The Associated Press has expanded its story on the IRS “inappropriately flagging” about 75 conservative groups for additional review. Evidently there’s nothing to see here. The bullying of Tea Party organizations wasn’t “motivated by political bias” or anything like that.
[Lois Lerner, head of the division that oversees tax-exempt groups] said the practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias. After her talk, she told The AP that no high level IRS officials knew about the practice. She did not say when they found out.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332905230813503488
http://twitter.com/ByronTau/statuses/332905145232916480
See, these unnamed “low-level workers” just thought words like “tea party” and “patriot” were awfully suspicious. Bias? What bias, you wingnutty wingnuts?
IRS apologizes but claims practice "was not motivated by political bias." What?! The IRS is actually making that claim?
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) May 10, 2013
Eh? RT @aaronblakewp: IRS spokeswoman on staff who targeted tea party groups: "They didn't do it because of any political bias."
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) May 10, 2013
Uhh??? "practice was initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati and was not motivated by political bias." http://t.co/UeQLJiIfXZ
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 10, 2013
Stupidest denial ever? RT @AaronBlakeWP IRS on staff who targeted tea party groups: "They didn't do it because of any political bias."
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) May 10, 2013
100 Pinochchio's! RT@AaronBlakeWP IRS spokeswoman on staff who targeted tea party groups: "They didn't do it because of any political bias."
— Katie Scarlet (@Katiescarlet2) May 10, 2013
https://twitter.com/SalenaZitoTrib/status/332902694882787328
Um, if the IRS didn't do it b/c of political bias then WHY did they target conservative groups!?!?!!?
— Mary #FlyTheW (@mchastain81) May 10, 2013
OK, let’s pretend that’s not a load of crap. What exactly was the motivation for targeting conservative groups?
RT @aaronblakewp: IRS spokeswoman on targeting tea party groups: "Didn't do it because of political bias." // They were outraged by a video?
— Jonathan Gormley (@JonathanGormley) May 10, 2013
How long until we hear the ol’ YouTube video excuse? Looks like the IRS is hoping this will just blow over.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332902009260867584
Did the IRS spokesperson say it with a trembling lip and puppy-dog eyes?
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332903200204128256
https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/332905548355866625
Unacceptable.
When all else fails, blame math:
The senior IRS official briefing the press just said: "I'm not good at math."
— Zachary Goldfarb (@Goldfarb) May 10, 2013
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