The Federal Election Commission is now implicated in the Obama administration’s years-long hounding of groups ideologically hostile to it.
Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Kimberly Strassel details how, at the behest of a lawyer in the Obama administration, FEC staff “have been engaged in their own conservative targeting, with help from the IRS’s infamous Lois Lerner.” After the Obama lawyer filed a complaint with FEC against a conservative organization called American Issues Project in 2008, FEC staffers asked Lerner about the group. They went on to repeatedly challenge AIP’s non-profit status, cooking up new report-length rationales each time a previous one was exploded.
Papers like The Wall Street Journal as well as various blogs have published regular updates about how IRS personnel — top officers, not just a few file clerks — really did go after ideological critics of the Obama administration in the run-up to the 2012 election. But a “paper of record” like The New York Times barely notices the story except to rationalize it away. Same with other “liberal” outlets.
How many dots must be connected before left-leaning media mavens and their troops say “this is too much even for us! Letting IRS, now FEC, plus anyone in the Obama administration who winked and nodded get away with this would be hazardous to our own health! The next administration may be staffed by unscrupulous Republicans instead of unscrupulous Democrats! We’re going to start reporting on this! We may even criticize such abuse of power! Sharply criticize! Yeah!”?
How many?
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6 replies on “Paging Woodward and Bernstein”
Paul,
The frustration voiced in your article reveals that you suffer from the same problem that all middle-aged readers do. You are old enough to remember the difference between the press and the media.
I do apologize for calling you old.
Turnabout will never make this fair play, but only compound the evil.
As Christ stated to the women on his way to his death, “Weep not for me, but for your children”.
When violations of principals are ignored or excused, the principals are destroyed. With then goes the country. Please keep up the good fight.
This corruption cannot be changed. As Oppenheimer said (yes, the nuclear bomb guy) people rarely change. All one can do is wait for the corrupted generation to die out and hope that the new, younger generation that replaces them will have been instilled with more insight and do better.
He was right. But the power inevitably corrupts each group that comes along. And the system perpetuates, always waiting until it is obviously the last minute.
Deepthroat would have no place to turn to.
What difference, at this point, would it make? The media is taking a long walk off a short pier.
Suppose Woodward and Bernstein showed up? What reason would I have to believe a word they say?
It’s too little, too late.
…. The New York Times’ newsroom fascists and their ilk at the other ‘newspapers of record’ barely notice the story except to rationalize it away ….
That’s neither unusual nor out of the very ordinary.
America’s various media organisations are all but extensions of the RICO-racketeering, organised-criminal “Democratic” potty, which itself – courtesy of such of its traitorous fascists as Wilson and Roosevelt and Cli’ton et al – long, long, ago degenerated into a subordinate and servile lickspittle of the Socialist-International.