Journalistas Circle The Wagons- Attack the Tea Party to Deflect From IRS

[ABX]

From Ezra Kelin this came out right after the meeting of liberal pundits in the White House earlier today.

The IRS controversy isn’t about taxes. It’s about disclosure.
At some level, the scandal around the IRS’s targeting of conservative 501(c)4 groups has nothing to do with taxes. That may sound weird – 501(c)4 is a section of the Internal Revenue Code, the entire 501(c) section exists to list groups that are exempt from some federal taxes, the IRS is the tax man, etc.

But there’s no universe in which the groups in question are going to pay taxes. Think about it. Let’s say they instead register as 527 groups, enabling them to make unlimited independent expenditures. Those organizations don’t have to pay taxes on contributions they receive either. Or maybe they want to be super-PACs (which are 527s, technically, for tax purposes), which can spend unlimited amounts to openly support candidates. They don’t pay taxes on contributions either.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/21/the-irs-controversy-isnt-about-taxes-its-about-disclosure/

[Oceander]

You'd think they would have been a little more subtle about it.

[jmyrlefuller]

You'd think they would have been a little more subtle about it.

Indeed. Remember, Klein was one of the key names behind Journ-O-List. Of all the potential reporters to try and do a counterstrike or damage control, he is the most obviously compromised name to choose!

[DCPatriot]

Indeed. Remember, Klein was one of the key names behind Journ-O-List. Of all the potential reporters to try and do a counterstrike or damage control, he is the most obviously compromised name to choose!

In my political thriller novel....there was a "Godfather Baptism" like hit on the members of the Journ-O-List when it was first revealed.





Oh yeah...the 'good' guys won at the end.   

[Oceander]

Indeed. Remember, Klein was one of the key names behind Journ-O-List. Of all the potential reporters to try and do a counterstrike or damage control, he is the most obviously compromised name to choose!

However, he's only compromised amongst those of us who don't have liberal/progressive blinkers on; to the sheeple, he's not.

[Rapunzel]

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2013/05/21/re-team-huddle-aka-wagon-circling/

Re: Team huddle (AKA wagon-circling)
posted at 6:54 pm on May 21, 2013 by Ed Morrissey

To further expand on the apparent wagon-circling taking place with this meeting of the ideologically-aligned commentators and the West Wing, the question has to be asked: Just where is Barack Obama getting this advice? The DoJ snooping on the AP and James Rosen has even normally sympathetic journalists angry.  Now he’s going to bypass the White House press corps, which has been fed a steady stream of nonsense by Jay Carney to the point where reporters have to construct timelines to keep the White House’s “evolution” on what it knew about the IRS scandal straight.

If they think that sending out the ideologues to bypass the WH briefing room will make it easier for them to sell their message, the communications team is either desperate, delusional, or a little bit of both.