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mitch mcconnell republican senator from kentucky here and meet the press and
david gregory even though david gregory's reporting on a lot of these
so-called scandals has not been very good and he's been all over the place
and its
the whole of the story
that aside he had a pretty good line of questioning with mitch mcconnell here
asking him or what is the evidence that this is
anything having to do with president obama right because they're kind of two
issues with every single one of the so-called scandals we've been talking
about what happened but also how much the president obama have to do with it
and you have to look at these two things separately
and and brace yourselves ladies and gentlemen you're about to hear
some doublespeak
uh... of epic proportions from nick mitch mcconnell noticed any doesn't
answer anything he talks a lot doesn't answer anything lesson
uh... senator welcome back
good morning let me get right to it and start on the i_r_s_ why don't you accept
the word from not only white house officials were from the former acting
commissioner said these were foolish mistakes about targeting cans of
conservative groups but there is not evidence of a political agenda right
actually there is a culture of intimidation throughout the
administration after just the most recent example let me just for captive
for life okay
overall dot right there
not because i don't want you to hear what he's saying but because he doesn't
say anything ok and uh... that does that that's part one then it goes on even
further and he gets ask again *** so so far lewis to recap he goes on for a
minute
and he is asked
why can't you just accept that
for what ever happened whenever and alice as we can make
it doesn't have anything to do with president old bomb
and he has this puts half a page it's half a page here that he says
there's a culture of intimidation any goes back and he talks about things that
don't even have to do with the i_r_s_
this is important because notun this is unknown tactic that mitch mcconnell is
trained to do right which is redirect
and fluff redirecting fluff with stuff that might sound related but it really
isn't any kind of does it well but we're seeing through aren't we
that's right and that sorted this is kind of like with the main idea of all
of these proto scandals or almost scandals which is that
you can debate whether the right thing was done in in each case record a size
and then make recommendations as to what needs to be done going forward but it
just has nothing to do with obama and write david gregory for all his faults
did question him appropriately here and he didn't get inadequate response so
let's continue and now he just goes back and forth and still no answers but
senator that it that i think check so we could you could make his argument
but you don't have tracked the back it up
you can create an eye on is that i i i think if i provided you can talk about a
culture do you have any evidence but the president of states directed what you
call a culture of intimidation of the i_r_s_ to target political opponents
uh... i don't think we know what the facts are italia from from accusing
what what we're talking about here is a an attitude that the government knows
best and then right
all of a sudden government attitudes
our cause to make allegations that president obama had his hand in all of
this stuff
annie this in nationalist
if every single time the government our elected officials had a bad attitude
about something it was a scandal
higham i'd love how he's just he's tripping over his words they collect if
like if i say
producer louis art believe
is raping little girls every night and nobody knows about it he sneaks out of
his house in the dead of night nobody knows about it and then you would say to
me what evidence do you have a bad and i'd say listen
there's been a culture of intimidation that i've seen on lewis uh... when it
comes to uh... to women
and on that then a prejudge
until we know how this culture of intimidation
does or doesn't connect the rating little girls
underway for all the facts louis and then you say to me
right right but you made the initial allegations wouldn't you have made those
based on some kind of initial evidence are facts
there's an investigation while you pushing me on this but we're gonna wait
for all the facts there's an investigation going on idon't know what
all the facts are i don't know definitively that lewis doesn't make
little girls we just don't no definitional connell is done here
how can you help can you get away with
it should be legal
well might be a by the way i mean tendency technically that's uh... that's
slander
in and i think it is
by the way this is exactly how rumors get started with the just described is
indistinguishable
from one someone plants the seed of a rumor without any evidence and then
people act as if the fact that they were all wear of the rumor means that there
was some basis originally from writing it up