Media malfeasance, intentional distortion

MSM denial over IRS bomber's left-wing discontent
By: David Freddoso

Gee, looks like angry people! Must be the Tea Party movement!
Before crashing his plane into an IRS office building, Joe Stack wrote and posted online a diatribe against insurance and drug companies, private health care, George W. Bush, and the Catholic Church. Subtract out the subtle hints at his planned terror act, and a similar rant could have appeared in some form on any of several left-wing message boards.
Despite this, it isn't just willfully blind posters on those same left-wing message boards that are trying to insinuate some connection between the Tea Party movement and this apparent tax-evader and suicide pilot, who railed against Congress for failing to pass health reform. A reader emails in a few examples from the mainstream media, including this gem from New York Magazine, whose author does not seem either to have read the manifesto very closely or to have attended any Tea Party rallies:
"In fact, a lot of his rhetoric could have been taken directly from a handwritten sign at a tea party rally.”
Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post shoots from the same hip, and even goes out of his way to omit, without an ellipsis, Stack's attack on capitalism (and nod of approval to communism) at the end of his rant:
“But after reading his 34-paragraph screed, I am struck by how his alienation is similar to that we're hearing from the extreme elements of the Tea Party movement.”
Time Magazine settles for placing a reference link to another piece, The making of the Tea Party movement, in the middle of its coverage.
So the next time you see a Tea Party rally, try to spot as many anti-Christian supporters of health insurance reform who hate George W. Bush as you can. Send the photographs and videos to us at The Washington Examiner.
Seriously, though, you'd think educated, intelligent people would see the difference. Unless they don't want to see it.