Lott calls on IRS to investigate NAACP
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Wednesday, July 11, 2001 5:35 p.m. EDT
Lott Calls for IRS Review of NAACP
Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott called for an Internal Revenue Service review of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People on Wednesday, based on the group's repeated partisan attacks against President Bush - including comments from NAACP president Julian Bond over the weekend suggesting that Bush is a racist.
"Julian Bond clearly has outdone himself using the most possible - this is vicious language and totally inappropriate," Lott told WABC radio's Sean Hannity.
"And also, I think that their tax status probably should be reviewed too. They were acting totally as an arm of the Democratic National Committee in a totally vicious, inaccurate television ad that I think did tend to inflame the African-American vote."
During the 2000 presidential campaign, a group linked to the NAACP sponsored a campaign commercial that tied Bush to the racially motivated 1999 dragging death of James Byrd.
"They wonder why the president of the United States would not subject himself to such outlandish rhetoric," Lott told Hannity, in reference to Bush's decision not to attend the group's 92nd annual convention in New Orleans this year.
On Sunday, while addressing that gathering, Mr. Bond skewered Bush and his Cabinet picks.
"The president has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection," he charged.
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer called Bond's rhetoric "excessive." |
