IRS Employees Learn The ‘Cupid Shuffle’

Bryson Bernard, aka Cupid, was born and raised in Acadiana. He's had quite the success both at home and around the nation (including getting into the Guinness Book of World Records for Largest Cupid Shuffle Dance) with the Cupid Shuffle. Now, his song is at the center of a nation wide scandal because the IRS decided it would be a good idea to use approximately $1,600 of taxpayers money to learn how to do the dance. Watch the video and more.

From Washington Post:

After Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Oversight Subcommittee, requested all taxpayer-funded videos produced by the IRS following the outrage stirred by previous video spoofs of Star Trek and Gilligan's Island, the IRS released another video on Friday showing employees learning how to dance and providing commentary.

And here's some more on the story from CBS:

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the latest black eye for the Internal Revenue Service, the agency provided Congress on Friday with another video featuring its employees, this one showing about a dozen of them line dancing on a stage.
The video of the IRS workers practicing their dance moves, which lasts just under three minutes, comes weeks after it was revealed that agency workers produced two other videos parodying the “Star Trek” and “Gilligan’s Island” TV shows.
The latest recording cost about $1,600 and was produced to be shown at the end of a 2010 training and leadership conference held in Anaheim, Calif., said IRS spokeswoman Michelle Eldridge. At a time when most government agencies are coping with across-the-board spending cuts by furloughing workers and finding other savings, that conference has become the target of a report a Treasury inspector general plans to release next week.
The report, called “Collected and Wasted: The IRS Spending Culture and Conference Abuses,” will be the subject of a hearing Thursday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that panel said Friday.

Here's the video