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Al Sharpton: Sleaze for Hire

Philly.com: [1]

With a hidden FBI camera rolling inside a New York hotel suite in 2003, an unsuspecting Rev. Al Sharpton, Democratic candidate for president, spoke candidly.

Sharpton offered to help Philadelphia fund-raiser Ronald A. White win a multimillion-dollar business deal, if White helped him raise $50,000 for politics.

White offered $25,000. “If you bring my guys up on this hedge fund, and I have the right conversation,” White said, “I’ll give you what you need.”

“Cool,” Sharpton said.

The Inquirer obtained an account of the May 9, 2003, conversation, which was recorded as part of the Philadelphia City Hall corruption case. The tape helped spark a separate inquiry into Sharpton’s 2004 campaign and his civil-rights organization, the National Action Network. The FBI-IRS probe resurfaced publicly Wednesday, when Sharpton aides received subpoenas.

In an interview yesterday, Sharpton said there is “absolutely nothing illegal” about tying business deals to fund-raising because he is not a public official.

I did manage to hear Laura Ingram [2] talking about this yesterday. I wonder what kind of legs it will have, however. After all, that Al Sharpton is dirty as the day is long isn’t exactly news. this stuff has been going on for a couple of decades now, and the guy is still out walking around creating hate and discontent in personal wealth. What he really ought to be creating is a smell in a jail cell.

I suspect that we should probably be spending more time on Mr. Sharpton around here, he is a very worthy target of our scorn.

Appendum:  (David L)

I gotta disagree. just a wee bit.  The Reverend Al Sharpton is indeed a worthy target of scorn but he has recieved plenty of it from this blog.   Here is a snippet from  August 20 [3]:

The Reverend Sharpton has clearly put the cart before the horse   Before Sharpton has the right to issue any demand of Don Imus, there is the matter of the sixty-five thousand dollars whch Al owes Pagones for defamatory false accusations of rape.

An unrepentent defamer ihas no business demanding anybody apologize for anything.  All the more so that Imus has never been found libel for defamation in court.  Sharpton has.

The Reverend Al is a low life reprobate and has been treated as such by us.   The question isn’t so much Sharpton’s character, or lack thereof same, but why the media treats him as if he were some kind of role model.