{"id":4598,"date":"2014-02-18T08:35:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2014-02-18T08:35:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:35:58","slug":"a-coordinated-political-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/politics\/a-coordinated-political-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"A coordinated political attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, our Dear Leader<\/em> claimed that there was “Not even a smidgeon of corruption” at the IRS run by his political appointees.<\/p>\n

Well, as we have learned, everything that BHO says has an expiration date. \u00a0Sometimes that date is even before the words come out of his mouth. \u00a0Remember that the left leaning Washington Post, among others, selected one of Barry’s Catch Phrases as the Lie of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So we should take his claim of no corruption with several large barges worth of salt.<\/p>\n

Let’s review a few key facts were. \u00a0The IRS conducted actual, probing audits of multiple 501(c)(4) organizations<\/a> that made their list of organizations with certain key words. \u00a0Some of those key words were left leaning, but of the groups actually targeted by an IRS audit, 100% were right of center “Conservative” groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now let’s review what the Inspector General for the IRS had to say<\/a> on the matter,\u00a0\u00a0“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the \u2018progressives\u2019 identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012.” \u00a0There are a few more gems in his report to Congress:<\/p>\n

In total, 30 percent of the organizations we identified with the words ‘progress’ or ‘progressive’ in their names were processed as potential political cases. In\u00a0comparison, our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with ‘Tea\u00a0Party,’ ‘Patriots,’ or ‘9\/12’ in their names were processed as potential political cases during\u00a0the timeframe of our audit.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria we described in our report, including employee interviews, emails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that \u2018progressives\u2019 was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention.”<\/p>\n

Of the 296 organizations flagged with “political” keywords, only six were “progressive” groups. \u00a0 That is 2% of the 296 organizations selected by the IRS.<\/p>\n

Let’s not forget\u00a0Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official who pleaded the Fifth rather than answer questions from Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clearly, there is more than just “smidgeon of corruption” at the IRS under the reign of our Dear Leader. \u00a0This Culture of Corruption probably runs much farther and deeper in the Obama administration than just the IRS.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>:\u00a0\u00a0The IRS targeted Republican Christine O\u2019Donnell and then leaked her tax records to the press.<\/a><\/p>\n

IRS Scandal Has Obama Fingerprints All Over It, Experts Say.<\/a><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>:\u00a0Christine O\u2019Donnell\u2019s IRS case reveals more than just a \u2018smidgen of corruption\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, our Dear Leader claimed that there was “Not even a smidgeon of corruption” at the IRS run by his political appointees. Well, as we have learned, everything that BHO says has an expiration date. \u00a0Sometimes that date is even before the words come out of his mouth. \u00a0Remember that the left leaning Washington Post, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43,49,52,19,29],"tags":[140,238,251,262,414,417,427,621,839],"class_list":["post-4598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-of-corruption-politics","category-media-bias","category-bho-politics","category-politics","category-tea-party","tag-barack-obama","tag-corruption","tag-culture-of-corruption","tag-democrat","tag-incompetent","tag-inspector-general","tag-irs","tag-politics","tag-worst-president-ever"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1ca","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}