dressed up as his attempt to improve the social welfare of this great nation. here are a few examples from last year. obama says spend more and promises jobs. obama donors and insiders line up for handouts. maybe we won t be crushed when our economy snaps. but someone will. it s time to take away president obama s blank check. barack obama. dishonest on taxes because he s failed on jobs. you see, now that the irs has been found to have breached its commitment to impartiality and chose instead to focus on the vast increase in right wing social welfare organizations known as 501-c4s, there s absolutely no way that they will ever go anywhere near those who continue to abuse the intended purpose of these charitable organizations. they will never ask the question that senate majority leader harry reid posed yesterday.
mobil and so, there are a bunch of people that incorporate as 501 c4s, social welfare organizations, but are going to be getting a lot of adds in and don t have to disclose their donors. the question is, well, these things that say they re 501c4s, the irs has to stay what is the standard, what do you learn about what the irs is supposed to do when faced with this genuinely difficult question. these people say they re going to be a social welfare organization. which side of the line do they fall on? here s the main thing i learned from this. the people in cincinnati who are charged with looking at the applications and deciding if a c4 group is going to do permissible political activity, don t themselves understand the irs rules for what is permissible activity. now, it s not totally
professor peterson, if that s the case, what s motivating this? politics, politics, politics. we just are getting more information about the so-called breaking news from abc news that wasn t really breaking news with respect to benghazi. tgs pr it s pretty clear when we look closer at the irs piece, there are a lot of things going on. shrinking of the irs. misuse of a particular kind of criteria to take a shortcut in that environment to really look at a situation that we all should be looking at. which is the status of these organizations as social welfare organizations. there are important issues here. that is the scandal that is the biggest scandal of all. that is the biggest scandal of all. it would be nice if we could get to that particular issue. the a.p., we need a media shield law. let s get that law in place. focus on the issues, not on the scandal of washington sf. the idea of karl rove s organization getting through as
many americans are tremendously troubled. democrats and republicans that the irs would engage in targeting political opponents. the irs is coordinating with the justice department to see if any laws were broken. orrin hatch and eric holder on the same side. you see what i mean? outfront, jeffrey to be enand worked with some of the tea party groups targeted by the irs. jeff, let me start with you. you re going to do something that many will find indefensible. do it. defend the irs. explain. remember, what this is about, this is about groups applying for a special privilege, to be a 504c4 organization, they re social welfare organizations, not political operations. so they don t pretty incredible benefits. so what the irs is supposed to do is investigate. what do these groups do?
susan collins who s been outraged about what s happening with the tea party, she was one of several members of congress, lamar alexander did it, strom thurmond did it, who were demanding the naacp c3 status be reviewed. it was called into question whether it was appropriate for the speak court to decide the election. right before the 2004 election, both of those instances, the irs went after the naacp. remind me of a republican who was outraged by that reaction. i would if there was one. thank you so much. excellent. goldie. i d like to play you something that senate majority leader harry reid said a short time ago. he s talking about social welfare organizations and the amount of money that was spent last year. take a listen to this. it s said to be almost $1 billion, and i ask, what has karl rove ever done to improve the social welfare of the united states? could you answer that question? what has karl rove done to improve the social welfare of