Being a Liberal means you never have to say sorry for all the mean-spirited, nasty things you say about someone else. Whether its Harry Reid, both the Clintons, Nancy Pelosi, Barak Obama, and others, somehow they are given a pass on their offensive comments.
But no one is given the pass more than Al Sharpton-
1987: Sharpton spreads 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 singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.
1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is 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, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.
2006: Pity the Duke players in Sharpton's blind rush to judgment For more than a year, three Duke University students were crucified by the news media, vilified by the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson, humiliated by their own professors and student body, and viciously attacked by a narcissistic prosecutor-- all because an unscrupulous prosecutor supported a compulsive liar in order to further his political ambitions.
2007: Unimpressed by his on-air apology or corporate promises of a tighter leash, angry critics of nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus called Saturday for his dismissal over his racially charged comments about the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team.
"I accept his apology, just as I want his bosses to accept his resignation," said the Rev. Al Sharpton. He promised to picket Imus' New York radio home, WFAN-AM, unless the veteran of nearly 40 years of anything-goes broadcasting is gone within a week.
So Don Imus must go and Sharpton continues his racism; and by the way, he has never apologized for any of the above.... go figure!!!
2 comments:
In the course of discussing a Finnish blogger controversy, I asked an interesting question.
1. Should Sharpton have been prosecuted for his "diamond merchants" comments in the Gavin Cato case, or is that protected speech?
2. Do your views on this change after you consider the death of Yankel Rosenbaum?
Speech issues are so tricky, and are not as black and white as some think. Remember that Paul imposed controls on himself, even though as a free man he was not obligated to do so.
Great response!
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