Anyone listen to NPR marketplace? Wife was listening to it tonight: IRS scandal side note

[diabeticman]

My wife found it interesting how the show added on this bit of INFO at the tale end of the show.


She said that the broadcaster was saying that The woman who's speech basically STARTED this scandal by answering the question about conservative groups getting more detail look. Turns out she had the question planted. Basically she called up someone she knew and told them the question to ask.

[dorkzilla]

1. Article in TPM..

says the same:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/steven_miller_scandal_question_plant.php?ref=fpb

[diabeticman]

2. Thanks I'll show this to my wife. She couldn't believe how casual that fact was put out

there. She thinks that was a HUGE point that deserve more than a 20 second blurb right before the end of the show.


She said she smells signs of an O'Keefeeing.

[dorkzilla]

3. Its sad that there isn't more being made of this...

..but are we surprised? The press has been jumping all over their force-fed (albeit willingly so) GOP talking points and one would assume that since its now apparent that the "evidence" was, in fact, O'Keefed, that those same "journalists" would be ALL OVER the scandalmongering Rethugs and their obvious MO.

But what are they talking about? Well it certainly isn't about Benghazi. Maybe they feel if they don't address it, they won't have to apologize for their role in this stupidity. Yes, that's the "liberal media" for you!!

[Thinkingabout]

4. I heard one of Sean Hannity talk shows where he had an a plant. A question was

Ask by a seemly left winger and Sean said he was going to educate this caller, ranted for a few minutes. He almost forgot to add goodbye and after the question wasask you did not hear another word from the caller. It may fool the rw's but I did not fall for this crap.

[dkf]

5. Exclusive: Woman Who Asked IRS's Lois Lerner Scandal-Breaking Question Details Plant

The woman whose question prompted a top Internal Revenue Service official to admit the agency was inappropriately targeting conservative groups says she was contacted prior to the event that elicited the admission and was directed to ask the question.

Celia Roady, a prominent tax lawyer in the firm of Morgan Lewis, said she was called personally by Lois Lerner, the IRS head of the tax exempt division, on May 9.

"I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the [American Bar Association] Tax Section's Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in a statement to U.S. News and World Report. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question."

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller admitted to House lawmakers Friday during an oversight hearing of the controversy that the question was a plant. The IRS was aware of a forthcoming Treasury Department Inspector General Report that would condemn the targeting of groups applying for 501(c)(4) status if they contained the words "tea party," "patriot" or "9/12."

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/05/17/exclusive-woman-who-asked-irss-lois-lerner-scandal-breaking-question-details-plant

[grasswire]

6. what??

The IRS planted the question??

[dkf]

7. Yup. They also had 3 IRS agents stationed to answer questions at the meeting of tax specialists.

That was how they broke it...

The IRS has gone rogue. They didn't tell the Prez, nor the Congress what was in the report.

I'm pissed on behalf of Obama because they didn't let him prepare or get ahead of the story. I also question the timing. It's almost sabotage.

[grasswire]

8. this sounds like Bush left some stooges behind in the IRS.

Seriously.

I have been wondering from the beginning if these faux scandals could be dirty tricks.

Land mines of sorts, left behind for political purposes.

[dkf]

10. For all we know going after the tea party could have been aimed at making Obama look bad.

Really they need to find out who did it and why.

[grasswire]

11. absolutely

Stranger things have happened.

[dkf]

12. Maybe they would have expected Miller to expose this before the election.

He did testify in front of congress after all. This could have easily blown up.

That would be a GREAT reason why the questions were so intrusive.

[marshall]

9. It was a whistleblower, AKA a snitch

Setting up their own leak.