The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives

All that happened here is that groups applying to the IRS for special tax status were checked to see if they were engaged in political activity. They were checked, not targeted. Only one-third of the groups checked were conservative groups.

Organizations of all walks and all persuasions were pulled in. That’s shown by the fact that only 70 of the 300 organizations were tea party organizations, of the ones that were looked at

Yet another trumped up nonsense scandal diverting from actual problems like the AP scandal and the Gitmo hunger strike.