3-2-1: Only the Suffering of the Wealthy Counts

3-2-1: Only the Suffering of the Wealthy Counts

3-2-1: Only the Suffering of the Wealthy Counts

The Daily Show’s Jason Jones zeroes in on why the IRS targeting of conservatives is “the only unfair thing ever.”

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Brilliant. The Daily Show’s Jason Jones interviews right-wing radio host Wayne Allyn Root, who says the IRS targeting of conservatives “is one of the biggest scandals in modern American political history, maybe in all-time political history.” But profiling folks for the color of their skin or their religion (i.e., Muslim) is “a completely, 100 percent different situation,” says Root, who has a tendency to exaggerate. That kind of profiling, he says, “has never ruined a human being’s life in the history of the world.”

Jones then brings on three people—a Muslim-American, an African-American and a Dominican-American—to tell how they’ve been profiled, but to Root, their stories are nada. Only when they become millionaires who get audited by the IRS, only then will they know true suffering.

 

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