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Tips
for Right-Wingers on the IRS
Scandal
By Ann Coulter
Jun 05, 2013
Instead
of showing endless loops of
IRS employees wasting taxpayer dollars line-dancing -- Breaking news:
Government employees waste millions of your dollars every single day!
-- I
think it would be more useful for the public to hear a few crucial
facts about
the exploding scandal at the Internal Revenue Service.
At
Tuesday's congressional hearings
on the IRS, witnesses provided shocking details about the agency's
abuse of
conservative groups.
The
IRS leaked the donor list of
The National Organization for Marriage to their political opponents,
the
pro-gay-marriage Human Rights Campaign. This is not idle speculation:
The
documents had an internal IRS stamp on them. The list of names was then
published on a number of liberal websites and NOM's donors were
harassed.
The
IRS demanded that all members
of the Coalition for Life of Iowa swear under penalty of perjury that
they
wouldn't pray, picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood. They
were also
asked to provide details of their prayer meetings.
Rep.
Jim McDermott, D-Wash. -- who
was ordered by the D.C. Circuit Court to pay more than $1 million to
John
Boehner in 2008 for the sleazy maneuver of publishing an illegally
taped
private conversation -- blamed the conservative groups themselves.
"Each
of your groups was highly political," he lectured them, noting that
they
wouldn't have been asked any questions if they hadn't requested
tax-exempt
status.
Even
a fair-minded person -- not to
be confused with Jim McDermott -- might hear about the IRS' harassment
of
groups with "tea party," "patriot" or "liberty"
in their names and think: "How do we know the IRS wasn't equally hard
on
left-wing groups?"
What
might be more helpful than
clips of IRS staff line-dancing would be for reporters, say at Fox
News, to
mention a few examples of the wildly partisan left-wing groups that the
IRS has
certified as tax-exempt…
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