IRS taking a hard look at NAACP race-baiter Julian Bond

The IRS is looking into a speech by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond that may have violated federal laws regarding tax-exempt organizations and political activism.

WASHINGTON -- The Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether a speech by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond last summer that criticized the Bush administration violated a federal law that prohibits tax-exempt charitable organizations from engaging in most forms of political activity.

Bond said he felt the probe was politically motivated and meant to have a chilling effect on the NAACP, in particular its efforts to register black voters, who support Sen. John Kerry overwhelmingly.

Bond is wrong, IRS Commissioner Mark Everson said.

"The IRS follows strict procedures involving the selection of tax-exempt organizations for audit and resolution of any complaints about such groups," Everson said. "Career civil servants, not political appointees, make these decisions in a fair, impartial manner."

In a letter outlining the alleged violations, the IRS cited a federal law that prohibits tax-exempt charitable organizations "from intervening in any political campaign on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for public office."

This is a nice start, but it's more than likely a case of too little too late. Lurch, John Boy and Bubba have been bouncing from black church to black church - all of whom I'm sure enjoy tax-exempt status - vomiting their race-baiting anti-Republican rhetoric without any consequence. The IRS should be investigating these churches and their leaders as well.

While "independent" groups are visiting churches as undercover agents making sure that right-leaning churches' sermons are politics-free, charlatans like Jesse Jackson and [enter leftist race-baiting politician here] continue to get away with murder.