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An unlikely trio explored several Baltimore schools Friday as part of an effort to highlight education reform and challenges, and called on Maryland to give charter schools more autonomy. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich repeatedly emphasized the need for changes to the state's charter school law, which he called "too restrictive," as he, the Rev. Al Sharpton and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan toured three city schools and spoke with students, administrators and others about their schools -- and what sets them apart. "I hope that everybody in Maryland will call the governor, will call the legislators, and will let...

The rabble-rousing Rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage. The Rev. Al Sharpton's ex-wife and daughter were arrested last night after berating a pair of Harlem cops who pulled them over for running a red light in the wrong lane to get around their slow-moving, unmarked cruiser, sources told The Post. Kathy Jordan, 53, and her daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 23, were handcuffed and hauled to a precinct, where the raging reverend's daughter tried to no avail to get off the hook because of her family ties, the sources said. The road rage incident began around 7:30 p.m....

The rabble-rousing Rev should give his daughter a sermon about road rage. The Rev. Al Sharpton’s ex-wife and daughter were arrested last night after berating a pair of Harlem cops who pulled them over for running a red light in the wrong lane to get around their slow-moving, unmarked cruiser, sources told The Post. Kathy Jordan, 53, and her daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 23, were handcuffed and hauled to a precinct, where the raging reverend’s daughter tried to no avail to get off the hook because of her family ties, the sources said. They were issued desk appearance tickets before being...

National Legal and Policy Center President Peter Flaherty tells Newsmax that his group is calling on corporations to end their support of Al Sharpton's organization in response to his role in the Rush Limbaugh-National Football League controversy. Flaherty is also urging former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to cut his ties with Sharpton, a Baptist minister and civil rights activist whom Flaherty calls a "despicable figure" responsible for racial "antagonism" in the U.S. See Video: National Legal and Policy Center President Peter Flaherty: Gingrich must sever his ties with Al Sharpton - Click Here Now After Limbaugh announced on Oct. 6...

On a dark humid Florida night a black sedan meanders toward a mansion where a meeting is to take place about an investment opportunity. A Racial Justice Patrol Car, with a SCB (Successful Conservative Bulletin) taped to its dash, sirens screaming, lights flashing, headlights beaming on high blinding anyone looking back, compels a pullover. The two officers, guns drawn, loudspeakers in the other hand shout, “Get out of the car — NOW!” A slimmed down radio talk show host exits, EIB microphone in hand. The racial cops scream, “Put your hands on the car and keep your big mouth away...

It is time for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to end his association with Al Sharpton. The two have been appearing together around the country as part of something called the Education Equality Project. As Dr. Carl Horowitz of our staff has documented in a Special Report released earlier this year, Sharpton has promoted fake hate crimes against blacks, and has inspired racial antagonism against whites and Jews. Indeed, this long-established pattern of behavior continues to the present.Just last week, the purported victim of a 2007 racially-motivated attack in West Virginia recanted her story that she had been kidnapped and...

On a dark humid Florida night a black sedan meanders toward a mansion where a meeting is to take place about an investment opportunity. A Racial Justice Patrol Car, with a SCB (Successful Conservative Bulletin) taped to its dash, sirens screaming, lights flashing, headlights beaming on high blinding anyone looking back, compels a pullover. The two officers, guns drawn, loudspeakers in the other hand shout, “Get out of the car--NOW!” A slimmed down radio talk show host exits, EIB microphone in hand. The racial cops scream, “Put your hands on the car and keep your big mouth away from the...

MSNBC's news bimbo talking head Contessa Brewer introduces Jesse Jackson as Al Sharpton. Jesse gets all mad and looks like he's going to cry. Brewer begins to obsequiously grovel and stutter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sHn8_50c_s

NEW YORK — MSNBC's Contessa Brewer has apologized for mixing up civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. She made the slip-up Wednesday while introducing Jackson during a segment on homelessness. After the introduction, Jackson stared at the camera from a studio in Burbank, Calif., and said, "I'm Rev. Jesse Jackson."Brewer explained that her script read that she was to introduce "the Rev. Al Sharpton."She continued, "We all know who you are, Rev. Jackson. I'm so sorry."

Emailers protesting Wal-Mart support for Al Sharpton’s group, the National Action Network, are getting the following response: Walmart supports the National Action Network (NAN) as part of an ongoing effort to partner with national organizations that support issues and initiatives of importance to our customers, and the communities we serve.Our support for NAN is focused on addressing health and wellness issues and other issues important to our customers and associates. Our company will continue to support organizations that can further our mission to help people live better. Emails to PepsiCo are getting this reply: As a global consumer products company...

DeMaurice Smith, NFL Players Association chief, urged the league to nix Rush Limbaugh's participation in a consortium to buy the St Louis Rams. Buying Al Sharpton's hype that Limbaugh is a racist, Smith whined that football is at its best "when it overcomes division and rejects discrimination and hatred." But who are the discriminators and haters here? Sharpton blocked Limbaugh like Governor Orval Faubus tried to block black children from entering Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Limbaugh can't make an investment because some don't like him? Based on something he did? No, based on who they allege...

This latest imbroglio about Rush Limbaugh being ineligible to buy an NFL franchise, because of a couple of alleged racial comments he made over the span of his many decades on the radio, stands out as one of the phoniest canards ever foisted upon the American public. The irony behind the spurious charge is that they come from two of the most incendiary provocateurs in the race-baiting business. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, who give themselves the ludicrous title of Reverend, have the unmitigated gall to proclaim that Limbaugh is a polarizing...

As a black Rush Limbaugh fan still fuming from the lynching of Rush for false charges of racism by the liberal media led by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, I thought what can I do to end this tyranny of political correctness. For me, the Limbaugh Incident was “the straw that broke the camel’s back” as my mom used to say. Then I thought, as a Christian should I go after Sharpton and Jackson? The words of Edmund Burke came to mind,“The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!” Final confirmation came when...

Al Sharpton, We read that you threatened to sue Rush Limbaugh for saying that you played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riots and the riot at Freddy’s Fashion Mart in 1995. We are not an attorney and cannot give legal advice, but you are not going to sue anybody; you are going squeal like a schoolyard bully whose victim has struck him back while Rush Limbaugh does what should have been done in 1988. He will demolish you as a public figure, and quite possibly take your National Action Network down in the bargain, by exposing your...

As a black Rush Limbaugh fan still fuming from the lynching of Rush for false charges of racism by the liberal media led by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, I thought what can I do to end this tyranny of political correctness. For me, the Limbaugh Incident was "the straw that broke the camel's back" as my mom used to say. Then I thought, as a Christian should I go after Sharpton and Jackson? The words of Edmund Burke came to mind, "The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing!" Final confirmation came...

This statement was issued by Deneen Borelli of the national black leadership network Project 21...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Rev. Al Sharpton on Saturday threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots. In a column published by the Wall Street Journal on Saturday about his derailed bid to become part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, he accuses Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making comments that helped get him booted from a group that was trying to buy the NFL team. Limbaugh derided Sharpton as having played "a leading role in the 1991 Crown...

SEIU President Andy Stern accepted award from prominent racist and anti-Semite Al SharptonIt has come to our attention that the head of the Service Employees International Union, one of the major unions that supported the election of Barack Obama, accepted an award from Al Sharpton and his National Action Network. The National Action Network is the same organization that paraded around a Jewish-owned store, Freddy's Fashion Mart, while yelling racial and anti-Semitic epithets. This took place under Al Sharpton's leadership and supervision, and Al Sharpton personally used the racial epithet "white interloper." Is it reasonable to define the National Action...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — An organization that tracks hate-group activity in the U.S. is accusing Vanderbilt University professor Carol Swain, a black scholar known for her conservative stances on race and immigration, of being an apologist for white supremacists. The incident started last week when the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center posted a blog item critiquing the documentary A Conversation About Race, mentioning that positive comments by Swain lent the film an air of legitimacy. (excerpted)

Al Sharpton thinks Rush Limbaugh should be shunned by the NFL. Rush never incited a murderous mob the way Sharpton did. So which corporations funding Sharpton and his National Action Network, instead of shunning him? The National Legal and Policy Center provides a list:

Here is video of Al Sharpton and Pat Buchanan talking with Chris Matthews about Rush Limbaugh being dropped from the group interested in buying the St. Louis Rams. Sharpton said that Limbaugh is "trying to make this like this is some kind of wounding of American Conservatism, he was rejected by his own partners ultimately." Pat Buchanan said "this act was shabby, vindictive, petty, it is disgusting." He went on to mention Sharpton's controversial statements and his involvement in the duke lacrosse case. Amazingly Sharpton later in the interview responds to this saying "I had nothing to do with the...

Media Bias: Not long after pro football welcomed a convicted felon back on the playing field, Rush Limbaugh is dropped for his opinions from a group seeking to buy an NFL franchise. Won't someone throw a flag? When even Keith Olbermann says back off, you know the politically correct critics of the conservative icon and megaradio talk host's proposed part ownership of the St. Louis Rams are guilty of piling on. The prospect of the leading conservative voice in America participating in the purchase of a football team sent the liberal elites into cardiac arrest and into a frenzied campaign...

It's no wonder that the majority of the liberal mainstream media is racing towards extinction. The left-wing media's joint venture with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who together have conducted a hateful smear campaign against conservative talk-show icon, Rush Limbaugh, substantiates their blatant liberal bias, intolerance, prejudice, narrowmindedness, and perversion of journalism. They knowingly repeated imaginary, slanderous, racially-charged quotes and attached them to Rush Limbaugh with absolutely no evidence, no source checking, and no regard for the truth.

Dear Rush, We are so very sorry about what the scruple-less liberal bias conservative hating media have done and are continuing to do to you. While we realize you are a big boy and can handle it, you are still a human being. This international personal attack on your character based on such absurd charges has to be extremely painful. We, your 20 million plus loyal fans are outraged. You have our total support. Rush you have made us a family. For 20 years you have given us and continue to give us comfort, hope and peace when things have...

Al Sharpton’s platform for his assault on Rush Limbaugh’s NFL ownership bid was the National Action Network (NAN), which is bankrolled by corporate America. The following companies were identified this year by NAN as “sponsors”: American Honda, Anheuser Busch, Colgate-Palmolive, Comcast, Entergy, Ford Motor Company, Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, Macy’s, PepsiCo, Pfizer and Wal-Mart. Sponsorship reportedly cost $50,000.NLPC is asking these companies to end their support for Sharpton and NAN. Here’s how to contact them:American Hondaphone: 1-800-999-1009 (Mon.-Fri., 6:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Pacific Time)Fax: 310-783-3023 (24 hours)Click here to find your local dealer. Anheuser Buschemail: crg@anheuser-busch.com1-800-342-5283 Colgate-PalmoliveClick here to send...

Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy's and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev. Al Sharpton's charity. Almost 50 companies - including PepsiCo, General Motors, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Continental Airlines, Johnson & Johnson and Chase - and some labor unions sponsored Sharpton's National Action Network annual conference in April.

Uvula, New York- Jewish community elders are rallying against The Reverend Al Sharpton’s bid to buy the Baer Market Deli on the corner of S.Exchange Street and Broad in beautiful old-town Uvula. Citing a litany of divisive remarks, attributable to the bellicose malcontent, local civic leaders are afraid that Sharpton’s “virulent history of blatant antisemitism” will be irrevocably incompatible with their long held tradition of being Semites. In addition to Sharpton’s clear antipathy towards those he has termed “diamond merchants” and “bloodsuckers”, there are also concerns that Sharpton will irrevocably damage the spirit of the 150 year old delicatessen with...

Video from Rush today, hitting the justice brothers for their legacy of hustling race, and saying he will not back down from what they are trying to do to him....Go Rush..(Video)

Are the Democrats the Racism Party? Just when OK thought the race(ism) card was too worn out for liberals to do anything more than retire it from the life deck, Obama-media has once again resurrected it. It’s a strategy designed to keep Conservatives and the Right on the defensive. The Left’s current target is talk show host Rush Limbaugh. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently lectured us on the importance of civility and accountability for one’s words. She suggested that a lack of civility could lead to violence. However, the Left loves to sermonize while isolating and smearing any dissent. An...

I am not sure why Rush Limbaugh would want to own an NFL team. It is surely more fun to criticize the establishment on a daily basis than to become part of it. Leaving that aside, the last person in the world who should have a say in the matter is Al Sharpton. (The next to last is his mentor Jesse Jackson.) Sharpton has written a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell saying the NFL should reject Limbaugh’s bid. Yesterday the New York Times actually referred to Sharpton’s group, the National Action Network, as “a civil rights organization,” demonstrating the...

ST. LOUIS — The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative radio host's track record on race should exclude him from owning an NFL team. Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing that Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments. Jackson said in a telephone interview that Limbaugh had made his wealth "appealing to the fears of whites" with an unending line of insults against blacks and other minorities. "The National Football League has set high standards...

Click here and see for yourself. Exact quote: "Rush Limbaugh been divisive and anti-NFL..." Honestly, is he using Ebonics? Did he type the thing himself? If so, he needs an assistant. If not, he needs to fire the assistant or tell the assistant to quit using Ebonics in this type of communications. Or am I being racist? LOL!

The Rev. Al Sharpton wants the National Football League to block conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh from bidding on the St. Louis Rams. Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday. He said Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Limbaugh said last week that he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues hockey team owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams. He has declined to discuss details of the offer, citing a confidentiality agreement. In 2003, Limbaugh worked...

Sharpton Wants NFL To Block Limbaugh Bid For Rams Monday, October 12, 2009 Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday. He said Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments. Limbaugh did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. Limbaugh said last week that he is teaming up with St. Louis Blues hockey team owner Dave Checketts in a bid to buy the Rams. He has declined to discuss details of the offer, citing a confidentiality agreement.

Rev. Al Sharpton pleaded with the National Football League on Monday to deny conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh the opportunity to buy the St. Louis Rams franchise. In a letter sent to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Sharpton wrote that he was “disturbed” to hear about Limbaugh’s interest in the Rams and asked for a meeting with Goodell “to discuss the myriad of reasons as to why [Limbaugh] should not be given an opportunity to do so.” Sharpton argued that Limbaugh has been “anti-NFL” in his comments about several of the league’s players, specifically naming Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks Donovan McNabb and...

Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs describes in very explicit detail how Barack Obama's official Web site, Organizing for America, has become a "hub for Islamic anti-Semitism." All this hate speech was posted with the full approval of the moderators who exercise editorial control over the site. The fact that Barack Obama allows his official Web site to serve as a platform for this kind of material, along with misogynist and ageist hate speech, is entirely consistent with his personal and open association with racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic hate groups. ...The following picture was taken at a 2007 meeting of Al...

They come from vastly different backgrounds - the U.S. secretary of education, a Democratic civil-rights activist, and the Republican former House speaker - but they all agreed that what they saw yesterday at two Philadelphia schools could be a national model. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the Rev. Al Sharpton, and Newt Gingrich toured Mastery Charter School-Shoemaker Campus and McDaniel Elementary on the first stop of a multi-stop tour promoting education improvements.

What do the Rev. Al Sharpton, John Cena and Triple H have in common? They'll all be at Times Union Center in Albany for the latest installment of World Wrestling Entertainment's "Monday Night Raw." Sharpton? That Sharpton? Yes, the one and only minister and politician who has courted controversy over the years will be the guest host for the night's entertainment. Sharpton at the microphone, of course, is nothing new: He spoke at Michael Jackson's memorial service recently and has his own radio show, which can be heard at http://www.sharptontalk.net/. But wrestling?A publicist for WWE, Kevin Hennessy, says Sharpton's current...

Rev. Al Sharpton Issues Statement Explaining Why He Is Hosting WWE Raw Newsday's Alfonso Castillo recently contacted Rev. Al Sharpton, in regards to his guest host spot on Raw. His spokeswoman responded with the following comment… "In order to raise awareness and actually do something about the devastating achievement gap in education between kids of color and their white peers the viewership of WWE events is precisely the group of people who need to be reached and involved. Reverend Sharpton has stated repeatedly that all of us must take extraordinary steps to reverse the current trend in education and that...

When I marked the recent anniversary of Peter Jennings's passing with a column about an embarrassing incident in the ABC newsman's career, a couple of readers chastised your gentle correspondent for speaking ill of the dead. So when Edward Kennedy died not long after, I decided to err on the side of decency and keep mum for an appropriate interval. OK, interval's up. The whitewashing and lionizing of Ted Kennedy was nauseating - though hardly unexpected from a media establishment that for decades has been in such embarrassing thrall to the Kennedys. Back in 2003, Kennedy - whose behavior during...

Maureen Dowd's latest column makes me realize we need a new category of award to recognize those whose senses are so finely tuned, that they can detect massive, lethal doses of radioactive racism completely undetectable by normal humans. The name of the award is inspired by Neil Young's song "Southern Man," penned years after the civil rights violence, when he toured the South looking for signs of change. Many southerners at the time were proud of the progress they could see all around them. But that's not what Old Neil saw and heard. All that this Canadian could see on...

Has anyone else noticed the strong absence of the good Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Or have I been watching the White House too much? Have they lost their former jobs as extortion pimps? Just askin'.

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At the request of President Obama, we're happy to announce that American Solutions General Chairman Newt Gingrich will be joining Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the Reverend Al Sharpton on a multi-city Education Reform Tour.

This morning on the Today show it was announced that President Obama has asked me, on behalf of American Solutions, to travel the country on an Education Reform tour. I'll be joined by two very unlikely allies, to talk about charter schools and real education reform. I'll be travelling with Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Reverend Al Sharpton, who are also strongly in favor of charter schools, on a multi-city tour. As a citizen, I believe where you have differences with your elected officials, you should oppose them vigorously. But when you can find common ground, it's important to work...

White redneck assaults black man in racially motivated beating. Stunningly, Sharpton and Jackson are nowhere to be found. Typical liberal garbage.

That Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant James Crowley may attend a baseball game together has the Rev. Al Sharpton concerned.

Here is video in two parts of conservative Ann Coulter and the Rev. Al Sharpton debating the whole "Beer Summit" / Harvard Professor arrest case, and the larger subject of racial profiling. . . . . Ann Coulter said no racial profiling even took place in this case. Coulter said there is no "epidemic" of racial profiling in America, but there is an epidemic of false claims of racial profiling. . . . . (Watch Video)

The racist dregs of American society all hate Jews. Note who poses arm in arm with at least some of the racist dregs of American society.

Where there is a race controversy there is Al Sharpton. In this case, Rev. Sharpton's niece and radio sidekick, Brittany, has taken the Henry Louis Gates-Sgt.James Crowley controversy to another level. Radio Equalizer Brian Maloney picked up the audio and transcript below of Ms. Sharpton blaming the woman who called the Cambridge police after spotting two unidentified men (one of whom was Gates) breaking into Professor Gates's home. It should be pointed out Professor Gates's house was previously broken into.