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From: Nate Silver
SNIP:
Riding in on his white horse to save the day is the man who so vexed the Republicans during the 2012 campaign by not scewing the polls towards a Romney win...Nate Silver.
The I.R.S. publishes data each year on the number of taxpayers it audits. In 2012, it conducted just shy of 1.5 million audits out of 144 million individual income tax returns...
The point is, however, that even with no political targeting at all, hundreds of thousands of conservative voters would have been chosen for audits in the I.R.S.s normal course of business. Among these hundreds of thousands of voters, thousands would undoubtedly have gone beyond merely voting to become political activists.
The fact that Ms. Noonan has identified four conservatives from that group of thousands provides no evidence at all toward her hypothesis. Nor would it tell us very much if dozens or even hundreds of conservative activists disclosed that they had been audited. This is exactly what you would expect in a country where there are 1.5 million audits every year.
http://immasmartypants.blogspot.com/2013/05/noonan-vs-silverits-route.html
From: Peggy Noonan
SNIP:
The IRS scandal has two parts. The first is the obviously deliberate and targeted abuse, harassment and attempted suppression of conservative groups. The second is the auditing of the taxes of political activists.
SNIP:
The second part of the scandal is the auditing of political activists who have opposed the administration. The Journal's Kim Strassel reported an Idaho businessman named Frank VanderSloot, who'd donated more than a million dollars to groups supporting Mitt Romney. He found himself last June, for the first time in 30 years, the target of IRS auditors. His wife and his business were also soon audited. Hal Scherz, a Georgia physician, also came to the government's attention. He told ABC News: "It is odd that nothing changed on my tax return and I was never audited until I publicly criticized ObamaCare.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323582904578487460479247792.html
Well Peggy my girl, this statement you made about This Democratic administration:
I do believe you just described your own sorry party. The one that seems to be scraping egg off it's face as we speak!
Go Nate Silver!
malaise
(268,930 posts)Go Nate Silver - destroy them again!
It's all manufactured BS!!
grasswire
(50,130 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)who is in love with the sound of her own voice
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)sheshe2
(83,746 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)or the shrill
Priceless!
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)Worse than the S&L debacle?
The HUD scandal under Reagan?
Bigger than the Florida voter purge?
Worse than Enron?
Worse than ignoring "Bin Laden Determined to strike in the US"?
Worse than having bin Laden surrounded, only to let him go?
Worse than Halliburton getting no-bid contracts for billions, then not being able to account for the money?
Worse than US troops having unarmored hummers?
Worse than outing a CIA agent?
Worse than firing US attorneys for political reasons?
Worse than ignoring the warning signs on Bernie Madoff?
Worse than Bush 1 pardoning Iran-Contra figures?
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)They will do and say anything to bring this country to it's knees.
They do it for power, by my book that is treason!
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Worse than outing a CIA operative who's husband exposed the yellowcake lie as payback.
Worse than not reading Hans Blix's report back to the UN. (Assumption is he couldn't have read it otherwise he would have know for sure Saddam had no WMD and no nuclear program on the drawing board).
And that is only the most recent Republican administration.
mckara
(1,708 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)He used data against an unarmed woman. Has he no decency?
He used a WMD - weapon of math destruction
nolabear
(41,959 posts)Of course I think anyone who can do anything with math is a genius. I'm thinking of building an altar to Nate.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)When I thought of that
MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)they Lied.
Good to see smartypants shutting down.. "this is no ordinary scandal"
From your link, she..
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"And while being ever-so-cordial in this Noonan take-down, Silver provides just a bit of "stick a fork in this one" at the end.
Ms. Noonan, and many other commentators, made a similar mistake last year in their analysis of the presidential election, when they cited evidence like the number of Mitt Romney yard signs in certain neighborhoods as an indication that he was likely to win, while dismissing polls that collectively surveyed hundreds of thousands of voters in swing states and largely showed Mr Obama ahead.
Take a bow Mr Silver.
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Grazie, She~