Gotta Luv Reverend Al

... the man's got STYLE! Many of you will not agree with me on this, but I think Al Sharpton is one of THE most delightfully colorful characters on the world’s stage today. Pun fully intended, and Al would be disappointed otherwise. Al’s latest headline grabber has him being recruited by the flapdoddles over at PETA to encourage the black community to boycott KFC. Yep, use Al Sharpton to convince the bruthas and sistas to stop eating fried chicken!

Before you’ans jump to whatever conclusions you’ans are poised to jump to, hear me out on this one. First you have to get beyond Al and Tarawa Brawley in the bag full of fesces. That whole mess was simply too nasty. Al was in his headline grabbing infancy back then. I look at that incident in the wider scope of Rev Al’s whole career like we do the ubiquitous “ex-boyfriend nude sex video” that apparently EVERY Hollywood actress HAS to have in her past these days.

Knowing what he knows now, Al would have never pulled that trashy scam. Well he might, but he would cover his tracks much better.

There is no controversial icon strutting his stuff for the 24/7 news cycle crowd these days better at it than Al Sharpton. He has accumulated all the promotional razzmatazz of Adam Clayton Powell, Reverend Ike, Cab Calloway, Jesse Hisownself, James Brown, Randy Moss, Tammie Faye Baker AND Don King into the consummate African American Self-Promotion Machine. About the only stunt he hasn’t pulled is dating Ben Affleck or unioning up with Ellen Degeneres and who knows those may be next.

Like Don King, Al Sharpton knows exactly what his image is both with “black folks” and with “white folks”.

1 posted on 02/02/2005 7:34:41 PM PST by AlwaysLurking

yeah, but we are still talkin' CHARLATAN here...

2 posted on 02/02/2005 7:36:11 PM PST by bitt (Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence)

Uh..yeah..style epitomized.

3 posted on 02/02/2005 7:36:24 PM PST by TBarnett34 ("Unnngh!" -John F'n Kerry, 11/2/04)

I am TRULY embarrassed to have enjoyed that so much.

4 posted on 02/02/2005 7:41:00 PM PST by SmithL (ex-Boomer Rider)

A two faced liar is still a two faced liar...
Al spanked the donkey sure, but he shovels its defecation most of the time.. Al is lookin into nasty places because thats where he's at... The boy loves nasty places..

5 posted on 02/02/2005 7:44:53 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been ok'ed by me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)

LOL! Yes....that is a little shocking!

6 posted on 02/02/2005 7:51:10 PM PST by AlwaysLurking

a liar, fraud and responsible for murder.

and now a vegetarian.

from what theological seminary did he graduate and in what religious domination.

how does he sustain himself financially, who donates to him and pays his salary.

7 posted on 02/02/2005 7:58:48 PM PST by Coleus (What was Ted Kennedy and his nephew doing on Good Friday in 1991? Getting Drunk and Raping Women)

Well...apparently PETA is paying him now!!

Read the column!!!

8 posted on 02/02/2005 8:03:48 PM PST by AlwaysLurking

It's hilarious.

I often wonder how a man who lived in NJ could run for mayor and other offices in NY state. The best kept secret around. I would see him often in a few diners in NJ, I think he used to live in Englewood.

9 posted on 02/02/2005 8:11:27 PM PST by Coleus (What was Ted Kennedy and his nephew doing on Good Friday in 1991? Getting Drunk and Raping Women)

When you are Al....you don't need no stinkin' rules!

10 posted on 02/02/2005 8:13:23 PM PST by AlwaysLurking

"Jesse Hisownself"

LOL!

11 posted on 02/02/2005 8:20:31 PM PST by Rocky

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