Why the heck does ANYONE with two brain cells think they're going to get anything resembling the truth from AP anymore?
Posted on 02/19/2010 4:17:36 PM PST by Starman417
To implicate Taxed Enough Already in Joseph Stack's airplane attack on the Austin IRS building, AP reporter Jim Vertuno claims that the 1995 Oklahoma bombing was a tax protest:
The tax protest movement has a long history in the U.S. and was a strong component of anti-government sentiments that surged during the 1990s. That wave culminated in the 1995 bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City that killed 168 people. Several domestic extremists were later convicted in the plot.
Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh said otherwise. Like Stack, McVeigh provided a manifesto of his motivations. In "Why I bombed the Murrah building," McVeigh said that he was avenging the slaughter of the Branch Dividians at Waco. (Other letters also mention Ruby Ridge.) He never mentions taxes.
So is Vertuno's mis-description of McVeigh's motivation a bald lie, knowingly misleading readers in an attempt to rewrite history more congenial to his presumptions? Or is this mere ignorant presumption by a another of AP's leftist ideologues, assuming that whatever is most congenial to his presumptions must be the truth?
Either way, it is clear that he has no interest in what is actually true. If Vertuno does not know that he is misleading his readers it is only because he does not care whether he is misleading them, or he would have bothered to check.
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Why the heck does ANYONE with two brain cells think they're going to get anything resembling the truth from AP anymore?
It's the Federal Bureau of Incineration way.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
Hat tip:
http://blog.pappastax.com/index.php/2010/02/03/tax-protester-alert-the-irs-is-arming-itself
I remember that too, but frankly I didn’t believe it - it sounded at the time like they were engineering the story but decided to go a different direction.
Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here,
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