This guy is nothing more than a glorified blackmail artist. Anyone who takes him seriously or believes a word that comes out of his mouth is a bigger fool than Fat Albert is himself. Every time he or his running buddy the poet comes on tv, I roll my eyes and turn the channel. Someone should refer them to the classic the Boy who Cried Wolf. The moral of that story is there is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.

Ford Jones on December 11, 2007 at 2:26 pm

Many years ago, I sent a detailed package to Al Sharpton and his National Action Network. I asked him to help me honor the African American stablehand who called New York City the Big Apple.
I received no reply, and the African American has never been honored.
Thanks a bunch, Al.

barrypopik on December 11, 2007 at 2:28 pm

Unfortenly only to the mainstream and shakedown artists, a black person has to have all the quailties of a ghetto-fied hip hop ignorant pimp-like psychonut in order to be a legitimate black.
Since I’m not one of them, nor is that stagehand, we are ether ignored or considered “white”.
This piece of s— repersents only himself and uses race as a shield. ANYONE WHO TAKES HIM SERIOUSLY SHOULD BE SLAPPED HARD.

Squirrel3D on December 11, 2007 at 3:06 pm

I’m certainly not an admirer of Al Sharpton, but I hope he can help keep the Olympics out of Chicago. I live in the Chicago area, and county taxes are likely to skyrocket next year, and real estate taxes are skyrocketing for many people, even with assessment “caps” in place, which are only guaranteed for three years. I think that if we have the Olympics here, the taxpapers will bear much of the brunt for them — we don’t need that.

c f on December 11, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Well, of COURSE he’s doing this. Chicago is traditionally Jesse Jackson’s stronghold. It’s more about Al vs. Jesse than the Man vs. the Black man. He just opened up an office here. This is just an early round in the turf was between the two “Civil Rights Leaders” for ranking title of Head of the Victimization posse.

dm60462 on December 12, 2007 at 12:32 pm

ESSENTIAL UPDATE
Report: Feds Raid Al Sharpton Offices, Subpoena Financial Records, Employees
Thursday, December 13, 2007
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NEW YORK ó Federal authorities have subpoenaed financial records and employees in an apparent probe of the Rev. Al Sharpton’s 2004 presidential bid, nonprofit civil rights group, and for-profit businesses, a newspaper reported Thursday.
As many as 10 Sharpton associates were subpoenaed Wednesday to testify before a federal grand jury in Brooklyn Dec. 26, his lawyer told the Daily News.
They were told to provide investigators with financial records from the campaign and roughly six Sharpton-related businesses, as well as personal financial documents of Sharpton and his wife, the newspaper said.
The FBI and Internal Revenue Service are seeking the records, which go back to 2001, according to the Daily News.
A Sharpton spokeswoman did not immediately return phone calls or e-mail messages early Thursday.
An FBI agent who answered the phone at the agency’s New York headquarters declined to comment, and an agency spokesman did not immediately return a telephone message. An IRS spokesman did not immediately return phone calls.
“It was like a sting or a raid,” said Carl Redding, Sharpton’s chief of staff for eight years during the 1990s. “They converged on everybody.”
Redding said FBI agents awoke him at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday with a subpoena to testify and to bring records to the grand jury, but would not tell him the reason for the investigation.
Several staffers from the National Action Network, a Sharpton-led civil rights organization, also got subpoenas to testify, said Sharpton lawyer Michael Hardy. Sharpton himself did not receive a subpoena, the Daily News said.
Sharpton spokesman Charlie King said the minister and the National Action Network were cooperating with the probe. Hardy was sanguine about the developments.
“I can’t think of a time when the Rev. Sharpton wasn’t under investigation,” he said.
Sharpton agreed in 2005 to repay the government $100,000, plus interest, for taxpayer money he received during his failed effort to win the Democratic presidential nomination the year before, though he denied wrongdoing.
The Federal Election Commission had determined that he spent more of his own money on the campaign than the qualifications for federal matching funds allow.
In 1993, Sharpton pleaded guilty to not filing a state income tax return in 1986.

JasonBourne81 on December 13, 2007 at 2:06 pm

Come on, the idiot associates himself with a 33rd degree freeemason…the Rev Jesse Jackson. Here’s a breaking news, Albert Pike, now dead, was also a freemason and guess who? The head honcho of the KKK. Oooo, so black brothers and sisters, Jesse is a racist and supports the Klan

KOAJaps on December 14, 2007 at 9:35 pm

KOAJaps: I’ve read that both Sharpton and Jackson are 33rd degree masons, although I’m not sure how to verify that for sure. However, Albert Pike, once Sovereign Grand Commander of the Scottish Rite’s Southern Jurisdiction, author of Morals and Dogma, and one of the most revered and respected Freemasons of all time, is the only member of the Confederacy to have a statue in Washington D.C.

If Jackson and Sharpton are indeed Masons, I find it extremely hard to believe that they don’t know who Albert Pike is. And even if they’re NOT Masons, in more than four decades of being the spokespersons on behalf of all black people regarding what is racist and what is not, I find it hard to believe that they’ve never once taken notice of the fact that there’s a statue in D.C. of a Confederate general! Isn’t that normally the type of thing Jackson and Sharpton would raise hell about? And yet they’ve never uttered a peep about it.

Why?

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