Phony Scandals. Tell it to these two.
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"I believe this administration is stonewalling the investigation, taking the Fifth, and now calling it 'fake' or 'phony,'" Gerritson said. Her group was one of many conservative organizations targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for extra scrutiny leading up to the 2012 presidential elections. They were put off on receiving tax-exempt status for so long they lost their ability to be an influence in the elections.
If they were applying for 501c4 status and intended to participate in the 2012 election then I'm glad the IRS did their jobs. If you go to the web site for the Wetumpka tea party and can honestly say that they are not a political organization even though their primary purpose is to participate in republican campaigns to defeat democrats....I'd be stunned.
I just found that Her group got 501(c)(4) status in July 2012 but she says "We lost our ability to influence the election". So it seems she is a liar.
If they were applying for 501c4 status and intended to participate in the 2012 election then I'm glad the IRS did their jobs. If you go to the web site for the Wetumpka tea party and can honestly say that they are not a political organization even though their primary purpose is to participate in republican campaigns to defeat democrats....I'd be stunned.
I just found that Her group got 501(c)(4) status in July 2012 but she says "We lost our ability to influence the election". So it seems she is a liar.
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Alinvegas
KING
Yes, yes, yes. an of course you have proof that both parties aren't doing this? Please provide it for us then.
Sean Smith's wife thinks something is being covered up. Sadly she is being manipulated by the anti-Obama types (like the Wetumpka Tea party).
In fact, Mr. Smith's body was recovered by reinforcements sent from the CIA annex within the first half hour. Mrs. Smith is being told that help was requested and denied...that reinforcements were told to stand down, that additional security was requested and denied (without being told that the request was for two guys...two).
I feel bad for her and hope she finds comfort in the truth at some point.
In fact, Mr. Smith's body was recovered by reinforcements sent from the CIA annex within the first half hour. Mrs. Smith is being told that help was requested and denied...that reinforcements were told to stand down, that additional security was requested and denied (without being told that the request was for two guys...two).
I feel bad for her and hope she finds comfort in the truth at some point.
Alinvegas
KING
Nothing to say about Sean Smith
The Tea party is a wholly owned subsidiary of the republican party, founded by Dick Armey and supported by Fox News and run by a number of former republican party officials.
Find any 501c4 organization on the left that has participated, as the Tea party has, in the last election. The Tea party even had their own candidates.....
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I bet the families of the 4 dead Americans in Benghazi don't think it's a phony scandal.
Just what part of their deaths is a scandal? That some state department employee (not a political appointee, but someone who'd been there since the last administration) decided the budget wouldn't allow two more security guards for Benghazi?
Would two more guns have made a difference? Nah. Of course, then we could get into the made up stuff, because that is what you specialize in, Jack. The fictitious "stand down" order. The "help was requested and denied" figment of of someone's imagination.
Arkady
President
Yes, phony scandals. The Benghazi attack was a tragedy -- as were all the dozens of deadly attacks on our embassies and consulates in the years before Obama. Nothing phony about that. What was phony was the scandal, where the conservative media tried to get people to be outraged that the Obama administration didn't instantly provide accurate communications about what had happened, at a time when the CIA was still trying to sort through the facts and had signed off on talking points that ended up being wrong in some ways. The right-wingers who jumped aboard that phony scandal should be ashamed of themselves for using a national tragedy like that to try to gain some cheap political points.
As for the IRS phony scandal, we were wrongly told that the IRS had singled out just conservative groups for extra scrutiny, for partisan political reasons, at the direction of the White House. Turns out that was all wrong. In fact, a branch office had used keywords to give extra scrutiny to both liberal-sounding and conservative-sounding groups, in an effort to make the most efficient use of time and effort, with no coordination with the White House.... and the only group that got denied the desired tax status was actually a liberal group.
Fortunately, these pseudo scandals weren't entirely a waste. As happens only very rarely, the media seems to have learned a valuable lesson about what to expect when there's a feeding frenzy. Much of the time, you'll find out it was a result of nothing but ethics-free right-wingers chumming the water.
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Sickofleft
Guest
The IRS and James Rosen & AP Reporters are NOT phony scandals.
Of the two the White House should and IS (despite it's attempts) worried about the IRS Scandal.
Of the two the White House should and IS (despite it's attempts) worried about the IRS Scandal.
Now here's a surprise....we disagree.
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zzigzzag
Guest
Why? Do you have special knowledge that they're ditto heads, too?
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zzigzzag
Guest
Why would the WH be "worried" about the IRS scandal? You know....Holder is going to make sure we never get to the "bottom of it"....right?
Man....I'm still reeling over how Obama survived that gross mishandling of the Gulf oil spill that was going to shut down the beaches for years to come because of him sending a team to blow up the rig and then doing nothing about it!.
Ya know....if you're going to be a ditto head, you have to take the silly with the outrageous. Just swallow hard and move on.
Now back to Benghazi.....
jammer
Mayor
So Al, you're admitting that she is a liar and the IRS investigation is just a bunch of rightwinger BS? Thanks for admitting the truth.
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Sickofleft
Guest
Because it gets closer to the White House with each passing day. All the bashing of Fox News, Rush Limbaugh or whoever else is not going to make that go away.
Sorry those guys in Cinci did not roll over for you like they were supposed to, sorry Lerner took the fifth, sorry this is now at a political appointee doorstep and climbing........ (I am really not sorry by the way, I actually think its really funny that Mr. Hope and Change is as ethically challenged as Richard Nixon).
If they are not worried about this then they are as [Unwelcome language removed] stupid as I know they are.
No but I've seen some being interviewed and they hold your president responsible. Obama slept and Hillary Clinton f**ked off while those men died. It's not a phony scandal to them.
They hold Obama responsible because a state department employee didn't send two more security guards?
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Sickofleft
Guest
I think they hold Obama responsible because the White House never made clear what he was doing the night our first Ambassdor since 1979 was killed. I think they hold him responsible because they had re-written there talking points on the incident 12-14 times where all references to terrorism and Al-Qeda were scrubbed and decided to blame it on a Movie that nobody had ever seen. A Movie that was a non-event in Libya. Then they sent Rice out to spin a yarn about it that was completely and utterly ridiculous.
I think his Presidential Campaign took precdence over this incident and thats when they mishandled this, I honestly don't think there is a "scandal" here I just think it makes them look like the [Unwelcome language removed] they are.
