{"id":9997,"date":"2013-06-25T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9997"},"modified":"2013-06-26T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T16:28:05","slug":"wonkette-irsgate-joins-solyndragate-and-benghazigate-in-fake-scandal-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9997","title":{"rendered":"Wonkette: IRSgate Joins Solyndragate and Benghazigate In Fake Scandal Heaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d like to thank Wonkette for saving me the trouble of writing the post-mortem on the phony IRS scandal. After new evidence emerged revealing that groups other than conservative Tea Party organizations were subjected to stricter scrutiny, I intended to write a detailed report exposing the partisan fraud manufactured by Rep. Darrell Issa and his right-wing cohorts.<\/p>\n

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But Wonkette just published a superb summary of the affair with an abundance of humor and righteous mockery. So I’m gonna just leave it to them. Read it here for yourself<\/a>, but here are a few tasty excerpts:<\/p>\n

“In addition to being a cosmic turd straight from Satan\u2019s bunghole, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is now just a laughing stock on Capitol Hill. If anyone anywhere takes this clown seriously in the future, we will be shocked.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Actually, I won’t be shocked. There will be plenty of idiots at Fox News, WorldNetDaily, and the Tea Party Gazette, who will continue to take Issa seriously.<\/p>\n

“[S]uck it all you teabagger crazies complaining about how much butthurt you went through while suffering from your goddam persecution complex. Turns out you are all a bunch of whiny babies who jumped the gun before all the facts were in, and now you look like completely incompetent political hacks who are better off crawling back to whatever cosmic bunghole you came from.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As reported here at News Corpse, evidence has been emerging for weeks that the whole premise of the scandal was falling apart. Most of the principles turned out to be Republicans<\/a>. Issa was cherry-picking information to release. The more data that was made public, the more obvious their lies became. And now Issa, who had decided before any of this began the President was guilty of masterminding the whole thing, is whining about prejudging.<\/p>\n

“Rep. Issa is worried that someone else is jumping to conclusions! We are pretty sure there is a word for that, but at the moment all that comes to mind is ‘fuck that guy.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article is actually full of relevant facts and links, and is well worth a look-see. Thanks again, Wonkette. Now I can concentrate on more important matters like the Fox News “psycho”<\/em> analyst who is praising the Unabomber<\/a> (yes, that’s real).<\/p>\n

I’d also like to thank Wonkette for their fantastic review<\/a> of my book, Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Community’s Assault On Truth<\/a>, that they called “A valuable contribution to the effort to chip away at Bullshit Mountain.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d like to thank Wonkette for saving me the trouble of writing the post-mortem on the phony IRS scandal. After new evidence emerged revealing that groups other than conservative Tea Party organizations were subjected to stricter scrutiny, I intended to write a detailed report exposing the partisan fraud manufactured by Rep. 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