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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Wed Mar 5, 2014, 04:50 PM Mar 2014

Fox News warns IRS official: Testify if you want the death threats to stop

By David Edwards
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 15:07 EST

Fox News host Jon Scott on Wednesday advised former IRS official Lois Lerner that she should give up her constitutional rights and testify before Congress if she wanted death against her life to stop.

During a House Oversight Hearing on Wednesday, Lerner invoked her right under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and refused to answer Chairman Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) questions about the IRS targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status.

Lerner’s attorney had previously asked the committee not to call her to testify, citing numerous death threats.

“She felt she was getting death threats, that she felt concerned about her safety,” US News and World Report‘s David Catanese told Scott on Wednesday.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/05/fox-news-warns-irs-official-testify-if-you-want-the-death-threats-to-stop/

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Fox News warns IRS official: Testify if you want the death threats to stop (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2014 OP

Hmm, that sounds a little extortiony. tanyev Mar 2014 #1

I wonder, if someone kidnapped all the bubble-headed blonde blow-up dolls at Fox and threatened ... 11 Bravo Mar 2014 #2

First atreides1 Mar 2014 #3

You'd have to force them Feral Child Mar 2014 #5

Poorly written headline. He didn't say it to her face OKNancy Mar 2014 #4

tanyev

(42,496 posts)

1. Hmm, that sounds a little extortiony.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 04:54 PM

Mar 2014

11 Bravo

(23,922 posts)

2. I wonder, if someone kidnapped all the bubble-headed blonde blow-up dolls at Fox and threatened ...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 04:57 PM

Mar 2014

to dye their hair black, would Murdoch give up and finally allow his news people to start telling the truth?

atreides1

(16,063 posts)

3. First

Reply to 11 Bravo (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:01 PM

Mar 2014

Murdoch would have to hire news people...the corporate whores he currently has working for him wouldn't know the truth if they were hit by a bullet train!

Feral Child

(2,086 posts)

5. You'd have to force them

Reply to 11 Bravo (Reply #2)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:47 PM

Mar 2014

to wear pants, too.

That would really twist his nickers.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

4. Poorly written headline. He didn't say it to her face

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Wed Mar 5, 2014, 05:13 PM

Mar 2014

he just said it on one of their tv broadcasts. He also didn't "warn her"

“I can see why if you’re getting death threats, why you wouldn’t want to open yourself up to more scrutiny,” Scott admitted. “But at the same time, it would seem that answering some of the questions might cause some of these people who are so angry to ease up.”

Fox news people are dumbasses, creeps, assholes, and every other nasty thing, but this article really sucks in giving out the correct information.

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