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Sharpton: Trump tweets, the Democrats defend the indefensible

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I see that Al Sharpton is in the news again. Sharpton responded to Trump’s remarks about rats in Baltimore by saying, “that he would travel to Baltimore to ‘address Trump’s remarks & bi-partisan outrage in the black community’ over them.”

And Trump tweeted this back:

Al Sharpton is a peripheral figure at best in this Baltimore controversy, “just doing his thing” which is trying to get publicity over some racial issue or other. I don’t think a lot of people were paying attention to him until Trump called him a con man. Sure enough, and predictably, you have a bunch of Democrats defending Sharpton, who is undoubtedly a con man and also a long-time racemonger par excellence.

A few quotes:

Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden called him a “champion in the fight for civil rights.” Sen. Elizabeth Warren declared he “has dedicated his life to the fight for justice for all.” Sen. Kamala Harris said Sharpton “has spent his life fighting for what’s right and working to improve our nation, even in the face of hate.”

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the abominable Sharpton’s history, please see this article I wrote for PJ Media in 2014 on Sharpton’s participation in the Tawana Brawley scam. This is not a man to be defended, and yet here the Democrats go again, doing just that. And then there’s this part of Sharpton’s résumé:

Since the 1980s, Sharpton has engineered protests, boycotts, and riots, often pitting African Americans against Jewish communities. Perhaps the most gruesome being a four-day race riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, after a Hasidic driver killed the child of Guyanese immigrants in a tragic car accident. Sharpton stirred up anti-Semitic protesters, shouting, “No justice, no peace!” They targeted innocent Jewish homes, breaking windows and setting cars on fire, and an angry mob murdered Jewish bystander Yankel Rosenbaum. Sharpton lead the mobs who chanted about killing “bloodsucking Jews” and “Jew bastards.”

According to reporter Philip Gourevitch, Sharpton used his speech at the child’s funeral to stoke anger.

“Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. The issue is not anti-Semitism; the issue is apartheid. … All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no coffee klatsch, no skinnin’ and grinnin’,” Sharpton said.

Four years later, Sharpton was riling up protesters again, this time against Fred Harari, a Jewish subtenant who operated Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem, and evicted his own subtenant, a black-owned record store. “We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business,” Sharpton told protesters.

Here’s more about Sharpton’s role in the Crown Heights riots.

If the Democrats want to defend Sharpton against Trump, they should know what they’re getting into.

Ah, but the following is their calculus, and maybe it will even work: they are banking on the idea that most voters haven’t a clue about Sharpton’s history and that the MSM will not expose it and make them look bad. They are betting that what people will see is “Trump attacks another black man, one who has dedicated his life to the rights of black people! Trump is a RACIST!!!”

The Brawley case is 30 years old. Crown Heights is close to 30 years old. What percentage of voters have a clue what happened during either of them?

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Sharpton: Trump tweets, the Democrats defend the indefensible — 11 Comments

  1. Trump is like the sheriff in an old western, who always traps the bad guys in a box canyon.
    The democrats keep falling over themselves to make the wrong choice. All they need to do is not be crazy, but they cannot help themselves.

    Now the are defending rats and insects against Trump.

    They have used the RACIST and NAZI slurs so much that those words have lost their meaning, and they definitely have no power against him. I hope the rest of the republicans learn from Trump to fight and not cringe at those false charges when they are hurled against them.

    My response: Racist? Racist? Is that all you have got?

  2. Let the Dems ( especially Jewish Dems ) defend the leader of the Crown Heights pogrom

  4. Baltimore got $15.7 Billion from Trump administration last year. For a city of 600,000!
    Where did the money go? Whose pocket?

    Sharpie Al can smell money half a world away. Thus Baltimore has one more rat in the city.

  5. If the media didn’t expose Sharpton, or at least require him to defend his history, during the debates when he was running for President, why would they do so now?

  6. Very interesting June 20th piece on Sharpton — “Return of the kingmaker”; two main points:First, showing his “kingmaker” ability:

    Pete Buttigieg needed to connect with black voters. Or, more precisely, he needed black voters to know that he knew that he needed to connect with black voters. … even as he drew larger and larger crowds, the candidate’s support was, well, pale. When asked in April about his lack of support from black voters, he said, “I think we need to do better.” Buttigieg’s plan to boost the diversity of his backers was centered on a breathtakingly cynical ploy. The really dispiriting part is that it worked. …

    “It’s not rude to eat with my hands?” Buttigieg asked as he looked at fried chicken, collard greens, and mac and cheese at Harlem’s famous soul food joint Sylvia’s. He took the subway uptown in late April. Sitting across from him was Al Sharpton, a controversial figure who should have lost any legitimacy long ago, but who has now found himself more influential than ever. The two made a show for the cameras, with Buttigieg beaming and Sharpton in command. Buttigieg would soon have more reason to smile. The most recent poll in the crucial early state of South Carolina found he had surged to 6% among black voters, up from 0% the month before.

    Second, showing how Obama and de Blasio, especially Obama, “rehabilitated” Sharpton:

    Sharpton’s comeback was helped along massively by President Barack Obama and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. The latter is also running for the Democratic presidential nomination this year. Sharpton was marginalized by their predecessors and by his actions, but Obama and de Blasio arguably made him more powerful politically than he’s ever been. Sharpton’s return to respectability surprised fans and critics alike. “Why are we still talking about Al Sharpton?” asked a writer for Vice in 2014. A better and more accurate question is: Why are we talking about Al Sharpton again? …

    Indeed, Sharpton had become a fixture in Obamaworld. The seeds for that alliance were planted in 2007. Obama had been getting flak from Jesse Jackson and others for supposedly not supporting black activism enough. Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett was looking for someone from the world of civil rights advocacy to fill the void. That’s when Rev. Al stepped up, reported Jillian Melchior, then at National Review, in 2015. “In late 2007 or early 2008, Jarrett negotiated a simple deal with the reverend: Sharpton would discreetly support Obama for president, working mostly behind the scenes; he wouldn’t publicly criticize Obama, but he also wouldn’t back him in a way that aroused attention.”

    That helped change the narrative that the black establishment was with the establishment candidate, Clinton. But Sharpton’s value to the campaign would skyrocket when controversial comments by Obama’s family pastor, Jeremiah Wright, became too much of a headache to be ignored. Obama distanced himself from Wright. “Behind the scenes,” Melchior reported, “the Obama campaign relied on Sharpton to reach out to influential black pastors across the U.S., persuading them not to revolt against Obama for his treatment of Wright.” That earned the trust of “Team Obama,” and the relationship continued into the White House.

  7. “how Obama rehabilitated Sharpton”

    And yet Ann is more fearful of Trump than she ever was of Obama. Go figure.

  8. If you are in desperate need of a blank stare ask a Democrat one of these questions:

    How did Ted Kennedy’s political career not end at Chappaquiddick?

    How did Al Sharpton become an acceptable figure in Democrat circles?

  9. A large part of the population knows next to nothing about what has gone down over last 30 years. All many of them know about sharpton is from seeing him on cnn.

  10. “the Obama campaign relied on Sharpton to reach out to influential black pastors across the U.S., persuading them not to revolt against Obama for his treatment of Wright.”

    So… the Obama campaign was confident that influential black pastors across the U.S. would respond to Sharpton’s plea? Why would they even take a known rabble-rouser, race hustler and conman”s call?

    As for the possibility that they would revolt over Obama’s distancing of himself from Wright… by what calculus is it permissible to align oneself with a man who states, “Goddamn America”?

    Sharpton is simply a POS but what about those ” influential black pastors across the U.S.”? Me thinks the problem extends far past the Al Sharptons…

  11. One of the early signs I had that the Duke lacrosse rape hoax was, in fact, a hoax was that Sharpton showed up and promptly skedaddled.

    My thought was, if Sharpton wasn’t going to get involved in it, it must be really, really obviously BS.

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