| | | "Your approach in all of these cases has been to accuse first, and then go in search of evidence to back up your claims,"
That is how the Right has come to operate. If they can't find the evidence, they then make something up or twist the actual evidence to 'back' their claim.
The evidence could not be clearer. This starts at the top. Barack Obama was all over the country in July, August, September, and October repeating, in one speech after another, the narrative that these "conservative organizations" were evil, a "threat to democracy", were "foreign influenced", and and all but stating explicitly that they needed to be investigated. The DNCC used the same inflammatory language (what Chris Matthews would call a "dog-whistle", if he dared to even comment on Obama scandals, which he doesn't).
This choice of language (in one case, Goolsbey actually referred to Koch Brothers' by name, although his accusation was that they operated a tax-free pass-through entity - which he should have no way of knowing and certainly would in no way be sinister -- I participate in several right now and I'd bet you do, too) is outrageous and was carefully designed to soften the opposition to profiling by IRS and others.
Then, there are the meetings between Obama and IRS officials he had no business at all in meeting with. And with the head of the Treasury Employees Union, another person he had no business, whatsoever, with.
There's not going to be a smoking gun. The WH is stupid, but not THAT stupid. But there have been murder convictions on thinner evidence than this. |
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