{"id":20340,"date":"2014-08-26T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20340"},"modified":"2014-08-26T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T19:34:54","slug":"scandal-monger-darrell-issa-returns-to-fox-news-to-pitch-new-irs-e-mail-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=20340","title":{"rendered":"Scandal Monger Darrell Issa Returns To Fox News To Pitch New IRS E-Mail Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since there is nothing else going on in the world, like terrorist armies marching through Syria and Iraq, or Russian convoys crossing into Ukraine, and since domestically the nation isn’t embroiled in controversies over unarmed black teenagers murdered by the police, or thousands of immigrant children suffering harsh conditions along the southern border, Fox News has found the free time time to entertain yet another fable about non-existent IRS emails that allegedly expose massive government corruption.<\/p>\n

\"Darrell<\/p>\n

Darrell Issa, chairman of the Laughing Stock Committee (aka the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform), ventured into dangerously friendly territory<\/a> last night when he was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren of Fox News. Van Susteren introduced Issa and before she could even ask a question he said:<\/p>\n

“Good evening, Greta, and thank you for covering what’s emerging to be just an amazing sequence of cover-up, delay, denial, even what now appears to be a false statement from the new IRS commissioner in which he said he moved ‘heaven and Earth’ to get us Lois Lerner’s lost emails. And now we find out from the Judicial Watch that in fact they exist, but they simply haven’t been asked for. They’re too burdensome. They do exist. And we look forward to finding how the commissioner can say they don’t exist, when, in fact, they do.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was Issa’s opening remarks after Van Susteren said nothing more than “Good evening, sir.”<\/em> Clearly Issa feels comfortable commandeering the program and delivering unchallenged monologues. Just as clearly he isn’t reticent about deliberately lying in order to advance a phony scandal that he has been hustling for years without producing any scrap of evidence. And as for his insistence that the emails do, in fact, exist – no Darrell, in fact they do not.<\/p>\n

The “amazing sequence of cover-up”<\/em> to which Issa is referring was fed to him by the right-wing Judicial Watch, who claimed to have received a “jaw-dropping”<\/em> revelation in a conversation with an administration official. Judicial Watch president, Tom Fitton, alleged that “The Obama administration had been lying to the American people about Lois Lerner\u2019s missing emails.”<\/em> However, when contacted for a response the administration flatly denied<\/a> the charge saying that Judicial Watch\u2019s statement was “off-base”<\/em> and that Judicial Watch was “mischaracterizing what the government had said.”<\/em> They continued…<\/p>\n

“There is no newly divulged back-up system that was not previously known about,” the official said. “Government lawyers were simply referring to the back-up system at the IRS that Commissioner Koskinen had already disclosed.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, Judicial Watch failed to understand, or purposefully misconstrued, what they were told by the government official. Never mind that the White House had previously spoken<\/a> to this issue and laid to rest any discrepancies. But that didn’t stop Judicial Watch from funneling their falsehoods to Issa, a willing participant in the Wingnut Deceit Brigade. Issa then hightails it to Fox News to insure that this lie gets the broadest distribution possible. And to make certain that it is widely dispersed, Fox also aired similar segments on at least two other programs, including their signature nightly news show with Bret Baier.<\/p>\n

This is how the Conservative Media Circus whips up manufactured hysteria over phony scandals. The fake story is then blasted across the right-wing mediasphere with help from their partisan partners like Glenn Beck’s TheBlaze, Newsmax, National Review, Breitbart News, Townhall, NewsBusters, and the Koch brothers affiliated Washington Free Beacon. Before long a nation of gullible Tea Party waifs are refueled with high octane bullshit, destroying any hopes for intelligent, fact-based debate. Welcome to Rupert Murdoch’s America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since there is nothing else going on in the world, like terrorist armies marching through Syria and Iraq, or Russian convoys crossing into Ukraine, and since domestically the nation isn’t embroiled in controversies over unarmed black teenagers murdered by the police, or thousands of immigrant children suffering harsh conditions along the southern border, Fox News […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Scandal Monger Darrell Issa Returns To Fox News To Pitch New IRS E-Mail Lies","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[1016,33,608,1099,916,1098],"class_list":["post-20340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-darrell-issa","tag-fox-news","tag-greta-van-susteren","tag-irs","tag-judicial-watch","tag-lois-lerner"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/issa-witch-hunter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-5i4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18059,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=18059","url_meta":{"origin":20340,"position":0},"title":"Sunday Morning Republicans Gone Wild: Boehner, Issa, Krauthammer, And Gohmert","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/29\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This week has been a festival of Republican derangement on a scale that is impressive for its magnitude and breadth. 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