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Jon Stewart mocks Peggy Noonan, which makes me like him even more
Anyone who chides the insufferable Peggy Noonan as effectively as THIS is all right in my book. (Note: be sure to watch the video.)
Recently, the IRS has admitted to subjecting Tea Party groups to scrutiny. In fact, for the past few weeks the Obama Administration has been standing “crotch deep in the scandal swamp,” said Jon Stewart of The Daily Show.
Peggy Noonan, former Reagan speechwriter, is the perfect example of what it is to live in the conservative bubble. She recently said that the scandals “make a cluster that implies very bad things…This IRS thing is something I’ve …
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Who first disclosed the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS?
The question in the headline above is one the right-wing conspiratorialists seem never to ask themselves.
Who blew the whistle on the IRS?
Was it investigative reporters from the mainstream media, as was the case with the Watergate scandal? No.
Was it Fox News or any other conservative news outlet? No.
Was it some member of Congress? No.
Was it some Republican activist? No.
Was it some conscience-stricken leaker at the White House? No.
So who did it?
Answer: The IRS did it.
The inspector general of the IRS had quietly investigated evidence of the targeting of conservative groups, and …
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Pope Francis says atheists who do good are redeemed
A Facebook reader of the Applesauce post just before this one (HERE) has passed along THIS:
Pope Francis rocked some religious and atheist minds today when he declared that everyone was redeemed through Jesus, including atheists…
Using scripture from the Gospel of Mark, Francis explained how upset Jesus’ disciples were that someone outside their group was doing good, according to a report from Vatican Radio:
“They complain,” the Pope said in his homily, because they say, “If he is not one of us, he cannot do good. If he is not of our party, he cannot do …
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Glenn Beck says there’s an atheist mole at CNN
Glenn Beck, the clown prince of right-wing politics, thinks he’s UNCOVERED A SCANDAL at CNN:
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck says that “forces of spiritual darkness” at CNN arranged to have Wolf Blitzer ask an atheist tornado survivor if she thanked the Lord as a plot to promote atheism.
At the conclusion of his Tuesday interview with Rebecca Vitsmun, Blitzer told the woman who lost all of her worldly possessions that “you gotta thank the Lord, right? Do you thank the Lord?”
“I’m actually an atheist,” Vitsmun politely replied, adding, “I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.”
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Republicans floundering in effort to tie Obama directly to IRS scandal
Greg Sargent NAILS IT:
Republicans are working overtime to connect the IRS scandal to President Obama. Theoretically, this task should be made more difficult by the lack of evidence of any such connection. In practice, it’s not dissuading Republicans in the slightest from drawing that link. John Boehner [above] claims it is “inconceivable” that Obama didn’t know about the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
In that context, don’t miss today’s big Post piece documenting the behind-the-scene moves by the Obama administration as it dealt with the news of the impending inspector general’s audit. The piece reports that White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, having learned of …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, Republicans
