Sharpton Claims Death Threats

[William Joyce]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_104002437.html

He also claims that he has no assets and that the expensive watches he wears are owned by a corporation.

 

[UnAmericanYOU]

Yeah, that's what he claims, but Al Sharpton part of the conspiracy, I tell you. That corporation that owns the watch owns him, Sharpton is just another spoke in the neoncon wheel.

Don Imus HAD to be silenced, he knew too much. The truth - that is, if you can handle the truth:

American radio icon Don Imus disgraced, fired after threat to reveal 9/11 secrets

In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', and legendary, radio hosts named Don Imus after his threats to release information relating to the September 11, 2001 attacks upon that country.

According to European reports of the events surrounding Don Imus that have gripped the United States this past week, it was during an interview with another American media personality, Tim Russert, who is the host of a television programme frequently used by US War Leaders, wherein while decrying the state of care being given to American War wounded stated, "So those bastards want to keep these boys [in reference to US Soldiers] secret? Let's see how they like it if I start talking about their [in reference to US War Leaders] secrets, starting with 9/11."

Unable to attack such a powerful media figure as Don Imus, directly, the US War Leaders, and as we have seen many times before, resorted to a massive media attack against him using as the reason a racial slur against a US woman's basketball team, but which has been pointed out by other media outlets was not by any means a rare occurrence for the legendary radio icon to make.

more: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/89728-0/

Charlie Sheen? Art Bell?

Can't trust that Al Sharpton, he's one of them.

 

[red states rule]

Black Sportswriter Calls Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton Terrorists
Posted by Noel Sheppard on April 14, 2007 - 09:04.
In the midst of this disgraceful Don Imus affair, one thing has been sickeningly apparent: few members of the media have the guts to stand up to Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and call them out for their obvious hypocrisy.

Such can certainly not be said of Jason Whitlock, an African-American sportswriter for the Kansas City Star who not only wrote a remarkable, must-read column on this subject Wednesday, but also went on MSNBC’s “Tucker” Thursday to say things about this issue and race relations in this country that few in the media would ever dare.

In reality, this is so fabulous that you must see the entire video (h/t to NB reader nicksmith112 and Hot Air), but here are some of the amazing highlights:

And—and I would say to CBS, don‘t negotiate with terrorists, because that‘s what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are. They go around the country lighting fires and dividing people, and then start picking everyone‘s pocket.

You never see them go back and apologize for the messes they make. Jesse Jackson today, right now, should be down at Duke, apologizing to those soccer (sic) players, rather than trying to turn these basketball players at Rutgers into the ultimate victims. He owes the people down at Duke an apology for going and stirring in that mess, and dividing people and dividing this nation. They‘re terrorists. They go around this country starting fires. And they need to be stopped.

Amazing. Outstanding. But, there was more:

I believe that most, or a significant segment, of black America is tired of Jesse Jackson. We look at his track record of his accomplishments, and there‘s nothing there. There‘s nothing there. Other than Jesse and Al lining their pockets, they have done nothing.

If you compare Jesse and Al to Martin and Malcolm, and what those guys accomplished, it‘s an embarrassment. I don‘t understand how these black leader, how our black leaders, get these lifetime appointments, like they‘re Supreme Court justices.

We need to vote them out and bring in new leadership. It‘s not 1965. The problems aren‘t the same as they were in 1965. It‘s 2007. Black people have a new set of problems. And we need some new leadership and people with new solutions. These guys are trying to drag us back into the 1940s and ‘50s.

To this, all Carlson could say was, “Well, I nominate you.”

So do I, Jason. So do I.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12038

 

[red states rule]

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_104002437.html

He also claims that he has no assets and that the expensive watches he wears are owned by a corporation.

WashPost Columnist Colbert King: Bash Imus, Don't Change the Subject to Rap, Sharpton
Posted by Tim Graham on April 14, 2007 - 22:56.
Washington Post columnist Colbert King used his usual top-of-the-op-ed-page column on Saturday to bashing Don Imus and anyone who would shift the subject to vicious rap lyrics, "as if that absolves the 66-year-old broadcaster of marking the young collegians with a despicable label." He didn't want anyone changing the subject to Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson either:

To shift the argument, as some have done, from Imus to the legitimacy of the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticizing Imus, given their own past insensitive remarks, is a smoke screen. The National Association of Black Journalists led the outcry against Imus. We didn't need Sharpton or Jackson to tell us how we should feel about Imus's insults or how to recognize what is morally wrong.

So the natural question is: has Colbert King ever criticized a rapper? Or Al Sharpton?

I went into the Nexis news-data retrieval system to find out. A search for the terms Colbert King and words beginning with "rap" brought six mentions of "rape" or "rapture," but not "rap." How about Colbert King and music? Six mentions, no actual King columns. Colbert King and Sharpton? Nothing. This made me suspect the worst outcome: King's weekly columns aren't in Nexis.

Sure enough, search just for Colbert King and only 85 articles appear, including, oddly enough, piles of letters praising or opposing his columns. He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, but the Washington Post doesn't somehow get his columns included in Nexis? Weird.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12045
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[William Joyce]

WashPost Columnist Colbert King: Bash Imus, Don't Change the Subject to Rap, Sharpton
Posted by Tim Graham on April 14, 2007 - 22:56.
Washington Post columnist Colbert King used his usual top-of-the-op-ed-page column on Saturday to bashing Don Imus and anyone who would shift the subject to vicious rap lyrics, "as if that absolves the 66-year-old broadcaster of marking the young collegians with a despicable label." He didn't want anyone changing the subject to Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson either:

To shift the argument, as some have done, from Imus to the legitimacy of the Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson criticizing Imus, given their own past insensitive remarks, is a smoke screen. The National Association of Black Journalists led the outcry against Imus. We didn't need Sharpton or Jackson to tell us how we should feel about Imus's insults or how to recognize what is morally wrong.

So the natural question is: has Colbert King ever criticized a rapper? Or Al Sharpton?

I went into the Nexis news-data retrieval system to find out. A search for the terms Colbert King and words beginning with "rap" brought six mentions of "rape" or "rapture," but not "rap." How about Colbert King and music? Six mentions, no actual King columns. Colbert King and Sharpton? Nothing. This made me suspect the worst outcome: King's weekly columns aren't in Nexis.

Sure enough, search just for Colbert King and only 85 articles appear, including, oddly enough, piles of letters praising or opposing his columns. He won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, but the Washington Post doesn't somehow get his columns included in Nexis? Weird.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12045
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He's confusing 'changing the subject' with MAKING A GOOD POINT.

 

[red states rule]

Never mix facts into a debate with a liberal

It gives them a headache

 

[red states rule]

CBS's Harry Smith Pitches Softballs to Al Sharpton
Posted by Justin McCarthy on April 13, 2007 - 13:21.
The April 13 edition of "The Early Show" reported on CBS firing Don Imus from the radio for bigoted remarks. To react to the news, anchor Harry Smith interviewed the Reverend Al Sharpton. After hard hitting interviews with Alberto Gonzales and Tony Snow, the CBS anchor seemed disinterested in throwing hard balls to the left wing activist. Smith asked standard questions like what "made it necessary for him not to be on the air," "did he seem like a person who was sorry for what he did," and even asked if Smith’s boss, Les Moonves "gets it."

Although he asked a very mildly worded question about what Sharpton would do about similar language in hip hop music, Smith did not bother to mention his past anti-Semitic comments and the Tawana Brawley case that even the ladies of "The View" discussed. Harry Smith, who covered the Duke lacrosse case dismissal the previous day, did not even see it fit to ask if Sharpton had any regrets from his rush to judgement in Durham. The entire transcript is below.


HARRY SMITH: The Reverend Al Sharpton was one of the first to say that Imus should be fired for his racist and sexist remarks. He joins us live in the studio this morning. Good morning.

REVEREND AL SHARPTON: Good morning.

SMITH: The question I keep hearing is Don Imus has said these kinds of things, and perhaps even worse often over the last couple years even decades. What was it about this incident and these words that you think made it necessary for him not to be on the air?

SHARPTON: You know, when the National Association of Black Journalists raised this to everyone's attention, one of the reasons National Action Network and I got involved is that I, I think that what grabbed was these young ladies represented. I think what all Americans really want to see, and they have struggled against odds, achieved academically and in athletically, actually brought their school to the national championships, and to just dismiss them in this misogynist, racist way, I think it hit a core. I responded more as a father of two young ladies than even the head of the, the civil rights group, National Action Network.

SMITH: He came to your radio show. Did you get a sense of -- did he seem contrite? Did he seem like a person who was sorry for what he did?

SHARPTON: I don't know well enough to make that determination. I don't know if he was really sincere about what he was saying or whether he was trying to keep his job. But in some ways it didn't matter. You have to pay at some point. You have to be accountable for what you do. And the fact that he's done this over and over and apologized before, made that very suspect. I think the real issue for CBS and NBC was policy. Are they going to have a repeated, repeated apologies, do this on the airwaves?

SMITH: You met with Les Moonves yesterday. When you sat across the table from him, what did you see from him that made you think he gets this?

SHARPTON: I mean, he met with many of us, Marc Morial of the Urban League, Jesse Jackson, and Kim Gandy of NOW, all of us in the room. I sensed that he really understood the human side. I think he understood this was not just a regular political issue. And I think that as Mr. Zucker at NBC had already made the move, I think he did what he thought was right. I must say that the inside employees of CBS, he said, had a lot of input and advice. And I think he looked at people who didn't want to be represented that way.


SMITH: We asked him to be on the broadcast this morning. He denied our request. But one of the things he said in the statement, he was talking about Imus: "He has flourished in a culture that permits a certain level of objectionable expression that hurts and demeans a wide range of people. In taking him off the air I believe it's important and a necessary step, not just in solving a unique problem, but in changing that culture, which extends beyond the roles of our company." This isn't just Imus. This kind of language, this kind of misogony, this kind of racism, exists everywhere.

SHARPTON: I think that we've got to really use this as a point to really intensify the struggle to stop this across the board, from even of the blacks that are doing it in the music industry and all that. And our National Action Network convention this week, we are going to with, starting to deal with some of the music industry and others. We had started this, I talked about it when I eulogized James Brown. We're going to intensify it.


SMITH: Will you call, for instance Viacom or CBS radio stations to stop airing -- I have a pile of lyrics right here--

SHARPTON: Oh we're going, we're going to make various calls. We are also going to deal with the record companies that we are told, that tell artists if you don't say certain lyrics you can't get a contract, because we can't sell the music. It's a deep problem and if you stop it with Imus then you've done a disservice to the program.

http://newsbusters.org/node/12025