Posted on 04/15/2007 10:36:23 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
When I criticized his and Jesse Jackson’s irresponsible and divisive methods of seeking social justice Friday morning, Al Sharpton dismissed the attack by questioning my credibility to lodge a complaint.
“There are always guys that are not in the ring who want to call the fight,” Sharpton said. “You know that going in the ring; you’re going to have critics … You can’t satisfy people who are not in the ring.”
It’s a clever response. It ignores the obvious.
Jesse and Al don’t want anyone else in the ring. They’ve turned the fight for racial equality into a money and fame pit, a place to wrestle for camera time, “consulting” jobs and handshake deals that would make NCAA investigators blush in astonishment.
If people with a modicum of integrity were allowed in the ring and, more importantly, allowed to choose the opponents and the length of the battle, the money would run dry and Jesse and Al would be forced to look for real work.
Fighting bums is easy. Just look at what Jesse and Al James did to Don Imus, a washed-up, recovering drug addict. They knocked out Imus in a couple of rounds.
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What media should do is find the best and brightest people in the world rather than featuring the most dysfunctional — so they themselves can appear the best and the brightest.
You don’t have to break down these empty suits; they implode on their own.
I could not agree more and I am surprised that this seems to have been missed as the basis for the over-reation to his comment. Oh, the mornings just are not the same.
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