Media Use Austin IRS Terror Attack to Slam Tea Party Movement

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Despite the fact that Stack's suicidal diatribe made no mention of the tea party, the Colorado Independent reported,

"There will be more attacks. Stack was not right or left. He may or may not have been a Tea Partier."

BusinessInsider.com ran a headline titled:

"The Austin Texas Bombing Is A HUGE Image Blow To The 'Tea Party.'"

Time magazine's web site, meanwhile, did not contain the words "tea party." Yet it carried a link in crimson letters halfway through its report titled:

"See the making of the tea party movement."

Washington Post editorial board writer Jonathan Capehart, who wrote:

"I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement."

Like all such liberal hit pieces, [insert:


ABC: Joe Stack Hailed as Hero in American 'Patriot' Resurgence

WaPo: Austin Suicide Pilot's 'Alienation Similar To Extreme Elements of Tea Party Movement'

MSNBC: ' Southern Poverty Guest Ties Stack To 'Radical Right'

NY Mag Jumps on Liberal Bandwagon, Ties Joe Stack to Tea Parties

Newsweek Links Stack to ‘Right Wing Terror,’ Inexplicably Mentions Racism

CNN's Sanchez and Velshi Omit Stack's Communist Sympathies


Capehart did not provide any rationale for linking the wanton act to the conservative grass-roots movement sweeping the nation, which liberal commentators have ridiculed from the outset.

Rich Noyes, research director for the Media Research Center watchdog organization, characterized the mainstream media's inclination to link the attack to conservatives, without evidence to support it, as "obnoxious."

"I mean, this is what editors are for, to prevent this kind of impugning of a movement that represents millions of people with genuine grievances about the direction their government is taking, and some nut who is irritated with the IRS because he has to pay his taxes and doesn't think he should."

Asked his reaction to media reports linking the tea party movement to the tragedy, Holloway told Newsmax,

"I think it's just the whole notion of a few people in politics, and I'll include some of the media, that everything is about political process rather than about people. Here you've got a terrible tragedy involving so many people, and the first thought is: 'How do I use this to forward my own agenda and to try to attack someone else's?'

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