Lois Lerner e-mail allows Bristol Palin to play the victim again. Update!

Hey look at me! Don't judge, just look.

Courtesy of On Politics: 

One email, cited by Chairman Orrin Hatch as an “example of Lerner’s interest in conservative organizations,” asked whether the IRS should open an audit of Candie’s Foundation, which paid Palin $332,500 in compensation to be a celebrity spokesperson. Lerner was concerned that the salary figure could violate IRS rules against charitable groups being for the private benefit of individuals. 

Palin is the daughter of 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and she became a household name when it was revealed during that campaign that she had become pregnant at age 17. She later performed on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars and was briefly engaged to Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer. 

“Thoughts on the Bristol Palin issue?” Lerner, then the director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations unit, wrote to her staff in 2011. “I’m asking because I don’t know whether to send to Exam as a referral.” There’s no evidence from the Senate report that an audit was ever opened.

As the article states there was no investigation launched, so this was really nothing more than open question as to whether there was anything suspicious about how much money Candies was funneling to Bristol, and whether or not she was doing anything to earn that amount.

I think most of us would answer that first question with a "yes," and the second with a "hell no."

I also think most of us realize that there are all kinds of methods, from bulk book sales, to political PAC donations, that allow wealthy, and not so wealthy, individuals to provide certain conservatives with a substantial amount of cash that they lack the talent and intellect to earn on their own.

Of course this news report allowed Brancy to puff up and demonstrate some faux outrage, as was expressed on the blog this morning:

By now, you’ve heard that the IRS under the Obama administration targeted, harassed, and intimidated tea party, pro-life, and patriotic groups. 

Today, I saw this news… they also considered targeting me! 

(Links to article.)


Looks like I almost got caught up in her assault of people who love America. 

I’m honored.

Oh yeah Bristol was "targeted" because she "loves America."

I think Nancy French is just happy that there is an article about Bristol which doesn't mention that she is once again pregnant out of wedlock.

Because there are certainly numerous others that are hot on that topic.

Update: Well of course if Nancy French is going to ghostwrite one post about this, she might as well write two.

Courtesy of Palin's Facebook page:

If 7 years ago I had predicted the Obama administration was targeting my family and all conservatives who posed a threat to their radical agenda you never would have believed me, right? Well..... hmmm

Nope, and there is no reason to believe you today either.