TEA PARTY -> Lois Lerner Case Explodes:
IRS Docs Link McCain’s Office To Tea Party Attacks

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Since announcing his brain cancer was terminal, Arizon Sen. John McCain has continued to make headlines, but not due to his medical status. Instead, it has been one controversy after another revolving around him, and now one more had been added to the list.

This one is based in his dislike not for Ted Cruz or Rand Paul, but of the tea party.

McCain has never really endeared himself to conservatives, and he made his feeling public about the tea party movement at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in 2015, according to a Yahoo report.

“I think also — I probably shouldn’t say this — but some of (the tea party) appeals to the bad angels of our nature rather than the better angels of our nature,” McCain said.

This attitude ties into the latest scandal swirling around McCain.

One of a number of scandals that plagued President Barack Obama and his administration involved the IRS targeting tea party groups after 2010. It seemed that their tax-exempt status requests were denied or delayed due to intense political partisanship in the agency.

In May 2013, The Washington Post reported that the IRS’s exempt-organizations division director Lois Lerner “let slip” the week prior “that low-level IRS staffers had focused extra scrutiny on conservative groups with words such as ‘tea party’ or ‘patriot’ in their names.”

In addition, “internal reviews have shown that Lerner knew about the targeting in 2011 — but neither Congress nor the public knew until (2013).” Despite this, Lerner was never prosecuted and was allowed to retire with her taxpayer-funded pension intact.

This did not change, even after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, and Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam, an Illinois Republican, wrote a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In it, they begged him to reopen a probe into the matter, according to Jay Sekulow, chief council for the American Center for Law and Justice, writing in a commentary for Fox News.

When President Donald Trump was sworn into office, some held out hope that the perceived injustices from Obama’s tenure would somehow be made right. However, in September 2017, Trump’s administration had already preemptively declined to pursue criminal charges against Lerner “based on the available evidence,” according to Fox News.

But more has since been uncovered about the scandal. Government watchdog group Judicial Watch has obtained and released “internal IRS documents, including material revealing that Sen. John McCain’s former staff director and chief counsel on the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee, Henry Kerner, urged top IRS officials, including then-director of exempt organizations Lois Lerner, to “audit so many that it becomes financially ruinous.”

Meeting notes from April 30, 2013, involving Kerner, Lerner, “and other high-ranking IRS officials” were obtained by JW. With the meeting taking place only 10 days before the IRS scandal exploded into the public view, they are particularly incriminating against Kerner and Lerner:

“Henry Kerner asked how to get to the abuse of organizations claiming section 501 (c)(4) but designed to be primarily political. Lois Lerner said the system works, but not in real time.”

“Henry Kerner noted that these organizations don’t disclose donors. Lois Lerner said that if they don’t meet the requirements, we can come in and revoke, but it doesn’t happen timely.”

“Nan Marks said if the concern is that organizations engaging in this activity don’t disclose donors, then the system doesn’t work. Henry Kerner said that maybe the solution is to audit so many that it is financially ruinous. Nikole noted that we have budget constraints.”

“Elise Bean suggested using the list of organizations that made independent expenditures. Lois Lerner said that it is her job to oversee it all, not just political campaign activity.”

Thus far, there is no evidence that McCain knew about or directed Kerner to take such action. It is plausible that Kerner, knowing of McCain’s dislike of the tea party, opted to be a proactive and loyal staffer by urging the IRS to take action against the groups.

But McCain’s personality does little to keep him far removed from the scandal and tongues are wagging with speculation as to his involvement. Regardless, McCain’s frosty relationship with President Donald Trump has not made the Arizona senator many fans among Trump supporters.

New suspicions about him betraying the tea party won’t help matters at all.

Chelsea Handler Says Fox Doesn’t Work With
Black People, Obviously Doesn’t Watch Network

Humor is supposed to be based on truth. After all, the reason we laugh at a joke or scenario is because it triggers a feeling of recognition about reality, especially if it’s presented in an unexpected way.

It doesn’t look like “comedian” Chelsea Handler has a very firm grasp on truth or reality, however.

After a production error during a Fox News broadcast was called out by users on Twitter, the raunchy and sex-obsessed Handler tried to bash the network … but ended up showing off her ignorance instead.

“Fox News honored Aretha Franklin by using a graphic that contained a photo of Patti LaBelle,” the comedian and television host posted on Twitter Thursday evening.

That part was true enough: Fox admitted that they made a mistake on a background slide during a tribute to the late soul singer, and accidentally showed a faded photo of LaBelle. The main image still showed Franklin, who passed away on Thursday in Detroit.

Broadcast television is complex, which you would think Handler understands after being involved in TV for many years. Honest mistakes happen on every network. But no: In Handler’s alternate reality, the only explanation for the mistake was racism.

“It’s probably hard for anyone who works at Fox News to tell black people apart because they’ve never worked with any,” she declared.

Was she trying to be bitter or funny? It was hard to tell, but either way, that statement shows just how isolated the Hollywood left is from reality.

If she really believes that Fox has “never worked with any” black people, maybe she should try an experiment: Actually watch the channel for a minute.

She would probably tune in to the face of Harris Faulkner, the enthusiastic and Emmy-winning host of “Outnumbered,” which airs every single weekday.

Or, maybe she could get a clue from Deneen Borelli, another well-known face of Fox News for nearly a decade. How about the venerable Juan Williams, co-host of “The Five” and a “Fox News Sunday” regular for over 20 years?

Nah. They apparently don’t count, because Handler would rather live in an alternate reality of ignorance than admit she was the one making racial assumptions.

We’re not finished! Moving on to frequent guest contributors to Fox News, how about Candace Owens? Brandon Tatum? Ben Carson? Larry Elder? All of these smart individuals are familiar faces at Fox, and all are — look closely! — African American.

That’s saying nothing of the behind-the-scenes staff at Fox, a good number of whom are of course black. In fact, it’s completely possible the photo mix-up was accidentally made by a black employee. Handler openly assumed the race of the staff members who made the error, while knowing nothing.

Once again, the left has tipped their hand and revealed just how elitist and out of touch they are.

Handler has likely never turned on Fox News in her life, yet she thinks she’s an expert on it. She eagerly diminishes and waves away the contributions of black Americans to one of the most popular news stations in the nation, while lecturing others about race.

This type of attitude implies that only “liberal approved” black voices count. If they don’t parrot a 43-year-old white comedian’s politics, they’re invisible to her.

That arrogant view, and not an honest editing mistake, is perhaps the real outrage here … and it’s exactly why so many black voters are walking away from the left.

 Nancy Pelosi’s Liberal Hometown Newspaper
 Literally Begs Her Not To Run For Speaker 

There has been a recent upswell of dissent among the rank-and-file of the Democratic Party against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who seems assured that she will resume her role as Speaker of the House when Democrats retake control of Congress with a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterm elections.

Of course, the “blue wave” of energized liberal voters is far from certain, as is the prospect of Democrats regaining majorities in either the House or the Senate, to say nothing of the decreasing support for Pelosi to continue to lead the party.

Indeed, even the editorial board of a major hometown newspaper for Pelosi, The Sacramento Bee, is urging her to reconsider her intentions to remain at the head of the Democratic Party following November’s elections.

In a piece aptly titled “Dear Nancy Pelosi: It’s not about you, it’s about your party and country. Forget being speaker,” the editorial board literally begged her to put aside her “personal ambitions” and make it clear that she would not seek the speakership again if Democrats win.

“The Republican Party is now clearly the party of Donald Trump. The Democratic Party cannot be seen as the party of Nancy Pelosi and win in November,” wrote the board.

“This is much bigger than her. To retake control of the House, Democrats need to gain at least 23 seats in November. That’s no easy task,” the editorial continued.

“And it’s even more difficult now that Pelosi’s future has become a distracting campaign issue for Democrats in key swing districts, where they need moderate and even Republican votes to win,” the board added.

The editorial board noted that at least 45 Democrat nominees and at least 10 Democrat House incumbents have already gone on record that they will not support Pelosi becoming speaker once again. They also noted that, yet again, Republicans made Pelosi a central feature of their campaign ads — though, to be fair, those ads really sort of write themselves.

The board also noted that President Donald Trump has keyed in on Pelosi as a frequent target, even sarcastically tweeting in her support against the rising wave of young Democrats who seek to oust her as a party leader.

“On the other hand, Pelosi isn’t doing herself any favors by playing the victim,” the editors wrote. “Asked during a Sunday interview about Democrats opposing her for speaker, she accused MSNBC of being on a ‘jag’ against her. Better than most, she ought to know that’s getting precariously close to Trump calling any critical coverage ‘fake news.’”

The editorial board did note that Pelosi still maintained some support among Democrats and the media, who have touted her accomplishments as speaker — for which she supposedly gets little credit — such as the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the economic stimulus bill and the Dodd-Frank financial reforms after the 2008 recession.

As an aside, those “accomplishments” don’t really win much favor for Pelosi among a majority of Americans who opposed those and other monstrous pieces of progressive legislation that arguably gave rise to a resurgent conservative movement that recaptured the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.

The editorial board attempted to glean the Democratic Party’s message for 2018, but even they didn’t have a full grasp on it, and concluded that Pelosi is no longer the most effective messenger in that regard. They further worried that Pelosi would increasingly become an “extremely or very important factor” in the decisions of voters, in light of the GOP attack ads, and pointed out that Democrats could use some “fresh faces in leadership.”

The board acknowledged the historical precedent Pelosi set as first female Speaker of the House, and suggested that Pelosi could continue to represent California in Congress, but concluded that “if she truly believes what she says about how important it is for Democrats to retake the House so they can stop Trump, she must accept that it can’t be with her as speaker.”

This was a scorcher of an editorial against Pelosi’s continued role in the leadership of the Democratic Party, and it came from one of Pelosi’s own hometown newspapers, making it sting that much more. Whether she wants to admit it yet or not, her time at the head of her party is about to draw to a close.

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