red states rule
05-14-2013, 03:18 AM
Rush summed it up perfectly - as usual
RUSH: Now, folks, this IRS business. The things that we went back in our archives and found, as usual, Obama's trying to make it look like he knew nothing about it. He had no knowledge of it. It's reprehensible. It's outrageous. He's gonna get to the bottom of it. He's gonna find out who did this -- if they did it. He's gonna take appropriate action. How come he didn't issue a statement over the weekend? I'm telling you, everybody involved here had to be dragged kicking and screaming.
In fact, the New York Times knew about what the IRS was doing back in March of 2012, over a year ago. The New York Times knew about this, and guess what? They were applauding it. There's an editorial in the New York Times, "The IRS Does Its Job." March 7th, 2012. From the editorial: "Taxpayers should be encouraged by complaints from Tea Party chapters applying for nonprofit tax status at being asked by the Internal Revenue Service to prove they are 'social welfare' organizations and not the political activists they so obviously are.
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"Such IRS inquiries are long overdue, should be applied across the board to the growing number of organizations allied with major political parties that are also ludicrously posing as social welfare groups." Now, you note the New York Times never writes things like that about such groups as Media Matters, which there's not. There's no way Media Matters qualifies as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt group. But the New York Times knew about this in March of 2012.
They knew about it because Tea Party people were complaining about it, and the New York Times was encouraging the IRS in this. "Chief among these groups..." This is, again, from the New York Times editorial 2012. "Chief among these groups are American Crossroads, the campaign machine created by Republican guru Karl Rove and Priorities USA, the Democratic counterpart founded by former White House aides, now openly encouraged by Obama as he runs for reelection."
That line above shows that this was targeting American Crossroads and Priorities USA, and the New York Times was all for it. Just four or five days ago, the New York Times had an editorial mocking the Republican efforts on Benghazi. Just four or five days ago. Now that's blown wide open. So the idea that this Tea Party targeting by the IRS is something somebody just discovered and only recently learned about is silly. This was known years ago. In fact, the IRS commissioner Lois Lerner has admitted that all this was going on as far back as 2011.
I went back to our archives here and I found some things that will jog your memory. This is a Breitbart.com story from April 3rd of this year. "Obama: Government Tyranny Impossible Because 'Government Is Us.'" He was in Colorado. Obama was out pushing gun control. He "made an astonishing statement about gun rights advocates' fears of governmental gun seizures. He said that such worries would just feed 'into fears about government. You hear some of these folks: "I need a gun to protect myself from the government. 'We can't do background checks because the government's going to come take my guns away." The government's us. These officials are elected by you ... I am constrained as they are constrained by the system that our founders put in place.'"
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RUSH: Now, folks, this IRS business. The things that we went back in our archives and found, as usual, Obama's trying to make it look like he knew nothing about it. He had no knowledge of it. It's reprehensible. It's outrageous. He's gonna get to the bottom of it. He's gonna find out who did this -- if they did it. He's gonna take appropriate action. How come he didn't issue a statement over the weekend? I'm telling you, everybody involved here had to be dragged kicking and screaming.
In fact, the New York Times knew about what the IRS was doing back in March of 2012, over a year ago. The New York Times knew about this, and guess what? They were applauding it. There's an editorial in the New York Times, "The IRS Does Its Job." March 7th, 2012. From the editorial: "Taxpayers should be encouraged by complaints from Tea Party chapters applying for nonprofit tax status at being asked by the Internal Revenue Service to prove they are 'social welfare' organizations and not the political activists they so obviously are.
http://www.rushimg.com/cimages//media/obamamontages/obamairslogopix/1143575-1-eng-GB/ObamaIRSLogoPIX.jpg
"Such IRS inquiries are long overdue, should be applied across the board to the growing number of organizations allied with major political parties that are also ludicrously posing as social welfare groups." Now, you note the New York Times never writes things like that about such groups as Media Matters, which there's not. There's no way Media Matters qualifies as a nonpartisan, tax-exempt group. But the New York Times knew about this in March of 2012.
They knew about it because Tea Party people were complaining about it, and the New York Times was encouraging the IRS in this. "Chief among these groups..." This is, again, from the New York Times editorial 2012. "Chief among these groups are American Crossroads, the campaign machine created by Republican guru Karl Rove and Priorities USA, the Democratic counterpart founded by former White House aides, now openly encouraged by Obama as he runs for reelection."
That line above shows that this was targeting American Crossroads and Priorities USA, and the New York Times was all for it. Just four or five days ago, the New York Times had an editorial mocking the Republican efforts on Benghazi. Just four or five days ago. Now that's blown wide open. So the idea that this Tea Party targeting by the IRS is something somebody just discovered and only recently learned about is silly. This was known years ago. In fact, the IRS commissioner Lois Lerner has admitted that all this was going on as far back as 2011.
I went back to our archives here and I found some things that will jog your memory. This is a Breitbart.com story from April 3rd of this year. "Obama: Government Tyranny Impossible Because 'Government Is Us.'" He was in Colorado. Obama was out pushing gun control. He "made an astonishing statement about gun rights advocates' fears of governmental gun seizures. He said that such worries would just feed 'into fears about government. You hear some of these folks: "I need a gun to protect myself from the government. 'We can't do background checks because the government's going to come take my guns away." The government's us. These officials are elected by you ... I am constrained as they are constrained by the system that our founders put in place.'"
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