On his radio program today, Glenn Beck seized on reports that the IRS had improperly targeted “tea party” and “patriot” groups applying for tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny and was particularly outraged over allegations that pro-Israel groups may also have received similar treatment.
Comparing it directly to The Inquisition, which also targeted Jews, Beck said that when the government begins “putting a litmus test together for a religion, you are developing a very frightening state” (tell that to Bryan Fischer.)
Beck went on to call for impeachment hearings and massive firings in the wake of this scandal, saying that if they do not take place, then America “is already operating under tyranny”:
