Posted on 07/11/2005 2:13:37 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
MILWAUKEE - Appearing unfazed by a pending IRS audit spurred by his stinging criticism of the Bush administration, NAACP Chairman Julian Bond continued to assault the president's policies in a speech last night opening the civil rights organization's 96th annual convention.
Calling the Bush administration's approach to civil rights "deceptive," Bond suggested that the White House has "tried an aggressive campaign to seduce black clergy" to support the administration through its faith-based grant campaign.
"The president likes to talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk," Bond told a crowd of about 3,000 gathered at Milwaukee's Midwest Airlines Center to hear his introduction to the annual convention.
....Bond also criticized Democrats for not blocking Bush's judicial nominees. He called confirmed U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Janice Rogers Brown the "female Clarence Thomas."
Bond accused black conservatives and blamed foundations that finance conservative groups for rolling back gains for which civil rights leaders have fought.
"Having stolen our vocabulary, they also want to steal the just spoils of our righteous war," he said. "They've had a collection of black hustlers and hucksters on their payrolls for more than 20 years, promoting them as a new generation of black leaders."
Reiterating comments from his keynote convention address two years ago about Bush and his black supporters, Bond said, "Like ventriloquists' dummies, they speak in the puppet master's voice, but we can see his lips moving, and we can hear his money talk."
.........."Anyone who shares our mission and values is welcome," he said. "Our values are American values. We believe in tolerance, inclusion, equality, celebrating the worth of every human being." ...
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Just to add some context to Julian Bond's latest screed. I think he gets his talking points elsewhere...
And to think, after saying crap like that...we'll soon hear Bond lamenting the fact that Pres. Bush hasn't taken them up on the invite to their little confab...
The black clergy won't even listen to sound message of Bill Cosby. If they are snubbing him, they'll snub Bush...or maybe not, if the price is right.
Except for conservatives of course. They're not deserving of being welcomed by liberals. Not that we would want to be welcome by folks like Julian Bond, who despite their flowery professions to the contrary, hate us to the very core of their souls.
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julian bond and the naalcp are fighting for their lives, they realize that they aren't able to enslave their people with their i'll take care of you rhetoric like they used to, just like jesse jackson, maxine waters, al sharpton and the rest of the gang
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
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That's quite a charge and the first time I've seen it in print. Wonder who the Sun used as a source?
I believe they are being audited by the IRS, but it has nothing to do with Bond's criticism. It has to do with how money in a "non-political" non-profit organization is collected and dispensed, possibly in violation of the law..
NAACP: IRS Probes Speech Criticizing Bush
By GENARO C. ARMAS
Associated Press Writer
3:05 AM PDT, October 29, 2004
WASHINGTON — The NAACP's chairman says the group's tax-exempt status is under review by the government in an investigation he contends stems from a speech he gave that criticized President Bush.
The head of the Internal Revenue Service did not confirm that his agency was investigating the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, but he strongly rejected the idea the agency would conduct an audit for political reasons.
Documents provided to The Associated Press on Thursday by the office of Julian Bond, chairman of the Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said IRS agents were investigating his keynote address July 11 at the NAACP's annual convention in Philadelphia.
In that speech, Bond said of the Bush administration: "They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division. They've tried to patch the leaky economy and every other domestic problem with duct tape and plastic sheets. They write a new constitution of Iraq and they ignore the Constitution here at home."
For an organization to keep its tax-exempt status, "leaders cannot make partisan comments in official organization publications or at official organizational functions," according to an Oct. 8 letter to the NAACP from the IRS office in Louisville, Ky.
The NAACP had until last Saturday to respond but was granted an extension until next week, Bond said. He criticized the IRS for trying to limit the group's ability to express its opinions.
"Coming just weeks before the election, what other reason could there be," Bond said in a telephone interview Thursday. "We have always been nonpartisan, but we are not noncritical."
He charged that the investigation amounted to a "blatant political use of the IRS."
Federal law bars the IRS from commenting on investigations into specific tax-exempt organizations such as the NAACP. But the agency's commissioner said any investigations are based on decisions by career civil servants and not political appointees.
"Any suggestion that the IRS has tilted its audit activities for political purposes is repugnant and groundless," Mark Everson said in a statement.
Bond said his remarks in Philadelphia were in line with previous speeches from NAACP leaders who have criticized and praised Republican and Democratic administrations. The organization has not endorsed a candidate in this year's presidential race.
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry spoke at this year's convention; Bush declined. The White House has accused the group's leaders of growing more partisan since the 2000 campaign.
At the convention, Bond criticized Bush's judicial appointments and placed blame for the federal budget deficit "squarely on the tax giveaways for the rich."
Bond encouraged blacks to vote, adding, "We know that if whites and nonwhites vote in the same percentages as they did in 2000, Bush will be re-defeated by 3 million votes," according to a transcript provided by NAACP aides.
The NAACP questioned whether timing of the audit was designed to suppress turnout of blacks and Hispanics in Tuesday's presidential election.
A very talented writer. Not every liberal can work a classic example of bias into the first 15 words of the story.
He/she states as a fact that Bond's audit is politically motivated. Until this has been proven in court, an unbiased report would include the word "allegedly."
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It might be possible to write a more deceptive lede paragraph, but I am not sure exactly how. I remember back when the Baltimore Sun used to be a real newspaper! Has it fallen so far?
Baltimore Sun, what a joke!! ....Thank goodness hardly anyone reads it.
His shrillness show that Bond and his ilk are losing their grip over others.
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