Good morning, race hustlers
Update: Sharpton is in a huff. I know: When is he not?
Brian Maloney reports that radio talkers are ready to let loose on the racial demagogue. Have at it!
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Al Sharpton has gotten away with so much for so long, I’m skeptical anything will come of the feds’ investigation of his financial shenanigans. So manage your expectations. The NY Daily News has details of the FBI’s 6:30am wake-up call for Sharpton’s aides and cronies. I don’t want to know what Al Sharpton looks like at 6:30am in the morning. Blech:
Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, demanding the flamboyant clergyman’s financial records since 2001.
Sharpton’s former chief of staff said he was roused at his Harlem home about 6:30 a.m. by two FBI agents who handed him a subpoena to bring the records to a federal grand jury the day after Christmas.
Several employees of Sharpton’s National Action Network also got wakeup subpoenas to testify before the Brooklyn panel, the rabble-rousing reverend’s lawyer said.
The FBI and IRS are investigating whether Sharpton improperly misstated the amount of money he raised during his 2004 White House run to illegally obtain federal matching funds, a source familiar with the probe said.
Sharpton, although forced to return $100,000 in matching taxpayer funds after an investigation two years ago, denied any wrongdoing at the time.
The feds are also looking into allegations of tax fraud, including whether Sharpton commingled funds from his nonprofit National Action Network with several of his for-profit ventures, the source said.
Lawyer Michael Hardy shrugged off the probe, which sought a vast array of business, political and personal records, as a federal fishing expedition.
“I can’t think of a time when the Rev. Sharpton wasn’t under investigation,” he said.
Right.
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Betsy Newmark: “How ironic it would be if it was his ambition to be the head demagogue on racial justice by running for president that served to finally bring him down.”
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Merry Christmas Al…. lmao
Thats a wake up visual that deletes the need for coffee!
AJ - isn’t this worth a faux news report or two? It is, of course, only fitting, but just think of the trump cards he has to play - racial persecution, religious(?) persecution, etc., etc. The list goes on and on. If you want to imagine a scenario that even Stephen King couldn’t do justice to, try to imagine him as POTUS!
cpo
It’ hard to type one up when your laughing so hard…have at it.
As long as he keeps his documents in the freezer he should be fine…seems to work for others.
Al getting his just desserts. That’s the best news I have heard in a long while. Happy Thursday to me!
happy, happy, joy, joy.
Follow the money…
All,
I was watching Imus in the Morning, and Charles McCord came on and was reporting the news he stated that 10 of NAN’S members had been subpoened, the FBI was involved and they were going back to 2001 financial records. Imus replies “I just hate it when that happens” I was laughing out loud, they could have played Christmas music all morning, cut away to that exchange btw Imus and Charles, and went back to playing Christmas music. They made my whole day still SMILING
Michelle, Did you catch Dierdra Imus, ripping into Gov Corsine of New Jersey, over the mandatory vacines for children as young as 6 months? incredible, they have a number of vacines they want these children to take flu, pnuemonia ect..making them MANDATORY.
and a Happy New Year.. aj..
great, gotta love it now when is it the ole’ jesse ‘race hustler’ jackson’s turn?
“This is just a continuation of the Bush Administrations war against the Black Community started with the prosecution of the Jena 6, the Baltimore 9 and now there chief advocate.” Quote from the Al in 3, 2, 1.
/sarc
The ultimate Christmas gift would be both race hustlers under indictment…..please Santa…please.
OK, but why bother banging on the door at 6:30 am only to announce that the perps have until 12/26 to doctor (or “lose”) all their relevant docs?
ugh, too cynical?
nooooo … no such thing
Follow the money.
I would have paid 1000 dollars to see the look on his face, but michelle is right way to early to see that and I would have laughed to loud and woke up hillary.
Ok - with this in the news - ya gotta miss Travis… woulda made for some interesting reading today..
Like everybody else on the left, he probably honestly believes he has immunity from laws, rules, decency, and anything else that we have to abide by.
This will get messy.
Hang on boys and girls. I was a cop for 20 years. If the authorities have probable cause to believe a crime’s been committed, and to believe the evidence is with Mr. Sharpton and his crews, and they were really serious about going to Mr. Sharpton’s et al’s homes/offices at 6:30 a.m., they’d have served search warrants and taken the records right on the spot.
Other than to generate a news story and photo op, it is stupid and completely unneccesary to hand-serve subpoenas at 6:30 a.m. Besides, a subpoena with a Christmas due date gives all the players plenty of time to alter, cook or destroy the pertinent books. Astonishing and gutless by the U.S. Attorney’s Office. No wonder no one’s particularly concerned in the Sharpton camp.
So, I think this goes right with what MM wrote. Don’t expect anything big to come of this.
U B racist, sucka
Jrl, HA!! Maybe his incarnate and aj’s new friend - burn boy will chime in…
Maybe he’ll have the sense to show up at the courthouse in a $3,000 suit that’s not “borrowed”.
30 pcs,you mean burnout…. lol
Fashizzle. That’s the first day of Kwanzaa! Ironic.
Did Redding work the counter or the drive-thru window?
Is that pic of Al Sharpton or Joe E. Brown?
Can’t be Joe E. Brown - he was always smiling, or trying to.
……now if they can only get Jessie James Jackson……….
That about says it all for me.
Texastiger #20
“Fashizzle. That’s the first day of Kwanzaa! Ironic.” Ahhhhhhhhh yes….that faux-festival founded by Mr. Karenga, convicted felon for raping & torturing women. Wonderful. A short Kwanzaa history here: http://www.textbookleague.org/114kwanz.htm
Like so many others here I seriously doubt anything will come out of this. I doubt anything will come out of Hsu either for that matter. They will be protected by the very demons that they serve and go about with little inconvenience in their lives. Once they invoke the racist card it will become a cause celebre for a pity party and a fund raiser.
Almost two full weeks to doctor everything up? Naaaaaaaah, the “reverend” would never deny Caesar that which is his.
It will turn to complete racism but it sure is a fabulous Schadenfruend.
25#:
Although Kwanzaa was established as an alternative to Christmas, one expression can be heard on both holidays: “Ho, ho, ho!”
Probably hair curlers, based on the hairdo. Tre’ scary.
TexasTiger #28 LOL
be careful there buddy, or you’ll get yer blogging license & yer Santa license pulled! That’s ‘Ha Ha Ha’ Mr.!
#30:
Just keepin’ it real.
Ok all bets are how long will it take him to claim racism???
I tend to think they gave him to the 26th because they want him to falsify or lose documents. An “obstruction of a federal investigation” charge would be much easier to prosecute in that case than the original charges they have now.
Well, it is obviously another ploy by George W. Bush to intimidate Sharpton and put him in his place. As we all know and as we were all told by the messiah himself, Kanye West, George Bush hates black people and so he sent the Feds out to discredit and intimidate the most Reverend Al Sharpton and plant evidence against him in order to shut him up. I have it on the highest authority that Jesse “baby’s Momma” Jackson is next.
Thank you for the clarification. I was wondering about that as I read the story.
I’m sure he has already, but we just haven’t heard about it nationally yet. But the MSM will start raising the cry with him in 3, 2, 1 ….
Deep: if it was good enough for Wesley Snipes then it’s good enough for the Rev. LOL
Aj, that’s much better than mine.
All,
How do I know there is a God!
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/12/al-sharpton-federal-raid-ignites-pre.html
Agreed:
A joke, a rattling of the cage.
I think you’re onto something. I wonder if Bernie Ward was able to warn Rev. Al to delete all the kiddie porn on his PC.
You mean they had the audacity to waken Bill O’Reilly at 6:30am!?
Al will have plenty of time to check with Jesse’s crew at Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to see how they cooked the books.
Maybe he used the extra dough to pay off his Tawana Brawley judgment?
Oh Hsut!
Hey
The New York Post had a good headline with this one too.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12132007/news/regionalnews/rev__under_at_tax_393585.htm
Jim Baker anyone?????
What is that saying about, a cold day in hell? A snowballs chance?
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2007/12/tomb-raider.html
The only reason they are doing this to Al Sharpton, is because he’s black!
NOT!!! Has he, or any other black “leader” made this claim yet? Just wait…it’ll come.
Karma…it’s a wonderful thing!
Hey, AJ,
Why aren’t you defending Al like you did Keyes?
Well obviously it is because he is black. If there were no rich,Liberal powerful black people in this country, there would be no reason to even have these departments on order to conduct these investigations. He should have never even considered running for President, let alone actually doing it or asking for matching funds. Just who does he think he is? Maybe if he would have come out and said something about the beat down that white woman took at the hands of those 13 year old innocent little thugs…I mean choir children things would be different. However, George Bush has to send a message to the black community that you better not rock the boat and you better stay on the plantation if you know what’s good for you. The Right Reverend Al Sharpton was getting a little too big for his britches again and needed to get taken down a peg, so they trumped up some charges for this man of the cloth…this man of the people…this fighter for Civil Rights and Euality for All Races, no matter if they be white, black pink, purple or green. Maybe this will teach him and next time he will vote Repulican and not question his masters.
It’s a conspiracy. I C..o..n…..spiracy
Why would I defend this scum, and I wasnt defending Keyes either, just commenting on your moronic racist accusations and lame comments. have a nice day.
Besides, Keyes isn’t a race baiter. Or maybe you didn’t know that.
I just read an article from the AP that in his news conference he’s blowing a gasket over the timing. boo hoo. S.C.U.M.
No one here has answered the question as to how he got an invite to the debate. I say he bullied his way into it
playing the race card. OK, maybe not true
but what the hell is the reason? AJ,you and your little cliche offered no answer
except call me names. In person would
you throw pies at me like they do to
Ann C. because you are too clueless to
debate or discuss an issue?
All the questions have been answered and he met all the criteria and timelines to join the debate, they explained it for the mentally incapacitated earlier. and I wouldnt waste the pie, I like pie. Go back and read you’re first lame comments and the response you got from commenters here. now run along and leave me alone.
Umm…pie throwing is a Liberal tactic. You should know that. And it is Clique, not Cliche.
for the record, not for burnout, I love Ann Coulter.
Wait ! I’ll make it even easier for
you piethrower types. I won’t even
mention Kucinich or Gravell !
AJ — after reading burnout’s other posts, I think she’s Al-pie-da.
Fireman, In France it’s ‘Clique’ I
guess, but in my American Heritage Dictionary it is ‘cliche.
There are people on here that are real tough namecallers as long as they are
online. They sure do act like liberals.
Ok, ok, ok, ok, I see the problem here. There is a fundamental misunderstanding. Burner come, uh, come on over here a minute … good, good, now listen, no.body.on.this.forum.was.responsible.for.deciding.who.was.part.of.the.debates. Yep, we had nothing to do with it. We didn’t tell them to invite or not invite Keyes, Kucinich or Gravel or your mom to be part of the debate. Tell ya what though. If you want to know why those people were invited or not invited, get on the telephone, it’s that thing in your house that looks like a … oh heck, just ask one of your friends and they’ll point it out to you … and call The Des Moines Register:
Telephone switchboard
Local: (515) 284-8000
Iowa: (800) 532-1455
Outside Iowa: (800) 247-5346
and ask them how all that stuff was decided. Ok, Skippy? Because here’s the fact …. none of us, including you, knows the answer to your preseverating inquiry and if we have to talk to you about it anymore we are just going to make up stuff to annoy you and hope you go away at this point. K? Good, now, go on back over there and see if you can play nice with everyone.
We have Imus and McCord reporting on Sharpton Investigation, new youtube video. Imus: I hate it when this happens. Grining
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhCK6BqAog
Burner, you’re right. Sometimes when people get a little emotional or excited about an ongoing issue, even the best of us can slip a little.
How about the facts of the case?
Firstly, to the pie throwing comments that you made, it was in fact leftists that were guilty of that. Ann Coulter herself, after suffering an Improvised Pie Device, coined the phrase I used.
As to your own comments, after reading your previous posts, you made little sense. You appeared fixated on Keyes’ participation in a debate, and your comments bordered on racism.
I am now in doubt as to your own level of maturity, as you appear to be taunting us commenters to perhaps reveal our location so you might be able to physically face us. Is that your best response?
Again, I do apologize for the name calling. But if I were you, sir or madam, I would be careful about upsetting this crowd. I am new here, but I can tell some of these folks would not be someone you would actually want to meet in anger.
…..so he has to turn in his financial records the day after Christmas.
That gives him time to send them to the Rose law firm and have Hillary go try to find them.
New gift on the market called the FBI IRS stocking stuffer.
order yours today!
SHoward,
I know all about the pie throwing. You missed the point I was making. That that’s all they got. They started the namecalling,look back and check. I am not a racist, I am more than welcome in more than one black social club. Where
you get this stuff about physically
confronting these commenters, I don’t know,I’m just responding. However no
one wants to meet me in anger either.
Burner, your post #60 is where I got the idea about a confrontation. Usually, whenever anyone makes that sort of “you wouldn’t be so tough if you weren’t online” or “behind that big guy” or take your pick, they are implying the person should come out and face you and say those things. I certainly don’t wish to incite a riot, but after some of your more colorful name calling, like post #64, and your statement about no one wanting to meet you in anger, either, I still question your ability to comport yourself like an adult.
Remember all, it is not what anyone else calls you, but how you respond to it that defines you. Burner isn’t responding too well.
Sorry for steering the thread awry, everyone. I’m new at this.
SH,
As to post 60, you’re kinda reaching,
don’t ya think? As to 64, don’t you think post 61 was very condecending?
And YOU initiated the stuff about
meeting in anger!
And I WILL respond to all this twisting of my words and attacks if I feel like it!
Totally Farcical.
Don’t worry about it. It is easy for a rational, thinking human being to get caught up in attempting to gently and logically debunking the liberal’s irrational, knee-jerk world views or even being slightly sarcastic when trying to do so. So, yeah, it happens, heck, I’ve seen me do it.
I feel as though I have crashed a private party here. Only regulars welcome. But I don’t think Michelle
intended it to be this way,so I won’t
go away just yet because I know every
forum has its jerks but there are some
good people here.
Couldn’t have happened to a better jerk.
You just keep thinking that, Burner…
None of us big kids like you because you’re new. That’s it. Of cource…
It couldn’t possibly be because you’re a douche. Couldn’t possibly…
what’s this, the namecalling forum ?
What a bunch of pussies !
Yeah, cause you’re just full of class, ain’t ya?
Idiot.
Try holding an intelligent conversation, and perhaps you’ll recieve some measure of respect. Talk like a retarded chimp coming down from a bad meth-trip, and you’ll most likely not get as much respect as you might think you deserve.
Just, you know, a friendly tip.
We New Yorkers have always been impressed with the good Reverends ability to deflect, distract & divide…
Tomorrows news shows should be a kick, all the excuses and then some are popping out at a rate that would make a normal heart blow. AL not so Sharpton has parts flying off.
Hey AWG You wanna sit on my lap, I got a friendly tip for you too.
Thanks for the words of encouragement, diver. I could use them after driving home on the southern California freeways.
Now, Burner, rememebr what I said in 68, that it is how you respond to something unpleasant that defines you? Yes, 61 was a tad condescending, but aren’t you reaching into a bit too much vulgarity with 64? Again, not a very gentlemanly or adult response. If you want some respect, here or anywhere else, take swj’s advice and show some class.
Also, your post 60 was the initiation. Since it probably won’t happen in any event, enough of the he said she said.
As for the topic of this thread, it was said in another thread that Alan Keyes may have been let into the debate because he is black; who here thinks Sharpton will get different treatment from the press based on his ethnicity?
AJ never needed to defend Sharpton, as the MSM will do a fine job of that.
I regret any condescension in my remarks as that became the focus instead of my real point. If I could have posted a “beating a dead horse” gif here it would have been easier. Although being that my actual point was substantive and suggested a proactive action if the issue was really bothersome to certain people, it would have been ignored as facts would have destroyed the point being attempted. Oh, and by the by, I heard at least three times on radio news stories today why Mr. Keyes was allowed into the debate, none of which were race related, so it really isn’t any big secret. It’s even explained on his Wikipedia page. Furthermore, Mr. Keyes success as a diplomat and his failed election bids really have no relevance as to the subpoena of financial documents relating to
a race-baiting hate mongerthis situation.No thanks Burner, but I’m sure if you look hard enough, you’ll be able to find a nic, rough trick to take care of this lap-sitting fetish you seem to have.
Diver, I saw the humor in your post, and no, the point wasn’t lost on me. I think if Burner were able to laugh at himself, like the rest of the human race, he might have as well. It was really a lot more funny than it was condescending.
Good response, swj.
*bows*
I thank you sir!
We aim to please here at swj’s House of Snide Remarks…
My apologies to the fireman. I used the word cliche wrongly. I guess I got flustered fending off all those attacks.
No fear SHoward, #80 wasn’t directed at you by any means and my apologies if I gave that impression. I am sure that almost everyone got the point and I hope that most people found it humorous.
So, I went away for awhile, had to deal with the kidlets, daddy things you know, wifey out of town and all…and I come back to find all Hell breaking loose in Liberalland, both in the world itself and on here.
Burner..let me give you a little friendly advice. I have not really read enough of your posts to really kno what side of the aisle you are on yet, as your posts really haven’t had any substance to them politically as of yet. Now hear me out, this is not a slam…yet. I assume you have read my posts enough to know when the smack down is being laid down, and you should know this ain’t it. THis is friendly, constructive criticism on a Right-Wing netiqueette.
I am not sure, like I said, where your politics lie, but I am going to take a stab at it and say you are a leftward leaning type. I am going to take that from the way you have responded to the way some of my brethren here have smacked at you. Let me give you this advice, kinda clarify, if I may, the way someone else tried to tell you earlier.
There is a way to flame people on a site and there is a way not to flame people. One way will keep you around and may actually garner you a following, albeit a questionable following, but a following none the less. The other way will find yourself hated, smacked around like a cheap, illiterate crack addict looking for a hit from her pimp n the middle of the Tenderloin on a Friday while you get yourself banned from the site forever, while trying to figure out just what the heck it is you did wrong, all the while knowing what it was, and living in a world of self-denial and cursing the Right Wingers for the rest of your life, and never accepting responsibility for the wrongs that you yourself have done.
Hopefully I have not lost you yet.
The goal first of all is to NEVER…and I mean NEVER use the foul language that you have been using on this thread. It just isn’t done here or basically on any reputable Right-Wing or COnservative site. That kind of junk may work on every single Liberal site out there, but not on the COnservative ones. When you use it, prepare to be ostrisized. Also, do not make excuses. Do not blame others for your mistales. DO not say you only did it because so and so made you do it. that is a typical Liberal cop out. Around here, we Conservatives accept responsibility for our words, deeds and actions.
If you want to fit in, you need to play by the rules. Else ways, you just end up being labled a Liberal troll such as some of the others have. When you attack and insult and use profanity, eventually you will get booted off. Michelle is a patient and tolerant host, but like all beautiful, patient and tolerant hosts, she has her limits, and so do the regulars. If you want to stay and play in the sand box, you have to play nice with the others, otherwise you will be spanked on your little pooper and sent home.
Capisce?
Now run along and play nice with the other kids. I have some things I gotta take care of.
Oh, and if you must insult, add some class and finesse. Make it somewhat humorous and if pssible, do it without them even knowing it has been done.
All
This is from a larger article.
By JOHN MAZOR and CHUCK BENNET
The woman allegedly behind the breakup of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 23-year marriage was slapped with a subpoena…. The two were romantically linked as late as 2004 and traveled together frequently throughout his presidential run, staying at luxury hotels and flying first class.
It’s always the quite ones, this is must be somekind of “witch hunt” GRIN
This link shows a photo of one of the women who got subpoened, toasting? with Rev Al Sharpton.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12132007/news/regionalnews/rev__under_at_tax_393585.htm