I hope the AP gives us an update on the all important topic if other Facebook groups follow with 2 members, as they seem sure to.
when the news doesn't fit
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 12:46 ET by notonmywatchwhen the news doesn't fit their template, they just make up the news instead.
Stack was a leftist. See, for example http://www.newsnmax.com/blog/
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It is a crying shame these
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:59 ET by ricklailIt is a crying shame these libs can't read and understand. Stack was a libturd. Read his manifesto. As far as anybody praising what he did well they are just as derranged as he was.
Semper superne nitens
Amy Anderson a Progressive
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:31 ET by allanfSo why don't they tie Univeristy of Alabama Professor and alleged shooter Amy Anderson to the Progressive movement?
Bias you can count on.
Right
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 10:52 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsStack was a leftist commie and it wouldn't surprise me if he had given money to the Dems. Somebody check that out, please.
And who supports Obama and the left? Bill Ayers, The New Black Panthers (and the old ones), Weather Underground, various racist 'African-American' and radical muslim organizations, etc..
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You can smell the fear.
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:02 ET by NeoKongThey are so desperate to discredit the Tea Partiers that they will
resort to anything. What next...? A story about how his cable t.v.
plan included Fox News ? I can't wait for November.
So Conservative bloggers are
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:35 ET by BKeyserSo Conservative bloggers are dangerous and unreliable, but any goofball with a twitter account is newsworthy? Who develops the curriculum at the Columbia School of Journalism, David Shuster?
Daily Kos is an electronic
Sun, 02/21/2010 - 11:48 ET by samhermanmdDaily Kos is an electronic therapy group for liberals, and reading the posts I can see how many of them suffer from borderline personality disorders with mood disorder overlays. This is a common presentation among attention-seeking, narcissistic BPD patients. When you encounter the bipolar types further into the dissociative symptoms, then it is time to worry. Those posts are examples.