Where's Sharpton's Apology for Accusing a White Man of Raping a Black Teen?

"Meet the Press" host David Gregory asked his panel "where civility has gone in our public discourse." Incredibly, one panelist urged people to be more "mature" and not "poison the atmosphere."

I say "incredibly" because this panelist was none other than the race-hustling, anti-Semitic "civil rights activist" and MSNBC talk show host, Al Sharpton. For some reason, Sharpton's own struggles with civility never came up. Nor did any panelist behave so rudely as to bring up Sharpton's role in one of the most hideous, disgusting and cynical uses of the race card this side of the O.J. Simpson case. And Sharpton, unlike Rush Limbaugh, refuses to apologize.

While this raises little or no concern to MSNBC or its advertisers, Sharpton became famous by falsely accusing a white man of raping a black teenage girl. Tawana Brawley, then 15, told authorities that white racists abducted, raped and sodomized her -- scrawling the initials "KKK" on her in human feces.

A grand jury later found the entire incident a complete hoax. This did not stop the Rev. Al Sharpton, who had accused Steven Pagones, then an assistant district attorney in Duchess County, N.Y., of the crime. After Sharpton's accusation, Pagones received death threats, and his young daughter was later threatened.

"We stated openly that Steven Pagones did it," said Sharpton. "If we're lying, sue us, so we can go into court with you and prove you did it. Sue us -- sue us right now."

A jury unanimously concluded that Sharpton defamed Pagones, ordering Sharpton to pay him $65,000. The Reverend promptly and publicly said he did not intend to pay. Later, when Sharpton decided to run for president, the outstanding defamation debt became a political problem. So Sharpton's one-percenter buddies passed the hat and paid off his debt, which by then totaled $87,000 with interest and penalties.

Civility, Rev. Al? In 1989, a young white woman, dubbed the "Central Park jogger," was monstrously raped and nearly beaten to death. Sharpton insisted -- despite the defendants' confessions -- that her black attacker-suspects were innocent, modern-day Scottsboro Boys trapped in "a fit of racial hysteria." Sharpton charged that the jogger's boyfriend did it and organized protests outside the courthouse, chanting, "The boyfriend did it!" and denouncing the victim as a "whore!"

Sharpton appealed for a psychiatrist to examine the victim, generously saying: "It doesn't even have to be a black psychiatrist. ... We're not endorsing the damage to the girl -- if there was this damage." (The convictions of the accused were eventually vacated, despite their taped confessions, after another man -- whose DNA matched -- confessed to the rape in 2002.)

Civility, Rev. Al? Sharpton once called former Marine, magna cum laude graduate, lawyer, professor and then-Mayor David Dinkins -- New York City's first and only black mayor -- a "n--ger whore turning tricks in City Hall."

Civility, Rev. Al? In 1991, when a 7-year-old black child was accidentally killed in Crown Heights after a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control, Sharpton led 400 protesters through the Jewish neighborhood. There were four nights of rock and bottle throwing. A young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, "Kill the Jew," and stabbed to death. After deriding Jews as "diamond merchants," Sharpton said, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."

Civility, Rev. Al? The Jewish owner of Freddy's Fashion Mart in Harlem raised the rent on a black sub-tenant. At one of the many rallies designed to frighten the owner, Sharpton called him a "white interloper." Following a demonstration three months later, one of the protestors, a black man, stormed Freddy's Fashion Mart with a pistol, screaming: "It's on now! All blacks out!" In addition to shooting, he set fire to the building, eventually killing himself and seven others.

Initially, Sharpton denied having spoken at any rallies and refused to accept any responsibility for poisoning the atmosphere. When tapes surfaced showing Sharpton speaking, he said, "What's wrong with denouncing white interlopers?" Eventually, he apologized -- for saying "white," but not for saying "interloper."

Sharpton refuses to apologize for Tawana Brawley. He assumes liberal bias will prevent the media from asking him about Brawley. Or, he will accuse them of racism if they do: "I did what I believed. ... They are asking me to grovel. They want black children to say they forced a black man coming out of the hardcore ghetto to his knees. ... Once you begin bending, it's, 'Did you bend today?' or: 'I missed the apology. Say it again.' Once you start compromising, you lose respect for yourself."

In other words, falsely and unapologetically accusing a white man of raping a black teenage girl is no barrier to hosting a talk show on MSNBC or lecturing the nation on civility.

Rush Limbaugh twice apologized to the Georgetown law student for calling her a slut. Sharpton has never apologized for calling Steven Pagones a rapist.

“He’s a self-made man who worships his creator.”

He’s a media fabrication; I miss the days when Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York, and he treated this “reverend” as we all should: He completely ignored him.

After Je$$e’s love child story, Sharpton led a coup to assume the crown as King Of All Blacks; apparently he succeeded, because I’ve seen white RINO hosts on FoxNews worship him and call him “reverend”.

We should follow Giuliani’s lead & ignore this scum; he only has power when we give it to him.

The irony is, Sharpton’s accusations against Pagones were demonstrably false. It has yet to be proven that Limbaugh was false in alleging that Fluke is a slut. Everything she has ever said about herself seems to imply that she is promiscuous woman with multiple partners who needs thousands of dollars worth of contraception, and therefore a ‘slut’ by any objective definition...

“Everything she has ever said about herself seems to imply that she is promiscuous woman with multiple partners who needs thousands of dollars worth of contraception, and therefore a ‘slut’ by any objective definition...”

And based on the lack of clarity, it can only be assumed that unprotected sex never crossed her mind, making her a menace to society.

With all those sex partners, the risk for STD’s goes up dramatically.

This has to be said and said and said.

What an incredible double standard for Sharpton, who is a race-baiting hypocrite.

Get him off the air.

You sure wonder about how this world works.

How does someone who did what Sharpton did, get a gig on a major news network?

Would the MSM treat this “reverend” with such reverence, if he were a white man, who was involved in these activities?

Why is he treated with civility, when he does not treat others with civility?

Sharpton is a self-made hack shuckster who lies, cheats and steals in order to advance the liberal agenda. He’s not speaking for God. If he’s speaking for anyone it’s for himself or Satan. He’s the very picture of evil.

apparently he succeeded, because I’ve seen white RINO hosts on FoxNews worship him and call him “reverend”.

I am BY NO MEANS a fan or apologist for Sharpton, but to be truthful, he is an officially ordained Pentecostal preacher.

The FOX hosts calling him reverend was proper, and they did not "worship" him.

Where there's a shell, there's a way.

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings.

How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).

And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.

Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.

Do it!

“I am BY NO MEANS a fan or apologist for Sharpton, but to be truthful, he is an officially ordained Pentecostal preacher.”

The following is from biography.com: “A frequent churchgoer, Sharpton became an ordained minister in the Pentecostal church at the age of ten.”

You can’t be serious...

Hey, I'm not Pentecostal (I'm Calvinist/Reformed), but that is what they did. They ordained him at the age of ten.

The way I see it, I don't care if you're Evangelical, Catholic, Orthodox, or Adventist but if you hate Jews then you MUST hate Christ. Why? Because He came as a Jew.

Sharpton and his ilk are filled with hate. They can claim to be whatever they want. I'll look at their fruit.

Where there's a shell, there's a way.

25 years ago, we had Ronald Reagan, Johnny Cash, and Bob Hope.
Today we have Obama, no cash, and no hope!

If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.

Or you can get raw with these strings.

How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).

And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.

Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.

Do it!

“They ordained him at the age of ten.”

You say that as though this merits being called “Reverend”; I don’t care what denomination he is, that is just silly. I’m a Papist myself, but I’ve had friends show me literature for storefront non-denominational Christians in which 75% of the material was dedicated to guiding you in how to obtain tax-exempt status - theology played no role in it.

The talking heads who address him as such (O’Reilly, Hannity) expose themselves as being part of the same entertainment (not political) con game when they do so, and they show Fox to be joined at the hip with MSNBCNNBCBS.

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