It's not complicated. The groups got caught and now their flacks are out trying to claim people are stupid instead of providing evidence. Why is that? Simple, they can't provide any evidence. Hence, the need to deflect by going on the attack.
No one got "caught". Some may have been denied 501(c)3 status, and perhaps rightfully so. The problems here, and I suspect you know this, which makes you very disingenuous, is that conservative groups were apparently targeted for specific scrutiny and inaction in an attempt to stop the flow of money into conservative candidates. Applications were shelved, in some instances
for years, while left-leaning applications were actually in some cases,
expedited. This violate equal protection, it violates FEC laws, etc.
And further more.... you want an IRS that will do t his, in charge of enforcing matters affecting your health care?
This thing is huge... and it should be regardless of who is doing it.
If any Conservative Groups were denied 501(c)3 or 501(c)4 status, it was a handful at most.
What was insidious about the whole deal was the 'throttling' of applications. Holding them up long enough that the groups applying for the status lost interest and either withdrew their applications or stopped seeking donations completely.
In the old days, people who lived in the South might want to donate a large sum of money to a Republican Group fighting dimocrap scum who were lynching and murdering Blacks and other Republicans but they couldn't.
It would be (literally) suicide if their name came out. The dimocrap scum would kill them. Ohhh yes they would.
For that reason, 501(c)4 was developed. Not tax deductible because it wasn't a charity but a 'social' organization who couldn't necessarily support one political party over another but could support a 'cause'. Like fighting the Jim Crow Laws that dimocrap scum got passed in the South or fighting the communist dimocrap scum of today.
So what happened was... Lois Lerner and her band of communists at the IRS stopped Conservative 501(c)4's dead in theri tracks.
Had they simplye denied them quickly and in a timely fashion, the Conservative Groups could have asked for a review, an appeal and/or what was wrong.
But the dimcrap scum in the IRS did the absolute worst possible thin... They just sat on them.
People need to go to Prison for a VERY, VERY long time for this.
I'm talking twenty years, minimum.
Using the 2nd most powerful arm of government as a political club to beat your opponents over the head with?
THE worst abuse of power in the history of this Country. Without a doubt.
THE worst.
And the Stuttering Clusterfukk and Eric Himmler aren't going to do a thing about it.
And the DISGUSTING FILTH in the LSM isn't interested.
They're too busy on their knees fellating the commie scumbag obama