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Al Sharpton, Posh Populist
National Review ^ | July 19, 2013 | National Review

Posted on 07/19/2013 6:25:12 AM PDT by National Review

Living large among the 1 percenters.

By Jonah Goldberg

If Tom Wolfe were writing The Bonfire of the Vanities today, he’d need a scene in the Grand Havana Room in New York City. It’s an Olympian den fit for what Wolfe called the “Masters of the Universe” — the super-rich gods of finance who today go by the name “the 1 percent.” Taking up the penthouse floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, the Grand Havana Room is a private, invitation-only cigar club and four-star restaurant. Through its windows, you can see the toiling salary men 39 floors below as they scurry about like ants, some furtively smoking in doorways, ever fearful of Nanny Bloomberg’s All-Seeing Eye.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 1percent; alsharpton; alsharptonbio; georgezimmerman; jonahgoldberg
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1 posted on 07/19/2013 6:25:12 AM PDT by National Review
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The nyc “just us” brother ain’t doin’ too bad considering his TV gig is supposedly the only job he ever had. Before that he was living on the kindness of friends and supporters. And doing it pretty well too. Do ya think the irs looked into uncle al?


2 posted on 07/19/2013 6:27:48 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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“Money for nothing and his checks are free”


3 posted on 07/19/2013 6:32:49 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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Interesting building number (666). Somehow, it fits Sharpton and all those limousine liberals.
(Actually, my father worked in that building during the early 1970’s).


4 posted on 07/19/2013 6:35:34 AM PDT by GeorgeTex (Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
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Good article.


5 posted on 07/19/2013 6:37:50 AM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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The Hero Of Freddie's Fashion Mart has a net worth of $5 million.I didn’t know that doing the Lord's work was so lucrative.Maybe he got his religious training from Reverend Ike.
6 posted on 07/19/2013 6:39:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Civil Servants Are No Longer Servants...Or Civil.)
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Sharpton is little different than KKK leader David Duke except Sharpton has a gig as a TV anchor.


7 posted on 07/19/2013 6:49:11 AM PDT by The Great RJ (construction)
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Better is: Al Sharpton, piece of garbage.


8 posted on 07/19/2013 6:56:27 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (1 Cor 15: 50-54 & 1 Thess 4: 13-17. That about covers it.)
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Ahh. I was wondered what moved into the former Top of the Sixes.
9 posted on 07/19/2013 6:58:32 AM PDT by Oratam
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He dumped his wife for the hottie in red.This image needs to go with every Sharpton thread.

This image needs to go with every Sharpton thread. The creep belongs in jail.

10 posted on 07/19/2013 7:01:13 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Slave Party, advancing indentured constituency for 150 years.)
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"It's good to be the King."

11 posted on 07/19/2013 7:01:53 AM PDT by dfwgator
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Well, Sharpton is a pathology enabled by the very system he loathes.

This pathology goes way back. Sharpton was at one time tried for fraud and tax evasion, because all the money from his supposed "church" went for his Cadillacs and fancy suits (and this was when he was a lot heavier!). They called in witnesses, the little old black ladies from his church who were the church's main donors, and they all said they knew their money was going directly to "the Reverend" and that he deserved it.

The black church reflects a weird part of black culture, which is that anybody who is a "leader" of any sort, particularly religious (which is why Obama tries to cast himself in that role), is exempt from criticism or even examination and is entitled to do things forbidden to his followers. I think it's probably a tribal leftover, but it's something that needs to be overcome.

Instead, unfortunately, it looks like all of America is picking it up.

12 posted on 07/19/2013 7:12:32 AM PDT by livius
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Sharpton looks cadaverous....

13 posted on 07/19/2013 7:14:25 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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It was hilarious last night on O’Reilly to hear fellow putz Jerry Rivers explaining about “Rev. Al’s church in Harlem” and absolutely refusing to answer BORs question about whether Sharpton “was a fair man” in regard to the GZ trial.

Da Bruddahs stick together.


14 posted on 07/19/2013 7:15:19 AM PDT by bigbob
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He still looks like a race pimp.


15 posted on 07/19/2013 7:16:53 AM PDT by GVnana
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*cough* I would dump my wife for that hottie in red.
16 posted on 07/19/2013 7:34:07 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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bttt

Al Sharpton, homophobe?:


17 posted on 07/20/2013 2:42:31 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: GeorgeTex

18 posted on 07/20/2013 2:43:17 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Carry_Okie

19 posted on 07/20/2013 2:44:28 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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