re: #686 ShaunP

His comment was not as as inflamitory as that article would make it seem:

“And I don’t know if it’s related, but I can just sense not only in my election, but since being here in Washington, people are frustrated. They want transparency, they want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I’m not sure that there’s a connection, I certainly hope not. But we need to do things better.

Cavuto: Um, you know invariably people are going to look at this and say, well, that’s where some of this populist rage gets you. [At this point, footage of the building IRS building in Austin appears on the right of the screen.] Isn’t that a bit extreme?

Brown: Well, yeah, of course it’s extreme. You don’t know anything about the individual. He could have had other issues, certainly. No one likes paying taxes, obviously. But the way we’re trying to deal with things and have been in the past, at least until I got here is, there’s such a logjam in Washington. And people want us to do better. They want us to help solve the problems that are affecting Americans in a very real way. “

I do think it adds more sanity to an insane instance than I would have made, but he wasn’t rationalizing it IMO…

I watched the interview, and this stuff is just an outright lie. Brown did not make fun of, or try to make political capital out of the IRS building in any way. It’s pretty much standard protocol for the left these days - make up some fantasy conclusions about republican commentary and throw it out there like shit on the wall. It’s ok, though, they are bashing right-wingers, so lies and bullshit are acceptable.