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Tawana Brawley Pays For Lies, When Will Sharpton
Investor's Business Daily ^ | August 5, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

Posted on 08/05/2013 3:58:38 PM PDT by raptor22

Race Relations: A quarter-century after a black teenager falsely accused an innocent white man of rape, she has begun paying reparations for her slander. The man who rocketed to fame on her falsehoods is still at it.

If ever there was a case of racial injustice it was the case of Tawana Brawley and Steven Pagones, except the roles of victim and perpetrator were reversed in the parallel universe of the racial grievance industry. The master of that universe is Al Sharpton.

Pagones is not as well-known as George Zimmerman, nor is he likely to be now, given the media's subservience to that grievance industry. But 25 years ago the former New York prosecutor was accused of rape by Brawley, then just 15 years old.

Sharpton, the man who demanded justice for Tawana as she told her blatantly false story, is the man who now demands justice for Trayvon Martin, the teenager shot by neighborhood-watch volunteer Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of second-degree murder in what a jury ruled was legitimate self-defense.

As the New York Post reports, Tawana Brawley has finally started payment on a defamation judgment awarded Pagones. He sued Brawley and her handlers, including Sharpton, alleging the story that she was abducted and raped by a gang of white men, including Pagones, was a hoax. A grand jury, which heard from 180 witnesses over seven months, concluded in 1988 that the entire story was indeed apocryphal.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; crownheights; georgezimmerman; ibd; msnbc; sharpton; stevenpagones; tawanabrawley; trayvonmartin
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1 posted on 08/05/2013 3:58:38 PM PDT by raptor22
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To: raptor22

I’m glad to hear that she has started paying. She will be doing so for the rest of her life...a fitting end to her farago of lies. Every day she will remember WHY she is repaying. What cosmic justice!


2 posted on 08/05/2013 4:03:58 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: raptor22
I'm at a loss to understand how Al Sharpton came up smelling like a rose and was awarded with a stellar career while everyone else in this case was blackballed and disappeared from public view.
3 posted on 08/05/2013 4:06:57 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: CaptainK

“I’m at a loss to understand how Al Sharpton came up smelling like a rose and was awarded with a stellar career while everyone else in this case was blackballed and disappeared from public view.”

The squeaking wheel gets the grease.


4 posted on 08/05/2013 4:09:03 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Learn three chords and you, too, can be a Rock Star!)
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To: CaptainK

Al Sharpton came up smelling like a rose and was awarded with a stellar career
= = = = = = = = = =
With BS like that going in we have to be careful a half black Socialist with a somewhat cloudy past in a corrupt city, surrounded by 60’s ‘revolutionaries’, with a foreign sounding name will be elected pResident.

I mean, I know it will NEVER happen in our lifetime BUT we have to be alert.....


5 posted on 08/05/2013 4:12:59 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Inside every 'older' man there is a 'younger' man wondering "WTF happened")
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To: raptor22

I believe the Rev settled his portion of the lawsuit long ago.


6 posted on 08/05/2013 4:29:35 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: raptor22

As I understand the situation, Rev.Al has no money and is ‘officially’ a legal pauper, thus he is unable to pay his legal obligations. All of his expenses are paid by his ‘friends’ and organization in a perfectly legal scheme to shield him from any responsibility. This is a designed and practiced defense to keep Rev.Al active and unencumbered, as odious as ever and a total hypocrite!


7 posted on 08/05/2013 4:29:54 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government governs best when it governs least!)
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To: xrmusn

The difference being all of Obama’s associates have also done well Sharpton’s two lawyer cohorts from this escapade are outcasts of sorts. And Tawana is a hot mess.


8 posted on 08/05/2013 4:31:24 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


9 posted on 08/05/2013 4:34:55 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: Cyman

Sharpton settled his portion long ago?
Interesting, so now it’s presumably “all on” Tawana Brawley.
Someday she may have to admit she lied (but at Sharpton’s urging) just so she can keep some wages. I have a hunch she started the lie, but Sharpton embellished it and pushed it on the public and the media. She will have to take responsibility because Sharpton never will (even though it may come down to him saying SHE misled HIM.


10 posted on 08/05/2013 4:47:49 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: raptor22

I’ll take “Second Tuesday of next week” for $1000.00 Alex.


11 posted on 08/05/2013 5:14:18 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: SES1066

You got it.

The $65,000 in defamation damages ( for defaming a prosecutor) charged to Sharpton was paid two years later by certain of his supporters.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/15/nyregion/sharpton-s-debt-in-brawley-defamation-is-paid-by-supporters.html?ref=tawanabrawley

Am amazed the race mongerer got away with just a $65,000 fine of which he didn’t pay a dime personally.


12 posted on 08/05/2013 5:15:36 PM PDT by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: raptor22

At the end of the day, Sharpton is still a “charlatan, con-artist, extortionist in a sharkskin coat” (You can believe he ate the whole shark in order to get it).

Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader all go to prove that you can be a lying SOB and con-artist and become great “civil rights” and “consumer” leaders even if what started their careers were total lies and hoaxes.

Gee, what a great place America is. All you need is a good “lie” and a fawning, asskissing media and you’re set for life.

I would prefer that all three do “life”. That would be a great step towards a better quality of life for all.


13 posted on 08/05/2013 5:16:05 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: supremedoctrine
Sharpton settled his portion long ago?

Yes, a group of supporters, Johnnie Cochran, et.al., settled the judgement against Sharpton.

14 posted on 08/05/2013 5:16:11 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: cloudmountain

I wanna know, how did she get to be a nurse? They said it was coming out of her nurse’s salary.


15 posted on 08/05/2013 5:21:02 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
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IBD EDITORIAL PING


16 posted on 08/05/2013 5:24:18 PM PDT by raptor22 (Visit my blog at True Conservatives on Twitter: http://t.co/IKpP3cwq)
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To: raptor22

Al Sharpton is an Uncle Tom for his Democratic massas. Harry, Nancy, and Hussein all enjoy his Minstrel Show.


17 posted on 08/05/2013 5:30:07 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: raptor22

Just a pimp wearing a white man’s suit.


18 posted on 08/05/2013 5:31:08 PM PDT by spawn44 (MOO)
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To: raptor22
...When Will Sharpton


Revelation 21:27 (KJV)

And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth,
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie:
but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.

19 posted on 08/05/2013 7:42:53 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

It helps if you know where skeletons are buried.


20 posted on 08/05/2013 7:44:09 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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