Media bias explains difference in coverage over “Bridgegate” and IRS scandal

John Podhoretz explains why “Bridgegate made headlines but Obama’s IRS scandal didn’t“

Why? Oh, come on, you know why. Christie belongs to one political party. Obama belongs to the other. You know which ones they belong to. And you know which ones the people at the three networks belong to, too: In surveys going back decades, anywhere from 80% to 90% of Washington’s journalists say they vote Democratic.

Scandals are not just about themselves; they are about the media atmosphere that surrounds them. They are perpetuated and deepened by the attention of journalists, whose relentless pursuit of every angle keeps the story going. That is exactly what has been missing from the IRS scandal from its outset; Republicans in Congress have been the dogged pursuers, not the press.

DOJ Investigator into IRS scandal donated over $6,700 to Obama and Democrats

Fox News reports on a not-so impartial investigator.  This is just ridiculous.  


This week, it emerged that the lead Department of Justice attorney in charge of the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal is a large donor to both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns, with her first donation dating back to the primary season in 2008.  

All told, this Obama partisan gave $6,750 to President Obama’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Obama Victory Fund.

Extinction of Conservative Democrats

Fox News reports on how redistricting was a factor in the extinction of moderate Democrats.  The untold story is the role of Department of Justice racial policies as extinction events. 

“So there is a way forward for Democrats,” Tulchin, president of San Francisco-based Tulchin Research, told FoxNews.com on Saturday. “But not with the kind of redistricting that McIntyre had. It wasn’t a fair fight.”

“FBI Finally Contacts Conservative Groups in IRS Targeting”

Talk about waiting until the trail of evidence was cold.   Newsmax reports

The FBI is contacting some conservative groups that were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service as calls heat up for a key Justice Department investigator to step down from the probe after questions about her donations to President Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. A lawyer working with some of the tea party groups told The Washington Times that a “small number” of his clients were recently contacted, albeit seven months after the investigation was to begin.

…House Speaker John Boehner said he is concerned by the Obama administration’s many obstructions on not only the IRS investigation, but many other issues.

“The administration has not been forthcoming with regard to the IRS investigation,” the Ohio Republican said. “Furthermore, they’ve not been forthcoming when it comes to the Benghazi investigation or Fast and Furious. And the administration can try to stonewall as much as they want, but these issues are not going to go away. The American people have a right to know the truth. And for the administration that came in five years ago promising to be the most transparent administration in history, they’ve got a very poor record.”

First Amendment Victory: Court Blocks Subponeas

Free speech and free association protected from intrusive Wisconsin government officials.

“The order is all the more remarkable because it bluntly rejects the prosecutor’s theory of illegal coordination between the groups and the Walker campaign. Wisconsin’s campaign finance statutes ban coordination between independent groups and candidates for a “political purpose.” But a political purpose “requires express advocacy,” the judge wrote, and express advocacy means directly advocating the election or defeat of a candidate.”