Liberals Outrage On IRS Tea Party Scrutiny Unjustified & Foolish

[proud2BlibKansan]

Now can we please stop with the 'liberal media' nonsense? Good grief, this story about CONSERVATIVES getting screwed broke on a Friday and has dominated the news for 3 days now. Did any of you reading this even know the IRS did the same thing to the NAACP while Bush was in office?

Republicans, Conservatives, the Tea Party, and Right Wingers play to win. They never allow truth or scruples to intervene. When I first heard the story about the IRS going after Conservative groups it seemed to be a rather logical decision. After-all, who has not seen how close to the line the advertising from these groups purporting to be 501.c4 came.

The New York Times published the article “Citing July Speech, I.R.S. Decides to Review N.A.A.C.P.” by Michael Janofsky detailing a more aggressive incident by the IRS on the NAACP, a Liberal organization, in 2004 during the height of the Bush/Kerry election. According to the article, the IRS claimed it received information that then NAACP Chairman Julian Bond had made a speech in which he condemned the Bush administration’s policies on education, the economy, and the war in Iraq.

MSNBC analyst Joy Reid forced Chris Matthews through his hyperventilating unnecessary sense of righteous indignation, to let her get a word in about the NAACP incident.

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To be sure, the IRS must be a neutral organization. Every taxpayer in America is given the benefit of the doubt. When one files a tax return it is assumed to be correct absent certain flags. In the case of the Tea Party and many Conservative groups, it is clear from the ads that they make that they are overtly partisan. That is a generic flag that should be a justification for extra scrutiny lest they continue to corrupt the body politic as they already have.

The supposedly Liberal Media from MSNBC to ABC are all displaying a sense of righteous indignation by condemning the IRS before many facts are in. ABC’s World News Diane Sawyer introduced Jonathan Carl’s piece as he “goes in search of the facts” where he interviews a sweet housewife with a baby who just wanted to start a Tea Party group but was so damaged by the IRS process that she quit altogether. He then showed footage of President Obama where four years ago he made a joke about sic’ing the IRS on people for not giving him an honorary degree at a commencement speech he gave at Arizona State University. This is nothing but the “Liberal Media” fanning the flames.

Liberals continue to play politics like a game while the Right Wing plays it as a sport. Liberals continue to apologize for the semblance of wrongdoing while the Right revels in getting away with wrong doing. It will do Liberals well to not be so quick at being self-judgmental. Many times people follow those they perceive to be strong irrespective of liking them or what they stand for. Liberals better spine up lest they lose the benevolence of their cause.



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[libtodeath]

1. K&R

The IRS was just doing its job imo looking into groups advocating against taxes.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Can't say that about NAACP though.

What was the reason?

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[One of the 99]

3. Saw Joy Reid on Hardball

Matthews would hardly let her speak.

[Cha]

8. That's too bad.. I bet she had some choice words to say..

"Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …"

Tea party support is 9 in 10 among Republicans … less than 50 percent among everybody else. From an ABC-commissioned poll in April 2012:

Within the Republican Party, Tea Party support peaks at 88 percent among conservative Republicans, with 32 percent “strongly” supportive. That declines to 69 percent of Republicans who do not describe themselves as “very” conservative – and notably, in this group, just 16 percent are strong Tea Party supporters. The movement also is backed by 64 percent of evangelical white Protestants.

http://blog.reidreport.com/2013/05/ladies-and-gentlemen-the-totally-non-partisan-apolitical-tea-party/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reidreport%2FbHvp+%28The+Reid+Report%29

[malaise]

5. Don't forget the liberal anti-war religious groups/Churches who were also warned in 2004

that they would lose their tax exemptions

[Ganja Ninja]

6. The government has never been shy about going after groups that support the left.

Why all the hand wringing for the Teabag Party?

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7. The government using its power and authority to stifle poltical speech is wrong.

And if it makes one a bad Democrat to call it what it is, then I guess I'm a bad Democrat.

Flat out unacceptable and against the very Constitution they swore to uphold.

If this was the bush gang, we'd be hyperventilating in our outrage.