2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPeggy Noonan hears a dog whistle
How desperate is GOP? It now fantasizes that Obamas campaign was a coded order to the IRS to target the Tea PartyBY JOAN WALSH
Heres the best evidence the GOP knows the IRS scandal doesnt reach into the White House: Now theyre saying they dont need to find evidence that President Obama directed or even knew about the investigation of Tea Party groups non-profit status; his actively campaigning for reelection represented a dog whistle to tell the agency to target his political enemies.
The dog whistle quote came via NBCs Meet the Press Sunday from Peggy Noonan, who can no longer be taken seriously as a writer or pundit. When host David Gregory pressed her on the lack of evidence for her claims that the IRS scandal was worse than Watergate, Noonan insisted that the president was giving a dog whistle to people who could launch this thing. The former Reagan-Bush speechwriter vividly summed up, in her thousand points of crazy style, where the IRS scandal went over the last few days: Obama didnt need to order the tax agency to harass Tea Party groups (and his critics dont need proof that he did so): his criticizing the group during the 2012 campaign, as well as blasting the Supreme Courts Citizens United decision, represented an implicit order to do so.
That argument was put less vividly, thought a bit more coherently, by Noonans right-wing Wall Street Journal colleague Kim Strassel. Was the White House involved in the IRSs targeting of conservatives? Strassel asked Friday. Predictably she answered Of course it was. Her evidence? Well, in the post-Watergate world, youre not going to find evidence, Strassel explains:
Mr. Obama didnt need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom hed like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action.
full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/20/obamas_shocking_reverse_dog_whistle_politics/
juajen
(8,515 posts)gordianot
(15,243 posts)He has a funny sounding African name.
"Hussein" is his middle name that Muslim.
Since his Father was Muslim so is he.
Obama was born in Kenya.
He is half black.
Obama is not an American citizen.
Like his Father whom he saw a few times he is an anti-colonialist.
He was raised in foreign countries mainly Indonesia (and Hawaii).
He will not give us his birth certificate.
He hangs out with radicals.
His minister hates white people.
Obama hates white people.
Since his skin color is not white he cannot be that smart.
He is going to take our guns so I will bankrupt myself and buy up every round I can.
Did I mention Barack Obama has dark skin. Toot Toot
NOW All YOU NEED DO IS LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA AND SOMEONE WILL LOSE THEIR FIREARMS. TOOT TOOT
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)...the 2012 election and I'm almost wanting them to do such so they can make the same mistakes in 2014 and 16
Metro135
(359 posts)Cha
(297,652 posts)thanks for the link, Metro
KennedyBrothers
(70 posts)...needs her own theme song, sung to the tune of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue."
If you knew Peggy Noo
Then you'd know she has no clue...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I had hoped she had sobered up after the last disastrous performance by her on Morning Joe.
OR, she may just be a mean drunk...
Addison
(299 posts)underpants
(182,877 posts)I know this is all cover for Freedom Works but those little operations had NO effect on the election nor could they have