UNFAIR: Exposing the IRS

On October 14, 2014, for one night only, the documentary film, Unfair: Exposing the IRS, will screen in 674 theaters nationwide, courtesy of Fathom Events, a company that brings sports, concerts, speeches and other alternative entertainment to movie screens.

The movie is about abuse at the IRS, the agency responsible for collecting taxes in the U.S. Unfair is about the scandal revealed last year wherein Republican and some Democratic lawmakers accused Lois Lerner, at the time the director of the exempt organizations unit of the IRS, of delaying the applications of conservative groups seeking tax-free status from 2010-2013.

The scandal triggered several investigations, with the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration confirming that the IRS did, in fact, subject Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations to far more scrutiny than it did liberal groups. Lerner dismissed calls for her resignation and was eventually called to testify before a House Oversight Committee. She retired from the IRS late last year.

Scenes in Unfair include Lerner’s testimony, such as “I have not done anything wrong,” she tells congressional representatives, before adding: “I have decided to follow my counsel’s advice and not testify or answer any of the questions today.” Just after the scene is a clip of President Ebola advising, “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are people with something to hide.”

The movie was written and produced by radio host Craig Bergman and directed by Judd Saul. It was executive produced by John Sullivan, who co-directed Dinesh D’Souza’s two films, America this year and 2016: Obama’s America two years ago. The filmmakers are hoping to attract thousands of Tea Partiers to the one-night screening, which is followed by a recorded panel discussion with former GOP presidential candidates Alan Keyes and Mike Huckabee. The former is in the film, along with Glenn Beck, Sen. Ted Cruz and Rep. Michele Bachmann.

“Lois Lerner is the boogie man that the left put out as their scapegoat,” Bergman told The Hollywood Reporter. “This isn’t about rogue agents; this is a systemic problem that has been going on for 100 years, and I make the moral case against the system. Lois Lerner is just one bad guy on a long list of bad guys.”

But Lerner continues to portray herself as the victim.

On Monday, Oct. 6, independent journalist Jason Mattera, author of the just-released book Crapitalism: Liberals Who Make Millions Swiping Your Tax Dollars, released a video of Lerner threatening to call the police on him while he tried to interview her.

“Please let me in. These guys are the press and they aren’t leaving me alone,” she says while knocking on a neighbor’s door.

“Why should we leave you alone? You were trying to use the IRS to crush political dissent,” Mattera says in the video below.