Archive for February, 2010

It didn’t take long for the mainstream media and liberal bloggers to get their crazy wheels spinning last week. In less than 24 hours after Joseph Stack flew his plane into an IRS building, they began working every possible angle that might link the disturbed software engineer to the conservative Tea Party movement. To hear liberals tell it, Stack had all the makings of a quintessential right wing Tea Party prototype. It took some inventive leaps of logic, but they managed to construct some lame comparisons.

If you go by Joeseph Stack’s lengthy and meandering suicide manifesto, he didn’t like Catholics, George Bush, big business, or capitalism. He didn’t even like the city where he was living. In fact, if his angry and bitter 3,000 word coup de plume is any indication, Stack didn’t like much of anything. Is this what the Left is using to make their case for a Tea Party connection? Sort of, but in a weak and unconvincing way. Stack was angry and frustrated, supposedly like the Tea Party followers. But the clincher is that he also hated the IRS. Ah ha! There’s your classic radical right wing wacko: An angry white guy who doesn’t like paying taxes.

It’s liberal deductive reasoning that’s more Clouseau than Columbo. And leftwing pundits and bloggers have since been feverously at work trying to make their contrived conclusions stick, by connecting random dots into a confusing diagram of liberal aberration. Joseph Stack has become the Left’s latest right-wing booger bear: a paranoid construct of biases and misperceptions designed to satisfy their bigotry against conservatives. But that’s their story and they’re sticking to it.

It seems these days that everyone is demanding an apology for something. You can’t open your mouth without offending someone somewhere. But if you mean what you say to begin with, there’s no reason to apologize, is there?. That works the other other way too. If someone insults you, why demand an apology when you know they meant it?

Although this video has a strictly historical perspective, I couldn’t help but see the parallels to today’s liberal elites–those overly-sensitive politically correct sob sisters on the Left. It’s a righteous video.