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SHARPTON COMPARES RUDY TO BOZO THE CLOWN
TheTopRead | 10/1/01 | TheTopRead

Posted on 10/01/2001 8:33:28 AM PDT by 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.


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To: 1 FELLOW FREEPER
I looked up 'disgusting piece of filth' in my word find. Sharpton was the first link...

/sarcasm

61 posted on 10/01/2001 10:09:08 AM PDT by fone
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FF, saw Sharpton on Hardball the other week and he's still saying there's no evidence Tawanna made the whole thing up. What a fart, er uh, farce!
62 posted on 10/01/2001 10:14:45 AM PDT by TheTopRead
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To: TheTopRead
Look who's calling who what. The guys a joke, or should I say........CLOWN
63 posted on 10/01/2001 10:19:12 AM PDT by paul51
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To: TheTopRead
An unfair comparison; Bozo doesn't cheat on his wife.
64 posted on 10/01/2001 10:33:18 AM PDT by Sloth
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To: VRWC_minion
I actually think he has a point. NY would have come together no matter who was mayor. Its not to say that Rudy isn't performing well, its to say the credit should go to the people of New York and those who report to Rudy.

He does have a point, but instead of saying something simple and respectful to all concerned, he chose to belittle and insult. Unlike the mayor, Sharpton is incapable of rising to the occasion. He knows it, too.

65 posted on 10/01/2001 10:50:27 AM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: TheTopRead
Democrat al sharpton is the face of the democratic party. Along with condit and bill clinton.

But al sharpton is uniquely vibrant representative of the fruition of the democratic party's unspoken strategy to keep the masses dumbed down, victemized, and dependent on the nanny government (or in other words, money from the pockets of fellow hard working Americans who actually PAY taxes). No one looks, acts or sounds more stupid than ol al sharpton. Pretty cruel and shallow to compare Rudy's work to that of any clowns, but then, when you aren't the sharpest knife in the drawer, such conclusions seem deep.

66 posted on 10/01/2001 10:56:39 AM PDT by Republic
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To: Labyrinthos
Not necessarily, and even if New Yorkers did come together, they may not have done so in a positive fashion, coming together in fear and out of weakness, rather than strength and resolve

I don't know where you come from, but your analogy of New Yorkers in time of a crisis of this magnitude is way off base. We are not weak, we have shown our strength in these times, where we have lost over 5,000 people to these murderous cowards. While there were some people trying to get away with stupidness, the majority of reports of those crimes were not reported in NYC. People beating on people of middle eastern descent, etc.
And without leadership, every large, diverse group that comes together will eventually fragment and fall apart.

You obviously don't get your fellow man enough credit. Why not just lump us all in that same category of the people who did this.
That's where Rudy G shines the most. He is a leader, not a follower. He's willing to make and carry out executive decisions that are best for the group as a whole, regardless of the impact upon any particular member of the group. He has lead by example, walking among the dead and wounded, while remaining cool, calm, and collected despite the danger.

If you can give our mayor credit, why not the people of New York, who recognized that not only did we lose people, human beings, normal people, who have normal lives, but we also lost our state treasures. The NYPD and FDNY, those men and women who risked their lives everyday, not just September 11th, but everyday to save other lives. So yes, the Mayor should be commended, commended for doing his job. For making sure that the people of NY stay calm and not outrage us as he has done in the past with his dictorial ways.
He has proven himself worthy of our trust over and over again.

Has he? As a minority and an advocate living and breathing in the State of New York, I find that he has not proven himself worthy of my trust, he has just done his job. Here's what I commend him for. I commend him for putting those tired old dictatorship traits on the back burner in light of these events. I commend him for not making this a "I AM MAYOR, HEAR ME ROAR" type. I commend him for being sensitive to the needs of New Yorkers and not spouting that other garbage that he usually does. I commend him for trying his hardest at his press conferences to be sensitive to the families of the dead and/or missing. I do not just commend him for doing the job that he is doing. That is his job. I commend those characteristics that he has shown since September 11th, that he has not shown while he has been in office. Before i end this, one last thing. Our fearless mayor wants to extend terms limits to allow himself to stay mayor after Dec. 31. Question, why can't he continue on in an advisory position. Does he have to be in the position of power to continue to do the job that he is doing???? Answer: BECAUSE HE IS A DICTATOR AND WANTS CONTROL!!!!
67 posted on 10/01/2001 11:03:47 AM PDT by chinatlc
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To: Republic
Well said.
68 posted on 10/01/2001 11:04:03 AM PDT by TheTopRead
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Actually one of my best friends is a black conservative, and he was the one who taught me to call Je$$e and $harpton, black racists. What he says about them could not be posted! They never do anything unless they can take in more $'s and blame America!

He warned me that the modern day Black Raci$t Panther$ would be imploding post 9/11 with the flags and patriotism with their anti flag and American statements. Statements which are basically the Black Panther$ mantras of hate, recycled and uttered by today's hidden Black Panther$'s posing as firemen, teachers, and in other government type jobs!

As usual he was right on target. His other favorite saying is "Follow the money, to find the real criminals and agendas!" In our post 9/11 call, he said that following the money of the Arab terrorists in American would be illuminating and astounding re who has been bought out, like Ramsey Clark and his band of rent a mobbers!

69 posted on 10/01/2001 11:31:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: VRWC_minion
Its not to say that Ruddy isn't performing well, its to say the credit should go to the people of New York and those who report to Ruddy.

His name is RUDY, not "Ruddy".

Mayor Giuliani has been performing incredibly well -- above and beyond any other NYC Mayor in recent history -- since the moment he took office in City Hall, not just during this recent tragedy.

Apparently you, Sharpton and many others have NOT seen Mayor Giuliani's recent appearances on television (he's been invited to speak on many shows, from Larry King Live to Saturday Night Live). Rudy always mentions that the credit for bringing the city together in coping with the September 11 tragedy belongs to the people of the City of New York. And he especially gives credit to the FDNY, NYPD, Port Authority Police Department, the NY Fire Commissioner, the NY Police Commissioner, EMTs and other rescue workers.

70 posted on 10/01/2001 11:32:59 AM PDT by nutmeg
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ping
71 posted on 10/01/2001 11:51:10 AM PDT by nutmeg
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72 posted on 10/01/2001 11:52:52 AM PDT by nutmeg
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To: Grampa Dave
I despise America-haters and evil-doers...and we're not the only freedom lovers under seige... RANCHI, India (Reuters) - A policeman was burned alive and five of his colleagues wounded by leftist extremists who attacked a police post in India's eastern state of Jharkand, police said on Sunday.
73 posted on 10/01/2001 11:58:31 AM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: VRWC_minion
Actually I agree with you. New Yorkers would have come together under these circumstances--the difference is that Rudy knew how to organize and channel that unity into the very positive reponse that we see now. ;>)
74 posted on 10/01/2001 12:00:38 PM PDT by In mourning for six years
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Sharpton is the black Jerry Falwell. Both suffer terminal head up butt syndrome and each have loud defenders, the nobodies who would join the moonies or treasure their Jim and Tammy Faye dolls they bought at PTL.
75 posted on 10/01/2001 12:15:40 PM PDT by ofMagog
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To: Republicus2001
Mayor Rudy agrees with you that we are not the only ones under attack!

The horrible and very rich, vile arabs who ordered and masterminded the mass murder of 6,000 innocents, are involved in a world wide war of terrorism against democracy and any other religion besides their perverted to their needs, Islamic religion!

We are involved in a world wide struggle for the survival of democracy, the rule of law, and those who refuse to be a part of their perverted non religion! That perverted non-religion is their excuse to commit mass murder like on 9/11 and then dare to blame us!

76 posted on 10/01/2001 12:21:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave
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To: chinatlc
For someone who has been a member of the Free Republic for less than 24 hours, you sure have a lot to say. Most of us with any brains will lurk around here for several weeks or even months before posting and then, when we do post, we will try to choose our words very carefully so as not to insult or personally attack our fellow Freepers. And while I certainly respect your right to express your opinion, perhaps you should choose another forum to expree it.
77 posted on 10/01/2001 12:28:18 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: chinatlc
For someone who has been a member of the Free Republic for less than 24 hours, you sure have a lot to say. Most of us with any brains will lurk around here for several weeks or even months before posting and then, when we do post, we will try to choose our words very carefully so as not to insult or personally attack our fellow Freepers. And while I certainly respect your right to express your opinion, perhaps you should choose another forum to express it.
78 posted on 10/01/2001 12:28:31 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: TheTopRead
Meanwhile, in the UK, this is our view of Rudy:

'We're stronger', Giuliani tells UN

New York's Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has told the UN General Assembly that the hijack attacks on the US had in fact made its people "stronger and more determined."

His emotional address heralded a five-day debate on terrorism which should hear from 145 speakers.

He told delegates: "This vicious attack places in jeopardy the whole purpose of the United Nations.

"Terrorists deny the dignity of human life. Terrorism pray particularly on cultures and communities that practice openness, tolerance.

"Their targeting of innocent civilians mocks the efforts of those who seek to live together in peace as neighbours and defies the very notion of being a neighbour.

"Look at that destruction, that massive, senseless, cruel loss of human life and then I ask you to look in your hearts, and recognise that there is no room for neutrality on the issue of terrorism. You're either with civilization or with terrorists."

The debate is expected to focus primarily on a new international treaty to co-ordinate the campaign against terrorism.

The meetings come three days after the 15-nation Security Council adopted a sweeping resolution requiring all nations to crack down on terrorists and groups that help them.

Kofi Annan, UN Secretary-General said: "The task now is to build on that wave of human solidarity - to ensure that the momentum is not lost, to develop a broad, comprehensive and above all sustained strategy to combat terrorism and eradicate it from our world.

" This important meeting has a critical role to play in this. It must not be merely symbolic.

"It must signal the beginning of immediate, practical and far-reaching changes in the way this organisation and its member States act against terrorism."

ITN News, the broadcast, compared Giuliani to Churchill.

Sharpton has appeared nowhere in the British media.

Regards, Ivan

79 posted on 10/01/2001 12:28:39 PM PDT by MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
O'Reilly should eat this up for dinner tonight. Make sure he gets this article incase it slipped his staff's eyes.
80 posted on 10/01/2001 12:36:00 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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