this is more about the president at now we talked about this i prestige party
situation 'cause this thing isn't going away although uh... i think we'll agree
that it's not quite as big a scandal has eulogy iffy situation uh...
so uh...
basically they were targeting
tea party organizations and things with
you know words tea party in all these little signs
that they might be conservative groups
or particularly anti tax
groups it still seems to be the word we're getting more information by the
minute and that maybe he wasn't as targeted as it originally seen
again is this just in the one i think the republicans run with and deficit
what's the fallout this is the new band dot t_ and
located at one end of this is this is you know and it's just amazing that they
act like this is the first time this summer personal this is what the i_r_s_
does right
so as long as of now has pointed out already
is that they've been also targeting progressive groups right
and that's all right with their territory progressive wasn't
some of their twenty iris is supposed to be doing here
is making sure that these uh... groups that are requesting tax-exempt status
but they have to agree to it's about the political when you have the name tea
party
in your day that's going to be applied that that's probably a political group
writes i have to give them closer scrutiny right we should mention of
course it all the teapot party rally is there a guys decide i don't pay taxes i
don't want to pay taxes i'll never paid taxes don't tread on my taxes
but yeah let's be clear
and with this actually is about your these were and groups that were applying
for tax exempt status is not already is nice tactics and we know that during the
bush administration that they also one after established at ted tax-exempt
organizations but this is the point
came to me that this is to prevent
taxpayers from subsidizing political activity and that is why they get this
tax exempt and they're not supposed to have that be there a primary reason for
existence so that's why the i_r_s_ gave these organizations extra street ny
branded the way that they went about it was ridiculously stupid and the wrong
but if you read the actual inspector general's report and we actually have
decided that review of the inspector general's report at the top of crap like
dot com top story salon dot com is well what we talk about what's not ended by
deeper for and what is not in the i_d_ card were they not in evidence at the
white house was aware of any of this there is no i_d_ you know i made show up
later but at this point in the report there is no evidence yet that the white
house knew about this
evidence that there was any political or malicious intent in in this uh... stupid
screening that they were doing the inspector general in his reports again
we may know more later but at this point it looks like it was at the huge influx
of applications after the passage as the ruling out that citizens united and so
they were overwhelmed and they were trying without any kind of guidance from
upper management according to the i_g_ to come up with their own method for
filtering out these groups prioritizing them and they did it they're wrong way
granite they did the wrong way but there doesn't appear to be any malicious
intent right now let's see those are all fit
acts and not the facts of a lot to do with our public displays an abysmal
let's let's just say that all those are actual fact is part of the problem here
that week
for some reason that the president no matter who he is
knows everything at all times belief that the president knows
you know i have to have dinner with jay-z tonight and i have to go
fundraising here and not much else but we seem to take the prep robert
pattinson zach was reading the tea party a low level but i thought the president
that's not why do we think the president's vidal everything falling you
know it so the only way just whatever even be a scandal
is if it was linked like you said uh... that that the president bordering this
or somebody in the white house ordering this kind of scrutiny
which we know has happened in the past and the way deletion about where there
is no evidence of that in this case right then and you realize you know for
again more more information could come out about that when i think that's also
i think really important about this is that
congress had passed the inspector general
to do this investigation because they have been receiving complaints that some
of these tea party applications have been delayed
what we laugh also look at when we see this i_d_ report is that they were he
was also asked to investigate whether any of these organizations
inquiry engaged in political activities
at this point when you read report there's no mention of whether or not
these already established organizations engaged in political activity in
violation of this tax examined the gifts that most of them did because they were
sister fisted for you
in two thousand eight seventy five percent of the non-partisan they are
seventy five percent of the non-profits in two thousand eight who were for
billion
from political campaigning were in fact politically campaigning of of course i
mean this it just became just because you know parents of course they want to
be the super pets we all know that
it's not saying it's not written down but they are working with the campaigns
there's absolutely no doubt about