Anderson Cooper grills Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Why are you lying about Romney’s position on abortion?

posted at 10:13 pm on August 23, 2012 by Allahpundit

Between this and Wolf Blitzer doggedly reminding her that Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan would not, in fact, target senior citizens, it’s been a tough couple of weeks on CNN for America’s most lifelike talking-points robot. I wonder why they’ve decided to go after her lately. Has her droning, mechanical spin begun to annoy even otherwise sympathetic media? Or is this a pure ratings thing, with CNN producers realizing that rhetorical bloodsport with DWS is a surefire winner with conservative audiences?

Simple stuff here. The GOP adopted the same abortion language in its platform this year, with no specific exceptions for rape or incest, as it did in 2008 and 2004. Romney’s on record repeatedly as saying that he favors exceptions for rape and incest in prospective abortion bans. DWS’s spin: Because Romney’s the nominee and his people kinda sorta get to write the platform — which isn’t binding on him or anyone else — we should ignore his stated position and pretend like he’s no different from Todd Akin. And if that means occasionally bowdlerizing a quote in a newspaper for DNC fundraising e-mails, hey, politics ain’t beanbag. You’re now prepared for seven minutes of mind-paralyzing spin. Go get ‘em, Roboto.

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I don’t believe for a second that all these employees doing it didn’t have supervisors monitoring their work.

Blake on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM

Didn’t they just hire a bunch of new people? I wonder if we will have to show our voter’s card for healthcare?

Cindy Munford on May 15, 2013 at 4:55 PM

IRS just got sued for $250 BILLION, yes, that’s with a B, for confiscating 60 MILLION medical records on 10 MILLION patients in GULAG. I guess we’ll find out the answer soon enough.

riddick on May 15, 2013 at 6:23 PM

The best way to handle this is to fire every person in the office, then announce that every person who comes clean gets their job back except for the offenders……they get a front row seat in a courtroom.

antipc on May 15, 2013 at 6:25 PM

This involves up to 500 organizations all across the nation. How is it possible that it involves two people at a Reds game?

xkaydet65 on May 15, 2013 at 6:27 PM

I don’t believe for a second that all these employees doing it didn’t have supervisors monitoring their work.

Blake on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM

Let’s play pretend and say they didn’t. That is enough reason to have people fired.

CW on May 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM

TWO EMPLOYEES? And what the hell was “management” doing all this time?

FIRE EVERY DAMNED ONE OF THEM!!!

GarandFan on May 15, 2013 at 6:32 PM

I don’t believe for a second that all these employees doing it didn’t have supervisors monitoring their work.

Blake on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM

…or the local greedy-union rep.

slickwillie2001 on May 15, 2013 at 6:36 PM

Let’s play along here. Fine, so two lowly employees can make hell for hundreds of groups on a whim. Got it.

Imagine what one “rogue” employee can do equally to destroy the lives and livelihoods of individuals and businesses, let alone 106 thousand possible rogue IRS employees in the mix.

Some defense IRS. Nothing but more proof even if we accept you BS here that the entire thing needs to be scrapped and a truly fair and impartial system put in its place.

Borgcube on May 15, 2013 at 6:40 PM

Ahem…”bullshit”

That is all.

a5minmajor on May 15, 2013 at 6:43 PM

NO, it was the IRS commissioner before Miller who just resigned and it was, Holly Paz, a director; John Shafer, a manager; Gary Muthert, a screener; Liz Hofacre, a case coordinator; and Joseph Herr, a manager

jake49 on May 15, 2013 at 7:13 PM

No it wasn’t. Two people couldn’t have perpetrated something on this scale. Everybody knows it came from the rotting head of the top fish Obamuh. Oh yeah, the emperor is naked, too.

stukinIL4now on May 15, 2013 at 7:25 PM

Kinda strange that they’d toss the acting commissioner under the bus for the actions of two rogue employees, dont’cha think?

RationalIcthus on May 15, 2013 at 7:50 PM

Oh 2 employees. well there ya go. case closed. gee wasnt that easy?

johnnyU on May 15, 2013 at 8:46 PM

People just don’t get it. This is coming out right before the implementation of Marxist care. This is simply to gauge reaction for the real enforcement that is about to be unleashed. Wake up.

bgibbs1000 on May 16, 2013 at 4:55 AM

It’s clear the IRS data leakers were instructed to do so by a superior or more, and those superiors were instructed by Democrat senators and congressmen, and no doubt the White House.

It was NOT any rogue op by a few Democrat true believers.

Anti-Statist on May 16, 2013 at 10:57 AM

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