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Indeed. Here's CBS's best, and hilariously inept, transparent attempt to pretend that it went both ways:

Headline: "IRS targeting scandal: Liberal organizations are angry, too"

The description of and reason for this "anger"? Only these two sentences can in any way be offered as support: "When Jeff Cohen's left-leaning Action for a Progressive Future applied for an IRS tax exemption, the process was too long and too slow, he says. But it was much easier for him than it was for tea party groups."

When Jeff Cohen's left-leaning Action for a Progressive Future applied for an IRS tax exemption, the process was too long and too slow, he says. But it was much easier for him than it was for tea party groups.

I scrounged around a little for “irs scandal liberal”. The bottom line: Indeed, any suggestion or even a thought that liberal groups were “targeted” in any way comparable to Tea Party groups is so laughably insane that you should have your own MSNBC show.

Here are the very best, and so far, the only, examples that the battiest of moonbats have managed to come up with:

“Emerge America, a group which helps Democratic women seeking elected office, said it lost it tax-exempt status last October. The IRS invoked the “private benefit doctrine” barring 501(c)(4) status for any group promoting a candidate or political party.”

“In June the IRS said it denied 501(c)(4) tax-exemption for an unnamed political group also under the private benefit doctrine. The IRS is barred by law from disclosing the group’s name and the group has not publicly identified itself. The group had one objective: to serve the political goals of its founder, the IRS said.”

http://www.politicususa.com/gop-scandal-falls-irs-targeted-liberals-2012.html

“Progress Texas, another of the organizations, faced the same lines of questioning as the Tea Party groups from the same IRS office that issued letters to the Republican-friendly applicants.” (BTW good luck trying to find out what “Progress Texas” is or does from any article anywhere.)

(and a little more on “Emerge America”: “In early 2011, the IRS denied the tax-exempt status of an affiliate of the San Francisco-based Emerge America, which trains Democratic women to run for office. The agency said it was disqualified because the group’s activities were “conducted primarily for the benefit of a political party and a private group of individuals, rather than the community as a whole.” “)

“A third group, Clean Elections Texas, which supports public funding of campaigns, also received IRS inquiries.”

(We all know that “Clean Elections” would be an obvious indicator that it’s a far-left organization, now don’t we. — jiggyboy)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-15/irs-sent-same-letter-to-democrats-that-fed-tea-party-row.html?alcmpid=politics

So the entire universe of “targetws liberal organizations” seems to be these four. Two of them appear to have been properly denied as being front organizations for electing specific individuals, and one had a name more typical of a Tea-Party-like organization.