Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Breitbart: Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs


ProPublica says the documents the IRS gave them were “not supposed to be made public”:

The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year... In response to a request for the applications for 67 different nonprofits last November, the Cincinnati office of the IRS sent ProPublica applications or documentation for 31 groups. Nine of those applications had not yet been approved—meaning they were not supposed to be made public. (We made six of those public, after redacting their financial information, deeming that they were newsworthy.)
The group says that "no unapproved applications from liberal groups were sent to ProPublica.”

Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs

New York Times: Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Ineffective Management


The Internal Revenue Service said Wednesday that its chief counsel did not tell Treasury superiors of I.R.S. efforts to target conservative groups for special scrutiny, nor did he participate in a 2011 meeting when the issue was discussed with the I.R.S. chief counsel’s office.

Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Ineffective Management - NYTimes.com

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

BizPac Review: Fox News will soon have competition

 Fox News may soon have competition. Dubbed “unapologetically conservative” by San Diego’s ABC News 10, One America News Network is planning a July 4 debut.
Herring Broadcasting Company, Inc. said One America will be a 24/7 high-definition news channel which will fill a void by providing a “credible source of national and international news around the clock along with a number of signature political talk shows.”
“Americans are starved for a credible source of news delivering substance based on facts,” Robert Herring, CEO of HBC, said in a statement. “One America News Network will prove to be a trustworthy destination for national and international news.


Fox News will soon have competition - BizPac Review

Monday, March 18, 2013

Rush Limbaugh: Cyprus and Perez Should Be Big News

 RUSH: I guarantee you that if a Republican were in the White House, the media would be talking to you about one thing today, and one thing only, and it is what happened Saturday in Cyprus and what might happen in Italy.  I'm gonna take a little test here.  Mr. Snerdley, do you know what happened in Cyprus on Saturday?  You gotta be kidding me.  You read a headline and you don't know?  Brian, do you know what happened in Cyprus on Saturday?  Yeah.  Not just savings accounts.  He said they took money out of people's savings accounts.  What happened was Cypriot banks launder a lot of money for the Russian mob, so those banks are important.  Gotta keep 'em open.

Cyprus and Perez Should Be Big News - The Rush Limbaugh Show

Weekly Standard: Priebus: GOP 'Totally On Board' with Rand Paul


Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus reiterated that he believes Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster over the Obama administration’s drone policy was a “unifying moment” for the GOP and that the party is "totally on board" with the libertarian senator.
 
“I think Rand asked a reasonable question that he deserved an answer on, and I was proud of the fact that he stood up and captured the country by standing up to the president. And I thought that was great,” said Priebus after an address at the National Press Club in Washington Monday morning. The RNC chairman had said last week in an interview with the Des Moines Register that he thought the Kentucky senator’s filibuster was “completely awesome” and had brought unity to the party.
When questioned about the disagreement among some party members with Paul’s filibuster, Priebus downplayed the divisions. 

Priebus: GOP 'Totally On Board' with Rand Paul | The Weekly Standard

The Raw Story: Chris Hayes to take over Ed Schultz’s time slot on MSNBC


Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes,” will be taking the 8:00 p.m. weeknight on that network, taking the slot being vacated by Ed Schultz, who is moving to weekends. According to the New York Times‘ Media Decoder blog, MSNBC will be making the announcement Thursday morning, mere hours after Schultz announced that he was moving to weekends.
Hayes’ show “Up” has held down the Saturday and Sunday morning slot on MSNBC for 18 months, earning plaudits from viewers and critics for its in-depth and nuanced treatment of current issues, an uncommon approach in the world of the bombastic 24-hour news cycle.

Chris Hayes to take over Ed Schultz’s time slot on MSNBC | The Raw Story