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Lisa Myers: 'For a Year the IRS Essentially Knowingly Lied to Congress
NBC News senior investigative reporter Lisa Myers had some harsh words for the Obama administration Thursday.
Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Myers said, "For a year the IRS essentially knowingly lied to Congress and no one came forward" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
May 23rd, 2013 10:46 AM

Network Evening Shows Don’t Name Islam in London Terror Attack
What does a murderous jihadist terrorist have to do to get some recognition for his cause? You hack a British soldier to death in broad daylight on a London street while shouting “Allahu akbar” and then “swear by the almighty Allah” that you’ll never stop fighting, and the U.S. broadcast networks still can’t bring themselves to utter a word about Islam.
True, the ABC CBS and NBC evening…
May 23rd, 2013 10:08 AM
Fournier: Obama's 'Jihad Against the Press' Makes it More Likely We'll
With each passing day, it's becoming clearer and clearer that many of the current White House resident's followers in the media are really angered by his attack on the Associated Press and Fox News's James Rosen.
On MSNBC's Morning Joe Thursday, the National Journal's Ron Fournier said of this issue, "You can't make journalism a conspiracy...The irony here is that President Obama, by raising…
May 23rd, 2013 10:07 AM
Open Thread Thursday
For general discussion and comment about the news of the day and whatever else you'd like.
May 23rd, 2013 10:07 AM

Dennis Miller: 'The American Media is in an Abusive Relationship With
"Let's face facts: the American media is in an abusive relationship with Obama."
So marvelously said Dennis Miller on Fox New's the O'Reilly Factor in a discussion about the Internal Revenue Service scandal Wednesday (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):
May 22nd, 2013 9:51 PM
MSNBC’s Finney On IRS Scandal: ‘Why Didn't Romney Make More Of A B
You can take the flack out of the DNC but you can't take the DNC out of the flack, especially it's MSNBC regular and newly-minted weekend host Karen Finney, who today said that Mitt Romney should have made a bigger deal out of the IRS scandal on the campaign trail. The only problem, of course, is that no one knew about the IRS's malfeasance until well after the election.
On Wednesday's Now…
May 22nd, 2013 8:29 PM

Gayle King to Tom Coburn: Deficit-Neutral Disaster Relief Risks 'Alien
On Wednesday's CBS This Morning, open Obama supporter Gayle King strongly hinted to Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn that he would face voter backlash for seeking cuts in the federal budget to pay for tornado disaster relief: "You voted against relief plans for Hurricane Sandy, and it sounds that you would do the same if it was raised in Oklahoma. Do you worry about alienating your constituents…
May 22nd, 2013 8:16 PM

Politico Reporter: IRS Targeting of Tea Party 'Easily Influenced
The signs keep accumulating that the IRS scandal is worse than liberals are willing to concede.
On Bill Press's radio show yesterday, a reporter with left-leaning Politico told Press that the Internal Revenue Service dragging its feet on applications for tax-exempt status from tea party groups probably affected the outcome of last year's election. (Video after the jump)
May 22nd, 2013 7:51 PM

IRS Charged With Unfair Scrutiny of Pro-Life Groups' Prayer Events, Pr
“When it rains, it pours” is an accurate description of the situation currently faced by the Internal Revenue Service, which is under intense criticism for denying tax-exempt status to conservative groups with the words “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names.
As if that wasn't enough, even though the national media are not drilling down on this, the IRS is now being accused of delaying the…
May 22nd, 2013 7:02 PM
Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, meteorologist Joe Bastardi of Weatherbell Analytics -- formerly of AccuWeather -- argued against the view that global warming is causing more violent tornadoes and compared Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse's recent comments blaming recent weather disasters on global warming to "ambulance chasing." Bastardi:
May 22nd, 2013 6:34 PM

Obama Losing Chris Matthews? Host Rails Against 'Profiling' By IRS: It
If Barack Obama is losing Chris Matthews, he might be in serious trouble. The MSNBC host on Wednesday declared that the Tea Party is the victim of "profiling" by the Internal Revenue Service that is on the level of targeting innocent Muslims as terrorists. On the subject of former IRS official Lois Lerner pleading the Fifth, Matthews wondered, "Why, if you have nothing to hide and you're a…
May 22nd, 2013 6:25 PM
Jake Tapper Slams Obama Admin for Treatment of Fox News Reporter
CNN's Jake Tapper took Obama's Justice Department to task on his Wednesday afternoon show, sounding alarm over the "precedent" that the administration's investigation of Fox News reporter James Rosen would set.
Tapper directly challenged liberal defenders of President Obama: "But even if you side with this President over those of us in the media who challenge him in his administration, it is…
May 22nd, 2013 6:09 PM

Goldberg: Scandal Reporting Needs to Focus on Hard News, Not Political
Bernie Goldberg, a 12-time Emmy winning journalist and commentator for Fox News, appeared on the O'Reilly Factor Tuesday night to discuss the biased reporting that the liberal media is employing in their coverage of the IRS scandal, particularly how the media are desperate to spin the IRS scandal in the best possible light by holding it's likely not directed from the top echelons of the Obama…
May 22nd, 2013 5:45 PM

WashPost's Colby King Falsely Charges Colleague Krauthammer with Calli
Defending the indefensible can make a liberal journalist a little prickly. How else do you explain Washington Post columnist Colbert I. "Colby" King's specious attack on his fellow Post colleague and Inside Washington panelist Charles Krauthammer this weekend?
It all happened when Krauthammer responded to a Post editorial, published in Thursday’s paper, which asserted that UN Ambassador Susan…
May 22nd, 2013 5:45 PM