Susan Jones does her best to take Obama adviser Dan Pfeifer’s claim about it being “irrelevant” whether the IRS broke the law by allegedly giving extra scrutiny to the tax-exempt applications of tea-party groups out of context.
The headline of Jones’ May 20 CNS article reads, “Obama’s Point Man: ‘The Law Is Irrelevant,'” and Jones herself wrote that Pfeifer “at one point told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, ‘The law is irrelevant.'”
The full context of Pfeifer’s remarks is, of course, buried farther down in the article. That context — which Jones didn’t see fit to lead with — is that the legality of the IRS’ actions are “irrelevant” because President Obama considers it to be wrong regardless.
This is yet another case in which CNS decided it would regurgitate right-wing talking points instead of report the truth.