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Three-Candidate Monte
New York Magazine Intelligencer ^ | 12/17/07 | Geoffrey Gray

Posted on 12/24/2007 9:33:05 PM PST by Winged Hussar

The voice sounds familiar. “Hey, Al, this is Hillary Clinton, and...” Is it really her? Yep. Clinton is actually calling Sharpton for—pinch yourselves, folks—campaign advice. She wants to know what issues she should raise in an upcoming debate at Howard University. The focus is on black issues, and, well, who is a better judge of black issues in America than the ubiquitous face of them?

Sharpton has the cigar back in his fingers now. He wants the phone back. “Here,” he says, making sure to save the message. “Now, check this out.”

Another voice. “Al, this is Barack Obama...” Obama! Seriously? The senator also wants advice about the debate at Howard. Sharpton has calculated the values closely. “Hillary called three days before the debate,” he says. “Barack called like three hours before.”

And on the surface, that’s partly what this primary season comes down to for Sharpton: a race to see which candidate can kiss his ring the most, the fastest, and with the most sincere pucker.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; brawley; clinton; crown; heights; obama; racism; rosenbaum; sharpton; tawana; yankel

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are still courting the support of a prominent racist and anti-Semite.

Google on "Sharpton" AND "Tawana Brawley" or "Crown Heights" or "Freddy's Fashion Mart" to know more about this individual.

In 1995, Sharpton's National Action Network paraded around a Jewish-owned store in Harlem while chanting racist and anti-Semitic epithets like "Bloodsucking Jews," "cracker," "Jew bastard," and "cracker lover," to which Sharpton added "white interloper."

In 1991, a rampaging Sharptonite mob killed a rabbinical student named Yankel Rosenbaum while screaming "Kill the Jews."

Don't forget the Tawana Brawley scandal of 1988, or Sharpton's alleged recent use of the phrase, "Jewing numbers up and down."

1 posted on 12/24/2007 9:33:06 PM PST by Winged Hussar
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To: Winged Hussar

Merry Christmas to all.


2 posted on 12/24/2007 9:39:45 PM PST by doc1019 (Fred Thompson '08)
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To: Winged Hussar

Six Degrees of Separation?

My wife’s(1) uncle(2) sublet a store in Brooklyn to a guy(3) who pissed off a black customer(4) who went crying to one of Sharpton’s minions(5) who got Sharpton(6) to approve and sponsor protests against those whom he likely considered to be “Yellow Interlopers”. Chanting marchers with signs, safety barricades, specially-assigned overtime cops, the whole shebang.


3 posted on 12/24/2007 9:52:22 PM PST by flowerplough (Thompson should be the next president and Reagan should be the next face on Mt. Rushmore)
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To: Winged Hussar

Does Sharpton have a job with Fox? They seem to have him on once a week.


4 posted on 12/24/2007 10:00:03 PM PST by claudiustg (You know it. I know it.)
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To: Winged Hussar
The problem with Obama is that he—and people like Harold Ford Jr.—characterize the new generation that is eclipsing corrupt racists like Sharpton and Jackson. But neither Jackson or Sharpton is going to endorse anybody until they are 75 percent sure who is going to win the nomination. It’s not about principle or black progress. It’s about personal power and personal enrichment.
5 posted on 12/24/2007 10:09:59 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
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To: Winged Hussar

I was looking for a still from the movie, "I'm Gonna Git You, Sucka," a shot of the little guy inside the big hat of bigger guy at the "The Big Brim Club." I was going to call the little guy "Al Sharpton" and the big guy, "Al Gore." 'Cause Big Al Gore is the Big Pimp now, the Shakedown King.

But all I could find was this. I don't know what the dickens it is, but I seemed kind of funny.

6 posted on 12/24/2007 11:13:41 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (whose spirit is hillary channelling these days?)
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To: doc1019

Merry Christmas Doc...


7 posted on 12/24/2007 11:19:04 PM PST by eyedigress
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To: the invisib1e hand

Zoolander!


8 posted on 12/25/2007 4:44:58 AM PST by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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