SHARPTON COMPARES RUDY TO BOZO THE CLOWN

TheTopRead | 10/1/01 | TheTopRead

[TheTopRead]

NYPOST September 30, 2001 -- Mark Green yesterday accused Fernando Ferrer of narrowly viewing the World Trade Center horror through "the lens of The Bronx," while the Rev. Al Sharpton slammed Mayor Giuliani for hogging too much credit for uniting the city, saying "Bozo" could have done as much. Two days after Green and Republican Michael Bloomberg accepted, and Ferrer rejected, Giuliani's pitch for a three-month term-extension, Sharpton - a major Ferrer booster - sharply criticized Giuliani for trying to stretch his term.

"We elected you mayor, not Messiah," Sharpton said at his Harlem headquarters during a rally attended by Ferrer.

"You didn't bring us together, our pain brought us together and our decency brought us together," Sharpton said.

He added, "We would have come together if Bozo was the mayor."

A spokesman for Ferrer, who has praised Giuliani's handling of the crisis, said later, "Although [Ferrer] would have chosen different words, he agrees that our city's unity" comes from New Yorkers' shared grief.

Giuliani wouldn't respond to Sharpton's jabs, which came hours before Green, who spent most of the mayoral race avoiding conflict, ripped into Ferrer, his Oct. 11 runoff foe.

Outside Brooklyn Borough Hall, Green said Ferrer has a "short-sighted" view of rebuilding more than 20 million square feet of lost office space.

"While I tried to show leadership by proposing big plans given this big crisis, I thought that the borough president of The Bronx reflected a business-as-usual and politics-as-usual attitude," said Green.

Green bashed Ferrer for "first comparing the unprecedented criminal attack on the trade center to - his word - the ‘rubble' he inherited in The Bronx 14 years ago and by being largely silent on how he would respond to needs of reconstruction and security.

"The planes that attacked the World Trade Center did not attack The Bronx, with all due respect," Green added. "The Bronx of 14 years ago has very little to do with the crisis in downtown Manhattan, New York and the world now."

Green noted he has a plan for a reconstruction authority - and chided Ferrer for saying the city's financial center should be decentralized.

"I think we have to take not a narrow borough approach, seeing it through the lens of The Bronx," said Green.

Ferrer sought to keep the spotlight squarely on Giuliani, calling the mayor's plan "unprincipled" and charging Green ditched his promise not to go negative.

"What caused Mark to abandon his principles and break his word?" Ferrer said. "I think he thinks he has to say these things and do these things to win an election, and I think that's a shame."

Meanwhile, Giuliani insisted his term-extension bid is for the good of the city and not about politics. "When you have watched 10 or 12 of the people you really care about die, you've gone to as many funerals that I've gone to . . . you really don't care about political spin," he said.

[MAWG]

...Sharpton is famous for something, now what is it..... Al is the poster boy for Dippity Doo!

[TheTopRead]

Hey Gramps, haven't you heard?! You can't be a racist if you're black, since they're not in a position of power to control whitey. Geez, get with the program! (/sarcasm)

[HELLRAISER II]

He's famous for being a egotistical, race baiting, hate mongering bigot and those are the good things about him.

[Steve_Seattle]

Sharpton is a sack of pig s*it. Giuliani has not made any of the claims that Sharpton attributes to him. Only an egomaniac like Jesse Jackson would do that.

[TheTopRead]

Mojo, you asked for it, you got it:

TheTopRead Loses His Cookies At The Mere Thought Of Fat Al

[Xenalyte]

"SHARPTON COMPARES RUDY TO BOZO THE CLOWN"

Hey Kettle, Pot is NOT impressed.

[patlaw_guy]

I think you are correct. I was never a big fan of Rudy, and he squandered the good will he built up with me with the arrogant, self-serving power grab of trying to squeeze an illegal extra term for himself out of this disaster. Talk about opportunism. I thought we had a government of laws, rather than men, but I may be wrong. Unlike my wife, I do not go so far as to call him a fascist (and in our brave new world, I sure wish she hadn't done that in line at the grocery store).

[bibarnes]

I have mixed thoughts about the "extension". I believe that Rudy has done a great job in NYC. Having lived there for the first years of my life and then being raised on LI and then leaving only to visit. I have noticed a dramatic change since he took office. My wife (who is from Texas) wanted to see an authentic Times Square Hooker. Only found one and that was at Penn Station and she was being rousted by the Transit Cops. As to his handling of the attacks, I think he has shown what he is made of. I don't think changing rules and laws for a particular incident is a good precedent to set. The incoming Mayor should be a confident enough person to ask him to stay on for a predetermined length of time to continue the coordination of the cleanup effort. That doesn't set a dangerous precedent. New Yorkers have a penchant for putting idiots in office, Hilary and Bobbie come to mind. How would everyone feel if this was Bill Clinton as mayor asking for an extension because of some emergency. Look past today to see what could happen tomorrow. As far as JJ, AS, & LF go, it is best to just ignore the linguistically challenged and intelligence challenged unfortunates in our society. Talking about them only makes them worse. What fate for any of them would be worse than to be out of the press and have no one listening???

[Xenalyte]

Clowns are scary.

[sheik yerbouty]

Al Sharpton is actually "Fatback, the Hut"(Nadler is his separated at hatching brother, "Jabba")

[Steve_Seattle]

"Big Al sees hustlers like himself as ineffectual and irrelevant . . . "

Hit the nail on the head, I think. He just can't stand it that this tragedy has mobilized real people to real acts of heroism and will require real people to rebuild the city. Race-baiting a**holes like Al detest accomplishment and do their best to denigrate the accomplishments of others. In that sense, he is like the Taliban: utterly incapable of create productivity, he spreads his negativism like the plague.

[Steve_Seattle]

"Only found one [Times Square hooker]."

That probably partially explains Sharpton's animosity towards Giuliani: Giuliani has made it so much harder for Al to find hookers.

[fone]

LOL! I don't know if the hookers still hang out by the bus terminal near the Lincoln Tunnel or not but back in 1986 I was getting discharged from the USCG, leaving Manhattan I wanted a picture of one of the "girls."

LOL! I was a passenger in the truck (with Ohio plates no less) and at the stop light there they were, I snapped a picture of one of them and unfortunately the light didn't change fast enough!

She came stomping over to the vehicle screaming "hey honey! I'm not the f-ing statue of Liberty! you bess hand over somethin fo that pictore!" LOL! thankfully the light changed...

[DJ88]

"Clowns are scary."

You got that right. I say we throw Sharpton in jail for scaring the kids in his clown outfit. :-)

[IowaHawk]

I agree with Reverend Al. If he or Ferrer had been mayor, New York would have still come together - for a big WTC looting party.

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Should have done ten years for Tawana Brawley....nothing but a gangster-shake down artist!!

[Darksheare]

let me see....Sharpton's famous for something - now what is it????
Eating a whole 'KFC' into bankruptcy. Then speaking about how KFC is keeping the colored man down and dividing the masses, as usual for him. Oh, and don't forget Vieques!!

[Paradox]

Al Sharpton was going to go to Afganistan as a mediator, but at the last moment, the Taliban rejected him, saying that their religious beliefs forbid them from dealing with Pork.

[TheTopRead]

Okay Pat, you got a point regarding the term extension, but don't tell me that Bozo Clinton (I assume that's who Fat Al was talking about) could heal the city with a few crocodile tears the way Rudy has handled himself (and I'm not talking about the SinkMeister's antics in the oval office either!).

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Sharpton and Nadler both convicted of FELONY BUFFET....(4)counts.