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Saturday, February 20, 2010

The media are blaming the Tea Parties after Joe Stack flew his plane into an Austin office complex Thursday. What else can be blamed on the Tea Parties?
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Ileana
This individual was a very disturbed man, illogical in his rantings,covering the spectrum from left to right wing ideology, blaming society for his mistakes and problems, not assuming responsibility for his shortcomings.
Society, the government, and its people are imperfect but we don't kill innocent bystanders and loved ones in order to claim some vindication of wrong! People lose money all the time, we have to pay taxes we don't like, but it is our duty as citizens.
The tea party movement cannot possibly be responsible for all the kooks out there. Most members are God fearing, American patriots who want to salvage what is left of our trodden and abused Constitution. I wished politicians would give it back to its rightful owners since they are not using it much. Congress is becoming so irrelevant with Obama's czars and commission that I don't know why we need it anymore.
Of course the drive-by media is blaming the tea party members! They have no ammunition left but lies!
Posted February 20, 2010 at 1:30:56 AM
MC
George Bush must be happy to finally have a competitor in the blame game.
Posted February 20, 2010 at 2:20:18 AM
Ruth Ann Wilson
I think the news report listed 1. IRS contentions 2. Wife 3. Catholic Church and there may have been maybe, one more item that disturbed this man according to reports.
But when you look at just the "contentions" I have listed, the poor man was just "overcome with grief".
Convolution and turmoil in our Beloved Country is hard to brook.
I have an "anchor that keeps my Soul", "It is steadfast and sure" That is the Promises of God in the Scriptures. Thank God for His Sure Word to US.
For God & Country
Ruth Ann Wilson
Posted February 20, 2010 at 8:50:24 AM
Parson Mac
So the disturbed pilot is the product of right wing-ism via Tea Parties run amok?
But the rejected left-wing professor who would have been tenured Queen said off with their heads as she capped her colleagues (and raised questions about earlier associations with death and mayhem) is merely a "troubled soul" that points to "we, the sick society" that "normalizes gun violence" (David Love at the Huffington Post).
Methinks the "leftward HO!" modern mediocre media is Mad as a Hatter...
Posted February 20, 2010 at 11:07:41 AM
Duke of Earl
What else can be blamed on the Tea Parties?? Let me think:
World War I and II
Communism
Socialism
Federalism
The assassination of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy
The War of Northern Agression
Custer's Last Stand
The Korean and Vietnam wars
The Cold War
The building of the Berlin Wall (the liberals brought down the wall)
The Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters
The Graet Depression (the hisotry books blame Hoover, funny that)
That should be enough to start revising all of our history books.
There is one event that can actually be laid at the doorstep of a Tea Party; The American Revolution of 1776. Maybe Tea Parties aren;t as bad as the liberals would have us think.
Duke
Posted February 20, 2010 at 12:14:40 PM
Gigi
Glenn Beck read his "manifesto" he left behind, and after each grievance, he said whether that was more of a dem/lib issue or Republican issue. There were a lot of them, but it ended up sounding about even. This man was unhappy and just fed up with all of it. Rush played clips of the media desperately trying to connect this man with the Tea Party. It was so funny because you think, how in the world did they go from that to get there (not unlike the libs' excuses). This may be a really good thing, because when we take back our country in November, & finish cleaning house in 2012, everyone will be awake - whether they like it or not, and the media will go down. I'm not so sure they will last that long, but at least we have a couple of "good" things that will come out of this current administration. Remember - it took Carter to get Reagan! REMEMBER TO NOVEMBER - SEND THEM ALL PACKING!!!
Posted February 20, 2010 at 2:29:06 PM
weatherman
I don't believe for an instant that what Joe Stack said was what he really said. This is too big an opportunity for the radical left, those in control, along with the sycophantic press to NOT take advantage of... to spin, to propagandize, to out and out lie.
Posted February 20, 2010 at 2:36:28 PM
rich b
Sorry lamestream media, but this nutcase is a lefty if anything. If you read his rantings, its a left-wing list of nonsense for the most part. The tea party has nothing in common with this guy. Just like the JFK assassination, the lamestreamers hoped it would be a crazed right winger only to find the truth was the opposite. The tea party people are so clean cut and normal that the media really has to really go out of its way to play the blame game.
Posted February 20, 2010 at 4:39:28 PM
James Peters
I think that the Tea Party magnanimity should take excellent credit for the albeit tragic plane incident in Austin as the (servant federal) government Party is over as it concerns the multi-trillion dollar lie, hoax and fraud that is the irs.
Posted February 20, 2010 at 6:26:29 PM
Jeff
Great list but no one mentioned the Hindenburg.
Posted February 22, 2010 at 8:53:32 AM
Alex
the scarcity of tea
Posted February 22, 2010 at 9:46:59 AM
Charles L McKinnon
The same thing that caused the people to stand against the big brother government growing in Washington caused the man to finally collapse into insanity. The IRS had been causing calamity in this guys life for years and finally he realized incorrectly that the only choice for him was to show the world it couldn't run over him, he would take care of it himself.
Posted February 22, 2010 at 1:16:02 PM