It’s all the Tea Party’s fault
Here we go again. Something bad happened this week, so….fire up the Tea Party-bashing engine. My syndicated column today looks at the Left’s unhingedness over the Austin suicide pilot and the Amy Bishop campus massacre, which as I noted yesterday, reeks of the same craven political exploitation as the Kentucky census worker hoax. Since filing the column yesterday afternoon, there are even more examples to add to the pile. Allahpundit spotlights a Washington Post contributor and Time magazine piece both shoehorning the Tea Party movement into their suicide pilot coverage and commentary.
Damn the facts. There’s a crisis to exploit. You know, now would be a good time for a uniter-in-chief — an agent of hope and change in Washington — to call for civility and healing and a ceasefire on inflammatory attacks against peaceful Americans who had nothing to do with this attack. At 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, crickets chirp.
Latest development in the case: The suicide pilot’s wife plans to address the media today.
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It’s all the Tea Party’s fault
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Remember “Not Me?” He was the famous invisible cartoon gremlin in the newspaper cartoon strip “Family Circus.” Whenever toys were left on the floor or other school-age disasters struck, the kids in the cartoon pointed their fingers at “Not Me.” Today, “Tea Party” is the juvenile Left’s new “Not Me” – an all-purpose scapegoat for every crime and disaster.
On Thursday morning, a disturbed pilot flew a stolen small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office. Several workers in the building were injured and Joseph Andrew Stack, the pilot, was killed in the crash. Local authorities suspect he set his house on fire – from which his wife and daughter escaped — before taking off on his deadly journey. Investigators found a Web posting identified as Stack’s “suicide manifesto” in which he railed against tax laws, inequity, government, and crony capitalism. He also targeted “puppet” George W. Bush and murderous health care insurers and the pharmaceutical industry.
The “manifesto” 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.
This nutball had deadly grudges that transcended partisan lines. But within minutes of the story breaking, a furious, left-wing blogger at the popular Daily Kos website – where countless Democrat leaders have guest-posted – fumed: “Teabagger terrorist attack on IRS building.” The article immediately cast blame on the anti-tax Tea Party movement: “After months of threats on the United States government, and government institutions, the Anti-Government forces known as the teabaggers have struck with their first 911 (sic) inspired terrorist attack.”
At the eponymous mega-website of Arianna Huffington, a 2,000-plus comment thread was filled with allusions to “teabaggers:”
I would bet he has a membership card to teabag nation and the Glenn Beck fan club !
Tea bag bomb
Good to see natural selection still works! Tea party Unite!
This guy sounds just like a teabagger.
Oh please. This has tea bags dripping all over it.
I hope teabaggers are proud!! …. Great opening day for CPAC [the Conservative Political Action Conference] isn’t it??
This guy sounds like a Tea Partier first class! Maybe that movement is more DANGEROUS to our freedoms than they let on! Be afraid America, BE VERY AFRAID!
He was a Tea Party Terrorist.
In the early aftermath of the suicide pilot’s attack, there was no evidence that Stack belonged to a Tea Party group. In any case, no law-abiding Tea Party group would ever condone what he did. But it didn’t stop the haters from immediately smearing advocates of limited government. And it’s just the latest in a long line of calculated attempts to paint the vast majority of peaceful Tea Party activists as terrorist threats to civil society.
This week, absurd liberal pundits and bloggers also tried to connect the tragic University of Alabama-Huntsville murders to the Tea Party movement. No matter that the alleged killer, Amy Bishop, was an Obama-worshiping academic who repeatedly got a soft-on-crime pass. Or that Democrat Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts was the former prosecutor involved in dropping charges against Bishop in the deadly shooting of her teenage brother. Or that liberal-dominated campus officials apparently looked the other way at Bishop’s several red-flag flashes of violence leading up to the U of A shootings.
Tea Party-bashers claimed that the murders were a manifestation of racist conservative influence on the American landscape. CNN commentator Roland Martin pointed out that all the victims were non-white and wrote: “One can imagine that as Amy Bishop continued to shoot, bomb and kill people with impunity, eventually this obsession (with Obama) might have played itself out with some horrific results.” [CORRECTION: This quote was not made by Martin. My syndicate editor caught it last night and removed it from the syndicate version of the column. I forgot to remove it from my blog version. I apologize to Martin and regret the error.] Reuters Foundation Fellow Jonathan Curiel picked up the theme: “The ‘results’ that the Tea Party movement envisions include less government — and less of Obama.”
Curiel bemoaned the rejection of a post-racial society by tying together the Alabama massacre and the rise of the Tea Party movement even more explicitly. Proof of anti-Obama bigotry he wrote could be found in “last week’s shooting in Alabama, where a disgruntled white professor murdered three minority professors; and the growing success of the Tea Party movement, which is overwhelmingly white and increasing vocal in its violent dislike of the nation’s first black president.
The same warped worldview blamed Tea Party conservatives for Kentucky census worker Bill Sparkman’s insurance-scam-inspired suicide and for Holocaust Museum shooter James Von Brunn’s rampage (despite his published rantings against Fox News).
The smear merchants, of course, are simply following Rahm Emanuel’s advice to exploit every crisis. Pointing fingers at the Tea Party gremlin demonizes the Left’s most potent political opponents. This is the blame-gamers’ ultimate agenda: Criminalizing dissent.
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I’ve been to some tea parties and I haven’t seen any tea partiers “tea bagging” anyone so who are they talking about?
Have these bashers been trolling again?
And yet, if we who despise our current taxation/confiscation system dare speak “law and order” without the approved NBC gavel sound, we are R-R-R-R-R-RAAAAACISSSST!
To bad they can only find fault and not solutions.
The pilot flew his own plane. Kind of sounds like a rich freaked out BDS Kos Clown.
I thought it was Bush’s fault?
It has become obvious that this can no longer be tolerated. We need ‘Comprehensive Plane Control’.
Michelle, for your webmaster(s), I’m getting a 404 when logging out.
The left is proof that God gives some over to a reprobate mind.
(Romans 1:18-32 is worth the read)
The progressive “tea bag” fixation is now pathological. It must be hell to live with an angry, adolescent world view void of fact-based rationality.
This one just cracked me up;
“Rep. Michael McCaul, a Republican from Austin on the Homeland Security Committee, said the panel will take up the issue of how to better protect buildings from attacks with planes.”
Yeah right – ‘Plane Control’.
I’m surprised that the loony left had overlook the fact that he’s one of them. A Communist. Usually they are proud of their heroes such as pedophiles, Marxist, terrorist and other trailblazers.
So, the looney left is admitting that the Tea Party movement is so powerful that we’re affecting looney, leftwing, liberal, Obummer-boot-kissing professors, and wacko’s who just hate everybody up to and including his own wife and children.
We have on the run!
I guess these bashers don’t get that it will not affect us one bit if they accuse us of somehow encouraging this nutjob pilot. If anything, it will only fire us up even more!
and CAIR jumped on the bandwagon last night with a press release saying it wa an “act of terrorism”
yeah right
Yep, too often people do not wait for all the facts and then mischaracterize and misrepresent them. Who will be the first to stop?
Will anonymous bloggers on the internet stop assigning motive and making unsubstantiated assertions? I doubt it. Will media types continue to put a question mark at the end of a sentence and defend themselves by saying it is just a question? Will editorialist and columnist continue to give us their opinions dripped in bias, and wrapped in salaciousness to solicit an emotional response?
It very well might be a new world, because the media cycle is 24/7 and everyone is sharing their opinion.
What hasn’t changed are getting the facts and the truth.
These Leftist scum most certainly DO have solutions-akin to the Final Solution. When Bambi called the Constitution a “Bill of Negative Rights” he was but trying to clear the way for his New Daddy/mentor William Ayres and the “twenty five million unrepentant capitalist dead”.
Oh yes these Leftist have solutions. Stalin and Mao are still their Heroes. Hitler fell out of favor with the Left ONLY because he invaded their sacred Soviet Union. But these scum only slam the Tea Party people because they fear them-this is a good thing.
Have Tea Bag
Will Travel
Just for kicks, how about someone do a search on how much the KOS and HuffPo crowd’s own sentiments match exactly with the uni-planer and the wacked out UAlabama Obama girl? I think you’d find a jackpot.
No, all of these nutcases sounds like EXTREMIST LIBERALS TO ME.
I’d bet these people, and a lot of terrorists are KOS posters.
I hate calling people ‘stupid’ or ‘slow’, but it is really incredibly comical how out of touch these Democrats are.
They disparage ‘Tea Party’ which, for whatever it is, is approved by nearly double of any of the actual parties in the nation as a whole.
Pelosi started it out by calling them Nazi’s and racists and most importantly ‘astro turf’. Then Obama chimes in with his ‘people waving tea bags around’ and laughing at it. The CNN lady at the meeting in Chicago. Then the town hall meetings where people address their congressmen with outrage only to be dismissed.
FINALLY the media begins to realize that nearly HALF of America identifies with the ‘Tea Party’ movement. So they begin to cover it as an AMERICAN story so they could increase their ratings.
NOW this ridiculous event happens, and the Democrats are so intent on being the ‘big tent’ that they are and accepting and tolerant of many different opinions. . . that they disparage half of America by calling them responsible for this suicide.
These would be the first people to cry ‘Islamophobia’ if you mentioned a terrorist’s religion and the fact that he may have said ‘Allah Akbar’ when killing people.
If you want to make sales, you need people to like you. I don’t guess the Democrats with Kos, Huffington Post, and the tea party disparagers want to increase their party.
They must be dense. They are definitely tone deaf, but I gave them the benefit of the doubt of just being slow until this.
Oh, irony.
Once again we need to recall the words of wisdom of a famous philosopher of the 20th century: “Don’t bother to question an absurdity. Just see what it accomplishes.” What this accomplishes is keep the democrat-leftist base agitated and on high-alert. Since they dominate the culture, this is a very effective tactic for keeping the fighting edge of the Left and demoralizing the Right.
My sense is that, unfortunately, this version of the two-minute hate is working. Bloggers such as D. Schlussel and Michael Fumento have come out strongly against the tea partiers as morons and anti-semites, in short the usual “Nazi” smear, slightly dressed up and perfumed. Yet neither appears to have ever attended a tea-party event or spoken with the people there. It just seems so unnecessary. They read it in a newspaper that the Tea-people were awful and that is all they need to know.
Although that nut mentioned Bush by name & not Obama, O’Reilly idiotically said he is anti-Obama & anti-Bush. Don’t know where O’Reily got that.
It’s really unbelievable that there are people whose minds are so warped that they could write these posts. I think there is a core of people in this country who will never be converted to constitutional government. They are blinded by the progressive ideology that has been pumped into our society for decades, like sludge from the septic tank.
I wish I could say I was surprised by the left’s behavior in this regard, but I can’t.
As George Bush recedes into history, the left needs a new “Dr. Evil” to feel mortally threatened by. The tea partiers will have to suffice, I guess, as a bunch of “Mini-Me’s.”
I caught the local news late last night after work. No mention of his Bush-hatred, just the IRS angle. As Sgt. Muldoon said in “The Green Berets”,
“Newspapers. You can fill volumes with what you don’t read in them.”
Because they didn’t get a decent education in American History.
O’Reilly tries so hard to come across as a “non-partisan” sorta guy that he can be deliberately obtuse sometimes. To come across as “even-handed,” he sometimes finds moral equivalence between left and right where there is none there.
To the left, the Tea Party is the new George Bush. This will backfire as this time they are demonizing not just a man but millions of ordinary Americans. Unlike George Bush they will fight back against the slurs.
I can barely stand listening to that j*ck*ss anymore. His “folks” shtick is patronizing and I have learned to never trust anybody that claims they are looking out for me. It’s almost as annoying as Dems claiming they are going to “fight” for my rights, health care, children, etc…
I mentioned it yesterday, and I must repeat it today, “these daily Kos, huffing and puffing post folks must be pimply faces 14 year olds, because they only that demographic can look at the world and see the exact opposite of reality.” Any parent has dealt with this surreal span of life, but through the magic of the internet, we get to keep hearing these “you always loved my sister more than me!” nonsense every time you tell the left it has to take out the trash for the free room and board you give it. Will these children ever grow up. Maybe the coming depression will force them into reality as the 1930′s forced the flappers into reality.
When the Kos and Huffpo people throw this kind of stuff out they hope they can get people to agree with them.They can’t get me or any “TeaBaggers” to change our minds.The left eats this stuff up because it is what they want to hear.Let them believe it.Everyone knows the MSM is worthless.Is something like this going to turn you?
Wasn’t there another gremlin in family circus named Ida know?
As I’ve posted before, we haven’t watched O’Reilly for a year and change, and feel we haven’t missed a thing.
Segments are too short.
He has frequent loons on whom he challenges too seldom and too meekly…so often ending with a lame, dopey, “See, we agree on something.”
He interrupts incessantly, especially just when you might want to hear what a guest has to say. I didn’t used to watch the show to listen to him, but rather to listen to his guests.
But, the biggest reasons are that, to me, at least, he comes off as not being all that sharp; and as thinking himself to know far more than he actually does, and as being far smarter than he actually is.
BTW, I do not care that he used to be a teacher; or that he used to live/work at this, that, or the other place.
I only hope the liberal, wacko, left keeps it up until November. Every time they do this, it drives more voters to the polls to vote against them. November is shaping up to be a landslide of historic proportions. I can’t wait.
When confronted by the Left’s wild-eyed accusations, just smile, and tell them they need a hug and a cookie.
Tony Snowe got it right. So did Ronald Reagan.
I see no need to get indignant. We need to show total confidence in our values and positions. There is no need to be defensive or upset. Just smile, respond with humor, and enjoy your day that God’s given you.
Oops, almost forgot….
One of the last straws was when O’Reilly gave the annoying Geraldo the spitter a pass on his comments about our hostess.
Do you have a source for the claim that he was a Communist?
Wasn’t the lady who was denied tenure at the University of Alabama a big-time Obama supporter? It seems to me that the socialists are the ones up in arms.
Too bad for the whiners, but the majority of Americans believe the government spends too much, and does not govern with their just consent.
I’m not condoning the Communist nutjob who attacked the IRS. I’m merely pointing out that most of us do not believe the government is acting in accordance with our wishes. In the long run, that is not sustainable. It’s going to end, when there is nothing left to take, when nobody will lend, and the paper you print is rejected, or sooner. It will end.
Regarding the adolescent/fascist/socialist/collectivist/statist/opposite worldview-holding, convoluted, torturous (please stop me!) reasoning of our domestic-enemy, America-hating socialists;
I can only once again say that they are the witchcraft trial court, and we are on trial for witchcraft…and, thus, there cannot be any reasoning with them.
Please see Elizabeth Taylor’s witchcraft trial in “Ivanhoe”, and Connie Booth’s witchcraft trial in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.
I actually can not argue with that.
I’m a Tea Party conservative who doesn’t care one bit for Fox News. They are mutually exclusive organizations with entirely different agendas , which kind of undermines your point in the Von Brunn example.
Granite, I always assumed you were made of wood.
I don’t know, it was Fox News that introduced me to Michelle Malkin!
Also Ann Coulter, Gretchen Carlsen, Megan Kelly…
Yeah, Fox is cool.
Mass blogging to blame Tea Partiers for evil acts.
Then it becomes news.
Strategy to put us on the defensive.
Actually, I consist partly of little stones that float.
And, I am a specialist in using rams’ bladders to prevent earthquakes….
You are a learned man of science; that is apparent. If I have questions regarding the lifting capacities of European and African swallows, I now have a source to get my answers.
It’s good to know you’re out there.
I’ll be happy to help.
Just please be sure to specify whether they are laden or unladen.
Oops.
Sorry.
For some reason, I mistakenly thought you were referring to air-speed velocities.
Who’s the race baiter?
The fact that Amy Bishop was a professor in a college automatically labels her a liberal.
Stack seems to have had more leftist leanings than not.
Based on the above, I’d have to conclude that it’s the liberal, communist/socialist agenda this current administration is failing to implement is what’s causing these extremists to come unhinged and start committing the violence they accuse right wingers of committing.
Anyone willing to sign an “airplane control bill” to fight the proliferation of airplanes as weapons?
You’ve got it. We all know that we only wish to improve our government. If we have to constantly defend ourselves, we won’t be proactive but reactive.
I heard yesterday that official registrations for Tea Party number over 12 million. When you add in our families, friends, neighbors and other people who know us, that’s a lot of people. That means that most Americans know better than to be fooled by this nonsense.
Are these people just disconnected or are they crazy?
If they come after you with a scale and a duck…….run!
When reading Stack’s diatribe, something jumps out near the beginning.
Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having tax code readings and discussions. In particular, zeroed in on a section ralating to the “wonderful exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except we weren’t steeling [sic] from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God).
In other words, he bought into one of those fly-by-night scam outfits that promises to teach you how to game the non-profit tax laws and get rich quick – for a fee of course. The result is obvious and inevitable – the IRS justifiably cleaned his clock. Then later, this genius does not file a tax return and the IRS nails him again. Instead of saying “well, that was stupid, and getting a life – now he thinks he is the poor, persecuted “victim” of those “people”, the American medical system, drug companies, insurance companies, the IRS, the Air Force, Arthur Anderson execs, Pat Moynihan, senators, congressmen, Austin TX, engineers, the FAA, GW Bush, wealthy sows at the government trough, government hypocrites…to name just a few. In other words, he is oppressed by and ticked off at just about everybody. Apparently he was in therapy, and his tome shows pretty clear signs of manic depression, paranoia and likely bi-polar disorder, again, to name a few.
So if the leftwhackos want him to be a tea partier, well, knock yourselves out. No one buys it and they just continue to prove their cluelessness and irrelevance.
The socialists cannot dazzle with brilliance; so, they attempt to baffle with bu!!$h!t, the only nonviolent arrow that remains in their quiver.
Wise advice.
Thank you.
I will also never let them put a carrot on my nose.
I think one can write an article that Congress should be blamed for Stack’s suicide flight.
The IRS is forced to collect taxes approved by Congress. With the Bush tax cuts set to expire and Obama and his ilk in full support of their expiration, one can say the poor man was driven to a desperate act, because of increased taxation and the threat of massive deficits.
BARNEY FRANK IS A MURDERER! ! !
/sarc
See I can do delusional as well as any Leftist blogger.
You can tell we are in the middle of a “civil war” in this country, except there are no guns being fired; it’s all done with words. It’s become a bitter fight and we need to be the victors. I see a major victory this Fall, hopefully, breaking the back of this nonsensical move to marxism.
Sorry, Flyman, you just don’t have it. It’s a gift.
For a person who wants to be drunk, just one drink gets them there.
For the hateful childish left, any manufactured excuse is a fifth of whiskey.
Agree.
I’ve believed for years that we are in an intense, nonshooting civil war against America-haters that hold a diametrically opposite, irreconcilably different worldview.
Why is it that left wingers are always the first to get the blame out in front, while the right is always playing defense? How despicable to lay blame for this horrendous act on people who just want the government to back off and give them some breathing space. No conservative I know, nor tea partier wants to overthrow the government. We just want to return to the Constitution. And I’ll say it here first – I loudly condemn and renounce what this coward Stack did. He couldnt stand up and take it like a man so the dirty little coward killed himself and who knows how many others. It takes way more courage to face life head on than it does to kill yourself.
I also agree.
I gave up on Schlussel years ago. It seems she doesnt like fat people, of which I am one. The picture on her blog makes her look anorexic, but she was on a news show and she was positively an overweight cow. Physician, heal thyself.
I think victory can be achieved at the ballot box.
It is driving the left nuts(well, more than usual) that they can’t Alinsky the Tea Party. Because there is no leader, they can’t use their favorite tactics of isolating and polarizing. The leftists in the press first tried to ignore it, when that didn’t work, they tried ridicule. That has backfired, so now they will try to discredit the movement with ANY loon that they can try to tie to the Tea Party, no matter how far a stretch. They are counting on people being as stupid as they think they are. We’re not.
Thanks for crushing my dream of having a “work from home” job.
Am I the only one who thinks that Joe Stack was trying to cheat on his taxes, but got caught?
Doesn’t that put him in the company of Democrats?
FoxNews.com now has a story up where they pretty much do their best to scare the reader into panic over anti-tax, anti-government groups (for which the name no names, but merely give descriptions. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586904,00.html
The plane bomber was clearly a TAX PROTESTOR. (An actual IRS label). However, occasionally people on this blog sound like tax protestors when they blog about not paying any darn tax.
There are “groups” out there who, in order to completely avoid paying taxes, try to become soverign nations or religious institutions or claim the tax ammendment wasn’t valid. BUT THAT IS ILLEGAL and not in keeping with the law abiding platform of the Tea Party.
If you read his manifesto (really it’s a history of his adult life), it is obvious this guy was at a minimum left of center. So to call him a far right extremist is silly.
Here in Austin, there is debate raging if this should be classified as a terrorist act. To my surprise, many of the conservative talk shows believe it should be considered terrorism. I don’t think it is. It was a distraught guy who felt powerless to stop the IRS bully, and his life (particularly his financial situation) was out of control. A terrorist, in my mind, kills indiscriminately. He was after anyone working for the IRS, who he obviosuly hated. The designation of terrorist or not is pointless really. But the Feds don’t want to call it terror for political reasons (no terror attacks on my watch), and the left wants to call it terror because then they can say “see white people are terrorists too so don’t just target muslims”. Just like they pull up Timothy McVeigh anytime airport profiling is brought up for discussion. They hold up the exception as the rule.
Unfortunately, the gov’t will have knee jerk reaction and make private air flight so difficult, the enthusiasts give it up. Just the way the gov’t works.
You really have a way with words! Great post. May I quote you?
Bwahahahahahaha!!! You make it too easy, zyzzzzzz! Did you do that on purpose to give us a good laugh??
This is exactly what I predicted (22 hours ago) in my last tweet yesterday:
http://twitter.com/FightTheSmears
Bottome Line – Tax Protestors are basically ornery.
Tea Partiers are concerned law abiding citizens.
It sure sounds like this guy was a Communist, not a Capitalist.
For anyone to suggest that a Communist represents the agenda of the Tea Party movement is absolutely ludicrous.
The Tea Party movement is direct opposition to Socialism and Communism.
nah…global warming made him do it….
Except you, in trying to be sarcastic, still end up making sense.
Now, if you’d said that Barney pointed his little ray gun at Stack like a remote controlled joystick and MADE Stack fly into the building, that would be more like a Libtard ™ rant.
I’m following you.
(Sounds creepy unless you know Twitter.)
I’m @gmirwin BTW.
The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.
Capitalist creed:
the ants pick the food
the ants KEEP the food
Interesting…
I consider myself a Tea Partier, and I consider myself overtaxed, and I consider myself oppressed by the government.
I haven’t been thinking about anything like this.
Seems a stretch.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
The guy was a son of Cindy Sheehan and Obama. He ranted about the Catholic Church, George Bush, health care, “the rich”, corporate profits, big business, sleazy executives, and shrinking government.
He also bashed the corrupt unions, the GM bailout, airline bailouts, Moynihan, and a specific tax code change that affected him.
He was an anarchist with a nod to communism, not a conservative or tea-partier.
When you see the handwriting on the walls of November,2010:
Fear and flailing
…is a funny old dog.
Her brother too?
On February 19th, 2010 at 12:13 pm, battleaxe said:
… sort of like the guy who bombed the U.S. Capitol Building…
So is the MSM now going to start calling Bill Ayers a “teabagger”?
plymouthacclaim – Followed you back!
Swede, here is someone with “the gift.”
Living, you are my better…..
The longer it takes to find out this guys political party affiliation, the more likely it is that he is a registered democrat.
I went to Fox News to see what they had to say about it.
Tiger Woods.
Now no one should fly a plane into a crowd…………it is just not right…..
but if they must……..
This is worse than that fat stripper who died in the islands awhile back-Anna Nicole Smith.
As an anarchist/Marxist who targeted and bombed a building housing a government agency, Joseph Andrew Stack has more in common with Bill Ayers than he does with any Tea Party attendee that I have ever met.
Bingo. ‘Just like it seems to take Barack forever to say/do anything about Muslim terrorists when such has been happening.
Has the left forgotten about their ‘nutty professor’ already?
Um, I guess I would disagree. His little ditty is a rather pathetic attempt to condemn both communists and capitalists. If you read the diatribe, he is unhinged and royally ticked off at everybody, save perhaps his dog.
Seems like saying he is a communist – and by extension a liberal – sounds as erroneous as saying he is a tea partier. In reality (which eluded him)…porch lights on but nobody home – several bricks short of a load, fruitcake, elevators don’t make the top floor, etc.
Thanks!
I read his screed, too. Sounds like he was deliberately pushing IRS buttons. Yes, the tax code is too complex. Yes, the government needs to get out of the way of small businesses.
But, dude.
I saw a condemnation of capitalism–it looked as if he were embracing communism. Yes it would be odd that a communist owned a private airplane–but then “green” celebrities often own private jets and multiple homes.
Perhaps the man was just dying to be a celebrity. If we were to eliminate the IRS we could reduce El Wackos targets.
Years ago, I took a part time job with our CPA to help pay for my kid’s private school tuition. The CPA also did Tax Problem Resolutions on the side.
All kinds of people came through his office, but the worst were the Tax Protestors. They were mostly ornery people who hated paying anything, including their bill. I learned their arguments, and why none of them hold water. As long as there is case law, and there is pleanty, the courts have the power to make you pay taxes, period. Most people understand that its cheaper and easier to pay as little tax as legally possible, than to fight the IRS. The plane bomber/tax protestor had a problem facing reality.
His tax issues were not analogous to any Tea Party value.
I think the Dems are the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party where up is down and right is left.
This is the same distorted logic that leads them to believe that record cold and snow are evidence of global warming.
Ehhhh, I just can’t buy it. Actually he stole the airplane used, but he was a capitalist. He owned and operated his own software engineering business, and got pounded by the IRS for admitedly trying to manipulate the non-profit tax codes (He, umm, thought he was in the same IRS category as the Roman Catholic Church, only more ethical.)
I guess from the whole context, I took it that in his little ditty, the “communists” (IRS/government) were taking from “each according to his ability” (him) and giving to those in need. At the same time he sees himself in the gullibility camp being fleeced by the greedy capitalists (engineers, Bush’s cronies etc).
Bottom line, (politics aside) he was a nut job and hated everybody.
On February 19th, 2010 at 8:41 am, zyzzyg said:
Yep, too often people do not wait for all the facts and then mischaracterize and misrepresent them. Who will be the first to stop?
That is true in the Human race as a whole Zyggy, as we all make mistakes, but this is the media we are talking about and your post sounds like you are indicting ALL media, including right leaning(AKA Fox Drudge and others). The VAST majority of the “media mistakes” (I would term propaganda) have been well documented by Michelle and are from the Lame Stream Media. EVERYONE is biased but the left takes it to a new level…Virtual lying…
Not that many Republicans (maybe John McCain) would rant about George Bush, Enron and greedy insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
Plus, he is a bass player from California. Just like Charles Johnson.
Case closed. Libtard. Now a dead libtard.