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\u201cAnd suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there\u2019s something new to the story,\u201d said President Obama this week in reaction to the Benghazi scandal.<\/p>\n
There is a kernel of truth in what Tricky Dick Obama says: Political junkies have known the IRS and Benghazi\u00a0details for some time. Obama is now engulfed in these scandals \u2013 not because they are new \u2013 but because the election is over and the majority, Democratic media has stopped covering \u00a0for him.<\/p>\n
Consider: The Benghazi cover-up \u2013 that the president was lying about a YouTube video a full two weeks after the murder of U.S. personnel \u2013 was immediately exposed last September by Fox News and other conservative media. But the MSM abetted the cover-up (most famously Candy Crowley in the second presidential debate).<\/p>\n
Consider: Congress has been receiving complaints \u00a0from tea parties of unfair treatment since 2011- and holding hearings. IRS officials lied at those hearings when asked about politicized IRS investigations. \u00a0The media ignored them. Wall Street Journal columnist Debbie Strassel\u2019s \u00a0superb reporting uncovered<\/a>\u00a0an Obama\u2019s Enemies List of eight Romney donors (some, like Frank Vandersloot,\u00a0have subsequently been harrassed<\/a>) targeted by the Obama campaign for IRS scrutiny. The media ignored it. Michigan Rep. Sander Levin asked the IRS in April, 2012 to harass the conservative, non-profit Mackinac Center. Michigan\u2019s media ignored it. In 2010, Senator Max Baucus asked the IRS to\u00a0target conservative groups<\/a>. The media ignored it. And so on.<\/p>\n The priority was getting President Barack Obama re-elected.<\/p>\n Some of the partisan press continue to ignore these stories \u2013 The Detroit Free Press, for example, didn\u2019t print a single story on the Benghazi hearings last week while burying the IRS witch hunt on the inside pages over the weekend. But with the continued, relentless reporting of Fox News, Congressional hearings on Benghazi, and the stunning revelation \u2013 in a legal forum, not a press forum \u2013 of IRS corruption, the stories have become too big to ignore.<\/p>\n That, and with the partisan fever of the campaign past, journalists are returning to their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cAnd suddenly three days ago this gets spun up as if there\u2019s something new to the story,\u201d said President Obama this week in reaction to the Benghazi scandal. There is a kernel of truth in what Tricky Dick Obama says: Political junkies have known the IRS and Benghazi\u00a0details for some time. Obama is now engulfed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}