The Internal Revenue Service may need to send The Wall Street Journal a finder's fee after the newspaper's front-page article today on the alleged political activities of Sen. Barack Obama's home church, Trinity United Church of Christ on Chicago's South Side, activities that may violate IRS rules against churches advocating for particular political candidates.
The Journal doesn't say that the IRS is investigating Trinity specifically though, if it wasn't before the story, it wouldn't be surprising if the agency starts a probe now. The IRS, like other federal agencies with police powers, will often open investigations upon learning about potential wrongdoing through media reports.
Here's how the Journal's story starts:On Christmas morning, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. compared presidential candidate Barack Obama's impoverished childhood to Jesus Christ's. "Barack knows what it means to be a black man living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people," he then trumpeted. "Hillary [Clinton] can never know that."
Mr. Wright wasn't at a convention or a campaign stop. He was standing at the pulpit before the mostly African-American congregation of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, wherev Sen. Obama has worshiped for more than 20 years.
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