During the Superbowl Sunday interview with Bill O’Reilly,
President Obama famously stated that there was “not a smidgen of corruption” in
the IRS. It has since been learned in
the House Ways and Means Committee investigation of the IRS that the agency did
not stop at targeting and harassing conservative groups that applied for
501(c)(4) status. In fact, it was
revealed that the IRS targeted existing 501(c)(4) groups, 83% of which happened
to be “right-leaning”, i.e., conservative.
However, the most damning piece of evidence in the
investigation was that of all the groups selected by the IRS for audit, 100%
were conservative. As Carol Platt Liebau
states in Townhall.com:
That's right --
"somehow," every single 501(c)(4) that the IRS selected to endure the
time, expense, distraction and stress of an audit just happened to be conservative.
Hmm…A government that targets, harasses, and suppresses
dissent among its own citizens based on their political affiliation through an
agency that has the unfettered power to financially destroy and imprison
them. I will need to look up the definitions of
“corruption” and “smidgen”.
PolitiFact’s “Lie of
the Year” in 2013 was Obama’s statement “If you like your health care plan, you
can keep it”. Perhaps his “not a smidgen
of corruption” proclamation will be the lie of 2014.
Andrew Thomas
As published in American Thinker
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