The Fartknocker Report: Help, Help, Sarah Palin Is Being Repressed!
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The Fartknocker Report: Help, Help, Sarah Palin Is Being Repressed!
In one of her three new videos this week — seven minutes and 34 seconds of total run time, for those keeping score at home — Sarah Palin decided to squawk about Lois Lerner, because apparently that horse is not yet dead and requires further beating. Her screed goes deep, deep into the realm of alternate history, and the whole thing is worth a look. Let’s Wonksplore!
[Lois Lerner] helped engineer the targeting of conservative groups and tried to get the Department of Justice to prosecute conservatives.
Nothing in that sentence is true. The “engineering” of the “targeting” was done by IRS employees in the agency’s Cincinnati office. Lerner didn’t know about the Cincinnati office’s practices until the summer of 2011, and when she did learn about them, she told the Cincinnati office to knock it the f&%k off — even Darrell Issa accepts this timeline, but really, why would Sarah Palin let the facts start to bother her now?
Also, there is literally no evidence that anyone at the IRS spoke to anyone at the Department of Justice about “prosecuting” any political group, mostly because it’s really dumb to call for tax prosecution when you haven’t conducted an audit yet. Even the right-wing Judicial Watch doesn’t accuse Lois Lerner of trying to get the DOJ to prosecute conservatives, because even they can recognize the difference between obtaining a legal advisory pursuant to a Senator’s question in a public hearing and advocating for prosecution.
Keep going, Sarah, this is getting fun. And by “fun,” we clearly mean, “God, don’t you ever shut up?”
[…]Lois Lerner, she not only didn’t really get punished, she was rewarded. Lois Lerner received more than $129,000 in bonuses during the exact period when the IRS targeting was at its worst! I bet some folks in the Obama administration believed she earned every penny of that. That’s pretty sickening.
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