Wednesday, April 23, 2014

The Right Wingers Who Cried "Wolf!"

For years, the right wingers have been trying to portray themselves as martyrs.  Radio squawkers like Charlie Sykes and Vickie McKenna and propaganda groups like Media Trackers or MacIver Institute have been feeding the same lines to the handful of people that actually pay attention to them that the right wing has been the victims of government overreach.

The two things that they love to mewl the most about are how the Walkergate investigations are partisan witch hunts and that President Barack Obama has been abusing the powers of his office by having the IRS target them.

Jeff Simpson has already shown their ridiculousness about the Walkergate investigations by pointing out that some of the District Attorneys behind the investigations are Republicans, that the GAB who called for the investigation consists entirely of Republicans and that the special prosecutor in the case had actually voted for Scott Walker.

Now, via Anomoly at FreakOutNation, their claims about being targeted by the IRS has been shown to be nothing more than crying "Wolf!":
A series of IRS documents, provided to ThinkProgress under the Freedom of Information Act, appears to contradict the claims by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that only Tea Party organizations applying for tax-exempt status “received systematic scrutiny because of their political beliefs.” The 22 “Be On the Look Out” keywords lists, distributed to staff reviewing applications between August 12, 2010 and April 19, 2013, included more explicit references to progressive groups, ACORN successors, and medical marijuana organizations than to Tea Party entities. [...]

[T]he actual IRS records indicate that at least some additional scrutiny was required for groups of all types that had names that sounded political — and that the explicit heightened scrutiny for left-leaning groups was even longer-standing than for Tea Party groups.
That the right wing squawkers and propagandists would lie about this is not surprising. It is what they do. And even though the evidence shows that that they are the lying liars that lie, they will continue to lie about these things, because again, it is what they do.

What makes it even more egregious though is the fact that these would be martyrs are so damn hypocritical about it.  Even as they are trying to play the victim, they are the ones that are constantly practicing McCarthyism and trying to smear anyone and everyone on the left, no matter how much they have to conflate and confabulate things.

2 comments:

  1. Don't you see how right wing white males ARE victims?

    State Senator Glenn Grothman pointed out the victimization when he called for a ban of affirmative action. “People do not realize — the average person does not realize — how extensive race and gender preferences are in our society."

    Think about the discrimination against right wing white males!

    How many right wing white males received tax money from WEDC?

    How many right wing white males receive hiring preferences?

    How many right wing white males are forced to make less money for the same work compared with women and minorities?

    Now turn off the sarcasm:

    WEDC is passing out tax money to Republicans across the state. How much of that will come back as campaign donations? That is worth researching.

    Discrimination against hiring minorities remains a sad fact.

    Equal pay for equal work is not a reality. Right wing white males are not the ones being underpaid.

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    1. If you pay taxes of any kind in WI, you are a Walker campaign contributor whether willing or not. We do have public campaign financing.

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