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david packard shell david that dot com let's talk about the so-called hire our
s
scandal
this is the
uh... love this is the story this is the that the story that
is based around the r_n_c_ revealing
date targeted
some conservative groups for closer scrutiny
at some involving the terms tea party and patriots etcetera
republicans really wanna make this a new scandal
they want to personally blame president obama and step one right away is we just
need to figure out what do we actually know and what are right wing corporate
media outlets and right wing
uh... talking point repeaters
parroting on this story because otherwise it's going to be very hard to
have a reasonable conversation i think brainless
under u_s_ federal law
uh... section five oh one c_ three which is why you always hear about five five
oh one c_ three organizations in five oh one c_ four organizations
there's certain types of organizations are non-profit switch
don't have to pay
some federal income taxes now federal law hasn't another of different
restrictions about what activities these organizations can engage in
if they're going to be nonprofits for tax purposes or for example
one of the most common nonprofits is the five oh one c_ three
they are quote absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly
participating in any political campaign activity
and then you have five oh one c_ four organizations which
explicitly prohibited from political activity
but they're required by the statute to operate exclusively for the promotion of
social
welfare
knocking out typically five oh one c_ four designation is a little bit more
relaxed then five oh one c_ three
uh... designation in general
now bizarrely is made twenty eleven
some officials at the i_r_s_ new that conservative groups were primarily being
targeted in in scrutinizing these five over these nonprofit
designations
uh... just a couple of days ago
this started blowing out into a scandal that uh... allegedly implicated
president obama's knowledge now yesterday president obama panetta
statement
the i_r_s_ must apply the law in a fair and impartial way
and its employees must act with utmost integrity the report shows that some of
its employees failed that test now number one
there is
no evidence let me be
clear lewis
and and we can speak with certitude based on what we know so far
yeah is no evidence the present obama knew anything
nevermind was involved in this in any way
the i_r_s_ inspector general said that incompetence not malice was behind
attacks agencies scrutiny of conservative groups
a forty eight page report explicitly states that virus behavior was not
politically biased it was due to lower level staff who didn't understand their
jobs
and it was not driven by the white house so again
you can
allege the president of alma was involved but there is no evidence that
he was
and if we're not going to base what we say on evidence willis
i don't know what we can basically
yeah then you can just say whatever you want
and some people do
let's look at the could the context here because this guys is the most important
thing
since citizens united past
five oh one c_ four
registrations have
gone up significantly
most of those groups
are right wing groups this is just that's just what it is most of the
groups
and overwhelming portion of the groups that have uh... brush to
acquired this regard
designation from the i_r_s_ are right wing groups
by sheer numbers this means that there will be more
right wing groups
that are being scrutinized now
and i send ec nell maybe it was foxnews one of the corporate news networks
earlier today
congressman sander levin
that actually he knows that they're a left-wing groups that also had been the
target of i_r_s_ scrutiny under the non-profit designation however
nobody is denying that right wing groups
at least in number
more were being scrutinized but again way more right wing group registrations
it only follows logically it's just a numbers game that you're going to have
more right wing groups uh... uh... under scrutiny but here's the other thing
this is the i_r_s_ right this is that this is the organization responsible for
taxes
of the political groups
which are the ones that have been anti-tax anti-government point of view
is it the environmental groups
is it planned parenthood is that those types of groups no it's not
if they'd see party groups the so-called patriot groups the freedom groups the
anti-government groups a small government group so therefore
doesn't it make perfect sense
that those groups
registered in a rush actor
the citizens united ruling
would by number
the scrutinized more
i mean if we're just talking about numbers and statistics and and common
sense analysis of of the groups
but even then even then
i don't believe that the i_r_s_ is a politically a political organization
but let's say that they identified you know what
groups that brand themselves as tea party or freedom or patriot groups
some of their core beliefs are about not paying taxes therefore
from uh... from a tax collection and compliance with the law point of view
doesn't it make sense it's under those groups would be under the microscope
well uh...
if possible we don't know all the facts the it's possible that the reason why
those groups war flags or
certain employees were told to flag down and check them more stringently than me
no other groups even it could be because um... most of these new five oh one c_
threes war conservative erty party groups sure but we've already had iris
officials apologize and in their apologies they admitted that there was
political motivation in the wrong doing so yeah i guess it's possible that that
could be now uh... a bs uh... apology that turns out not to be what happened
when around it sounds like there was a political aspect of the i'm not saying
there was no political aspect lewis what i'm saying is
simply the
higher level of scrutiny or higher number of body it's or analysis or or
conflict
with these right wing groups
by itself is not proof of anything we have had admission saying that people at
lower levels uh... than than the president of course
made political decisions but my point is simply looking at the numbers doesn't
tell us much because there may be certain groups that are trying to avoid
taxes even technically being politically motivated
produced mean that because you would soon bid as majority of of uh...
that quickly rushed require this status intend to be groups that are anti-tax
anti-government
uh... that that would lead you to think that okay maybe these are the one i mean
technically that's being politically motivated because maybe you made an
active political decision that you don't like conservative right see ya right
we need to know more what we do know for now is that there is no evidence that
are present obama newer was involved in any of this