Peggy Noonan hears a dog whistle

[DonViejo]

How desperate is GOP? It now fantasizes that Obama’s campaign was a coded order to the IRS to target the Tea Party

BY JOAN WALSH

Here’s the best evidence the GOP knows the IRS scandal doesn’t reach into the White House: Now they’re saying they don’t need to find evidence that President Obama directed or even knew about the investigation of Tea Party groups’ non-profit status; his actively campaigning for reelection represented a “dog whistle” to tell the agency to target his political enemies.

The dog whistle quote came via NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday from Peggy Noonan, who can no longer be taken seriously as a writer or pundit. When host David Gregory pressed her on the lack of evidence for her claims that the IRS scandal was worse than Watergate, Noonan insisted that the president “was giving a dog whistle to people who could launch this thing.” The former Reagan-Bush speechwriter vividly summed up, in her thousand points of crazy style, where the IRS “scandal” went over the last few days: Obama didn’t need to order the tax agency to harass Tea Party groups (and his critics don’t need proof that he did so): his criticizing the group during the 2012 campaign, as well as blasting the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, represented an implicit order to do so.

That argument was put less vividly, thought a bit more coherently, by Noonan’s right-wing Wall Street Journal colleague Kim Strassel. “Was the White House involved in the IRS’s targeting of conservatives?” Strassel asked Friday. Predictably she answered “Of course it was.” Her evidence? Well, in the post-Watergate world, you’re not going to find evidence, Strassel explains:

Mr. Obama didn’t need to pick up the phone. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he’d like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action.

full article
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/20/obamas_shocking_reverse_dog_whistle_politics/

[juajen]

1. Crazy!

[gordianot]

2. Toot Toot there is Barack Obama.

He has a funny sounding African name.
"Hussein" is his middle name that Muslim.
Since his Father was Muslim so is he.
Obama was born in Kenya.
He is half black.
Obama is not an American citizen.
Like his Father whom he saw a few times he is an anti-colonialist.
He was raised in foreign countries mainly Indonesia (and Hawaii).
He will not give us his birth certificate.
He hangs out with radicals.
His minister hates white people.
Obama hates white people.
Since his skin color is not white he cannot be that smart.
He is going to take our guns so I will bankrupt myself and buy up every round I can.
Did I mention Barack Obama has dark skin. Toot Toot

NOW All YOU NEED DO IS LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY OBAMA, OBAMA, OBAMA AND SOMEONE WILL LOSE THEIR FIREARMS. TOOT TOOT

[uponit7771]

3. This is my understanding after posting on some mixed party boards, they want to invalidate

...the 2012 election and I'm almost wanting them to do such so they can make the same mistakes in 2014 and 16

[Metro135]

4. I guess Peggy-poo

never saw this:

http://www.politicususa.com/irs-targeted-liberal-churches-bush.html

[Cha]

7. Under Bush the IRS Targeted a Liberal Church for an Anti War Sermon

thanks for the link, Metro

[KennedyBrothers]

5. Peggy Noo

...needs her own theme song, sung to the tune of Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue."


If you knew Peggy Noo
Then you'd know she has no clue...

[CTyankee]

6. Ah, and I thought all along that Peg was in the sauce again...

I had hoped she had sobered up after the last disastrous performance by her on Morning Joe.

OR, she may just be a mean drunk...

[Addison]

8. She's used to hearing dog whistles, I guess

[underpants]

9. How much money could these mom-n-pop outfits have possibly raised?

I know this is all cover for Freedom Works but those little operations had NO effect on the election nor could they have

[hrmjustin]

10. Grasping at straws.