Joe Stack

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“All right, back this. I have two, smack-in-the-middle-of-TIME Magazine articles about Mr. Andrew Joseph Stack, or is it Joseph Andrew Stack? Is it Joe Stack? You know, the media always, when they throw in somebody's middle name, it's a key, it's a tip-off -- they're trying to portray somebody as wacko insane”

It’s no surprise that Rush Hudson Limbaugh is familiar with this tactic. I’ve lost track of how many times Rush Hudson Limbaugh has used “Barak Hussein Obama” as if there is some sort of sinister reason behind Obama having the middle name Hussein. In the irrational world of the fringe movement it works like this, “Barak Hussein Obama, let’s see Hussein, Saddam Hussein, a supporter of terrorism Hussein was a terrorist and a dictator, Hussein, terrorist, dictator, Barak Hussein Obama therefore, Obama is a terrorist. “ You can see how ridiculous this thought process is, let’s illustrate it another way. Rush Hudson Limbaugh, Hudson is a river in New York, a plane crashed into the Hudson, Hudson, Rush’s middle name, the Hudson synonymous with a plane crash therefore, Rush Hudson Limbaugh caused the plane crash in the Hudson. I digress; there is a more serious issue at hand in this transcript the insane actions of Joe Stack who took his anti-tax anger too far by flying a plane into an IRS building. Did he have any political affiliations?

There have been reports of Stack’s link to the Tea Party movement. Do these links have any basis in reality or are they simply a way to cast a bad light on the movement? (Note: that last statement is not intended in any way to be an endorsement of the Tea Party, they are nuts but they aren’t necessarily Joseph Stack nuts.) There certainly doesn’t appear to be any direct links to the Tea Party movement itself. Stack’s anger was a reflection of the anti-government and anti-tax sentiments that exist throughout America on both the left and the right. It’s rather disgusting that some are referring to Stack as a patriot (http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/joe-stacks-daughter-samantha-bell-calls-dad-hero/story?id=9903329&page=2) taking an innocent life for political motivations is not patriotism it is terrorism. Of course, his name is Stack and not Muhammad so it’s unlikely that the America press will call it what it is.