7 forgotten IRS audits

With the revelation that the IRS flagged Tea Party groups for abusing their tax-exempt status by calling themselves "charities", we seem to forget that recent Republican administrations had the IRS audit at least 7 different groups solely because they opposed GOP policies. Here's a list of these 7...

1) The Reagan regime got the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of Mother Jones magazine because of its views. Then the IRS tried to collect almost $400,000 from the magazine, which would have forced it to shut down. The IRS later reversed this decision, but not without Mother Jones having to spend thousands in legal fees.

2) The George W. Bush thugocracy got the IRS to investigate Greenpeace because a group financed primarily by ExxonMobil told it to.

3) All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, California, came under fire by the Bush dictatorship because its rector delivered an antiwar sermon.

4) Bush's IRS threatened the NAACP because its then-chairman Julian Bond dared to criticize the Iraq War and other Bush policies.

5) The Bush regime investigated the National Education Association because it opposed the failed No Child Left Behind law.

6) Bush's IRS probed the United Church of Christ in 2008 because then-Sen. Obama gave a speech to church leaders.

7) Emerge America's tax-exempt status was denied because of its stances.

There may be others besides these 7.

Why were those 7 groups audited, while the IRS hasn't audited any dominionist megachurches that endorse Republican candidates from the pulpit? You can endorse anyone you want, but you're not supposed to get a tax-exempt status for it.

The 7 politically motivated probes enumerated above were almost completely ignored by the right-wing media, but when the Tea Party faces scrutiny because of its own abuses, The Media screams bloody murder. It's the type of yellow journalism the right-wing press loves because it's a story simple enough for their prehistoric base to understand. The funny thing is that the recent hyping of nonexistent "scandals" has hurt the Republicans' approval numbers even more than they already were - and it better continue to. Anyone who'd be more likely to support the GOP because of recent days' events doesn't have the intellectual capacity to even function in society.