Turns out IRS did single out Tea Party types

Really...

Treasury IG: Liberal groups weren't targeted by IRS like Tea Party- By Bernie Becker - 06/27/13 09:06 AM ET

Liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status faced less IRS scrutiny than Tea Party groups, according to the Treasury Department’s inspector general.

J. Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, told Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) in a letter dated Wednesday that the IRS did not use inappropriate criteria to scrutinize groups with “progressives” in their name seeking tax-exempt status.

“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. [/b][/i]

The inspector general stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention, while only 30 percent of the groups with “progress” or “progressive” were highlighted as potentially political. George’s letter does not say why the progressive groups were given extra scrutiny.

“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria we described in our report, including employee interviews, e-mails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that ‘progressives’ was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention,” George wrote to Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/d ... -tea-party

A link is provided so a "low level" information voters can be informed. ("nuanced" and "hair-splitting" responses from the lefties in 5,4,3,2,1...)

292 TEA Party groups versus 6 progressive groups. Per Drudge.

"per Drudge?"

...and your source disputing Drudge?

YOU?...Asking ME for Sources???? :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol :rofllol

Oh, i "heard" of articles like:

"10 Totally Fake Stories Bannered By Drudge This Year"

"How Drudge's Lies Become GOP Talking Points | IntoxiNation ..."

"Drudge Report Lies... Again (Limbaugh, Obama, crimes, economy ..."


It's pretty well documented that Drudge is just another Rightie echo-chamber source of lies and partisan distortions, like WorldNutDaily, RedState, Daily Caller, ad nauseum...

FredHayek wrote: ...and your source disputing Drudge?

Fred... she has me on ignore... she only reads Huffington... she can't see the link to "The Hill" article... at least quote me so we can give her a running chance of not making a fool of herself.

Walter L Newton wrote: Really...

Treasury IG: Liberal groups weren't targeted by IRS like Tea Party- By Bernie Becker - 06/27/13 09:06 AM ET

Liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status faced less IRS scrutiny than Tea Party groups, according to the Treasury Department’s inspector general.

J. Russell George, Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, told Rep. Sandy Levin (D-Mich.) in a letter dated Wednesday that the IRS did not use inappropriate criteria to scrutinize groups with “progressives” in their name seeking tax-exempt status.

“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill. [/b][/i]

The inspector general stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention, while only 30 percent of the groups with “progress” or “progressive” were highlighted as potentially political. George’s letter does not say why the progressive groups were given extra scrutiny.

“While we have multiple sources of information corroborating the use of Tea Party and other related criteria we described in our report, including employee interviews, e-mails and other documents, we found no indication in any of these other materials that ‘progressives’ was a term used to refer cases for scrutiny for political campaign intervention,” George wrote to Levin, the top Democrat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/d ... -tea-party

A link is provided so a "low level" information voters can be informed. ("nuanced" and "hair-splitting" responses from the lefties in 5,4,3,2,1...)

How about thehill.com?
And still looking for your source that says the IRS examined just as many left wing groups as right wing.

LadyJazzer wrote: "per Drudge?"

Well it is good to know that if the administration had been targeting it political advisories you would be suitably outraged.

"How Drudge's Lies Become GOP Talking Points | IntoxiNation ..."

"per Drudge?"

When you are "suitably outraged" about the lies, distortions, graft, crime, and dirty-tricks of the GO-Teabagger-Party, then we'll talk....

LadyJazzer wrote: "How Drudge's Lies Become GOP Talking Points | IntoxiNation ..."

"per Drudge?"

When you are "suitably outraged" about the lies, distortions, graft, crime, and dirty-tricks of the GO-Teabagger-Party, then we'll talk....

We gave her a chance... she blew it anyway. :faint: