JULIAN BOND IS FUBAR...SERIOUSLY

Julian Bond is 73 years old, so maybe he's past caring how idiotic he sounds, especially on a completely idiotic network like MSNBC, where saying stupid things is de rigueur.  If he's suffering from dementia then I apologize in advance for asserting that he's completely full of shit.  But on the off chance that he is actually lucid and meant exactly what he said then this kind of self-serving hypocrisy is just the latest example of why liberals cannot be trusted with power. 

Stacey Dash is not happy with his comments, either.

Julian Bond how dare you pull the racist card! Always the excuse. Pathetic. This is about Liberty and Justice. Lies and TRUTH.
— Stacey Dash (@REALStaceyDash) May 14, 2013

Allahpundit is amazed at the bluntness of it:

An amazing clip. Not just because of the aggressive smears (even the MSNBC anchor seems slightly taken aback) or because it's surreal to see a leader of the NAACP, of all organizations, suddenly comfortable with government investigating disfavored groups, but because there's barely any hedging at all. Typically someone who's inclined to make excuses for the IRS's behavior will acknowledge that it was wrong, if only for tactical reasons, and then try to change the subject by finding a different angle to the story - GOP overreach, the "real scandal" spin, etc. Not Bond. He's playing pure power politics here: The tea party is a menace, therefore they deserve harassment in the form of extra scrutiny by the government. Save fair treatment for groups that deserve it. He's repulsive, but you'll rarely see the political id unleashed for this story the way he does it here.

Bond's characterization of the Tea Party as "admittedly racist" is not only insulting but demonstrably false.  And the claim that the Tea Party is the Taliban simply demonstrates his ignorance of what the Taliban is all about.  But even if Bond had a clue I doubt it would matter because it's painfully obvious that real talk is beyond him at this point.

He used to be somebody significant.  Sadly, he's just another babbling old fool, a fossil from a bygone era. He's lowered himself to being merely a much older version of Toure (another race-hustling assclown from MSNBC).  As he said, "The truth may hurt, but it's the truth."