I think you have to have a Main-Feed Angel.

Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler thinks the JournoListas comments make the marching orders from the White House fairly clear:

. . . an indication of just how worried the White House is, and how it intends to contain the scandal. First, get reliably friendly bloggers and columnists on board with a story that focuses attention away from the White House. Then, isolate and target someone who has already become a central figure in the scandal, and more importantly, who does not work directly for the White House. Finally, make it appear as if these reliably friendly bloggers actually take the IRS scandal seriously, so they become voices in the larger media advocating for a strong response — just strong enough to look decisive, while keeping the White House outside the main storyline.

NRO has become little more than an annoyance. Anytime I click on anything on NRO, I get a pop-under. By the time I'm done reading it, I have 27 pop-unders to close.

I'm also more than a little annoyed by the fact that I'm getting e-mail advertising from NRO which I apparently PAID FOR with my year's subscription to Ricochet.

James mentioned something on a recent podcast that is precisely correct -- the internet is broken. There's barely a website these days that doesn't have a crapload of ads you need to click through or past or silence or do something in order to get the information you were originally looking for.

But what I wasn't looking for was "One Weird Trick" or the guy who "Experts Hate!" or those distubring and unsettling faces that accompany LowerMyBills or whatever.

This is probably why my web-surfing is down to about four websites. The internet is over. It was fun while it lasted.

Maybe not the MSM, but certainly the juice-box mafia.

The common thread seems to be that it's those rascally Republicans again, going after Obama, when it's obviously this low-level functionary who is to blame for all our ills. Obama is still pure and above the fray.

It does seem strange that actual journalists are starting to do actual journalism again. And the separation between them and these mere bloggers listed above is telling. 

When the AP's ox was gored, that was probably the turning point. But the bloggers above, the Kos Kiddies and their li'l comrades, were never going to be in danger -- and would happily give Obama everything he wanted anyway. Should they ever be attacked by the DOJ, their response would be "Thank you, sir, and please abuse me some more."

I agree, but with more respect! : D

You're touching on the "Makers and Takers" discussion, I think.

I'm also of the view that when lefties talk about equality, they're generally thinking of equality of outcome. They think we should all have the same things, achieve the same results, gold stars for showing up.

On the other hand, my view of conservatism is that it's about equality of opportunity. What you do with that opportunity is completely up to you. Nobody's going to guarantee the outcome (and for a sense of genuine self-worth, you want to be the one doing the achieving. You don't want to have it handed to you).

I don't think all experiences are done without personal achievement. You certainly can't have the experience of being an Olympic skier without working hard and training. But other than those sorts, experiences are like pretty stones to be picked up along the path of life.

But those personal achievements are of a different sort. They're the diamonds you have to dig for. They're not just lying along the path. Furthermore, there's no guarantee that you'll find them when you start digging.

You dig anyway.

That depends on our members of Congress. I guess we'll see whether they work for the people or whether their first instinct is to protect their own.

Hopefully our wiser statesmen will use this opportunity to reduce the power of or dissolve several government agencies. Hopefully, this will include the IRS.

If there was ever a time to push for a change in the tax code, this is it. I can hear Herman Cain shouting 9-9-9 over the din.

They should ask her about her prayers.

No question about it. They're in full damage control mode. They've just called in the most faithful members of the Kneepad Battalions.

Well . . .

Carney seems to be suggesting that the question plant that resulted in the "apology" was developed in concert with the White House.

So, to unpack this a bit, the White House deputy chief of staff was informed of and involved in managing the abuse to the level of working with Treasury officials about how to let the public know. Rather than come up with an honest and straightforward way of communicating it, the IRS planted a question in an obscure conference call on a Friday that would elicit a very incomplete apology, a few days before the IG report was expected to hit.

Are we supposed to expect that Childress was acting alone? He’s the deputy White House chief of staff, his boss is chief of staff Denis McDonough. We learned on Monday that McDonough and the White House counsel learned of the IRS abuse in April at the latest. Did he not know — did he order — Childress to work with IRS to manage the planted question? What did McDonough know about the planted question? Was the White House counsel involved in planting the question? What did Obama know about any of this?

Ha. Yes, she did claim she wasn't good at math. A startling admission from a person running the IRS. But that explains the letters I've received from the IRS that demonstrate exactly that.

Two years in a row I got letters regarding the amount of self-employment income I claimed. I claimed X, and a client of mine reported to the IRS that she paid me Y.

In this case, X > Y. Yet the IRS seemed convinced that I didn't claim enough because Y! I had to write them back, twice, to explain that Y < X. Therefore the amount X included Y.

Took a few weeks, but they finally agreed.

You can tell the Great Global Warming Hoax is in its death throes, because the cries of doomsday are getting more shrill and stupid by the day. 

Possibly related:

Glenn Reynolds quips: "JournoList cavalry to the rescue!"

At least now we know which part of the Constitution she believes in.

For your penance, we require three (3) "Young Guns" podcasts.