Sharpton: I Want Clinton, Kennedy Scandal Protection

newsmax ^ | 1/21/2003 | Carl Limbacher

[TLBSHOW]

Sharpton: I Want Clinton, Kennedy Scandal Protection

Citing the media's reluctance to confront Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy about scandal skeletons in their closet, Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton demanded Monday that the press give him the same pass on ethical questions about his past.

"The next time anybody wants to know about Tawana Brawley, I'm going to ask them, 'Do you ask Teddy Kennedy about Chappaquiddick? Do you ask Hillary Clinton about her husband?'" the firebrand reverend complained to Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, while he was preparing for his Martin Luther King Day commemoration.

During an appearance nine days ago on "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert grilled the Harlem-based presidential candidate relentlessly on the 1986 Tawana Brawley rape imbroglio. But the NBC Washington bureau chief, who has interviewed Sen. Clinton on several occasions, has yet to question her about a still-outstanding rape allegation lodged against her husband in 1999.

And neither has any other reporter.

In fact, the account given by Clinton rape-accuser Juanita Broaddrick to reporter Lisa Myers should have been a major NBC exclusive. But Russert and other network decision-makers sat on the news until after the Wall Street Journal scooped their story.

Sen. Kennedy granted a lengthy interview to ABC's "This Week" last Sunday. But host George Stephanopoulos declined to raise the Chappaquiddick scandal, where the Massachusetts Democrat left campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in a car that he had driven off a bridge - while swimming to safety himself.

Though Sharpton didn't mention the racial disparity specifically, his comments are sure to fuel speculation about whether race has anything to do with the decision by white reporters to give white Democrats like Mrs. Clinton a pass, while repeatedly pressing the leading black candidate about a sixteen-year-old controversy.

[PeterPrinciple]

HOLD THEM ALL TO THE FIRE EQUALLY!!!!!

[Support Free Republic]

Interesting.

[Support Free Republic]

Keep Free Republic Rockin' 'Round The Clock!
	Donate Here By Secure Server Or mail checks to FreeRepublic , LLC PO BOX 9771 FRESNO, CA 93794 or you can use PayPal at Jimrob@psnw.com
STOP BY AND BUMP THE FUNDRAISER THREAD

[BlueLancer]

Keep it up, RevAl ... this looks like it ought to be a 4th of July/nuclear strike type of campaign among the Democrats if ol' RevAl is as good as his word.

[Wphile]

Way to go AL! Keep up the heat. This could really be fun to watch.

[dfwgator]

Go Al Go!!!

[EternalVigilance]

This is exactly why we definitely want Al 'the Pimp' Sharpton in the RAT primaries.

Who could ask for more?

[bmwcyle]

The Rev. will have to be taken out to stop his independent run when he looses the primary. The file is already be compiled at the DNC.

[Alberta's Child]

Al Sharpton is a very shrewd character.

He is really going to be a problem for the Democrats, and he knows it. I wonder what it is that he's bargaining for here.

[StriperSniper]

How long before the VRWC is blamed for Sharpton?
He is going to wreck havoc with the dims and the media!;-)

[OKSooner]

He's got a point, you know...

[ErnBatavia]

Somebody someplace referred to the Rev as "Don King in a Dear Abby fright wig"...

[cyncooper]

But I'd rather have him demand that HRC be asked about her own actions rather than her "husband's".

For example, the cattle futures and the billing records.

[cynicom]

Seems fair to me. All socialists get a pass. Race should not matter.

[latrans]

Hey Al, I especially liked the part where you told the little girl to say that the cops urinated and defecated
on her and carved names on her stomach. That was real
classy,Al.

[nutmeg]

bttt

[TLBSHOW]

Do you ask Hillary Clinton about her husband?'" asks Al.

hmmmmmmmm and what about her husband Al? What do you know? Care to explain?

[dfwgator]

He's got a point, you know...

Yep, and it's on the top of his head.

[stlrocket]

This is going to be a GREAT campaign!