NY Times Crank Frank Rich Confuses Marxist Killer With Tea Party Protesters
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, February 28, 2010, 4:47 PM
On February 18 a crazed leftist loon wrote a Marxist manifesto on his internet page and then flew a plane into an IRS building. It took dishonest crank Frank Rich writing at The New York Times 10 days to distort the truth and blame it on the tea party protesters.
He’s slipping.
What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it. Stack was a lone madman, and it would be both glib and inaccurate to call him a card-carrying Tea Partier or a “Tea Party terrorist.” But he did leave behind a manifesto whose frothing anti-government, anti-tax rage overlaps with some of those marching under the Tea Party banner. That rant inspired like-minded Americans to create instant Facebook shrines to his martyrdom.
Frank Rich forgot to include these Marxist lines written by the kamikaze pilot before his fateful flight.
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.
For some reason Rich forgot to mention these Marxist lines in today’s column.
Astute Bloggers has more.
More… John Hinderaker dissects Rich’s Republican hit piece today.
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BHG commented:
We need to e-mail Bill Keller with quotes from Stack’s last message and demand that Rich be contradicted and corrected. Tea Partier’s are Marxists? The NYT looks idiotic.
Corporal Vere commented:
What a maroon! Anyone that reads the NYT is a moron.
myna commented:
Frank Rich is heading to the abyss. The guy is fringe lunatic.
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BHG commented:
Clark Hoyt is the ombudsman at the NYT and can be e-mailed at public@nytimes.com You can read the Stack manifesto at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586627,00.html
It’s plain that Rich took the WaPo story of 2-18 as gospel and didn’t bother to check to see if Capeheart got it right.
Who ever it is they hired at the NYT to keep track of what’s going on inthe blogosphere ought to be fired.
Galt commented:
That type of smear used to work well, back when Americans were distracted by their daily lives and could easily think “those crazy conservatives” were out there somewhere having bad thoughts.
But these days people hear the smears and immediately realize (as they long ago could have): “oh snap, they mean ME!”
So you do what you gotta do, NYT: tell all those honest Americans what you really think of them. Don’t worry, the college faculties won’t ever cancel their subscriptions.
ebayer commented:
Joe Stack has more in common with Bill Ayers than the Tea Party participants.
If it’s ok for Bill Ayers and his ilk to bomb buildings,then it’s ok for Joe Stack.
Just think if Stack had survived…he may have gone on to teach at Columbia or Berkley.
Galt commented:
“Just think if Stack had survived…he may have gone on to teach at Columbia or Berkley.”
Stack had serious tax problems. Between that and his marxism he could’ve held a Cabinet post.
Opus #6 commented:
Rich is a fool.
BarbaraS commented:
The left has to say Stack was a right wing nutcase. This is what they do. They are desperately looking for something, anything to bring down or muzzle the Tea Party movement. They sure don’t want to claim him themselves. Also, isn’t it interesting that in the case of Stack it was not a lone mentally ill person but a right wing terrorist right off the bat? All the other actual terrorists hit jobs were poor mentally ill loners with Arab names but they were not terrorists, oh no.
mbabbitt commented:
Frank Rich exemplifies the moral bankruptcy and intellectual dishonesty of the Left. It’s demagoguery in full display. When I was a Liberal I thought my side was the singular moral force in America; now I see the Left side as addicted to ad hominem attack groupthink; they are fools, filled with their own echo chamber thought sickness.
AuntieMadder commented:
BarbaraS
February 28th, 2010 | 10:51 pm | #12
The left has to say Stack was a right wing nutcase. This is what they do.
And they’ll say it enough times that it will become a fact to most.
Jon commented:
It’s no surprise a writer at the New York Times made this “mistake”. They make these “mistakes” all the time to keep the liberal lemmings in NYC and their readers around the country indoctri…err, i mean informed.
Lech Dharma commented:
Right-wing conservatives (Tea Partiers) are not out to “destroy” government—left-wing anarchists are.
I’m surprised that Frank Rich, or someone of his ilk, hasn’t figured-out a way to link the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes to “man-made” global warming, or to right-wing conspiracies….yet.