You might have seen this (where the ad leads):
In 4th grade you might have done an excersize about what's fact and what's opinion. This is all opinion. Recently there has been a lot of news about the IRS investigating Tea Party groups. Relating to the above add campaign, Mconnell has admitted he has no proof Obama had any involvement:
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/...n#comments
"McConnell also could not point to evidence of presidential involvement in the IRS's scrutinizing of conservatives, though the Kentucky senator argued that a need for more information justified emerging investigations into the controversy.
"I don't think we know what the facts are," he said, appearing separately on "Meet the Press" on Sunday. "The investigation has just begun, so I'm not going to reach a conclusion about what we may find." "
But he did put out an entire ad campaign with no facts.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14...75899.html
"All IRS officials interviewed, however, told the IG that the scrutiny of such groups was “not influenced by any individual or organization outside the IRS.” Rather than a scandal, the IG said, the Tea Party probes had merely given “the appearance that the IRS is not impartial in conducting its mission.” "
More here:
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...ee-speech/
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About the IRS issue:
1 they technically committed no crime as they did not actually withhold tax exempt status from any group in question.
2 They were wrong to single out Tea Party groups.
3 ...But they weren't without reason. Politics have been illegally integrated into non profit/tax exempt groups like churches a lot.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/churches...dorsements
"I ask you this morning, if you are a Christian, can you support Barack Obama as a candidate?" Gonzalez said from the pulpit Sunday. "I urge you not to vote for Barack Obama or any candidate that stands in the same positions and activities that the Lord condemns."
I knew someone who's family left a church because in a sermon they said 'Jesus was like (GW) Bush and not Bush was like Jesus'.
Churches pay no taxes because they're strictly not political. It's unfair to assume all Tea Party groups were doing this but it's the IRS's job to investigate these things.
The news turning this into a political 'scandal' is diversionary BS.