Comment Re:Nice Synergy (Score 5, Insightful) 347
Take a real scandal (NSA) and link it to a fake one (IRS)
Can we please stop referring to this as a "fake scandal"? It's real.
- - Hundreds of conservative groups were targeted
- - Applications were delayed for months and years
- - Absurd, intrusive, unusual questions were asked: for membership lists, readings lists, the content of prayers (WTF?)
- - 100% of the 501(c)(4) groups audited by IRS were conservative
- - The IRS audited 10% of all Tea Party donors from the lists provided to the agency
- - Meanwhile, Obama's campaign org OfA smoothly became a 501(c)(4), and still runs his Twitter feed. No partisan politics there!
- - Obama's skeezy half-brother had his "charity" fast-tracked to 501(c)(3) status, despite years of illegal fundraising, and had those illegal actions approved retroactively.
- - And all along, administration officials lied repeatedly: it was a rogue activity of a few people in Cincinnati, etc., and most recently, Congressional testimony that the IRS has all of the emails.
Richard Nixon could only dream of using the IRS like this. By now, only the willfully blind can consider this a "fake" scandal.