{"id":361557,"date":"2010-02-25T07:46:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69076"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:46:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:46:55","slug":"early-morning-swim-rachel-maddow-and-glenn-greenwald-discuss-steve-king%e2%80%99s-comments-about-irs-suicide-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361557","title":{"rendered":"Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow and Glenn Greenwald Discuss Steve King\u2019s Comments about IRS Suicide Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9yKAroA-rQ8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9yKAroA-rQ8&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"350\" height=\"283\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>King was just giving voice to what lots of right-wing extremists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/22\/AR2010022201433.html\">were thinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>While most Americans surely see Joseph Stack as an angry, misguided man whose final act was repugnant, his suicide mission has clearly tapped a vein of rage among anti-tax, anti-government extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The way they see it, &#8220;he did the ultimate flipping of the bird to the man,&#8221; said JJ MacNab, a Maryland-based insurance analyst who is writing a book about tax protesters. &#8220;He stuck it to the man, and they love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is not surprising Stack would be portrayed as a hero on fringe Web sites such as stormfront.org, a forum for white supremacists. But admirers also are expressing their appreciation on mainstream sites such as Facebook, where a fan page supporting some of the things he said in his six-page manifesto had more than 2,000 members Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine the Malkin\/NRO\/GOP freakout if someone had put up a Facebook tribute page for the Ft. Hood Shooter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69076&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69076\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King was just giving voice to what lots of right-wing extremists were thinking. While most Americans surely see Joseph Stack as an angry, misguided man whose final act was repugnant, his suicide mission has clearly tapped a vein of rage among anti-tax, anti-government extremists. The way they see it, &#8220;he did the ultimate flipping of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}