Oops. It Turns Out IRS Commissioner Did Not Visit The White House 157 Times After All

[Judi Lynn]

7/07/2013 @ 7:39AM
Oops. It Turns Out IRS Commissioner Did Not Visit The White House 157 Times After All

One of the more enduring legends put forth by those working overtime to stoke the fires of scandal within the walls of the Obama Administration, is the often cited tale of how the now departed IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, visited the White House 158 times during his years serving the Obama Administration.

Surely, as the logic goes, there could be but one credible explanation for an agency boss spending so much time within the epicenter of executive power. If Commissioner Shulman had pitched his tent and made the White House his second home, it could only mean that he was a co-conspirator in a well-coordinated effort on the part of the president and White House staff to influence the 2012 election by putting a beat down on conservative money groups looking to gain tax exempt status and the ability to hide the names of their contributors as they raised millions to defeat the Obama re-election effort.

So compelling is this argument that it has become a ‘go to’ bit of circumstantial evidence in the effort to the take the IRS ‘scandal’ to the doorstep of the Oval Office and beyond.

And why not? The story does add up to a fairly decent piece of speculative evidence…or at least it would if the story were true.

Sadly (for the scandal mongers), it turns out that the entire meme falls dramatically short when someone actually takes the trouble to dig just a millimeter under the surface to discover what really happened here.

More:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2013/07/07/oops-it-turns-out-irs-commissioner-did-not-visit-the-white-house-157-times-after-all/

[tanyev]

1. Ah, but you'll never convince them of that in right wing world.

Stoopid librul facts.

[Thinkingabout]

2. K & R

Another missed opportunity by Issa, can't they come up a decent scandal and make it stick.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

6. What's funny is that's so normal for Republicans to be corrupt they just assume Dems do it too....

What's next? Complaints about who stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom?

[Thinkingabout]

7. Like any port in a storm, with them any sniff of a scandal is greater than any other scandal.

Tip of the iceberg, and on FOX they are still talking about Benghazi and don't admit liberal groups was also looked into by the IRS. One continual propaganda log.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. They're still repeating lies about Clinton as if they're long established facts.

[bemildred]

3. Why are you worrying about what they said before? You know they don't remember what they said. nt

[dusty trails]

4. I'm shocked (not)

Republicans don't care about the truth.

[Ford_Prefect]

5. The real problem is not the substance, it is the repeated Headlines which people will remember.

The on-going problem with all of the ginned up faked "scandals" is that the media has repeated the headlines over, and over, and over, and over, and over and...............

The functional result is that the echo chamber has filled the minds of the sheeple with the idea that there were multiple scandals, after scandals, on top of scandals. The truth of events will never persuade them that there was no scandal of substance since it is now an article of faith that the President and the Government are rife with scandals and what they heard was only the part the press found to tell them about. Government excess is a reality which has been spun further by repetition. So too is the idea that any event labeled scandal is both hype and reality at the same time. The meaning and depth of which depend mostly on which version of distortion, Fox, CNN, CBS, ESPN, etc. is the accepted standard of truth among those in the herd.

It is a given that the herd does not think critically, accepts limited access to verifiable truth, and though they wish to be informed are not practiced in comparison shopping for information.