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St. Louis Anchor Fired After Facebook Comment Questioning IRS Interest in Him

Gave the president a hard-ball interview last year

Reason Staff | 5.23.2013 11:24 AM

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KMOV (Channel 4) fired Larry Conners after a social-media controversy, prompting St. Louis' longest-tenured anchorman to defend his claim that IRS "pressure" followed his 2012 interview of President Barack Obama.

Freed from a KMOV gag-order Wednesday, Conners said his statements on Facebook were simply questions about the possibility of an Internal Revenue Service vendetta in the wake of national stories about the agency.

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