{"id":20150,"date":"2014-02-17T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T18:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20150"},"modified":"2014-02-18T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T16:34:34","slug":"the-irs-targeting-scandal-registered-voters-believe-more-than-a-smidgen-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20150\/the-irs-targeting-scandal-registered-voters-believe-more-than-a-smidgen-of-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"The IRS Targeting Scandal: Voters Believe More Than &#8220;a Smidgen of Corruption&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/02\/02\/transcript-bill-oreilly-interviews-president-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> with Fox News\u2019 Bill O\u2019Reilly that aired on Super Bowl Sunday, President Obama declared that there was \u201cnot even a smidgen of corruption\u201d with regard to the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s targeting of conservative groups.<\/p>\n<p>The American people are <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><\/em> buying it.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/02\/13\/fox-news-poll-64-percent-say-there-is-corruption-at-irs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News poll released last week<\/a>, a whopping 64 percent of registered voters, including a majority of Democrats, think the targeting scandal does suggest corruption at the IRS.\u00a0 A mere 27 percent don\u2019t view the IRS\u2019s targeting as corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned about whether Congress should continue to investigate the IRS scandal, an even greater majority says &#8220;Yes!&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Majorities of Republicans (83 percent), independents (72 percent) and Democrats (60 percent) agree lawmakers should persist until they &#8216;feel they know the truth.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the poll results, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/interactive\/2014\/02\/13\/fox-news-poll-voters-dislike-obamacare-say-there-is-corruption-at-irs\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with Fox News\u2019 Bill O\u2019Reilly that aired on Super Bowl Sunday, President Obama declared that there was \u201cnot even a smidgen of corruption\u201d with regard to the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s targeting of conservative groups. The American people are not buying it. According to a Fox News poll released last week, a whopping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2008,351,735,4166,14],"class_list":["post-20150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bill-oreilly","tag-corruption","tag-irs","tag-irs-scandal","tag-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20150"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20164,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20150\/revisions\/20164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}