bobbyw24
02-19-2010, 11:32 AM
By: David A. Patten
Smoke from an inferno touched off by an anti-tax fanatic pilot who flew a single-engine Cherokee aircraft into an Austin, Texas, building containing IRS offices hadn’t even stopped Thursday when mainstream media outlets began suggesting that the conservative grass-roots tea party movement is to blame for the incident.
Authorities say an individual believed to be pilot Joseph Andrew Stack III posted a suicide note online, set his house on fire, and then flew his aircraft into a building that housed more than 190 Austin-based IRS agents. At least 13 people were treated for injuries, and two were hospitalized, officials said.
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.'" The story reported, "We're not saying Stack was a tea partier" and predicted the media would "use this as a chance to smear" tea party organizations.
A piece posted on 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."
http://newsmax.com/Headline/austin-attack-media-tea/2010/02/18/id/350266
Smoke from an inferno touched off by an anti-tax fanatic pilot who flew a single-engine Cherokee aircraft into an Austin, Texas, building containing IRS offices hadn’t even stopped Thursday when mainstream media outlets began suggesting that the conservative grass-roots tea party movement is to blame for the incident.
Authorities say an individual believed to be pilot Joseph Andrew Stack III posted a suicide note online, set his house on fire, and then flew his aircraft into a building that housed more than 190 Austin-based IRS agents. At least 13 people were treated for injuries, and two were hospitalized, officials said.
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.'" The story reported, "We're not saying Stack was a tea partier" and predicted the media would "use this as a chance to smear" tea party organizations.
A piece posted on 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."
http://newsmax.com/Headline/austin-attack-media-tea/2010/02/18/id/350266