Rachel Maddow: GOP Fears IRS Dark Money Investigation More Than Putin’s Russia
Wingers are perfectly content to wring their hands over Russia, but what they really want is an end to any IRS action on their dark money machine.
Via Breitbart Unmasked:
Rachel Maddow had Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post on her show last night to talk about some very strange maneuverings in Congress. It seems that Republicans are demanding the IRS stop investigating their “dark money” ad blitz machine if the White House wants their support for sanctions against Moscow. Here is the segment:
The conservative movement has spent years building a media noise machine out of 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations for the tacit purposes of winning elections and driving public discussion of legislation. These are clearly not the uses that Congress foresaw when it wrote t...