Al Sharpton, Mitt Romney & Bigotry

All the people Al has ever skewered had jobs; he doesn't, except in the wacky post-reconstruction world of white guilt and black "self" esteem.

Reminds me, I have to call Jesse Jackson and see how his bastard is doing.

Holy Bigots Batman! Al Sharpton Knocks Mormons?!
Justin Hart

Yesterday Al Sharpton said: "As for the one Jew running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don't worry, that's a temporary situation."

Are you kidding me! Oh, wait... I got that quote wrong.... here's the actual quote:

"As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don't worry, that's a temporary situation."

Does that sound any better? As Hugh Hewitt points out... if Al said:

If Al had declared that a Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim or candidate would be defeated by those "who really believe in God," how great would the outcry be?

I'm speechless?!

For all his banter and vile against Imus (some of it justified) -- how does he justify these comments? Any ideas on how to counter this? I'll have more later.

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Holly Roller Dingbat, can a Baptist/Mormon/Catholic/Methodist/ /Jew etc also be a bigot? Seems impossible you say? Fortunately we have the Rosicrucians to atone for all their sins.

No, but for Reverend Al thank God jerry-curl still is, and apparently it has soaked through to his brain.

Funny, its Reverend Al's notoriety that is causing him being listen to now and he better understand he isn't just being heard by black folk like him anymore.

Mormons? Who cares about them. But Reverend Al had no legitimate reason to insult Mormons, after all, we'll need every christian type white man as a friend when the Scientologists come knocking.

The funny thing is that every Christian on this board deep down feels the exact same way about Mormons, Hindus, Islams, etc. The bible says that god/jesus are the only true gods and that you should not follow in any others or false gods. It's the first commandment that you all want displayed in courthouses. The bible says that IT is the only true word of god, not the 'book of mormon'.

If you're a true believer of Christ and of the Bible, you're forced to agree with what Sharpton said.

No... Not EVERY Christian feels that way. You may perceive that to be true, btu you would be wrong.

Al Sharpton is a tout and a criminal and should be ignored by the media as such.,

So you think that Muslims and Hindus are following the same god as Christians? I'm 100% sure/positive that the Bible tells you the exact opposite.

Re: Al Sharpton, Mitt Romney & Bigotry

Why is this bigotry? Sharpton is just expressing his opinion on a theological matter: that Mormons do not worship the same Christian god that he does. How does that make him a bigot? Because the statement makes some people hurt, or angry, or all mopey? Someone help me out here.


Hardly. It sounds more like Sharpton was predicting that Romney would fail in his bid for the GOP nomination.

Hindus, no, Muslims, yes. The God of the Bible is the Muslim God, it's just that they think Mohammed is that God's latest prophet. (After Moses and Jesus.)

I think it is all irrelevant. Too many people, probably people like you, use their so called "religion" as a crutch to advance their selfish means.

Imagine no religion?

I have no religion; I hate religion; God can go to hell.

No religion would be heaven.

Sharpton is a bigot and is otherwise despicable, but got a bad rap re his statement. He aimed the comment at Hitchens, who is an atheist, saying that believers [not people like you] would defeat Romney.

I don't see the bigotry in this incident.

Anyone who has seen Al Charlatan in action over the years knows just exactly what he is. A racist rabble rouser.

Sharpton's Victory
The dumbing down of presidential candidates is complete.

"If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."

Those were the immortal words of the Rev. Al Sharpton during the Crown Heights crisis in New York City in 1991. A car driven by a Hasidic Jew had run over a black child in the Brooklyn neighborhood, prompting black-Jewish tensions that eventually spilled over into antisemitic riots. Sharpton's contribution to civic peace was statements like the above, together with such classic anti-Jewish smears as: "Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights."

Oh, the statesmanship. This is the man who stands with eight other presidential candidates every two weeks or so to opine to a national audience about the future of the republic. With Sharpton, the dumbing down of presidential candidates is complete. In 1992, Pat Buchanan ran for president after having a cable-TV show. In 2000, Alan Keyes did Buchanan one better ?- he ran for president to get a cable TV show (it appeared briefly on MSNBC). Sharpton is running on the Keyes model, with his scheduled Saturday Night Live guest-hosting gig this weekend showing some results.

Fringe candidates can have their place. Ralph Nader added something to the 2000 election. But Sharpton has no memorable policy proposals, no distinctive ideological position, nothing but himself and his resume.

He wants to be remembered as the guy with the funny lines rather than a racial provocateur who smeared an innocent man during the Tawana Brawley hoax and built his New York notoriety on race hatred. "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business," Sharpton said in a 1995 Harlem controversy over a Jewish storeowner who had a conflict with a black rival neighbor. A protester in that case eventually shot his way through the store and burned the place down, killing eight people.

The other Sharpton priority is supplanting Jesse Jackson. Sharpton threw his sharpest elbow of the campaign after it was reported that Jesse Jackson's son, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., planned to endorse Howard Dean. Sharpton promptly, and ridiculously, denounced Dean for his "anti-black agenda." Why does Sharpton hate Jackson? The same reason Ford hates Chrysler. He's the competition.

Sharpton and Jackson are dueling over who will be the nation's best-paid race hustler, a lucrative occupation. For example: According to the Wall Street Journal, the owners of the Word Network, which is devoted to running black church services, pay Sharpton and Jackson roughly $10,000 per protest to demonstrate at the headquarters of cable operators that don't yet carry Word. A Sharpton-led protest in March 2002 prompted a St. Louis operator to begin carrying the cable network.

The cynicism of the Sharpton campaign is an open book. Typically, presidential candidates stay in cheap accommodations. Sharpton's campaign, in contrast, is an excuse to live high. According to the New York Post, Sharpton has stayed at the nation's swankest hotels, including a visit at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles, which soaked up five percent of the cash Sharpton had raised in the third-quarter fundraising period. When appearing at black churches, Sharpton collects a "love offering" ?- that goes directly into his own pocket.

Sharpton counts on other candidates and the moderators at the debates being too timid to challenge him on his checkered past and questionable practices, so he can pass himself as respectable. In an exception, Tom Brokaw recently asked Sharpton if he would apologize for his role in the Brawley case. Sharpton had a defamation judgment against him in the case, but he stood by his smear and responded with a fusillade of obfuscation that eventually wore Brokaw down.

Sharpton will no doubt win his own private presidential race. He will emerge from this campaign as the nation's foremost "civil-rights leader." Owned by Sharpton, however, that title is not worth having.

?- Rich Lowry
National Review Online 12/03/03

I add my name to the list of those who think Sharpton's brand of "civil rights" is baseless terrorism. As we've learned from our consciences (and hopefully the scriptures), any "Reverend" who gets rich therefrom is a crook.

Our polarized culture has taught us that it's okay to demonize people who don't agree with us 100%. Yet we all know that sit two people down in a room, they'll probably be incredibly reasonable and not play the sound-bites game. I have no idea why believing 100% of the words of Martin Luther or John Calvin is what makes someone a Christian. It seems to me anyone who uses Christ as the focal metaphor for their worship is a Christian. I'd just assume anyone who calls themselves a Christian is a Christian.

But I shouldn't have written that, because I don't want to go down the "who's a Christian" road. It doesn't look like we have any "who's a Christian" trolls here yet, but whereever someone says "Mormon," they'll be there. Suffice it now to say that 99% of us believe that Sharpton's words should invoke the same national response as Imus'.

I know next to nothing aside what I have seen in the movies, which no doubt is a distorted view, about Mormonism. Therefore can someone enlighten me. Are Mormons followers of Jesus Christ and if so wouldn't that qualify it to be a branch of the many branches of Christianity?

The book of Mormonism states that Jesus lived for a time in Central America. I wonder whether Romney believes this.

oh..and the New Testament or Old Testaments are full of literal truths? Who cares if that bible did say that about Jesus in Central America? Was Mitt R. the author who wrote it?

In fact, who should care if he's a Mormon? Surely not I!

Rag, you are right. I just thought that, in view of all we know, this was a strange belief.