Paul Caron's Day By Day IRS Scandal Has Jumped The Shark - Conclusion

This is the second part of a piece on Paul Caron's IRS Scandal series. I fear that the series which serves as a great resource is in danger of having its quality diluted. I think that the Day 880 post in which we read about Ben Carson demanding that the IRS immediately revoke the exempt status of an Islamic group that called for him to step out of the Presidential Race is the tax blogging equivalent of jumping the shark.

Jumping the shark is an idiom popularized by Jon Hein that was used to describe the moment in the evolution of a television show when it begins a decline in quality, signaled by a particular scene, episode, or aspect of a show in which the writers use some type of gimmick in an attempt to keep viewers' interest, which is taken as a sign of desperation, and is seen by viewers to be the point at which the show strayed irretrievably from its original premise.

If the IRS actually did what Carson is requesting, that would be a scandal so including it as part of the scandal narrative, which has its roots in the handling of Tea Party exempt applications, is a straying from the original premise.