The IRS of course has been a favorite tool of punishment since the days of Al Capone. Remember the Nixon Enemies list?
" How many peace and justice groups experienced the same treatment? For how many years did the IRS go after leftists? Did anyone in our fearless media ever ask?
" Did the right-wingers now crying bloody murder ever speak up when the IRS harassed others.
Do I even have to ask?
Why isn't Karl Rove's "dark money" manipulations tied to this? William Boardman writes on Reader Supported News, "Karl Rove is the real poster boy for the so-called IRS (Internal Revenue Service) 'scandal' of taking a closer look at applications by political organizations seeking a 501(c)(4) tax status that not only makes them tax exempt but protects their donors with anonymity."
Sheila Krumholz, of the Center for Responsive Politics, the group that tracks all money in politics, wrote (with her board chairman) in the New York Times"
"With the surge of dark money
into politics, we need to ensure that the I.R.S. is capable of rigorously
enforcing the law in a nonpartisan, but also more effective, way. While we focus on the rickety raft of minor Tea
Party groups targeted by the I.R.S., there is an entire fleet of big spenders
that are operating with apparent impunity. "
Unfortunately, this real problem it is not yet news.
And, for that matter, do all the corporations who get away without paying any taxes rate this type of media treatment too? Why isn't that a mega scandal?
Just asking.
2.The Boston Bombers
It was left to Russ Baker of the small WhoWhatWhy website to catalogue the many unasked and unanswered question about what really happened in one of the most "covered" recent news spectacles.
He
writes before sinking his teeth into the substance:
"Most of the national and international media have left Boston--and essentially moved on from the Marathon bombing story. Most of the national and international media have left Boston--and essentially moved on from the Marathon bombing story. But at WhoWhatWhy, we're just getting started.
Why?
Because we see a lot of problems with what we've been told so far. We've been
disappointed that the media have failed to demonstrate healthy skepticism while
passing along, unchallenged, the (self-serving) assertions of "the
authorities."
It
is the job of journalism not only to report what authorities say, but also to
confirm their claims, and address anomalies, errors, inconsistencies, outright
lies, and cover-ups, large and small."
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