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The Hypocritical Al Sharpton
About a month after leading the charge to fire Don Imus for his insensitive remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, Al Sharpton had this to say regarding Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, 2008 Republican candidate for president, and, as most people by now know, a Mormon:
As for the one Mormon running for office, those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don’t worry about that. That’s a temporary situation.
Of course, Reverend Al didn’t mean any offense, and he has a whole story to cover himself, but what say ye? Even in his “apology,” he claims that Romney and friends are making “a blatant effort to fabricate a controversy to help their lagging campaign.”
OK, Big Al. You know, I’ve never met Al Sharpton, and maybe all he gets is bad press, but all I ever hear about this man is stupidity. Who’s backing him? Why does he get so much air time? What do people find of value in him or his speeches? (It occurs to me that you could substitute “George W. Bush” for “Al Sharpton,” and the questions still pertain.)
Anyway. I doubt Mitt Romney will win the presidency. And it looks (in the video) that Sharpton was trying to be funny, and maybe he really was directing his remarks to Christopher Hitchens’s atheism, but I think it’s just as likely that he was making a jab at Mormons, then he tried to cover his asymptotes. What say ye?
Patrick • News • 05/12/07 • 2 comments
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Patrick • 05/13/07 • 12:06 AM:I guess the New York Post doesn’t really like Al Sharpton.
Dad • 05/14/07 • 10:17 PM:The NY post is right. Sharpton is a bigot; and I might add, an opportunist, an idiot, and he’s ugly too. Since he bombasticated himself into the public eye decades ago during the Tawana Brawley fiasco, he has continued to pander to the bigots in the black community with remarks that, dare I say it, intelligent people find not only inscrutable but incite-ful. I might be tempted to tolerate his tommyrot were it not for the impact his toxic tirades have on our society. I find Al Sharpton despicable.
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