The New York Post reports on how Al Sharpton is shaking down corporate America to keep his rent-a-mob off its collective back. Good for the Post, but this won't accomplish much. I wrote a series of articles for the Post eight years ago detailing how Jesse Jackson did the same thing to Wall Street -- he'd been doing it to corporate America in general for years -- and how Jackson had commingled his finances, and couldn't account for what had happened to donations to his non-profit groups.
It made not one whit of difference, as far as I could tell. The MSM ignored it all, and Jackson kept on trucking. It's the way of the world.
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"newenglander":
The NYC press enjoys covering the always quotable Mr. Sharpton. About a couple of months ago, the NY Daily News ran a story with this headline, "During rally, Al Sharpton says he's keeping support for Obama quiet"
The story ran in their March 19th edition. The url is quite long and I don't think would fit here, but it is easy to find by googling.
In the story, "Sharpie" makes the claims about his "Obama connection" and the frequent contacts with the Illinois senator. Just thinking about it gives me the creeps.
Well, anyone can claim anything. Sharpton has also criticized Obama harshly in interviews based on positions that Obama has taken. So can't take for granted that because Sharpton (a person that, in other contexts, you likely wouldn't trust to give you accurate time or weather) is necessarily telling the truth.
Ooh, new way to sabotage a campaign. I'm an atheist. I'll state that McCain and I are in regular contact. We chat for hours about how right Hitchens and Dawkins are, and have tea.
Karen Brown: "Well, anyone can claim anything."
Gee, Karen, have you been spending too much time gazing at yourself in the mirror? Judging from some of the slimeball things you've been saying about McCain on other posts, I guess you're an expert at "claiming" just about "anything."
What 'slimeball' things?
That he divorced his first wife on charges of adultery?
That's public record.
That he was cheating on his first wife with is second wife?
That's also public record. Things he, himself, has fully acknowledged in interviews.
I think anyone that endorses the Swiftboat crew, brings up Kerry in a tank 4 years after the election (as if being in a tank, in and of itself, is some kind of crime, rather than simply looking a little goofy.. and if that's a charge, Bush should get life), and has said that people have the right to dig up and bring up things about 'associates', including specifically wives, so we don't find out about them after the election has a leg to stand on, when talking about saying 'slimeball' things about ANYONE.
Or the stuff you never even tried to refute.
Like McCain flip flopping on off-shore drilling.
Or the fact that he's had members of his own campaign who were lobbyists, and has accepted tens of thousands of dollars not only from lobbyists, but specifically K Street lobbyists. As early as 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/30/AR2007123002848_pf.html
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