Cleta Mitchell has prepared this lengthy memo detailing the abuse of Tea Party and election integrity groups seeking 501(c)(3) status with the IRS.

The latest narrative from the speech regulators is that these groups didn’t deserve status because they were political.  Of course that crowd considers folks who disagree with them to be political because of the disagreement.  They are always a-political and mainstream.  So anyone who seeks to help the election process with whom they disagree must be political.  Pay attention to that emerging fringe narrative – that the Tea Party deserved it.  Bryan Preston has more about the narrative here: JournoList’s IRS Angle Begins to Gel.


So far the Praetorian Guard in the media has not adopted the narrative of the speech regulators who are busy defending the IRS shakedown of conservatives.  This is one more example where the academics are entirely out of touch with the body politic.  Consider a group called “Democracy 21.”  Instead of getting marching orders from the White House like Journolist does, Democracy 21 listens to Geore Soros.  They also spend his money.

Their response to the Tea Party harassment?  It was a good thing and there should be more of it.