Cenk Uygur
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Tea Partiers Still Screaming and Crying Over IRS Non-Scandal
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June 20, 2013
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as posted by the channel"God bless the IRS.
That was the unlikely slogan coming from thousands of cheering tea party supporters who came to the Capitol to highlight the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups."*
A Tea Party rally used the IRS as a conevenient villain in the most non-sensical way possible. The IRS scandal has been debunked as something a conservative Republican employee did to approve Tea Party groups into tax-free status. But that didn't stop Tea Party leaders from shouting that the IRS should be dismantled and...blamed for Obamacare? Cenk Uygur breaks down the madness.
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