Posted on 02/26/2005 5:44:00 AM PST by indcons
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has announced the winners of its 4th annual Tarnished Halo Awards. CCF awards these prizes to America's most notorious animal-rights zealots, environmental scaremongers, celebrity busybodies, self-anointed public interest advocates, trial lawyers, and other food & beverage activists who claim to know what's best for you.
The Reverend Rooster Category
Awarded to Al Sharpton, the publicity-seeking preacher, for joining PETA to crow at KFC restaurants and attempting to instigate a boycott from the African American community. It's odd that Sharpton would stand side-by-side with PETA, which advocates a complete end to chicken consumption. When the reverend emerged from prison in 2001 after a four-week hunger strike, he didn't ask for tofu and lentils. He told a crowd of well-wishers: I'm going to walk through Harlem just to settle in again, then I'm going to Amy Ruth's for some fried chicken. That restaurant's menu carries a dish named after Sharpton; it's chicken and waffles.
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Chicken and waffles seems somehow appropriate for Sharpton!
Reading that reminds that we're having eggs and bacon for Saturday morning breakfast. The PETA folks can move to Bhutan and chant their mantras if they don't like it.
The one thread that runs through all these "nominations" is that the dubious recipient is a paragon of hypocrisy, and thus, the perfect champion of leftist causes.
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