Here’s a sampling of what was presented as “news” by the mainstream media on Friday:
-The IRS apologized for what it acknowledged was "inappropriate targeting of conservative political groups during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status” and blamed low-level employees, not motivated by bias, claiming no high-level officials were aware of it.
Frazzled White House spokesman Jay Carney said it was “indeed inappropriate for the IRS to target tea party groups” but skipped answering questions as to whether the White House itself would investigate. Carney said the administration “expects a thorough investigation by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for tax administration.
Ironically, the Inspector General has been “looking into the issue since last summer and his report is expected to come out next week”. Sounds like the perfect case for Inspector Clouseau: "Yes, I kneuw that... I kneuw that". That is what I have been saying, you idiots!"
-Concerns over the deterioration in the U.S. Air Force’s nuclear mission have been raised again. The Associated Press reported that “in a March inspection the 91st wing was rated ‘marginal,’ the equivalent of a ‘D’ grade, when tested on launch skills”.
Other issues include “willful rule violations such as leaving open the multi-ton blast door to a launch compartment” and that’s just a sampling of what’s happening.
Too bad Dr. Strangelove’s Major T.J. “King” Kong isn’t around for this folly.
-The Honorable Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), the top D on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee accused Republicans of “distorting the remarks of a star witness testifying before the panel this week on Benghazi”. Of course he would.
-It only took five years for the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, to determine that “eating fish is good for your heart but taking fish oil capsules does not help people at high risk of heart problems who are already taking medicines to prevent them”.
-O.J., now Nevada inmate No. 1027820, formerly No. 32, is headed for Vegas next week to ask for a new trial on the grounds that “his lawyer botched his case”. Simpson claims “the Florida lawyer who collected nearly $700,000 is to blame for his armed robbery and kidnapping conviction in 2008 and his 2010 failed appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court”.
If a new trial is granted and “The Juice” gets out, he can keep his promise to find the killers of his ex-wife and her friend in LA in 1994…
-O’Malley revealed steps to increase prison security. Next week, corrections officers from outside of Baltimore will be deployed to the detention center to inspect visitors to the prison to reduce smuggling. And he wants lawmakers to classify cell phone smuggling a felony. Does that mean locking the barn door after the horse is gone would then be classified as a misdemeanor?
-Kicking off his campaign for governor, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown told a “cheering crowd of 500 people” that under the O'Malley-Brown leadership, Maryland has made progress.
“It is not enough to have a low unemployment rate, when we have the same pockets of poverty when Dr. King marched up the steps of the Lincoln Memorial,” Brown said to the group who picnicked on hot dogs and hamburgers in the grove at PG Community College awaiting his arrival.
"Maryland is a great state, but it could be better," Candidate Brown said.
That may be the one true thing said in all of the reported nonsense. Too bad Brown plans to “better” Maryland by increasing taxes and investing more taxpayer money in education and infrastructure.
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