QFT.
Regards,
Shodan
This is your idea of bending the truth equivalent to Bill O stating the IRS Commissioner went to the White House 157 times when he went eleven times to convince an audience that so many times was improper.
Bill O did not use the word may.
My use of that word does not negate the possibilty that targeting did in fact happen, and I did not use it with any intent to decieve.
You are really grasping.
Which means?
Quoted For Truth.
It means I agree with the statement. You don’t see any facts. At all.
Regards,
Shodan
A difference of degree, not kind. This is just you moving the goalposts again, from “I didn’t bend the truth!” to “I didn’t bend it as much as this other guy.”
The “possibility” that it happened is no longer in question. What was your intent, then, if not to cast doubt on or minimize what happened?
You are really amusing. And how about that “must be”, eh? You neglected to explain that one.
“A difference of degree, not kind. This is just you moving the goalposts again, from “I didn’t bend the truth!” to “I didn’t bend it as much as this other guy.”” -Human Action
Go back to the origination of this particular discussion.
You charged that my, “response is equal and opposite”…
The goal post is right where you set it:
“Your response is equal and opposite to those whom you are criticizing. They are bending the truth to make this scandal seem worse than it is, you are bending the truth to make it seem less important than it is.” -Originally Posted by Human Action
I then proceeded to demonstrate how you are, in fact, bending the truth to make the scandal seem less important or severe than it is.
Remember a few posts ago, when you wrote:
So, are you abandoning that claim, and admitting that you did bend the truth, just less so than Bill O’Reilly?
First of all, more than 2 IRS employees have been disciplined. As I pointed out above, the acting head of the IRS (Steve Miller) was asked to resign, and the head of the IRS’s exempt organizations section (Lois Lerner) has been placed on administrative leave.
Moreover, the fact that more people have not been found guilty is not a reason to suspend an investigation. That’s kind of the point of investigations. To figure out who did what, and whether to punish them.
If you look at the quote where I used ‘may’ it was about the other mistake the IRS makes when they approve these political groups tax exempt status which is not in accordance with the actual law.
I see you read it but have not responded other than to nitpick about the use of the word may.
Eh? No, it wasn’t. Here is the entire post, #44:
Back on point, do you maintain as you have that:
Miller has been head of IRS only since November. He had nothing to do with the original mistake. He was a political appointee, not unusual to leave abruptly for a new face.
Administrative leave with pay is not exactly punishment.
I did not bend the truth when I said a couple made a mistake did I?
I have not called for an end to the investigation. Just would like to see the end of RW lies going on in parallel.
And I want a full scale investigation into why the law was broken every time a political group gets tax free status when the law actual law states that they must be exclusively working on social welfare and no politics.
No I made a mistake and stand corrected. When did this truth bending take place?
I make mistakes now and then but I own up to it.
I didn’t know jokes were allowed in GD!
Look at post #219. I gave you two clear examples.
Here’s your chance.
I already did own up to it.
Your examples don’t come close to bending the truth and you must know that referring to a couple or a few IRS employees in all the manners that I did was not bending the truth.
I forgot how ridiculous you can get when you’ve been called out on something.
Why did you forget that you set the goal posts? Was that a mistake to forget that?
What about your claim that Obama agreed with John Mace that admitting a mistake makes the mistake a scandal? That is supported by nothing.
Yes. Human Action is the one being ridiculous.
Tell me more about how Steve Miller’s forced resignation was just typical overturn for political appointments, completely disconnected from the IRS scandals. And how being placed in administrative leave is not a punishment.
What is “it”, exactly? What mistake did you own up to?
Really, they don’t? It must be the work of two IRS agents? Groups applying for tax free status may have been singled out on a basis of key words?
Ha! This makes all this worthwhile.
Ah, you never disappoint. My goal posts were that you were engaged in the same behavior as those you condemned, bending the truth and manufacturing conspiracy theories. When you denied bending the truth, I had to reread about 4 posts before showing you where you had done so. At that time, you went from “I did not ‘bend the truth’ as you said I did” to “This is your idea of bending the truth equivalent to Bill O…”, with the idea that I’d called you a liar thrown in for the signature NotfooledbyW touch.
Yes, you were bending the truth, as O’Reilly et al do. Own it.
What do you think makes something a scandal? You brushed off the dictionary definition, and major (left-leaning, at that) news outlets using the term. What criteria must be met before you will allow that something is a scandal?
Yes, you were bending the truth, as O’Reilly et al do. Own it. -Human Action,
You have no credibilty to level such an outlandish claim and back up with such trivial examples of what you think bending the truth should.
I back up calling O’Reilly a liar with an actual outright lie that is not in dispute. You equivocate that with a mushy point about the use of the word ‘may’ in a non-inflammatory statement that I made.
And you can’t discount how correct I am to quote the former IRS Chief on the number of employees that made a mistake.
All we get is your quibbling about a couple of word choices.
O’Reilly is a liar. he is not simply bending the truth.
OReilly stated as fact that there were 157 visits to the White House by the IRS Director. There were 11 over three years and one was to bring his kids to the Easter Egg Hunt.
Other times we don’t even know if he met with Obama
Some scandal fodder eh!
Meanwhile I am labeled a truth bender (I guess that is not technically a full blown liar like O’Reilly) but in Human Action’'s rationale my reference to testimony given in the US House makes me equal in comparison to what O’Reilly did.