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Imus Backlash: Time for Sharpton and Jackson to Step Down

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Posted by Frank G 2007-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If Imus' fall from grace brings this about, I'll gladly shake his hand.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-04-13 00:50|| 2007-04-13 00:50|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't speak to the Rutgers b-ball team but I can say with certainty that Sharpton is a nappy-headed ho. Absolutely no doubt.

Posted by Pancho Elmeack9110 2007-04-13 01:26|| 2007-04-13 01:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah...right...that'll happen.

Liberals call Jason Whitlock's column "black-on-black racism". Tough idea to wrap your mind around, but they're used to mental gymnastics and cognitive dissonance.

Posted by gromky 2007-04-13 02:02|| 2007-04-13 02:02|| Front Page Top

#4 No doubt the name Don Imus will be repeatedly invoked when the so-called Federal hate crimes legislation is soon to be debated in Congress. (The bill is numbered H.R. 254. Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee, D-TX is the main sponsor.) Oh there will be legitimate selective enforcement and double-standard concerns voiced but they will be dismissed by a neutered media as the rantings of angry white men who simply want to retain their evil oppressive power. And the irrelevant hack, Imus, will be their poster boy. According to the proposed legislation, it would be considered a Federal Crime if it is proven that speech is motivated by the actual or perceived race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, or disability of the victim. One has to wonder how Rev. Al could have further manipulated Dons fate if this Orwellian logic had already been written into law. One also has to wonder if this becomes law if some will attempt to classify web sites such as Rantburg as hate speech.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-13 11:05|| 2007-04-13 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Step down from what? Who are these guys, anyway? What elections have they ever won? As far as I can tell, their only claim to fame is that every time they open their mouths the MSM treats it as gospel.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-13 12:37|| 2007-04-13 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 DepotGuy, Don Imus is a Jew. That should make for some fun when the liberal Jews are forced to legislate against their own to appease the darkies. Hate crimes, another liberal brain fart.

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-13 12:51|| 2007-04-13 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 the race baiting, Al Sharton and Tawanna Brawley.

need I say more.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2007-04-13 13:05|| 2007-04-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Al's resume, in case anybody forgot

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.

Posted by tu3031 2007-04-13 13:27|| 2007-04-13 13:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Shaking head. Rember after 9-11 when the Taliban called Jackson a liar?

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-13 13:37|| 2007-04-13 13:37|| Front Page Top

#10 #5 Step down from what? Who are these guys, anyway? What elections have they ever won? As far as I can tell, their only claim to fame is that every time they open their mouths the MSM treats it as gospel.
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305

That is the problem. They carved out a position for themselves as spokesmen for the black community through tickiery and bullcrap. Nobody can ask them to step down because nobody is above them.

However the government should have looked at the tax exempt status of their non-profits long ago.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-04-13 14:23|| 2007-04-13 14:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Wow, tu, I wasn't aware of all that. Thanks for posting that info.

Posted by Jules 2007-04-13 14:42|| 2007-04-13 14:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Jules, I used to live in Dutchess County, New York during the Tawana Brawley mess.I wouldn't spit on Al Sharpton if he were on fire.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-04-13 14:57|| 2007-04-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Rambler-I lived in Putnam County, but that was much later than the Tawana mess. Very beautiful ridges and hills in that part of New York. :)

Al Sharpton and his ilk strike me first as hypocrits and second as pretty shabby representatives of the church. What was that line about your neighbor's eye? And what was that thingy about forgiveness?

Then again, maybe being hypersensitive about "ho's" is really about his own "purchase for a price" issues.

Posted by Jules 2007-04-13 15:24|| 2007-04-13 15:24|| Front Page Top

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