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Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
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Posted on 05/17/2013 8:32:42 AM PDT by Perdogg

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To: Perdogg

Unexpectedly Lisa Myers of NBC makes some great points about this in the vid, “[I]f this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.” Yep, and if it was exposed at the same time that the Admin lied about the youtube vid, even RINO-Romney might have had a chance.


21 posted on 05/17/2013 8:57:49 AM PDT by Lou Budvis
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To: Perdogg

So what is the end game with this?


22 posted on 05/17/2013 8:59:25 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Perdogg
NBC's Lisa Myers reported...

NBC allowed some honest? Didn't the Obama team send them their talking points?

23 posted on 05/17/2013 9:01:59 AM PDT by GOPJ (Conservatives were Obama's victims, but unlike the press we were aware of it.)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

its all so sad. so pathetic


24 posted on 05/17/2013 9:04:17 AM PDT by turdhopper
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
B T T T ! ! ! ©

25 posted on 05/17/2013 9:04:52 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: redgolum

Eliminating political opposition,
and eventually, eliminating the people with opposing viewpoints.


26 posted on 05/17/2013 9:05:16 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: redgolum

It’ll drag on for a while - then slowly people in the press will start to understand what’s really happening. When they start putting out the truth, the American public will be outraged.

A group of dems will go to Obama and ask him to resign... for the sake of the party. At that point we’ll either discover what Janet’s 1.6 billion bullets were for - or Obama will do the right thing - and follow in Nixon’s footsteps...


27 posted on 05/17/2013 9:05:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Conservatives were Obama's victims, but unlike the press we were aware of it.)
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To: Perdogg

Would it have affected the outcome. Not do sure. The Obamabots would have voted for him anyway, the Romney-haters wouldn’t have voted for him anyway, and all of the other cheating still would have taken place.


28 posted on 05/17/2013 9:06:16 AM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: GOPJ
I don't think so.

Obama is part of the Chicago machine. Scandals don't take a machine down, they just start attacking the ones who report it.

Living next door to IL, I have seen this play out a few times. The only question I have is this. Does Obama have the same loyalty from the national press as the machine does in IL? If he does, it will be off the radar by the end of June.

I don't see this hurting him as bad as many think it will.

29 posted on 05/17/2013 9:10:39 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: redgolum

“So what is the end game with this?”

This is a stress test of the state run media.
From time to time the regime needs to make sure their most important division is operating at top efficiency.

Media gets an A-


30 posted on 05/17/2013 9:10:55 AM PDT by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: RS_Rider

You know, that makes sense.

A s%^T test. See if they will take it.


31 posted on 05/17/2013 9:15:59 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Perdogg
             Illegitimate


             Bastard

32 posted on 05/17/2013 9:19:03 AM PDT by tomkat (solve for x: Baraq = islamite .. islam = enemy ... Baraq = x)
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To: Perdogg

Bump


33 posted on 05/17/2013 9:20:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Perdogg

We have been lied to and we have been had.


34 posted on 05/17/2013 9:23:32 AM PDT by bergmeid (I told you so - now pass the ammo.)
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To: Perdogg
Johnny Cash sings "Leavenworth" http://youtu.be/mdL8GWc72ZQ

Hopefully we'll see the population increase soon

35 posted on 05/17/2013 9:33:03 AM PDT by BigDaddyTX (Don't Mex with Texas)
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To: Perdogg
IRS deliberately chose

THEY WERE ORDERED

36 posted on 05/17/2013 9:33:12 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Perdogg; Uncle Miltie

Did the whitehut know? Video at link, start at 6:00 mark

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/05/17/megyn-kelly-on-obamas-non-denial-denial-obama-didnt-deny-knowing-about-irs-targeting-he-denied-knowing-about-the-ig-report

Bloomberg reporter: Can you assure the American people that nobody in the White House knew about the IRS’s actions before your Counsel’s office found out about the IG probe?
Obama’s response: I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through press reports.
Kelly brings up that the AP thereafter interpreted that as as denial of knowledge of the IRS practices. AP headline was “Obama assures he did not know about IRS political targeting”, which of course, was not at all what he said but no doubt what he wanted the take away to be.
So if you don’t respond specifically to that direct a question, what may one conclude?
Either you did know, or you are so unclear as to the involvement of your administration, you choose to deflect the question.
McCarthy discusses the concept in the law of implied admission when one doesn’t actually respond.
The American people deserve much more than weasel responses from our President.


37 posted on 05/17/2013 9:37:04 AM PDT by sunny48
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To: Perdogg

This is bigger news that many probably realize...


38 posted on 05/17/2013 9:55:33 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Perdogg
Before we jump the gun and assume that Obama and the Rats are solely responsible for the IRS' actions, we should ask "Who hates the Tea Party, et al, more? The Rats or the GOP establishment?"

A case could be made that the GOP establishment had more to gain from blocking the grassroots movement than Obama and the Rats would gain.

It would not surprise me if we found GOP unclean hands somewhere in this IRS mess.

After all, the IRS Commissioner who kicked it all off was a Bush appointee. Surely, the GOP has infiltrated the IRS over the years so that it could use the incompetence of the IRS to its political advantage.

Wasn't the GOP (Nixon) the first to be caught with it's hand in the cookie jar?

We'll learn a lot from how vigorously the GOP congress-critters pursue this IRS mess. It wouldn't surprise me if the IRS scandal goes away much faster than any of us would like.

39 posted on 05/17/2013 9:56:02 AM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: Doogle
Nail on head....There is no doubt about it


40 posted on 05/17/2013 9:57:18 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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