Let me start with a conclusion:  if this were happening in a Republican administration do you think months and months would be going by with virtually no coverage, no investigative reports, no cable news panel discussions, no network news “troubling new information” teasers?  Do you think a Republican equivalent of lois lerner would be able to arrogantly take the fifth, then refuse to answer any questions about what she did, without a major skewering by mainstream media…complete with demands that her boss force her to testify or that legal charges be brought against her?

Excerpted from Stephen Dinan\’s article in today\’s Washington Times (not the Washington Post – it is too busy doing another hit piece on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker…a laughably weak one that I will discuss in the next blog):

TheWhiteHouse told Congresslast week it refused to dig into its computers for emails that couldshed light on what kinds of private taxpayer information the IRSshares with President Obama\’s top aides, assuring Congressthat the IRSwill address the issue – eventually.

Thetax agency has already said it doesn\’t have the capability to digout the emails in question, but the WhiteHouse\’s chief counsel, W.Neil Eggleston, insisted in a letter last week to House Committeeon Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan that the IRSwould try again once it finishes with the tea party-targetingscandal.

“Itis my understanding that in May 2014, Commissioner Koskinenresponded to this request by indicating that the IRSwould be able to address new topics such as these following itscompletion of document productions already in progress,” Mr.Eggleston wrote in a Feb. 17 letter. “To the extent that thecommittee continues to have an oversight interest in this matter, Iencourage you to continue working with the IRSto address those questions.”

ButIRSCommissioner JohnKoskinen\’s letter last year didn\’t say that. Instead Mr.Koskinen said the IRSwas logistically incapable of performing the search because it wouldhave required combing through 90,000 email accounts.

Yep.  Any day now.  Aa-a-a-a-n-n-n-n-ny day now.

What we are seeing is years of lying, years of obstruction….and years of mainstream media collectively looking the other way as it happens right in front of them.  Nothing important here, just the Internal Revenue Service, arguably the most feared non-military instrument of federal government, overtly discriminating based on free speech.

Do you recall mainstream media doing that for the Bush administration?  On anything, big or small?  Me neither.

I talk a lot about media bias in here. This is one of the many reasons why.