CNN enjoyed a major lovefest with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Tuesday evening on The Lead.
John Berman and Tom Foreman took turns complimenting Koskinen and lavishly heaping praise upon him.
Referring to the heated exchange between Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), Foreman said "The White House could have not have picked a better brawler." He went on to brag that Koskinen was trained in Physics during his time at Duke and studied Law at Yale. His resume includes stints working for a New York Mayor, a Connecticut Senator, and he was even Deputy Mayor of Washington, D.C. during a harrowing financial crisis. He enjoys advocating for "seemingly lost clauses," Foreman gleamed.
He continued to rattle off a long list of Koskinen’s accomplishments- he helped bring the World Cup to the United States in 1994, President Clinton appointed him to work on the possible Y2K computer destruction disaster, and he headed Freddie Mac.
Foreman described Koskinen’s terse conversation with Issa last night as "calm"- "as if discussing the weather." He went so far as to call the IRS Commissioner "unflappable" and remarked that he hit back at Issa "hard and fast."
No where in Foreman’s longwinded love sonnet to Koskinen did he mention the gravity of the situation that Foreman is caught in: the IRS has lost emails crucial to the investigation to determine why conservative groups were specifically targeted and subsequently audited by the IRS.