CNN's Banfield: 'Take Me Off the Ledge' and Tell Me IRS Audits Weren't Political

After Friday's IRS testimony before Congress, CNN's Ashleigh Banfield begged CNN host Candy Crowley to "take me off the ledge" and explain that the agency was simply doing its job looking for "sleazeballs that are trying to get special status."

Crowley shot down Banfield's astoundingly ignorant plea. "And the only sleazeballs have 'Tea Party' in their name or 'patriot'? What about 'progressive'?" Crowley asked of the agency's double standard in investigating Tea Party groups while approving liberal groups more quickly.


Banfield had just made a plea to Crowley:

"Candy, please, take me off the ledge here. Isn't this exactly what they're supposed to do is find the political names and weed out the sleazeballs that are trying to get special status and not disclose who their donors are?"

Yet after Crowley's explanation, Banfield's ignorance surfaced again. "Didn't they also do that, and I'm just curious because I do not know the numbers. Didn't they also do that with other names that sounded progressive? I think I've heard three groups already say they suffered the same consequences," she claimed of the IRS also investigating liberal groups.

Perhaps Banfield needs a news briefing. A front-page USA Today report showed that liberal groups clearly "got a pass" while Tea Party groups were being held up in their applications to become non-profits.

One conservative group, held up for months by an IRS investigation, applied again with an "innocuous" name and was quickly approved by the IRS. The Barack H. Obama Foundation was speedily approved as tax-exempt while Tea Party groups were being obstructed by the IRS.

Banfield offered one final excuse for the IRS as the segment ended, that agency employees weren't being political but rather stupid. "And it might just be extraordinarily stupid, too. I think we definitely think stupid is part of all of this," Banfield claimed.

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fshnski wrote:"...One conservative group, held up for months by an IRS investigation, applied again with an "innocuous" name and was quickly approved by the IRS. The Barack H. Obama Foundation was speedily approved as tax-exempt while Tea Party groups were being obstructed by the IRS.
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The Barack H. Obama Foundation is a Conservative group?



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I guess everyone on the right is okay with this:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/obama-presidency/irs-audited-liberal-groups-under-president-bush-no-outrage-gop

obervantone wrote:I guess everyone on the right is okay with this:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/obama-presidency/irs-audited-liberal-groups-under-president-bush-no-outrage-gop

What your article doesn't say is no different than telling a lie.

obervantone wrote:I guess everyone on the right is okay with this:
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/obama-presidency/irs-audited-liberal-groups-under-president-bush-no-outrage-gop

Of course not. In my opinion our government, both right and left, is so corrupted by money and agenda that there may be no fix to it. Our country is headed on a path to mediocrity. We can not continue to accept anything and everything. That's what happens when the world is more important than our own country. The pride in our own nation has shrunk to an unbelievable low. This is not the way my country is supposed to be.