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Ball Blames Targeting on IRS Budget Cuts: ‘You Can Understand … Why They Went That Direction’
Free Beacon ^ | 6/4/13 | staff

Posted on 06/04/2013 8:16:12 PM PDT by Nachum

MSNBC host Krystal Ball excused the actions of IRS agents who targeted conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status on The Last Word Monday night, saying budget cuts left them without the resources to do their jobs and they had to “enforce the law as they understood it.”

“The other big story here I think that has been missed in the press is the fact that the IRS budget has been cut to the point that these agents can’t do their jobs,” she said. “They do not have the resources to do their jobs, so they were trying with the limited resources they have to enforce the law as they understood it. It was not proper, but you can understand with what they’re working with, why they went in that direction.”

Ball’s implication: agents had no nefarious motives but, because of budget cuts, misinterpreted the law which led them to single out groups bearing words like “Tea Party,” “Patriot” and “Constitution” in their titles for additional scrutiny.

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Full title: Ball Blames Targeting on IRS Budget Cuts: ‘You Can Understand … Why They Went That Direction’

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1 posted on 06/04/2013 8:16:12 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Does she realize her ‘defense’ is even more damning of their actions? Not the effect she intended I imagine.


2 posted on 06/04/2013 8:18:26 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: Nachum

If they didn’t spend all that money on folly! Get rid of the IRS, that would solve the money problems.


3 posted on 06/04/2013 8:20:17 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Nachum

Ball is a ditzy loon.


4 posted on 06/04/2013 8:22:02 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (If you think ObamaCare is a train wreck, wait until you see the amnesty bill.)
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To: Nachum

Krystal Ball? Is MSNBC’S hiring pornstars now. Her logic is so twisted if applied to Hitler he would win Nobel Peace Prize.


5 posted on 06/04/2013 8:24:06 PM PDT by LeonardFMason
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To: Nachum
The Last Word Monday night, saying budget cuts left them without the resources to do their jobs and they had to “enforce the law as they understood it.”

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

What happened?
The IRS didn't get their expected budget increase?

What year?
2009?
2010?
2012?
2013?

Does your IQ allow you to back up absurd assertions?

6 posted on 06/04/2013 8:27:15 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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To: Nachum

The IRS started targeting Conservatives in 2010, tell me, what kind of budget cuts were happening then? And how come these cuts only had Conservative groups being targeted and the liberal ones getting tax exempt status..the left making excuses for this just shows how disgusting liberals are, which I always knew but thanks lefties for the confirmation


7 posted on 06/04/2013 8:27:39 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Nachum

Krystal Ball

Seriously


8 posted on 06/04/2013 8:28:18 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Nachum

but the IRS had 50 million for conferences and parody films


9 posted on 06/04/2013 8:30:30 PM PDT by molson209
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To: Nachum
Oh I get it, the IRS was in poverty living on the streets and had to do this.
The end justified the means, Obama re-elected.
10 posted on 06/04/2013 8:32:15 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: Nachum
This excuse is way beyond pathetic.
Ms. Ball might best stick to Christmas party photo ops.
11 posted on 06/04/2013 8:34:50 PM PDT by Amagi (Obama is never so animated as when he is assaulting the Constitution.)
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To: Nachum

Seriously... I had to look to see if this was satire...

and OMG it’s not


12 posted on 06/04/2013 8:42:27 PM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: Nachum

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffrey-meyer/2013/04/05/msnbc-now-uses-4-year-old-daughter-anchor-push-gay-marriage

Amazingly, it’s still not the stupidest thing she’s ever said/done (which is above)


13 posted on 06/04/2013 8:48:07 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Nachum
budget cuts left them without the resources to do their jobs and they had to “enforce the law as they understood it.”

So, they were so overworked that they decided to come up with long lists of individualized questions for each of these Conservative tax exempt applications? If they were so overworked, they would have simplified the process, not made it more difficult and time consuming.

(Krystal Ball - lol)
14 posted on 06/04/2013 8:51:45 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: FlyingEagle

Why am I not surprised there is someone they actually pay a salary to on MSNBC with the name Krystal Ball...


15 posted on 06/04/2013 8:58:02 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: Nachum

To call her an idiot would be an insult to real idiots.


16 posted on 06/04/2013 9:01:16 PM PDT by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: FlyingEagle

Is this woman an Obama sister?


17 posted on 06/04/2013 9:07:17 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Nachum

Consider the Crystals of “progressive” MSNBC, how their noses grow: yet they toil not, but boy howdy do they spin.


18 posted on 06/04/2013 9:09:20 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Well, it's been MHO, that when Clinton was forced to sign Welfare reform, all those Welfare Queens were just moved over to government jobs. So, maybe this is due to Welfare cuts. When I've contacted the IRS, my impression was one of their complete incompetence. The people had no phone or verbal skills. IMHO, government employment, for the most part, is just another form of Welfare.
19 posted on 06/04/2013 9:18:45 PM PDT by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Nachum

Further proof that liberalism is demonic. No other explanation for such bizarre thinking and logic.


20 posted on 06/04/2013 9:20:18 PM PDT by saywhatagain
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