Lost IRS Email Outrage vs. Lost Bush White House Email Amnesia
HYPOCRISY WATCH: Lost IRS Email Outrage vs. Lost Bush White House Email Amnesia
Never mind that after a year of congressional hearings, independent investigations, and media scrutiny, there has not been an iota of evidence tying any of the IRS activities to the White House, right-wing pundits and politicians scurried to spread innuendo and place blame. And naturally, they left out the most significant contextual information that reveals their brazen hypocrisy.
Flashback to April of 2007. The Bush administration was in the midst of dual scandals regarding: 1) the outing of Valerie Plame, a covert CIA agent whose identity was deliberately compromised as payback for her husband's criticism of the Bush lies that led to the invasion of Iraq, and 2) the unethical firing of eight federal attorneys for politically ideological reasons. Additionally, there were questions about Karl Rove improperly using a Republican National Committee e-mail account that the White House later said disappeared. While Congress was investigating these activities, the White House announced that two years of emails were lost and unavailable to the committees of jurisdiction.
Hmmm. Sound familiar? In fact, it is identical to the story now being pushed by Fox and the rest of the media circus. However, Fox News never blew a gasket over the lost emails from the Bush administration. Dana Perino, a co-host of the Fox News program The Five, was among those expressing outrage on Friday when the news of the missing IRS emails was released. She and her fellow co-hosts lit into the topic, bemoaning the administration's "ignorance" and "incompetence." And without any proof whatsoever, they implied that the administration was lying and covering up.
What makes this even worse is that Perino was Bush's press secretary when it was revealed that two years of White House emails were lost. This, of course, cannot be waived off as an isolated problem that occurred at another agency. This was the White House itself that lost emails that were presently being requested by investigators. And it was Perino who came to the defense. Here she is downplaying the matter in a report on CNN by Ed Henry (now at Fox News):
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The IRS story and Bengasi are the two Propaganda Blitzes that will not end by the Right Wing Medias Hysteria in Collusion with Washington’s Nonsense that keep Idiots Astounded!
