The IRS Scandal, Day 1038

Mediaite, Fox’s Bret Baier Mischaracterizes Potential Climate Probe as ‘Campaign Against Politically Incorrect Thinking’:

It’s being reported that the Justice Department may be investigating energy companies to see if they’ve been purposefully misleading the public about climate change. From this scant thread, Special Report with Bret Baier spun not one, but two, segments Thursday night cynically calibrated to stoke outrage by selling a specious premise that the Obama administration is waging a “campaign against politically incorrect thinking.” ...

Rosen argued that the federal government investigating corporations’ peddling false science on climate change had its closest point of comparison not in the tobacco companies — but in Tea Party groups targeted for their political beliefs. “Any federal action on opponents of the administration on change issues would evoke parallels with the IRS scandal of 2013,” Rosen said, before taking his segment on a broad detour to exhume the scandal, in which IRS agents in 2010 gave extra scrutiny to conservative non-profit groups specifically because they identified as “Tea Party,” “patriot,” or likewise.

The association with the Tea Party-IRS scandal insincerely suggests that the federal government would investigate energy corporations not because of an alleged concerted effort to deceive the public, but because it wished to punish political beliefs that run contrary to the administration’s. In this formulation, the target is not criminal conspiracy, but — as Baier framed it — political incorrectness.

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