Already 17 Times More Coverage on Christie Scandal Than obama"s IRS scandal

[Kobie]

You would have a point if not for the fact that since the IRS scandal first broke new info on it has been coming out that the media has ignored.
This for instance.

"October, newly obtained e-mails showed that the scandal-plagued Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the controversy, illegally gave Tea Party tax info to the FEC. Lerner retired from the IRS In September, but the networks skipped that."

No they didn't. That's a lie. I distinctly remember seeing and reading that.

 

[Kobie]

"But WAIT" it is getting even worse.

"Update: Now 44 Times More TV Coverage of Christie's Traffic Scandal Than in Last Six Months on IRS"

Read more: Update: Now 44 Times More TV Coverage of Christie's Traffic Scandal Than in Last Six Months on IRS | NewsBusters

Guess what? STILL dishonest as sin. You simply can't compare the coverage of the first week of a "scandal" to two months down the road. That's just being blatantly disingenuous.

 

[Morton]

Their cause is righteous, their heart is pure, their **** don't stink.

Liberals don't cover things up. There is no bias in the media. The other networks are far more "fair and balanced" than "faux news." Oh. And Michael Moore doesn't blatantly mislead people in his movies.

It is sad the lengths the left will go to try and convince themselves that their party isn't guilty of being dirty and corrupt just like every other political party on the globe.

 

[Morton]

Only tea party applications were given the higher level of scrutiny (things the liberal media doesn't report) . Even the inspector general said their procedures were incorrect (things the liberal media forgot) and only conservative applications went to an Obama political appointee (things liberals are clueless about) Also, at the time the scandal broke no targeted conservative group's application had been approved.

#PhonyScandal

The difference in the numbers is because many Tea Party were being formed at the time. Also, the 501(c)(4) code was mean for groups whose mission was primarily social welfare.

 

[pbrauer]

Only tea party applications were given the higher level of scrutiny (things the liberal media doesn't report) . Even the inspector general said their procedures were incorrect (things the liberal media forgot) and only conservative applications went to an Obama political appointee (things liberals are clueless about) Also, at the time the scandal broke no targeted conservative group's application had been approved.

#PhonyScandal

Well there is nothing that links this so-called scandal to President Obama. NOTHING! If the Tea Party wanted tax-exempt status, they should have sought IRS code 527 which is designed for political organizations; IRS code 501(c)(4) is designed for social welfare organizations.

 

[pbrauer]

The bias in our media is reaching the point of absurdity and the network news has become a complete farce.


In less than 24 hours, the big three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they've allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama's Internal Revenue Service controversy. Since the story broke on Wednesday that aides to the New Jersey governor punished a local mayor's lack of endorsement with a massive traffic jam, ABC, CBS and NBC have responded with 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage. Since July 1, these same networks managed a scant two minutes and eight seconds for the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.

Read more: There's Already 17 Times More Coverage on Christie Scandal Than in Last Six Months of IRS | NewsBusters

As Media Matters points out, this report is dishonest because the story is actually 8 months long so Newsbusters is ignoring the first two months of heavy coverage by the media.
Conservatives Are Right: Media Under-Covered The IRS "Scandal" | Blog | Media Matters for America

 

[rcart76]

Targeting tea party groups with one or two other types of group and holding up processing, requiring extensive questionnaires while letting others go through, getting caught, then blaming it on the Cinncinatti office, and having the President say in a speech that the IRS improperly screened conservative groups.




Certainly, nothing partisan about singling out conservatives. :lamo

You do know that liberals were targeted by IRS as well right. But that's what you get when you just listen to faux news.

IRS inspector general: Liberals also on target list - CNN.com


So what exactly was the scandal again?

 

[iliveonramen]

The bias in our media is reaching the point of absurdity and the network news has become a complete farce.


In less than 24 hours, the big three networks have devoted 17 times more coverage to a traffic scandal involving Chris Christie than they've allowed in the last six months to Barack Obama's Internal Revenue Service controversy. Since the story broke on Wednesday that aides to the New Jersey governor punished a local mayor's lack of endorsement with a massive traffic jam, ABC, CBS and NBC have responded with 34 minutes and 28 seconds of coverage. Since July 1, these same networks managed a scant two minutes and eight seconds for the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups.

Read more: There's Already 17 Times More Coverage on Christie Scandal Than in Last Six Months of IRS | NewsBusters

Can you explain to me what the scandal was? I thought it was found that the names they were using to apply scrutiny included names common liberal/progressive groups as well? My takeaway from that "scandal" was the House Republicans were negligent in not giving us the whole story.

 

[Ockham]

You do know that liberals were targeted by IRS as well right. But that's what you get when you just listen to faux news.

Yes, three wasn't it? And they received fairly quick approvals. And because they dug up more than one liberal group, you consider it all okay and not partisan at all right? :lol:

 

[Kobie]

Yes, three wasn't it? And they received fairly quick approvals. And because they dug up more than one liberal group, you consider it all okay and not partisan at all right? :lol:

The IRS scandalette, you may recall, was about Tea Party groups having their tax-exempt status delayed because the IRS suspected the guys in tri-corner hats waving OBAMA=HITLER signs were actually running primarily political organizations, for some reason. You know, which is what the IRS is supposed to do.

 

[Ockham]

The IRS scandalette, you may recall, was about Tea Party groups having their tax-exempt status delayed because the IRS suspected the guys in tri-corner hats waving OBAMA=HITLER signs were actually running primarily political organizations, for some reason. You know, which is what the IRS is supposed to do.

Doesn't matter what kind of hats, if they meet the requirements for a 501c, they shouldn't be held up for political retribution reasons. This administration and the IRS followed it's lead, seems to think those who believe we should pay down our debt and have smaller governments are terrorists, like the former Sect. of Homeland Security Napalitano. If it's okay to start delaying and disenfranchising because of political orientation, it shouldn't be too long before religious orientation or perhaps skin color comes next.

 

[Kobie]

Doesn't matter what kind of hats, if they meet the requirements for a 501c, they shouldn't be held up for political retribution reasons. This administration and the IRS followed it's lead, seems to think those who believe we should pay down our debt and have smaller governments are terrorists, like the former Sect. of Homeland Security Napalitano. If it's okay to start delaying and disenfranchising because of political orientation, it shouldn't be too long before religious orientation or perhaps skin color comes next.

That's the thing ... they were making sure they met the requirements.

And of course, the Homeland Security report has to be horribly misrepresented, as per usual.

 

[Ockham]

That's the thing ... they were making sure they met the requirements.
And of course, the Homeland Security report has to be horribly misrepresented, as per usual.

Like cops disproportionately stopping blacks to make sure everything is in order. I get it.

 

[Kobie]

Like cops disproportionately stopping blacks to make sure everything is in order. I get it.

Oh, come on.

Has it dawned on anyone that the reason more conservative groups may have been scrutinized is because there were more conservative groups applying for 501(c)(4) status?

 

[pbrauer]

Doesn't matter what kind of hats, if they meet the requirements for a 501c, they shouldn't be held up for political retribution reasons. This administration and the IRS followed it's lead, seems to think those who believe we should pay down our debt and have smaller governments are terrorists, like the former Sect. of Homeland Security Napalitano. If it's okay to start delaying and disenfranchising because of political orientation, it shouldn't be too long before religious orientation or perhaps skin color comes next.

If they wanted tax exempt status, why didn't they use IRS code 527?
Tax Information for Political Organizations

 

[Ockham]

Oh, come on.

Has it dawned on anyone that the reason more conservative groups may have been scrutinized is because there were more conservative groups applying for 501(c)(4) status?

Yeah that's the reason Lois Lerner pled the 5th in front of the congressional committee. Just more conservative groups apply for 501c. Glad they could find an impartial DNC donor to investigate it though. If it wasn't real, it would be laughable.

 

[Ockham]

If they wanted tax exempt status, why didn't they use IRS code 527?
Tax Information for Political Organizations

You'll need to ask them as I don't represent nor speak for anyone but myself. Why didn't the IRS use the same rules and regs they used for everyone else? I guess we'll never know thanks to all this transparency we have with this administration.

 

[Rusty Houser]

The US heavily censors. Why wouldn't they twist.You say there is no censorship? Tell me how I can read any of the 30 newspapers printed in Iran.How to find White rights groups on the internet.What your computer gives you when you type AMERICA CENSORS INTERNET, or censors anything.

 

[Kobie]

The US heavily censors. Why wouldn't they twist.You say there is no censorship? Tell me how I can read any of the 30 newspapers printed in Iran.How to find White rights groups on the internet.What your computer gives you when you type AMERICA CENSORS INTERNET, or censors anything.

What.

 

[AlbqOwl]

Yeah that's the reason Lois Lerner pled the 5th in front of the congressional committee. Just more conservative groups apply for 501c. Glad they could find an impartial DNC donor to investigate it though. If it wasn't real, it would be laughable.

Just as they appointed a strong DNC donor to investigate Benghazi and as yet no formal special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate that, the IRS scandal, Fast & Furious, the NSA spying scandals, the wasting of millions of funds by numerous goverment agencies for parties, trips, and such, or why we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and probably billions by now on a website that is still flawed and still incomplete.

But by golly within 24 hours, a special prosecutor was appointed by the feds to investigate that traffic jam in New Jersey.

It's enough to make a body scream.

 

[pbrauer]

You'll need to ask them as I don't represent nor speak for anyone but myself. Why didn't the IRS use the same rules and regs they used for everyone else? I guess we'll never know thanks to all this transparency we have with this administration.

Who says the IRS didn't use the same rules and regulations for everyone? IRS code 501c4 is meant for organizations who are primarily engaged in social welfare, while IRS code 527 organizations are for political organizations.

 

[Ockham]

Just as they appointed a strong DNC donor to investigate Benghazi and as yet no formal special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate that, the IRS scandal, Fast & Furious, the NSA spying scandals, the wasting of millions of funds by numerous goverment agencies for parties, trips, and such, or why we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars, and probably billions by now on a website that is still flawed and still incomplete.

But by golly within 24 hours, a special prosecutor was appointed by the feds to investigate that traffic jam in New Jersey.

It's enough to make a body scream.

When it's Republicans, 24 hours is long enough, when it's Democrats 7-10 months and a sympathetic DNC donor who will promise to find nothing... all too common.

 

[AlbqOwl]

Who says the IRS didn't use the same rules and regulations for everyone? IRS code 501c4 is meant for organizations who are primarily engaged in social welfare, while IRS code 527 organizations are for political organizations.

The people who testified at the House and Senate hearings admitted that they didn't use the same rules for everybody. Just as the feds don't bother investigating other misconduct by the varius states. Just those whose governor presents a significant challenge to the Democratic candidate.

 

[Ockham]

Who says the IRS didn't use the same rules and regulations for everyone?

Who says they did use the same rules? Lerner pleading the 5th doesn't provide much info.

IRS code 501c4 is meant for organizations who are primarily engaged in social welfare, while IRS code 527 organizations are for political organizations.

How irrelevant of you to mention it.

 

[pbrauer]

The people who testified at the House and Senate hearings admitted that they didn't use the same rules for everybody.

What did they say?

Just as the feds don't bother investigating other misconduct by the varius states.

??????

Just those whose governor presents a significant challenge to the Democratic candidate.

He might, but Republicans don't seem to like him, even before Bridgegate. Republicans think he should run as a Democrat.