The Rush Limbaugh of The Republic, Doug MacEachern, simply regurgitates the right-wing noise machine talking points he internalizes from listening to talk radio and FAUX News all day, while surfing right-wing web sites on the “Internets.”
MacEachern, like FAUX News, has been a purveyor of the “IRS targeted conservative groups” for political retaliation conspiracy theory.
Not one of these conservative groups was ever denied tax exempt status — which is the real scandal, under the law they should have been — so the only “scandal” was that conservative groups may have had to wait to receive tax exempt status, a status they could have simply claimed without ever having to apply to the IRS for it. This is classic non-scandal faux outrage from the right-wing noise machine, of which MacEachern is a cog in that machine.