Just FYI, this was Lois Lerner's answer to the question she PLANTED with Celia Roady.
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As you know, the whole 'scandal' about the IRS 'targeting the Tea Party' began when Lois Lerner PLANTED a question with a tax lawyer friend of hers named Celia Roady, which she asked Lerner at a meeting of the American Bar Association's Tax Exempt Organizations Committee.
Here was the question Lerner planted with Roady:
"Lois, a few months ago there were some concerns about the IRS’s review of 501(c)(4) organizations, of applications from tea party organizations. I was just wondering if you could provide an update?"
Here's a TRANSCRIPT OF HER ANSWER:
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=50160
As you can see, the word 'targeting' is never used. But THESE (apparently) were the words that launched a thousand "IRS Apologizes for Targeting Tea Party Groups" headlines from MSM hack journalists, culminating in 3 000 000 or so teabaggers having a giant simultaneous orgasm of righteous indignation:
"The problem in the (c)(4) area is that the kind of activity the organizations were doing is okay for (c)(4)s but it can’t be their primary activity. So that weighing and balancing is a little different than when we have a (c)(3) that says you can’t do any political activity. That’s a pretty easy question. So I guess my bottom line here is that we at the IRS should apologize for that, it was not intentional, and as soon as we found out what was going on, we took steps to make it better and I don’t expect that to reoccur."
I'm not here to defend Lerner. Just to point out the ridiculous twisting of her words by the infotainment industry we currently have masquerading as a free press.
My take on it?
All the information regarding this was already out there, and the Inspector's report DID NOT claim that the IRS 'targeted' groups. The report was fairly technical and wonkish, and never would have caught fire in the press, and been mischaracterized the way it has......IT WAS MILLER and LERNER who set THAT fire. Particularly LERNER with her 'apology.'
1. Miller was fired. He SHOULD have been fired, not because of anything the IRS did while Shulman was in charge....but for being so stupid and inept as to let Lerner do what she did. Good riddance, IDIOT!
2. Lerner SHOULD be fired for the stupid planted question that set off all the explosions. If the Inspector's report had come out first, it wouldn't have been nearly this bad.
