{"id":42911,"date":"2014-04-07T13:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42911"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T18:57:45","slug":"unspun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=42911","title":{"rendered":"Unspun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS Scandal <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/04\/07\/committee-staff-report-no-progressive-groups-were-targeted-by-irs\/#ixzz2yED0H6dx\">was even less &#8220;balanced&#8221; <\/a>than the media have been spinning it (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOnly seven applications in the IRS backlog contained the word \u2018progressive,\u2019 all of which were then approved by the IRS, while Tea Party groups received unprecedented review and experienced years-long delays. While some liberal-oriented groups were singled out for scrutiny, evidence shows it was due to non-political reasons,\u201d according to the Oversight staff report, which was obtained by The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he Administration and congressional Democrats have seized upon the notion that the IRS\u2019s targeting was not just limited to conservative applicants,\u201d the report states. \u201c<strong>These Democratic claims are flat-out wrong and have no basis in any thorough examination of the facts<\/strong>. Yet, the Administration\u2019s chief defenders continue to make these assertions in a concerted effort to deflect and distract from the truth about the IRS\u2019s targeting of tax-exempt applicants.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The media is doing everything it can to keep this scandal buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS Scandal was even less &#8220;balanced&#8221; than the media have been spinning it (emphasis added): \u201cOnly seven applications in the IRS backlog contained the word \u2018progressive,\u2019 all of which were then approved by the IRS, while Tea Party groups received unprecedented review and experienced years-long delays. While some liberal-oriented groups were singled out for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42913,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions\/42913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}