DYLAN BYERS
Politico
May 14, 2013
Larry Connors, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St.
Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him
since an April 2012 interview he conducted with President Obama — a fact
that he dismissed as coincidence until the recent reportsabout the IRS targeting conservative groups.
“Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my
wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to watch out
for the IRS. I don’t accept ‘conspiracy theories’, but I do know that
almost immediately after the interview, the IRS started hammering me,” Connors wrote on his Facebook page late Monday night.
Connors did not specify how the IRS has been “hammering” him. He did
not immediately respond to a request for clarification (see Update
below).
According to his account, his questions for Obama touched on the economy and spending but were not exceptional in nature (video here).
But following “allegations that the IRS focused on various groups
and/or individuals questioning or criticizing government spending,
taxes, debt or how the government is run,” Connors now believes there
may be a possible connection.
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