Will the Austin plane crash cast a pall over the Tea Party movement?

Joe Stack, the man who flew a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, could give the growing Tea Party movement a black eye. At least that’s what The Business Insider ’s Joe Weisenthal said in a blog post. “In [Stack’s] insane manifesto, he rails against the IRS, bailouts, and, well, all of the right wing’s typical enemies,” Weisenthal wrote. “Is this fair to the right? No. Will some of the media use this as a chance to smear the ‘tea partiers’? Sure. But we’re no…

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