At a hearing Wednesday on the IRS scandal, House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) said the tea party has been mocked by the liberal media and late-night TV and viewed by the Obama administration with “disdain.”
“Since 2010, there appears to have been a targeting of people based on their beliefs,” Issa said. “These people, particularly those who use tea party in their name, were mocked by the liberal media, mocked by late-night television, and referred to by this administration regularly with disdain. Even here in the halls of Congress, people would talk about who the tea partiers were, who was tea party supported.”
“When in fact, there is no tea party. As evidence has shown, there are hundreds and hundreds of organizations as independent as any single American who simply wanted to live up to the constitution, and have their freedom and have it protect by our country.”
