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How Al Sharpton is using Obama, Ferguson and MSNBC to boost his influence
Fox News Politics ^ | August 25, 2014 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 08/25/2014 9:00:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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Sharpton is again working both sides of the street, and it’s paying off for him.

As he’s inserted himself into the tense situation in Ferguson, he’s had an assist from none other than the president of the United States.

And he continues to bask in the spotlight at MSNBC, where he uses his nightly cable show to advance the causes he fights for as a civil rights activist.

But these two roles are increasingly coming into conflict. It happened last year with the killing of Trayvon Martin, and it’s happening again with the death of Michael Brown.

Sharpton is scheduled to deliver the eulogy at Brown’s funeral today. On Saturday, he led a rally on Staten Island to protest the death of a black man who police had placed in a chokehold. Tonight, on his show “Politics Nation,” he’ll undoubtedly be covering the very same events...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ferguson; missouri; obama; sharpton; trayvon; trayvons
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1 posted on 08/25/2014 9:00:38 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
And he continues to bask in the spotlight at MSNBC, where he uses his nightly cable show to advance the causes he fights for as a civil rights activist.

Good. That way no one sees it................

2 posted on 08/25/2014 9:03:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger
ho dares we DISS St Sharptons lil buddy on the day of The Funeral...


3 posted on 08/25/2014 9:09:56 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

On the plus side...it will piss off Jessie


4 posted on 08/25/2014 9:13:22 AM PDT by BubbaJunebug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When Sharpton came into the church the members were singing about Jesus and heaven..

He was POed..

Next to him the pastor was singing and had his arms raised in worship to God.

Al looked bored and annoyed and had his hands grasped and down..

The pastor must have noticed out of the corner of his eye and changed his mind and lowered his own arms...

this is a God loving and LORD Jesus Christ worshipping church..Sharpton and Jackson are out of place here..

Heres the words to an earlier song they were singing

Every Praise by Hezekiah Walker

Every praise is to our God.
Every word of worship with one accord
Every praise every praise is to our God.
Sing hallelujah to our God
Glory hallelujah is due our God
Every praise every praise is to our God.

God my Savior
God my Healer
God my Deliverer
Yes He is, yes He is

Yes He is, yes He is (repeat)

Every praise is to our God.
Every word of worship with one accord

Every praise every praise (repeat)
Is to our God

The members are up in the balcony and at the back of the church..

They were having a great time before the service started worshipping the Jesus they know personally..

in the middle and the front the outsiders were sitting like lumps wondering what they came into ...


5 posted on 08/25/2014 9:16:10 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Looks like Brown’s funeral has already morphed into a full scale political rally.

>>Many Americans of all backgrounds creeped out by Michael Brown funeral livestream<<

http://twitchy.com/2014/08/25/many-americans-of-all-backgrounds-creeped-out-by-michael-brown-funeral-livestream/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter


6 posted on 08/25/2014 9:16:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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7 posted on 08/25/2014 9:25:25 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I thought 0bama was using Sharpton to boost his credibility!?
8 posted on 08/25/2014 9:33:26 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Michael brown’s uncle is equating the dead nephew with the return of Jesus..and the death of Jesus..

except he is confusing Cain and Abel..

Now Darren Wilson is Judas..

Like Abel, the blood of MB is crying from the ground...for vengeance..

“God has heard the crying from the blood...coming from the ground....”


9 posted on 08/25/2014 9:38:45 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All this inflamatory reporting of confrontations between black youths and authority is ruthlessly designed to keeping the black segment of Obama’s political support riled up so that any thought of instituting a richly deserved impeachment proceeding goes nowhere.

This regime and its supporters don’t give a damm if some poor black women or anyone else used all their resources to set up a business in those communities only to have it destroyed through blacks rioting resulting from what democrats created through their propaganda. Such blacks are viewed as eggs that must be broken to make their omlet.

That includes the whites,”hispanics” (note quotes) and asians. They are the other victims who have been maimed, assulted, and murdered by blacks citing those manufactured episodes as their excuse for retribution. The POTUS (president of the united states) signaled the clever direction to take through his use of “The Bully Pulpit”.

The POTUS has yet to acknowledge and decry those other results, of killings and assults. Let alone be urged to do so by “news” members of the democrat propaganda army known as the media. They have yet to suffer as their victims the same or any conseqences. They like him are being held unaccountable . It’s time both are. .

While the Florida thing was going on nobody noticed what came out of HHS and its resettlement/relocation policies as a means to handle the racial divide. If Obama had his druthers and could pull it off we’d be all living in urban centers taking a street car to work, store, and play living happily together in a utopian setting with our thermostats set at 67 degrees.

They and by they I’m mean that political party which is in name only called “democrat”. There is nothing “democratic” about them. While the riots were going on in Ferguson you had a democrat governor calling for a “vigorous prosecution” and his state police commander marching with radicals flashing gang signs. With the cops told, let them riot. As the local state democrat representative repeats the propaganda dished out by the regime.

Not recognizing why this “racial divide” is being perpetuated has nothing to do with such lofty counter arguments being offered by the political opposition on “equality” or “justice”. Those discussions are viewed with glee and laughed at by the democrats because it diverts focus from the real reason why the those in power are using this political device known as division. It’s to keep them unquestioningly in power.


11 posted on 08/25/2014 9:40:24 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Crump is up now..

the ambulance chaser for the martin family and the Browns...


12 posted on 08/25/2014 9:42:11 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: El Zoro

Watch for the Dems’ Warren-Sharpton ticket for 2016.


13 posted on 08/25/2014 9:42:51 AM PDT by livius
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To: Tennessee Nana

Mike Brown funeral soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LQftYK2n8o


14 posted on 08/25/2014 9:43:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek ("Moderates" are lying manipulative bottom feeding scum.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Crump referred to the Missouri Compromise in his introduction to Sharpton..


15 posted on 08/25/2014 9:43:59 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Al Sharpton,Eric Holder, and Barack Obama.. The three stooges..


16 posted on 08/25/2014 9:47:06 AM PDT by PLD
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To: PLD; 2ndDivisionVet

The REAL three stooges who run the country are:

ValJar, the wookie and rice, in that order.


17 posted on 08/25/2014 9:59:10 AM PDT by melancholy
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To: PLD

LOL

Sharpton is channeling Dr Ben Carson, Allen West,Herman Cain, et al


18 posted on 08/25/2014 10:01:09 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: cripplecreek

I’m guessing it’s not Elton John’s “Funeral for a Friend” .


19 posted on 08/25/2014 10:03:28 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: melancholy
The REAL three stooges who run the country are: ValJar, the wookie and rice, in that order.

Oh, you mean The Triumvirate.

20 posted on 08/25/2014 10:05:17 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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