ferguson

[donquixote99]

'Shut up' is 'harsh,' but you want him to stop being physically present?

[Ike Bana]

Sharpton is a flat-out fraud. He doesn't have to shut up...he just has to disappear. Sharpton perped the Tawana Brawley "rape" on innocent guys, including coppers, and when he got caught at it and lost a $65,000 civil judgment, refused to pay. The only reason he didn't go to jail for it is because Johnnie Cochran, Earl Graves and other "supporters" who weren't much interested in justice any more than Sharpton is paid the judgement. He has never manned up to a single one of his bad acts...ever.

And that's my problem with Sharpton. He's a fucking hypocrite and he's a hypocrite mostly around his favorite issue...justice. When it's his sort of justice he's all over the place. But when it's his malicious defamatory conspiracy against white cops it's a whole other list of criteria for justice.

Why anybody would trust that he has any credibility is beyond me.

And why anybody would spend 5 seconds listening to anybody on MSNBC after they hired him is beyond me as well.

[Rajoo]

Al Sharpton is a divisive personality so his very presence is an irritant to most people except to his core supporters, which is probably in single digits. So it really does not matter is he speaks or what he says. And the tile Rev. makes him a duplicitous person to boot.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

'Shut up' is 'harsh,' but you want him to stop being physically present?

If he has any savvy whatsoever, he should know that he damages his own message of equality by appearing somewhere. (If that message is his actual agenda.)

If his message is the self-aggrandizement of Al Sharpton, he's doing fine.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Sharpton is a flat-out fraud. He doesn't have to shut up...he just has to disappear. Sharpton perped the Tawana Brawley "rape" on innocent guys, including coppers, and when he got caught at it and lost a $65,000 civil judgment, refused to pay. The only reason he didn't go to jail for it is because Johnnie Cochran, Earl Graves and other "supporters" who weren't much interested in justice any more than Sharpton is paid the judgement. He has never manned up to a single one of his bad acts...ever.

And that's my problem with Sharpton. He's a fucking hypocrite and he's a hypocrite mostly around his favorite issue...justice. When it's his sort of justice he's all over the place. But when it's his malicious defamatory conspiracy against white cops it's a whole other list of criteria for justice.

Why anybody would trust that he has any credibility is beyond me.

And why anybody would spend 5 seconds listening to anybody on MSNBC after they hired him is beyond me as well.

Pretty much my impression of him, that's what made the address toward something constructive instead of rabble-rousing unexpected and I must say, welcome.

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[piece-itpete]

I saw a little of the fathers statements and thought, that's pretty nice, being in his (awful) shoes and all, but then he said hands up don't shoot.

Pete

[finnbow]

Maureen Dowd again dumps on Barry for outsourcing civil rights issues to Al Sharpton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/op...s-a-dream.html

"...(Obama) anoints a self-promoting TV pundit with an incendiary record as “the White House’s civil rights leader of choice,” as The Times put it, vaulting Sharpton into “the country’s most prominent voice on race relations.” It seems oddly retrogressive to make Sharpton the official go-between with Ferguson’s black community, given that his history has been one of fomenting racial divides, while Obama’s has been one of soothing them."

[Ike Bana]

Maureen should stick to slamming conservatives and Republicans. When she tries to slam Democrats she comes off as snarky and petty. She really has nothing of substance to crab about since she agrees with most of the substance...so she ends up blubbering about stuff that has mostly to do with style. Who cares?

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Maureen should stick to slamming conservatives and Republicans. When she tries to slam Democrats she comes off as snarky and petty. She really has nothing of substance to crab about since she agrees with most of the substance...so she ends up blubbering about stuff that has mostly to do with style. Who cares?

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. I don't know if I've ever read a Dowd piece that wasn't chock full of snark. She was admittedly more amusing when she was taking on Dubya, however.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Maureen Dowd again dumps on Barry for outsourcing civil rights issues to Al Sharpton.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/op...s-a-dream.html

"...(Obama) anoints a self-promoting TV pundit with an incendiary record as “the White House’s civil rights leader of choice,” as The Times put it, vaulting Sharpton into “the country’s most prominent voice on race relations.” It seems oddly retrogressive to make Sharpton the official go-between with Ferguson’s black community, given that his history has been one of fomenting racial divides, while Obama’s has been one of soothing them."

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Maureen should stick to slamming conservatives and Republicans. When she tries to slam Democrats she comes off as snarky and petty. She really has nothing of substance to crab about since she agrees with most of the substance...so she ends up blubbering about stuff that has mostly to do with style. Who cares?

Empyrean indeed, sounds like she's been huffing ether or someone slipped her another hash oil infused chocolate bar here...

"WASHINGTON — As he has grown weary of Washington, Barack Obama has shed parts of his presidency, like drying petals falling off a rose.
He left the explaining and selling of his signature health care legislation to Bill Clinton. He outsourced Congress to Rahm Emanuel in the first term, and now doesn’t bother to source it at all. He left schmoozing, as well as a spiraling Iraq, to Joe Biden. Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser, comes across as more than a messagemeister. As the president floats in the empyrean, Rhodes seems to make foreign policy even as he’s spinning it." NYTimes