{"id":22753,"date":"2014-11-23T11:34:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=22753"},"modified":"2014-11-23T11:44:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:44:59","slug":"scandal-roulette-on-fox-news-this-weeks-winner-irs-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=22753","title":{"rendered":"Scandal Roulette On Fox News: This Week’s Winner: IRS Emails"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the midterm election now relegated to a past too distant for Teabaggers to recall, Fox News is struggling to advance their scandal mongering. They have dropped Ebola entirely<\/a>. Benghazi was just debunked<\/a> by the Republican-run House Intelligence Committee. There haven’t been any terrorist attacks or gun confiscations or Christmas tree burnings that they could blame on President Obama. So that pretty much leaves his birth certificate or IRS emails.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

On Yesterday’s episode of the ong-running soap opera “America’s News Headquarters,”<\/em> co-host Julie Banderas launched into a frightening alert that some secret documents that were being cloistered in the dark crevices of the White House basement were miraculously discovered.<\/p>\n

“Topping the news this hour: First they were lost, seemingly forever, 30,000 of Lois Lerner’s emails at the center of a massive IRS scandal. But today…get this. They have been found. We begin today with the government’s version of lost and found. Federal investigators have recovered as many as 30,000 emails of Lois Lerner. Remember, they had gone missing?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Get this, people! There were 30,000 of these suckers that were scattered to depths of Hades, but now they have been captured and returned the land of the living conspiracy nuts.<\/p>\n

What needs to be known about this revelation is that it is not really much of a revelation at all. The data that is being reported as “recovered”<\/em> comes from Treasury Department computer back ups that had previously been identified as part of an ongoing investigation. Nobody at Fox News has seen the contents of these allegedly scandalous documents, but that doesn’t stop them from describing the scale of the scandal as “massive.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Furthermore, there is a possibility that the recovered documents are duplicates of data already delivered to the committees in Congress investigating the matter. Since they have already received over 67,000 such documents, it may be more a probability than a possibility.<\/p>\n

There has been no evidence of any effort to conceal information. Indeed, this new crop of data was found by analysts with the Treasury Department, demonstrating their good intentions and thoroughness. And after two years there has been no evidence of any wrongdoing by the administration. It is very likely that any information culled from this data dump will be just as benign as everything else that has been revealed so far.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, however, Fox News can squeal with glee as they falsely characterize data that they have never seen and have no idea whether it reveals any misbehavior. Just planting the notion in the minds of their dimwitted viewers is enough, because they will retain it even after it has been debunked. After all, Fox has already labeled this a massive scandal despite not having any proof.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for the next episode of Scandal Roulette. Will Fox find Obama’s Muslim prayer rug? Will they uncover secret videos with his gay lover? Will they find the ashes of the Constitution baked into a gluten-free muffin in Michele’s Che Guevara gym bag? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

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With the midterm election now relegated to a past too distant for Teabaggers to recall, Fox News is struggling to advance their scandal mongering. They have dropped Ebola entirely. Benghazi was just debunked by the Republican-run House Intelligence Committee. 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