Folks, it just won't do to say "the IRS did nothing wrong" when it has already admitted that it DID

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16. Here is an example of the White House reacting instead of finding out what the facts are....

White House apologizes to fired USDA worker
'A disservice was done,' says press secretary Robert Gibbs of Shirley Sherrod's firing. She was asked to resign after a conservative website showed edited video of her at an NAACP event apparently saying she would refuse to help a white farmer.

July 22, 2010|By Michael A. Memoli, Tribune Washington Bureau

Reporting from Washington —

The White House has apologized to a former USDA employee it now says was fired before the situation involving controversial videotaped comments was fully reviewed.

"A disservice was done, for which we apologize," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Wednesday afternoon, saying he spoke for the entire administration.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was attempting to reach the former employee, Shirley Sherrod, to speak further about the matter, Gibbs added. Vilsack said in a statement released overnight that he would reconsider the department's decision to demand Sherrod's resignation.

Although apologizing for the White House specifically, Gibbs said the media and political activists also were culpable for making "determinations and judgments without a full set of facts."

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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/22/nation/la-na-white-house-usda-apology-20100722

For more on this incident, google Shirley Sherrod. Of course, Van Jones was also forced to resign for no coherent reason other than that the Republicans were angry. So, here are two well-known examples of the White House not standing up to Republicans in any meaningful way.