Dream on... way too many public-school-"educated" idiots out there indoctrinated to be content with a football game and a beer. Screw thinking or acting on moral issues.
You must either be about 60 years behind, or in a dream state.
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.
Sharpton is a racist b****** - nothing more nothing less.
Exactly. She's much more patient. Subtle. Subtle as a serpent. A Garden of Eden serpent, much more dangerous. Lull.
Obama wants it all now, thereby giving the publik the opportunity to wake up, rather than be slowly lowered into the fire. I actually like my chances better with him.
One can only hope. Any serious Conservative would do to them as they do to Conservatives; harangue them with legal suits, attack their character with the truth, rinse and repeat. Just like islamofacists, these people (term used loosely) only react to one unyielding and continued offensive action. The ball is now on Rush’s court; let’s see what he does.
Regards.
I wouldn't do any good.
I was shamed into trying to watch a football game sometime between 1971 and 1974.
Incredibly boring - haven't done it since and don't plan on trying it again.
Rush said today he “KNEW” who started the lie. Has anybody here on FR picked up on that (ie, where it came from?).
Dream on... way too many public-school-"educated" idiots out there indoctrinated to be content with a football game and a beer. Screw thinking or acting on moral issues.
You must either be about 60 years behind, or in a dream state.
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I already boycott the NFL. I encourage others to give it a shot. I have season tickets at Lincoln Financial Field, but for the Temple Owls, not the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles can go to hell. I don’t need to go there on Sunday and see a bunch of drunks fighting and puking on each other in the stands.
Its sounding more and more like his so called partners in the deal, as starters.
Maybe Rush can sue everyone. What is worse is loser George Soros was also part of the deal as reported in Bloomberg. Something should be done against Sharpton.
Nope. We are going to pull the rug out from under the NFL.
Sean is a little quick with “I didn’t ask you that!”
He and Levin (both of whom I like) are looking at the Beck phenom stealing some thunder
Well this woke me up to the hypocrisy. I don’t want to support thugs. Thugs are running in sports.
Rush had to know about the Soros relationship, huh. Maybe a twist is coming? A girl could dream you know.
Quite the contrary
That his voice is even allowed is what turns people
into real racists.
And Rush is the villain. Are we supposed to be proud?
If anyone wants to give AL Sharpton a piece of your mind then write to:
info@nationalactionnetwork.net (on subject like put: Attention Reverend Al Sharpton.)
Hehehe..... yeah...
Be sure to ping me when there are results to see.
I can’t look at the TV shows as the premium for those channels are a little out of my ability to pay for. One of these days I will check them out on the computer. Right now I’m a little lazy. I bet that changes as the seasons do. I can still work outside for the time being!
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