tax exempt nonprofit they are prohibited from engaging in partisan politics. so the conservative watchdog group project veritas headed by james o keefe did investigating. they sent an actor posing as a democratic operative to speak with the communications director of the texas enroll america. then they posted video of a man named chris terengo explaining how people who worked on the obama campaign now work for enroll america. there is a lot of talent that got sucked into battleground and now are working here. it s important to understand that we are with on the same d model and we are the same people. he then asked for a list to use for political purposes. this is the response. i like where your head s at. you re going by rule 17.
that is the objection but i don t think it s fair. it was proposed that if a group would acknowledge they were only engaged in 40% of political activity they would automatically get an exemptions by self-certifying. the irs is playing both sides here. you know, george saros and his groups have been funding c-4 organizations for decades. now the rules are changing. but there is something else here that s sinister. the idea that this is going on in the middle of the litigation we ve got where the treasury department is being represented by the department of justice and outside law firms. they are changing the rules in the middle because, remember this, our clients applications are still pend after three years. do you know what they deem inappropriate here? voter registration which is what the naacp has done for decades successfully. i m glad they have.
targeted tea party groups, many of whom are your clients. there was outrage supposedly from both parties. then after the outrage lasted a few weeks, some of the democrats started to come out and say, you know this is really about the groups doing political activity in the first place which they shouldn t be doing. lo and behold the irs just tried to appease the democrats and change the rules. do i have it right? you ve got it right. changing the rules, by the way, while the game is still in play. we have litigation right now against the irs, as you mentioned. we have 41 clients, conservative groups, christian organizations, tea party organizations. the irs is now engaging in basically this. a post hoc justification for their illegal conduct. they did targeting based on what they deemed to be, quote, political activity or the name of the group, be on the look out list and they are justifying it by changing the rules. for the groups left of center, the progressive groups doing
the unresolved problem segment tonight, tonight tv news and the presidential race. president obama has a major advantage because much much the national media seems to be favoring him over mitt romney. the nightly evening newscasts have lost a lot of influence. the morning programs towed, good morning america, cbs morning news still have large audiences and hours of air time. how much influence will they have in the upcoming presidential election. director of media analysis. conservative watchdog group. so i m going to be on good morning america tomorrow talking politics off the top. they have always treated me all right over there. and when they ask me a loaded question, i mock them and they laugh along. same thing at the today show only appearance i made at cbs morning show a couple weeks ago. i don t have any trouble with any of them. you see it a little bit differently? i think that these you are right that these networks are important shows. they have become the profit
bill: thanks for staying with us, i m bill o reilly in the unresolved problem segment tonight, tonight tv news and the presidential race. president obama has a major advantage because much much the national media seems to be favoring him over mitt romney. the nightly evening newscasts have lost a lot of influence. the morning programs towed, good morning america, cbs morning news still have large audiences and hours of air time. how much influence will they have in the upcoming presidential election. director of media analysis. conservative watchdog group. so i m going to be on good morning america tomorrow talking politics off the top. they have always treated me all right over there. and when they ask me a loaded question, i mock them and they laugh along. same thing at the today show only appearance i made at cbs morning show a couple weeks ago. i don t have any trouble with any of them. you see it a little bit differently? i think that these you are right that these network