Friday afternoon on The 5, Bob Beckel tore into Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for an internet ad he launched this week that uses the IRS scandal to equate President Obama with Richard Nixon. Beckel known as it “probably the most most cost-effective ads I’ve viewed” and stated to McConnell, “you ought to be ashamed of yourself!”

“To politicize this thing before you have got the hearings,” Beckel went on, “and to move on the air with that sort advert, that’s a muckraking, disgraceful, disgusting advert, and it’s conventional of a guy from the bourbon state.” To protestations from his co-hosts, Beckel stated “in my worst day” he would never have put an ad like that on the air.

The remainder of The Five‘s hosts tried to convince Beckel that what the IRS did was so bad that it’s justified for McConnell to make use of the information that he does have greater than a year ahead of her Senate election. “Bob, you’re missing the purpose,” Kimberly Guilfoyle said. “It’s so blatantly discriminatory on its face, because they’re targeting a specific staff or a particular ideology and inside the related team, within the related roughly category and announcing if you consider and you’re a conservative, you’re tea birthday party, you’re going to get the scrutiny. On the left, you get a move. That’s the problem.”

While Beckel may agree that there was wrongdoing by the IRS, he maintained that the comparability between Nixon, a “disgraceful, disruptive, corrupt president” and Obama, Eric Holder or anyone else within the administration was once utterly unwarranted.

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