{"id":1543,"date":"2013-05-15T10:36:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/?p=1543"},"modified":"2013-06-26T22:46:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T05:46:54","slug":"obamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/obamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Freudian slip on the IRS scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s answer when asked about the IRS scandal is most interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/05\/13\/top-agency-official-was-first-told-flagging-in-2012-irs-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News reported<\/a> that he said: &#8220;If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that&#8217;s outrageous and there&#8217;s no place for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;if&#8221; is interesting. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, confessed in public that the IRS HAD targeted conservative groups. Mentally, Obama appears to be trying to go into denial mode, because he transformed the confessed misdeed into an &#8220;if.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t give us a lot of faith that he is actually that upset or is going to root this out, does it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=www.libertymusings.com&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=35\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:35px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-4419877247826466\";\n\/* 336x280, created 7\/26\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2207044504\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Click here to visit the Liberty Musings <a href=\"..\/\">conservative politics<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n\t<div class=\"quickshare-container\">\r\n\t<ul class=\"quickshare-genericons monochrome quickshare-effect-expand\">\r\n\t\t<li class=\"quickshare-share\">Share:<\/li> \r\n\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F&amp;t=Obama%26%238217%3Bs+Freudian+slip+on+the+IRS+scandal+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><span class=\"quickshare-facebook\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F&amp;text=Obama%26%238217%3Bs+Freudian+slip+on+the+IRS+scandal+<+The+Liberty+Musings+Blog\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Twitter\"><span class=\"quickshare-twitter\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F&amp;media=&amp;description=President+Obama%27s+answer+when+asked+about+the+IRS+scandal+is+most+interesting.+Fox+News+reported+that+he+said%3A+%22If%2C+in+fact%2C+IRS+personnel+engaged+in+the+kind+of+practices+that+had+been+reported+on+and+were+intentionally+targeting+conservative+groups%2C%26hellip%3B\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Pinterest\"><span class=\"quickshare-pinterest\">Pinterest<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F&amp;title=Obama%26%238217%3Bs+Freudian+slip+on+the+IRS+scandal&amp;source=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog&amp;summary=President+Obama%27s+answer+when+asked+about+the+IRS+scandal+is+most+interesting.+Fox+News+reported+that+he+said%3A+%22If%2C+in+fact%2C+IRS+personnel+engaged+in+the+kind+of+practices+that+had+been+reported+on+and+were+intentionally+targeting+conservative+groups%2C%26hellip%3B\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"quickshare-linkedin\">Linkedin<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Google+\"><span class=\"quickshare-googleplus\">Google+<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"mailto:?subject=The+Liberty+Musings+Blog:+Obama%26%238217%3Bs+Freudian+slip+on+the+IRS+scandal&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertymusings.com%2Fblog%2Fobamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal%2F\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share via Email\"><span class=\"quickshare-email\">Email<\/span><\/a><\/li>\t<\/ul>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama&#8217;s answer when asked about the IRS scandal is most interesting. Fox News reported that he said: &#8220;If, in fact, IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that had been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/obamas-freudian-slip-on-the-irs-scandal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[528],"tags":[698,699,700,1132,79],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-executive-abuse","tag-irs","tag-irs-scandal","tag-lois-lerner","tag-obama","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertymusings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}