Lois Lerner tried to barge into her neighbor's house to avoid interview

BETHESDA, Md., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Conservative media lit up Tuesday with a video of former IRS official Lois Lerner trying to evade a blogger's camera as she walked her dog.

In a video published Tuesday by Jason Mattera, publisher of the Daily Surge, Lerner begs a neighbor in Bethesda, Md., to let her in to avoid Mattera's questions.

"A chance to apologize Ms. Lerner," Mattera asks as Lerner rushes up the front walk of the neighbor's house, with her two dogs.

The neighbor explains she's just had surgery and refuses to let her in, shutting the door.

"Could you call the police?" Lerner asks the woman. "Please let me in. These guys are with the press and they're not leaving me alone. I only need to come in for a second. Can I go in the garage?"

Eventually, Lerner rushes off and up another driveway, when the video ends.

Lerner became a target of Republican ire over alleged targeting of conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. She was held in contempt of Congress after pleading the Fifth Amendment and refusing to testify.