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Time Magazine Links Austin Suicide Pilot To Tea Party Movement
Newsbusters ^ | 02/18/2010 | Noel Sheppard

Posted on 02/18/2010 8:03:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind

In an article about Thursday's apparent suicide by a pilot in Austin, Texas, the folks at Time.com made two seemingly intentional links to the Tea Party movement.

First, the piece began:

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The long, rambling rant posted on a website eerily reflected the angry populist sentiments that have swept the country in the past year. In it, a Joe Stack inveighed against intrusive Big Brother government, corrupt corporate giants, irrational taxes, as well as the "puppet" George Bush.

(See the making of the Tea Party movement.)

Then, after the third paragraph which concluded, "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,'" the folks at time advertised the following article by the magazine with a hyperlink highlighted in yellow:

(See the making of the Tea Party movement.)

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Not very subtle, is it?

Let's be clear that tying this person to Tea Parties or conservatives is preposterous. After all, his suicide note ended:

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

You know a lot of conservatives and/or Tea Party members extolling the virtues of communism while bashing capitalism?

No...I don't either.

Shame on Time for doing this.

—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agitprop; boycotttimewarner; josephstack; liberalmedia; pravdamedia; smear; suicidepilot; teaparty; time; timelies; timemag
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To: SeekAndFind

They are really, really stupid.


21 posted on 02/18/2010 8:12:48 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SeekAndFind

How long until they blame part of it on Rush?


22 posted on 02/18/2010 8:14:05 PM PST by GOPJ (Nobody likes to be lectured by those claiming superior wisdom but lacking common sense - - Hanson)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; icwhatudo
Do These Sound Like The Words of a Conservative? (FR: Famous leftists ^ | 2-18-10)

All of the above are quotes from Stack's manifesto.
23 posted on 02/18/2010 8:14:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (DON'T SAY "Happy Valentines' Day". It's Happy Holidays! This is the Holiday Season (Prez Day Feb15))
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To: a fool in paradise
all I heard that he was from CA who moved to TX

he was a left wing loon though as he left a manifest of which he hates and that included Bush, church and health insurance companies

I don't watch MSNBC or even NBC, CBS, ABC but are they seriously trying to say he was right wing after the crap he left

We have maybe muslims poisoning the food in the army, a left wing kook from MA shooting folks and a left wing kook who slams his plane into a building

24 posted on 02/18/2010 8:14:48 PM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

What do you expect from left-wing provocateurs who see their once powerful influence dwindling to the bottom of bird cages and septic tanks? Stick a fork in’em ... they’re done.


25 posted on 02/18/2010 8:15:02 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: freekitty

The public accepts this conclusion. Time-Life-CNN-Turner-Warner wouldn’t lie, would they?!!!

it’s not like they are Dan Ratherbiased or Uncle Walter...


26 posted on 02/18/2010 8:15:09 PM PST by a fool in paradise (DON'T SAY "Happy Valentines' Day". It's Happy Holidays! This is the Holiday Season (Prez Day Feb15))
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To: manc
he was also against the GM bailouts but so is the left wing as they hate the freemarket.

Hey, the left is against the free market, but anyone that is for the free market would have been against the bailouts. I think you meant that the left hates 'Corporations', right?
27 posted on 02/18/2010 8:16:02 PM PST by lmr (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: artichokegrower

I bet as we speak they are at KOS, MOVE ON, DU deleting the names of this whack left wing job


28 posted on 02/18/2010 8:16:10 PM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: SeekAndFind

Seems fair, here at FR, he’s been linked to the liberal party, the communist party, and the socialist party.


29 posted on 02/18/2010 8:16:22 PM PST by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like Obama sent his marching orders to the press around 3pm today.


30 posted on 02/18/2010 8:17:42 PM PST by rintense (Only dead fish go with the flow, which explains why Congress stinks.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

But it isn’t going to stick. The guy was nut who fled California but found Austin too conservative, which just proves how nutty he was. He was a liberal who was ready to kill his own family, who hated George Bush, and who hated the Catholic Church. In fact he was a typical liberal in that he hated almost everything, and in the end I guess he even hated himself.


31 posted on 02/18/2010 8:18:07 PM PST by pepperdog (As Israel goes, so goes America!)
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To: SeekAndFind

It appears as though the commie piggies in the MSM are going to use this as an excuse to NOT cover the antics of their pals, The Ft. Jackson Five.


32 posted on 02/18/2010 8:18:14 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If the CIA and NASA are going to "monitor climate change", why the hell do we need the EPA?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Tea Partiers are really anti-religious too.


33 posted on 02/18/2010 8:18:42 PM PST by GeronL (I pledge allegiance to the Principles of the Bill of Rights and to protect and defend it...)
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To: a fool in paradise

LOL


34 posted on 02/18/2010 8:19:02 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: manc

The Holocaust Museum shooter was also a leftist and they said he was a righty


35 posted on 02/18/2010 8:20:40 PM PST by GeronL (I pledge allegiance to the Principles of the Bill of Rights and to protect and defend it...)
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To: Dead Corpse

Liberals are full of FAIL.


36 posted on 02/18/2010 8:22:32 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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To: pepperdog

He left his wife and daughter homeless.


37 posted on 02/18/2010 8:23:10 PM PST by GeronL (I pledge allegiance to the Principles of the Bill of Rights and to protect and defend it...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Huh? This thing gets more “Alice in Wonderland” by the moment.


38 posted on 02/18/2010 8:23:34 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: manc

Los Angeles County (he did live in LA awhile) requires birthdate (which will come out sooner than later) and street address and zipcode.

https://lavote.net/SECURED/VOTER_REG/

But he may get purged in light of this high profile news story.

Since he did not like 8 years of Bush, I doubt he was a McCainiac or a Sarah Palin fan.


39 posted on 02/18/2010 8:23:40 PM PST by a fool in paradise (DON'T SAY "Happy Valentines' Day". It's Happy Holidays! This is the Holiday Season (Prez Day Feb15))
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To: darkangel82

This isn’t always a bad thing. Too bad right now they seem to have superior numbers...


40 posted on 02/18/2010 8:23:45 PM PST by Dead Corpse (III, Oathkeeper)
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