Do not diss the future owner of my team.
Why is today the first day I've ever thought of him as a PhilAm when he was one of my childhood sports heroes and I thought of him as an American and my favorite quarterback?"
Posted on 10/14/2009 6:22:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Al Sharpton issued a statement this evening claiming a "moral victory for all Americans" on the dropping of Rush Limbaugh as part of a group of investors seeking to buy the NFL St. Louis Rams franchise.
The AP reported Sharpton's statement and a follow up comment he made in an interview:
"It is a moral victory for all Americans — especially the players that have been unfairly castigated by Rush Limbaugh," Sharpton said in a statement. "This decision will also uphold the unifying standards of major sports."
Sharpton added in a telephone interview that major sports leagues shouldn't welcome owners who are "divisive and incendiary."
Every major pro sports franchise has dealings with its community, he said. "It's unfair for taxpayers to be underwriting people who denigrate them," he said.
A few months ago, Sharpton was fined $285,000 by the FEC for gross violations of federal law during his failed 2004 presidential bid:
During his 2004 presidential campaign, Sharpton traveled extensively and routinely mixed travel for his campaign committee and National Action Network. An FEC audit and investigation revealed that National Action Network and other entities paid $387,192 in campaign expenses. The FEC determined that National Action Network made payments totaling $107,615 for committee expenses and $73,500 in payments to consultants and vendors for campaign-related work, violating the prohibition against corporate contributions. Sharpton’s sole proprietorships, Rev-Als Production and Sharpton Media LLC, also paid $214,577 in campaign travel expenses and an additional $65,000 came from unknown sources. None of these in-kind contributions were disclosed in the committee’s disclosure reports.
Sharpton, his presidential campaign committee, Sharpton 2004, and Andrew Rivera, in his official capacity as treasurer, agreed to pay a civil penalty of $208,000 for failing to report accurately all receipts and expenditures, receiving excessive and prohibited in-kind contributions and accepting impermissible corporate contributions. They also agreed to refund $10,500 in unresolved excessive contributions, disgorge $9,000 in excessive contributions and refund $181,115 to National Action Network or disgorge the funds to the U.S. Treasury. National Action Network, Inc. and Sharpton, as president, agreed to a civil penalty of $77,000 for making prohibited contributions to Sharpton 2004.
Respondents also agreed that they misstated receipts and disbursements and cash on hand, understated by $231,753; receipts of $15,000 in loans from unknown sources; and $10,500 in excessive contributions from individuals.
In 2004, U.S. taxpayers subsidized Sharpton's campaign with federal matching funds. Eventually he was ordered to repay $200,000 of those funds. The Village Voice examined Sharpton's scam.
Fred Siegel, writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2000, gave a refresher course on Sharpton and his racist hate-mongering:
Mr. Sharpton is best-known for the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he insisted that a 15-year-old black girl had been abducted and raped by a band of white men practicing Irish Republican Army rituals. In fact she had made up the story to protect herself from her violent stepfather.
But at Freddy's, Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy's and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network, sometimes joined by "the Rev." himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards" and threatening to burn the building down.
After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton's words about ousting the "white interloper" to heart. He ran into the store shouting, "It's on!" He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American--a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a "cracker lover." Smith then fatally shot himself.
Eight people died, and so evidently did the conscience of liberal Democrats. It was Al Sharpton who had the honor of asking the first question at last week's debate, held within hailing distance of the Freddy's massacre.
In his statements to the AP tonight, Sharpton describes himself, not Limbaugh. Yet Sharpton is treated as a paragon of virtue while Limbaugh is viciously lied about.
No justice, indeed.
Contact the NFL and tell them to DEMAND the removal of olberman from Sunday Night Football for his devicise, incindiary and inappropiate remarks!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362419/posts
Sharpton isn’t half the man that Limbaugh is. Sharpton is a phony minister, a huckster, and an out-and-out liar. If there is anyone adept at making divisive statements and sowing division in this country it’s Sharpton. And if the f’ing puerile liberals want to demonize me for saying that, they can go to Hell.
Hannity couldn’t shut up tonight about Rush, nor BOR. I am so angry I cannot think straight.
It is like we are in the movie 1984 or maybe having a bad dream...daily.
A man who is a true cretin speaks of Morals? The only thing he preaches is hate and spite.
“this race pimp does not speak for me.”
Race pimp? He’s an extortionist running a juice racket. Do what I say or I’ll organize a demonstration and a boycott.
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PAGING MICHAEL VICK!
PLEASE CALL NFL HEADQUARTERS ...
“I doubt this will hurt the NFL...’
Drooling 60 IQ welfare bums living off SS disability and food stamps don’t buy tickets to NFL games. Bet your beeper that the PC NFL is about to pay a huge price.
The liar continues to get amplification for his lies. In the process...all of our lives are devalued. He should be shunned AND held up as an object of ridicule by all truth-loving people who hold the power to amplify any message (with their audience).
Down with the NFL.
I say boycott. If they don’t want conservative views, we shouldn’t give them conservative dollars. Turn the television off Sunday afternoon.
Seriously, why should we be consumers of a business that hates us? But they’ll gladly take our money.
And Jim Irsay wouldn’t have anything if his father hadn’t left him a football team. The taxpayers have the privilege of paying for his stadium, so that he can become a billionaire.
The reverend worships Alinsky’s god - lucifer.
He's a deplorable, immoral man - the lowest kind of self promoting race baiter, just as the article above points out.
On the other hand, this most definitely validates what Rush says about these hateful bigots, and hopefully it will increase the size of his audience.
I have noticed that in the NFL the best teams win while the NFL seems to want the opposite for society.
Sharpton can laugh all he wants to court.
“I don’t need to go there on Sunday and see a bunch of drunks fighting and puking on each other in the stands.”
The owners don’t care. They get to sit in the suites with the big shots and act like potentates - all because the taxpayers built them a stadium.
Rush Limbaugh fumbled the football just out side the plane of the goaline with time having run out and Al Sharpton recovering the football and returning it back for a 99-plus yard Super Bowl wining touchdown untouched. Truly a sad day for our team. This loss will linger for a long time, a very long time.
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However, RUSH will just be a little likeable fuzzball. Remember no activism by him. NO, he's above that .
We wish these sports teams would just die year after year (at least we claim to want that), but they continue to be viable investments. They're billion-dollar franchises now.
I watch an NFL game now and then, but if it disappeared from the air, I'd find better things to do. Like read a good book. Or go hoe in my garden.
Hell I've been a Lions fan forever, because I grew up in Michigan. But what have they done to fix themselves in the past half-century? LOL.
September 10, 2008 The New Republic published a long piece on Obama’s failure as a community organizer.
“ Creation Myth “ by John B Judis
One line stood out.
“ Obama had worked briefly as an organizer in Harlem .”
Did Barry work for Al Sharpton during this time ?
Sharpton has blood on his hands
from encouraging the fire at Freddy’s Fashion Mart that killed seven to the Crown Height’s riots
that resulted in the death of Yankel Rosenbaum .
Rush never incited riots or fires that resulted in anyone dying , yet, to the NFL,
he’s the bad guy and Sharpton and his ilk are the moral princes.
Do not diss the future owner of my team.
Why is today the first day I've ever thought of him as a PhilAm when he was one of my childhood sports heroes and I thought of him as an American and my favorite quarterback?"
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