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IRS "Scandal" is a Hoax

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Somebody Needs to Give This Story a Little Perspective and Proportion  

Only near the end of the story, in a clumsily written paragraph, does the AP reporter touch on the factual context for the news Lerner was breaking and in which she had been a central player:   

"In all, about 300 groups were singled out for additional review, Lerner said. Of those, about a quarter were singled out because they had 'tea party' or 'patriot' somewhere in their applications."   

In other words, about 225 applications were not "political conservative groups," as AP had reported at the top of the story, and for which it has yet to issue a correction or an apology.     

Given her unusual behavior over the past few years, it doesn't seem all that strange that Lois Lerner has refused to answer questions in Congress, pleading the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, while refusing to resign from her $180,000-a-year job (she's now on administrative leave).   

What seems much stranger, but not as surprising as it should, is that so much of the media goes on reporting as fact the partisan political version of a story that never happened. 

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