Posted on 10/14/2009 6:22:38 PM PDT by kristinn
Al Sharpton issued a statement this evening claiming a "moral victory for all Americans" on the dropping of Rush Limbaugh as part of a group of investors seeking to buy the NFL St. Louis Rams franchise.
The AP reported Sharpton's statement and a follow up comment he made in an interview:
"It is a moral victory for all Americans — especially the players that have been unfairly castigated by Rush Limbaugh," Sharpton said in a statement. "This decision will also uphold the unifying standards of major sports."
Sharpton added in a telephone interview that major sports leagues shouldn't welcome owners who are "divisive and incendiary."
Every major pro sports franchise has dealings with its community, he said. "It's unfair for taxpayers to be underwriting people who denigrate them," he said.
A few months ago, Sharpton was fined $285,000 by the FEC for gross violations of federal law during his failed 2004 presidential bid:
During his 2004 presidential campaign, Sharpton traveled extensively and routinely mixed travel for his campaign committee and National Action Network. An FEC audit and investigation revealed that National Action Network and other entities paid $387,192 in campaign expenses. The FEC determined that National Action Network made payments totaling $107,615 for committee expenses and $73,500 in payments to consultants and vendors for campaign-related work, violating the prohibition against corporate contributions. Sharpton’s sole proprietorships, Rev-Als Production and Sharpton Media LLC, also paid $214,577 in campaign travel expenses and an additional $65,000 came from unknown sources. None of these in-kind contributions were disclosed in the committee’s disclosure reports.
Sharpton, his presidential campaign committee, Sharpton 2004, and Andrew Rivera, in his official capacity as treasurer, agreed to pay a civil penalty of $208,000 for failing to report accurately all receipts and expenditures, receiving excessive and prohibited in-kind contributions and accepting impermissible corporate contributions. They also agreed to refund $10,500 in unresolved excessive contributions, disgorge $9,000 in excessive contributions and refund $181,115 to National Action Network or disgorge the funds to the U.S. Treasury. National Action Network, Inc. and Sharpton, as president, agreed to a civil penalty of $77,000 for making prohibited contributions to Sharpton 2004.
Respondents also agreed that they misstated receipts and disbursements and cash on hand, understated by $231,753; receipts of $15,000 in loans from unknown sources; and $10,500 in excessive contributions from individuals.
In 2004, U.S. taxpayers subsidized Sharpton's campaign with federal matching funds. Eventually he was ordered to repay $200,000 of those funds. The Village Voice examined Sharpton's scam.
Fred Siegel, writing in the Wall Street Journal in 2000, gave a refresher course on Sharpton and his racist hate-mongering:
Mr. Sharpton is best-known for the Tawana Brawley hoax, in which he insisted that a 15-year-old black girl had been abducted and raped by a band of white men practicing Irish Republican Army rituals. In fact she had made up the story to protect herself from her violent stepfather.
But at Freddy's, Mr. Sharpton was even more malevolent. He turned a landlord-tenant dispute between the Jewish owner of Freddy's and a black subtenant into a theater of hatred. Picketers from Mr. Sharpton's National Action Network, sometimes joined by "the Rev." himself, marched daily outside the store, screaming about "bloodsucking Jews" and "Jew bastards" and threatening to burn the building down.
After weeks of increasingly violent rhetoric, one of the protesters, Roland Smith, took Mr. Sharpton's words about ousting the "white interloper" to heart. He ran into the store shouting, "It's on!" He shot and wounded three whites and a Pakistani, whom he apparently mistook for a Jew. Then he set the fire, which killed five Hispanics, one Guyanese and one African-American--a security guard whom protesters had taunted as a "cracker lover." Smith then fatally shot himself.
Eight people died, and so evidently did the conscience of liberal Democrats. It was Al Sharpton who had the honor of asking the first question at last week's debate, held within hailing distance of the Freddy's massacre.
In his statements to the AP tonight, Sharpton describes himself, not Limbaugh. Yet Sharpton is treated as a paragon of virtue while Limbaugh is viciously lied about.
No justice, indeed.
Cool! I love Bo’s commentary. Fairly to the point!
Same pit viper, different face.
Al Sharpton better get a GOOD LAWYER because EL Rushbo is to about to suprise him with a nice little gift called a LAWSUIT.
The home of the Blues is basically controlled by the City. Ego, they got Rush's partner, owner of the Blues, by the short hairs.
The culprits, again IMHO-
Mayor Francis Slay
Controller Darlene Green (whose son Tony Thompson of Kwame Building Group gets a part of the action in any city or state contract)
Lacy Clay, Jr. - Congressional Representative for the City of St. Louis and right up there with Al Sharpton and Jessee Jackson
Russ Carnahan - Congressional Representative for the City of St. Louis
Claire McCaskill - Governor for the State of Missouri and supporter of building the Dome in the City of St. Louis, vs St. Louis County back in the late 90’s when her predecessor was then Governor Carnahan.
A number of large Obama contributors in the St. Louis area.
I don't know what the consequences Rush's partner was given as an ultimatum if he didn't drop Rush. And drop him soon!
St. Louis is #1 in Crime in the Nation.
St. Louis is an incredible sports town.
The demographics of those that come to the sporting events come from OUTSIDE THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS.
I believe there will be a huge backlash for the City and they deserve it! I can remember when the City was not corrupt. When we had Mayor Tucker, Alderman Red Villa, Mayor Cervantes, Mayor Shoemel. Now there are a bunch of crooks occupying City Hall.
Rush could have never overcome the power and corruption of this huge radical, racist gang of politicians and money grabbers.
JMHO.
I have a hard time tolerating Hannity. He pimps his TV show to much on his radio show and he doesn’t have constructive conversations with people who disagree with him.
Would not come as a suprise if Hannity does a little grilling of Sharpton.
Well, at least with her we’d have gotten ‘The Devil We Know.’
I truly don’t think she would’ve been as destructive in this short a period of time as 0bama.
Not that I’d vote for either of them for local Dog Catcher, LOL!
“On Wednesday’s Mark Levin Show: Mark discusses Rush Limbaugh being denied a chance to be one of the owners of the St. Louis Rams. This wasn’t a big deal until Al Sharpton came around and started lambasting him for being a conservative. This is more than just ownership of a football team, this is about liberty and being able to participate in this society as a legal citizen, and Rush is being denied that. So, Mark brings up some of Al Sharpton’s past shady dealings and asks where was the outrage against him back then? He also calls Al Sharpton the new Commissioner of the NFL, since apparently he now runs what the NFL decides. Also, Michele Bachmann calls in and discusses a one-day fundraising blitz to counter Nancy Pelosi. You can contribute to her campaign here.”
http://www.marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=1546397&spid=32345
DEFINITELY!
Money? Heck, I thought Rush had plenty of cash to offer...
And control. The need to control, and their constituents' desire to be controlled.
Okay, I just read the Levin thread today, he apparently was putting George Soros with Checketts ? Seriously, this is a set up ALL THE WAY!!!!! (if this is true) just damn. Of course Rush knows this. I will pray for him.
Well there is college football which I support more now then ever before. Done with the NFL.
lynching is a moral victory when the one lynched is a white conservative... particularly one with a loud voice.
Exactly what church is Al the “reverend” of. OR maybe I should say “rear end”...
Same goes for the race-pimp Jackson.
If Rush were a black man in the pre civil war south, he’d have been swinging from the nearest tree. There, I said it.
Gosh - I hope so. It’s damned well time that Rush fought back. He has been excoriated and smeared for far too long. Before Obama & Emmanuel terrorize all of our courts, I hope Rush will get his day and make these sons of bitches pay dearly for trying to destroy a great American hero.
That fat ass charlatan better get back under his rock.....we ain’t seen the end of this. Rush wants apologies and retractions and what about those cowards in the group he was going to invest in the team with? All it will take is just ONE person to say this is bulls^%*t and we’re not goin’ to be intimidated again. Sarah Palin would do it.....she’s got more nads than 98% on the males in this country anyhoo. You go Rush.....take this to the hilt and have ‘em screaming for mercy!
All of that happened today, I’ll bet. The dirt was on the air and I’ll bet charges of slander/demands for retractions went out today too
Rush indicated he wasn’t giving up, but he had to know the pub was not reflecting well on the NFL.
Goodall is a pussy
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