Al Sharpton: Hustler, Media Whore & Professional Hypocrite
Just a few reasons why Al Sharpton is no authority on race relations, morals, etc. and is, instead, someone to ignore. Review some of Sharpton’s history:
1987: Sharpton spread the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singled out Steve Pagones, a young state prosecutor. Pagones turned out to be wholly innocent, the crime never actually occurred. Nevertheless, Sharpton responded by taunting him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can. . .prove you did it.” Pagones did sue and eventually won a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton has refused to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.
1991: A Hasidic Jewish taxi driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally killed Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and anti-semitic riots erupted. Sharpton raced to the scene just like a lawyer ambulance-chaser in order to pour gasoline upon the fire. Later, at Gavin’s funeral he railed against the “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilized hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, was surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.
1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raised the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner was forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensued, and Sharpton used it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warned malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network set up picket lines. Customers going into Freddy’s were spat upon and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shouted, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulated striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On December 8, 1995, one of the protesters burst into Freddy’s, shot four employees point-blank, then set the store on fire. Seven employees died in the inferno.
I will never understand why so many people, including the corporate mainstream media, gives this petty, hate-filled, anti-semitic, hypocritical man so much credibility. He’s always been a media whore, always will be a media whore and should be rejected as a leader of any consequence. He falsely and prematurely convicted the Duke Lacrosse players, demanded Imus be fired for racist & sexist comments (ignoring his history of racist & anti-semitic comments) and made many false promises over the years. Can you say “hypocrite” boys and girls?
Michelle Malkin has more concerning Sharpton on her blog.
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April 13th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
well said Carl..what a freak!
April 14th, 2007 at 7:04 am
Al Sharpton casts himself as a moral arbiter qualified to pass judgment on the words and actions of an aging broadcaster who recently uttered some stupid remarks that are no more offensive or insipid than a thousand other things he has said during his long radio career. Sharpton contends that Imus no longer has a moral right to hold a job in the industry where he has worked for more than four decades. But if Imus is unfit to be a broadcaster, by what calculus could anyone conclude that Sharpton himself merits a job behind a microphone? What Sharpton has done to poison race relations for more than 20 years is far worse than anything Imus has said..
If Imus deserves to be fired, clearly, so does Sharpton
PS..Great stuff in your blog.. I really enjoyed it.
April 14th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
You left out 1989…
“In 1989, a young woman jogger in Central Park was viciously raped and beaten by a gang of youths. Sharpton led a mob outside the court which claimed, without a shred of evidence, that “the boyfriend did it,” and screamed that the victim was a “whore.” ”
and 1994…
In 1994, Sharpton explained black cultural superiority: “White folks were in caves while we were building empires. . . . We taught philosophy, astrology, and mathematics before Socrates and those Greek homos.”
Sharlaton is indeed a “professional hate-crime perpetrator” and racebaiter!
June 25th, 2008 at 5:48 pm
sue him is he a racist ???? lol
No justice, no peace
If we’re lying, sue us
some white interloper
We’re going to see that this cracker suffers
his unspeakable slander
Yankel Rosenbaum, was surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.
Freddy’s, shot four employees point-blank, then set the store on fire. Seven employees died in the inferno.
thank you Al Sharpton