IRS Scandal Archives

Pew Study Confirms That Fox Is Dominant Source of ‘News’ on the Right – Liberals Rely on Many Sources

October 21, 2014October 21, 2014 Jon Ponder

graph-pew-differences-in-liberal-conservative-news-sources The PewResearch Journalism Project has released a study that confirms what is already clear: The American right gets most of its information about politics from Fox News, while the left relies on multiple sources, including CNN, NPR, MSNBC and the New York Times.

According to the study, consistent conservatives:

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Said Entirely Without Irony, We Assume

June 17, 2013 Buck Banks

One of the worst abuses of power imaginable.

— Vice President Dick Cheney, quoted by National Journal, on the IRS targetting of conservative groups.

The Testimony Issa Suppressed: Self-Described Conservative Republican IRS Official Said He Initiated Extra Scrutiny on Tea Party

June 11, 2013June 11, 2013 Jon Ponder

Reuters:

A U.S. Internal Revenue Service manager, who described himself as a conservative Republican, told congressional investigators that he and a local colleague decided to give conservative groups the extra scrutiny that has prompted weeks of political controversy.

In an official interview transcript released on Sunday by Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, the manager said he and an underling set aside “Tea Party” and “patriot” groups that had applied for tax-exempt status because the organizations appeared to pose a new precedent that could affect future IRS filings.

Cummings, top Democrat on the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee conducting the probe, told CNN’s “State of the Union” program that the manager’s comments provided evidence that politics was not behind IRS actions that have fueled a month-long furor in Washington.

“He is a conservative Republican working for the IRS. I think this interview and these statements go a long way toward showing that the White House was not involved in this,” Cummings told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.

“Based upon everything I’ve seen, the case is solved. And if it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on,” he added.

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Issa Conjures Shades of McCarthyism

June 5, 2013 Buck Banks

In a reminder of how the GOP overreached during the Clinton-era sex scandal, [Rep. Darrell Issa, (R-CA)] doesn’t seem capable of letting damning facts speak for themselves. … Note what Issa is doing. He does it all the time–start an unsubstantiated allegation with an absolute declaration (‘when in fact’) and follow it with weasel words (‘the indication is’). This smear-and-caveat technique allows him to ruin reputations without being called a liar. Issa is a demagogue with plausible deniability.

— Ron Fournier, writing in National Journal.

A Plurality Don’t Believe Obama on IRS Scandal

June 5, 2013 Buck Banks

47%

Of Americans say they don’t believe Obama on the IRS controversy, compared with 40% who say he is being truthful, a new Bloomberg poll finds. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds 55% of poll respondents said IRS scrutiny of conservative groups raised some level of doubt about the administration’s “overall honesty and integrity.”

Republicans Can’t Resist the Urge to Invoke Nixon

June 4, 2013 Buck Banks

Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS was engaged in shutting down or trying to shut down the conservative political viewpoint across the country — an enemies list that rivals that of another president some time ago.

— Rep. Hal Rodgers (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post.

Plurality See IRS Probe as Most Important of Three Scandals

May 30, 2013 Buck Banks

44%

Of voters see the IRS probe as the most important of the three controversies surrounding the White House — Benghazi, IRS targeting and seizing reporter phone records — with 24% citing Benghazi and 15% picking the AP records seizure, a new Quinnipiac poll finds. But voters say 73% to22% that dealing with the economy and unemployment is a higher priority than investigating these three issues.

IRS Official Takes the Fifth

May 22, 2013 Buck Banks

Because I’m asserting my right not to testify I know people will assume I’ve done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic rights of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals and that’s the protection I’m invoking today, thank you.

— IRS official Lois Lerner, quoted by the Washington Post, in a prepared statement before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.

Three Strikes — Out!

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

First, it was the whole Benghazi embassy mess,
Then, it was the Tea Party scandal with the IRS.
Of course, everyone agrees,
Bad things come in threes.
Wait for it — Justice was spying on the Associated Press!

IRS Asked One Tea Party Group 55 Questions

May 14, 2013 Buck Banks

Tag: IRS Scandal

Pew Study Confirms That Fox Is Dominant Source of ‘News’ on the Right – Liberals Rely on Many Sources

Said Entirely Without Irony, We Assume

One of the worst abuses of power imaginable.

— Vice President Dick Cheney, quoted by National Journal, on the IRS targetting of conservative groups.

The Testimony Issa Suppressed: Self-Described Conservative Republican IRS Official Said He Initiated Extra Scrutiny on Tea Party

Issa Conjures Shades of McCarthyism

— Ron Fournier, writing in National Journal.

A Plurality Don’t Believe Obama on IRS Scandal

47%

Republicans Can’t Resist the Urge to Invoke Nixon

Of course, the enemies list out of the White House that IRS was engaged in shutting down or trying to shut down the conservative political viewpoint across the country — an enemies list that rivals that of another president some time ago.

— Rep. Hal Rodgers (R-KY), quoted by the Washington Post.

Plurality See IRS Probe as Most Important of Three Scandals

44%

IRS Official Takes the Fifth

Because I’m asserting my right not to testify I know people will assume I’ve done something wrong. I have not. One of the basic rights of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals and that’s the protection I’m invoking today, thank you.

— IRS official Lois Lerner, quoted by the Washington Post, in a prepared statement before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee.

Three Strikes — Out!

IRS Asked One Tea Party Group 55 Questions

55

Number of questions the IRS asked one tea party group, including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers, The Daily Mail reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by CBS News.

“Here’s the problem with the red meat: It becomes an addiction. Once you go there and you put that out there, then you’re forced to defend it. So what do they do? They double down. They triple down again.”

— Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by the Washington Post, on Republicans relying on anti-Muslim attacks in the Michigan U.S. Senate race.

— Stephen Miller, quoted by The Guardian, pledging “total devotion” to President Trump.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”