Brian Brown, the president of NOM, the National Organization For Marriage, today issued a statement trying to hop on the IRS victim train. In an embarrassing press release, Brown tried to equate the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party organizations in 2011 under a Bush appointee with the release of a portion of their donor information last year — well after the Tea Party targeting had ended.
“There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law,” Brian Brown, NOM’s president, claimed in their press release:
The only questions are who did it, and whether there was any knowledge or coordination between people in the White House, the Obama reelection campaign and the Human Rights Campaign. We and the American people deserve answers.
Actually, raising the claim that “the White House, the Obama reelection campaign and the Human Rights Campaign” were in on it means NOM has absolutely nothing and they’re grasping for straws.
But aside from the histrionics and false equivalency of comparing NOM to a Tea Party group by changing the descriptor to “conservative,” Brown’s embarrassing mention of the Soviet Union is a bridge too far — and too old.
“This is what happens in the Soviet Union,†Brown told Politico today. “This is not what happens in the United States of America.â€
The “Soviet Union” hasn’t been in existence since 1991.
But it makes perfect sense, since NOM is living in a world that hasn’t existed in a few decades anyway.