It’s a ready-made Drudge headline. In reference to the recent IRS scandal, Obama adviser Dan Pfeiffer said, “The law is irrelevant“.
The utterance launched numerous tweets and re-tweets, and, predictably, a backlash against an out-of-context quote.
Let me charitably re-phrase what Pfeiffer was probably trying to say — That, regardless of the whether the IRS actions were technically illegal, they were definitely wrong, and the Obama administration will be working to rectify the problem.
That’s about as generous as I can be. But it’s still a problematic and revealing statement. The administration’s broad strategy is to direct the media away from inquiries about illegality. You know, because it almost certainly was illegal.
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