If you have liberal friends on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve probably seen links to this Salon piece claiming that the whole IRS scandal is a “fiction” because the IRS targeted liberal groups just as much.
There’s only one tiny, eensy weensy problem with this theory: It isn’t true.
Obama’s Treasury Department itself now admits liberal groups weren’t targeted like conservatives were.
A total of 6 “progressive” groups received any level of scrutiny at all. Number of Tea party groups? 292. “Our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases during the timeframe of our audit.”
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Tags: IRS, Obama Scandals, Tea Party