Comments on: Revisiting Tawana Brawley and Al Sharpton

By: Liberty Wolf

Liberty Wolf — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:02:42 +0000

The fact that such an obvious and repulsive slime bag is in the President’s inner circle is horrifying. It is like the administration is being run by people who play the race card for personal gain. Oh, apparently – it is!

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 02 Jan 2015 00:34:27 +0000

You want to neutralize Sharpton? Get rid of race based preferences. We have race mongers and gender mongers (radical feminists) because we allow white men to be treated as ‘sin eaters.’

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:50:30 +0000

neo – Thanks so much for doing that reminder.

(I’ve written about Sharpton’s record from time to time, but not recently about the Tawana Brawley hoax.)

People often mention Sharpton’s many visits to the Obama White House — but they don’t always mention that Obama has honored him by inviting him to events like the state dinner for French President Hollande.

Nor do they mention his bribe taking. For example, Sharpton never gave Mayor Bloomberg much grief — and he did get payments from Bloomberg.

By: Tim P

Tim P — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:52:48 +0000

“Back in the 1980s, when I subscribed to the Village Voice, no one there seemed to have any problem saying that Al Sharpton is was and has always been a scumbag. I’m not sure what changed.”

Yes, but the talent level in the democrat’s pot has gotten so low, the scum has floated to the top.

By: Sgt. Mom

Sgt. Mom — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 18:24:10 +0000

I used to read the Village Voice in the 1980s also – they carried it at the overseas Stars & Stripes bookstores. Yeah, they had no problem acknowledging him as a scumbag, first, last and foremost.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:35:44 +0000

Leading up to 2004, when the Democrats were in some disarray after Gore’s loss in 2000, Sharpton put himself forward as a candidate with no chance but if you brought up his past you were racist. He got a lot of air-time on Meet the Press and NPR, and — Guess What? Like many crooks, he can be funny, at least compared to a stiff like John Kerry, and people got used to him. All was forgiven, more or less, and he had Jesse Jackson’s old campaign manager advising, who certainly knew how to play the race card. So he’s hung around and made a lot of money out of an act you couldn’t get away with back in the days of the somewhat similar Adam Clayton Powell.

By: miklos000rosza

miklos000rosza — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 17:15:58 +0000

Back in the 1980s, when I subscribed to the Village Voice, no one there seemed to have any problem saying that Al Sharpton is was and has always been a scumbag. I’m not sure what changed.

By: Exasperated

Exasperated — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 14:56:30 +0000

While there are a lot of Gruubers, there are also many, who are not, and who will acquaint themselves with objective reality.
Yet, it is spitting into the wind. The battle is on multiple fronts against the media and its pimps for whom this is an important revenue and notoriety stream, as well as the opportunists, like pols, and activists who exploit these events for their own self aggrandizement. Then there are the self important, but needy, people for whom this is an occasion to exhibit their hero complex; a raison detre to justify their existence.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:27:04 +0000

I love Sheriff Clark. A “vulgar human being”…yes, that’s our Al, proud successor of the mentor who shoved his hands into MLK’s blood, vile murderer and sower of rapacious dissension…vulgar indeed.

By: Maquis

Maquis — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 09:21:02 +0000

“Confrontation and demands are not necessarily a bad thing, and without them it’s very possible that the cause of racial equality would not have advanced as far as it has.”

Confrontation would not have been “necessary” if the Democrats were not continually undoing the many Civil Rights Acts that long preceded 1964, and if the Republicans didn’t give up on Reconstruction and permit the South to wreak vengeance on the new citizens.

The Civil War has never ended. We let the Democrat Party live to continue to use and abuse Negros. The Democrat Party, established to support and defend and expand Slavery, should have been abolished and repudiated as thoroughly as the Germans have the Nazis.

It’s no surprise that the Communists gained the full allegiance of the Democrat Party. Soulless, corrupt, hateful, bloodthirsty and profoundly destructive. The only American political party to have a terror-sowing military wing. Having once invited utter destruction to fall upon the entire American Experiment, they continue to provoke the apocalypse that they imagine will grant them the reins of domination.

Lincoln didn’t go far enough. His, and our, enemies live on, and our Republic is now under their most audacious assault ever. Hillary is expected to simply handle the mop-up operations.