NYSlimes sets about to shove criminal IRS behavior down the memory hole The Washington Post has two front-page above-the-fold articles on the scandal, a news story and an in-depth look at the IRS in the wake of the controversy. There’s also a tough lead editorial expressing renewed outrage at the IRS’s conduct and demanding thorough reform. Yet after the first dramatic day of congressional hearings, the New York Times has
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May 14, 2013
Nancy Pelosi blames the IRS scandal on Citizens United [Darleen Click] UPDATED
… because one should never let a crisis go to waste … REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): Well, I think it’s an opportunity. Let me say it this way, if, in fact, the IRS was targeting people because of their title, that would be wrong. It should be condemned. The whole idea, of 501(c)(4)s being engaged in politics is something we’ve got to put in a spotlight and maybe this is
May 10, 2013
IRS: Remember when we said in Feb 2012 that we make all decisions in an impartial manner … [Darleen Click]
… without regard to ideology? Tea Party chapters around the nation are blasting the Internal Revenue Service after the federal agency sent them letters demanding information about their politics, contributors and even family members. In letters sent from IRS offices in Cincinnati earlier this month, chapters including the Waco (Texas) Tea Party and the Ohio Liberty Council were asked to provide a list of donors, identify volunteers, financial support for
February 16, 2013
When taxpayer money for medical research is used for political hit-jobs [Darleen Click]
William Jacobson muses What “medical research” will look like in the age of Obamacare Had I but world enough and time, I would write something original about the sickeningly stupid argument that the Tobacco industry and Koch brothers began planning for the Tea Party movement over a decade ago and long before anyone had even thought up the Stimulus and Obamacare legislation which actually sparked the movement in 2009-2010. The
October 12, 2012
Dog bites Man: Columbia “J-School” hosts uniform pro-Occupy/anti-TEA Party Panel [Darleen Click]
Joseph Pulitzer is rolling in his grave. Harry Stein writes: According to the most recent Gallup poll, distrust of the mainstream media is at an all-time high, “with 60% saying they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.” Anyone still wondering why might look into a symposium held last week at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, long the nation’s