Lerner was the one who blew the whistle on the IRS having painted a bulls-eye on conservative groups. She lied, outright, when she asserted that the reason for isolating conservative groups was due to: “… between 2010 and 2012, we started seeing a very big uptick in the number of 501(c)(4) applications we were receiving, and many of these organizations applying more than doubled, about 1500 in 2010 and over 3400 in 2012.”
This fairy tale earned Lerner four Pinocchio’s from The Washington Post. That is the highest designation that can be earned for lying. One would think The Washington Post’s award would have been enough of a lesson for her. Clearly, it wasn’t.
There’s a lot of truth to the observation that arrogance and stupidity are a bad combination. One can only hope that saying applies to the IRS, not to us.
