This jerk actually told the people testifying that had they not applied for tax-exempt status, they never would have gone through this:
Mediaite picked up this jem, where McDermontt proceeded to suggest the only mistake the IRS made was using names of organizations and accused this hearing of being nothing more than ‘political theater’. Paul Ryan hit right back at McDermott, blasting the silly notion that they were to blame and that this was political theater: