to play bass in the Billy Ely Band and, if you want to check out some of
his pre-mad-plane-crasher work, you can. (Here are more pictures of him.)
The Internet at present is more interested in Stack's ideology than his
bass playing. Rightbloggers hurried unto the breach with two missions:
Asserting that Joe Stack was a creature of the Left, and protecting
themselves from anticipated charges that Joe Stack was a creature of the
Vodkapundit says the death-flight reminds him of "a
right-wing terror plot against the IRS -- which [SPOILER ALERT!] turns
out to be a false-flag operation masterminded and funded in part by the
US government." This is from a novel called Let Us Prey. "It's all a terrible,
last-ditch effort to get people to rally behind Big Government and make
'tax protestor' synonymous with 'terrorist,'" says Vodkapundit, though
it's unclear whether he refers to the novel's plot or ... someone
else's.
"He was a crazed Bush-hater kinda like Amy Bishop," says Instapundit.
"Nothing to see here, move along..." "Left-Terrorist," preempts Virginia Virtucon.
"They won't be able to blame this one on the Right," says Weasel Zippers. "He was a Kos, DU mentality. An
ObamaCare loving Moonbat."
The American Spectator's Jeffrey Lord, in a stunning display of reach,
noted
that Stark attacked "the very same IRS that, using Obama-think, is
itself the Guantanamo-style symbol of bad things in store for the
American taxpayer at a time when everyone is saying taxes will have to
be raised. ... If this incident does in fact show that someone with a
grudge against the IRS did this -- does this mean this incident is
Obama's fault?"
"How long until this act is tied to the Republicans, and the
"tea-partiers"... despite the fact this happened in Austin, which prides
itself on being an 'island of blue' in the heart of Texas ... how will
they account for the rage in their own city?" says Right, Wing-Nut. "Denial, like many in New York did
after 9/11, and even more fanatical blame on the right?" (There's your
"Have You Forgotten?" of the day, fellow citizens.)
Not only rightbloggers felt obliged to defend themselves. "You can bet
that socialists and welfare statists will aggressively associate
libertarianism with this violent outburst for years to come in order to
smear our movement and our message," wrote The Humble Libertarian.
"Manifesto Endorses Communism: Koz Kidz Call it 'Teabagger Terrorism,'"
cries Ace
of Spades. "We're about to see the media double-standard in
starkest terms."
At this writing, there are actually far more accusations that someone is using the
term "teabagger terrorism" than there are claims of "teabagger
terrorism," though you will find similar imputations ("Anti-Fedgov
Crazy" -- Post Politics; "Teabagger Man of the Year"!" -- Xenophile) if you look hard enough. And there's
always Janeane
Garofalo's Twitter feed ("Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn
Beck
and Bill O'Reilly created the atmosphere for a Joe Stack!").
The brethren show admirable message discipline, though you have to
wonder why they feel compelled to begin the conversation with "Don't
blame us."
Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere
appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.
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