Faux "news" fails completely, then is honest...
The Faux "news" IRS non-scandal is sputtering out.
Issa showed just how petty, partisan and totally dishonest he could be, and Faux "news" showed just how petty, partisan and dishonest they are.
There was something quite fitting about how the Wall Street Journal editorial page yesterday tried, once again, to revive interest in the soggy controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service and its bungled handling of applications for groups seeking tax-exempt status. Written by the National Review's media editor, the Journal piece suggested there were all kinds of unanswered questions about why the IRS used what investigators have termed "inappropriate criteria" in reviewing applications from conservative groups and whether a government cover-up was underway.
Echoing nearly two months worth of constant speculation and scandal hyping on Fox News about the IRS and the White House's allegedly very, very deep involvement, the Journal claimed key answers could be uncovered if Democrats would just stop obstructing House Republicans' ongoing investigation. (Fox had earlier insisted a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate.)
Just hours after that Journal essay appeared in the paper's pages though, came news that in reviewing tax-exempt applications, the IRS had also highlighted for scrutiny groups with liberal-sounding names.
In other words, the same day The Wall Street Journal, an anchor of the conservative media movement, suggested a wide-ranging controversy was still brewing inside the IRS, the entire premise of the would-be scandal was significantly undermined: The tax agency had called for scrutiny for liberal groups, too.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/06/25/like-benghazi-fox-news-irs-scandal-winding-down/194585
And one of the Faux "news" talking heads was caught actually being honest about that network...
Fox News host Bill Hemmer on Monday said that his network would "make something up" if there was no other news, a joke in which many critics will find more truth than humor.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/fox-news-host-jokes-about-networks-strategy-
