Is Congressman Peter Welch (D-Vt.) to blame for sicking the Internal Revenue Service dogs on conservative political groups and launching a national scandal?
That’s the impression one might have gotten from watching a WCAX report Wednesday night examining a letter Welch sent the IRS in March 2012.
Introducing the story, WCAX anchor Kristin Kelly promises serious drama, saying Welch “is now feeling some heat” from a scandal that’s rocked the Obama administration and already claimed the jobs of at least two top IRS officials.
Senior political reporter Kristin Carlson takes it from there.
“The fallout hitting the White House has also reached Congressman Peter Welch,” she reports. “Some conservative critics charge he encouraged the IRS to do what so many are angry about now.”
Exhibit A?
“In a press release last year announcing he sent letters to the IRS and president,” Carlson says, “Welch encouraged the IRS to, quote, ‘investigate whether nonprofit 501(c)(4) organizations affiliated with Super PACs — such as Crossroads GPS, the Karl Rove-backed group… are in violation.'”
Wait a second. Welch specifically called on the IRS to investigate Crossroads GPS?
Well, no. Not exactly.
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Peter Freyne used to call WCAX “WGOP-TV”… they keep proving they haven’t really changed since then.
The idea that Welch would come up with anything as Machiavellian as the IRS thing is itself laughable.
Crossroads should have been scrutinized.
Not because of their political lean or the background of Karl Rove even; but because they amassed huge sums and bought a lot of advertising.
Any 401(c)(4) that buys lots of advertising should be closely looked at because the advertising component… in and of itself… makes it more likely that they will violate the requirements of being a 401(C)(4)
Freyne’s childish namecalling ways is not really proof of anything.