Oh give me a friggen break already...

From here

NAACP Cleared on Charges of Partisan Political Activity By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Staff Writer August 31, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - The NAACP on Thursday announced that the IRS has cleared them of accusations that it engaged in partisan political activity during its 2004 national convention in violation of the group's non-profit, tax-exempt status. The decision, which was given to NAACP officials in a letter Aug. 9, ends a nearly two-year investigation into a speech NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered at the convention in which he criticized the Bush administration. The IRS launched the investigation in October 2004 after three U.S. senators and four U.S. representatives - all Republicans - filed complaints about Bond's speech and asked the IRS to consider revoking the group's tax-exempt status. Under Internal Revenue Code, a tax-exempt organization like the NAACP is "prohibited from directly or indirectly participating or intervening in any political campaign on behalf of, or in opposition to, any candidate for public office." During the speech, Bond contrasted the two "widely disparate views" being put forth in the 2004 presidential election. He said one view "wants to march us backward through history" while the other "promises expanded democracy and giving the people, not the plutocrats, control of the government." The IRS concluded that "political intervention did not occur" during the speech, according to a news release from the NAACP. "It's disappointing that the IRS took nearly two years to conclude what we knew from the beginning," NAACP President and CEO Bruce Gordon said in a statement, "the NAACP did not violate tax laws and continues to be politically non-partisan." Bond called the ruling "good news" but said it was "bad news for us and other freedom loving Americans ... that it was initiated for partisan purposes to threaten our right to free speech." He pledged that the NAACP will "continue to speak truth to power." Mychal Massie, national chairman of the conservative African-American group Project 21, said the decision was "clearly pandering to a malicious, antiquated, irrelevant group out of fear." "Under any reasonable interpretation, the NAACP overstepped its non-profit tax-exempt status - not only when they attacked the president during their convention in 2004, but many times before that and many times since then," Massie claimed. "And, yet, the IRS finds that they have in no way overstepped their bounds." Massie said the decision is evidence that the NAACP is powerful enough to be "able to influence even the IRS." The decision also represents a double standard, Massie said. "A church that carries the same tax status will be threatened with the revocation of their tax-exempt status if the pastor is found to have mentioned a political party or referenced a political party," Massie argued, "and yet an organization which is openly partisan is given a pass." As Cybercast News Service reported March 31, the NAACP had paid an estimated $17.65 tax on the expenses incurred in the preparation and delivery of the speech in September in case the IRS ruled against the group. The NAACP release did not say if a refund had been offered and the group did not respond to requests for comment Thursday.

Yeah.. the NAACP is non-partisan like the Pope is non-Catholic.

Bullshit.