The Elder Statement: SNITCHGATE -- Sharpton Lies About Why He Snitched For The FBI By Larry Elder

By Larry Elder, Apr. 12, 2014

If the bigoted, anti-Semitic, tax cheating race-hustling poverty pimp, the Rev. Al Sharpton, had any credibility left, it’s long gone.

  


Sharpton, the beneficiary of a lifetime of passes by our race-conscious mainscream media, ran into an outlet not afraid of him -- The Smoking Gun. They obtained material that exposed Sharpton as having worked as an FBI “informant.” Sharpton, of course, denies being a “snitch.” No, he “volunteered” to “cooperate” with the FBI. He acted with the most honorable of motives.

  


Why would the government-hating “civil rights” leader cooperate with the feds? Sharpton told “Morning Joe” that he did so to root out “mob influence” in the record business. To this, MSNBC’s suppliant Joe Scarborough actually called Sharpton “a great example.”

  


Here’s the problem. A “60 Minutes” outtake from their 2011 Sharpton profile shows correspondent Leslie Stahl aggressively questioning him about being an FBI “informant.” Sharpton admits “cooperating,” but says he did so to expose “crack houses” and corruption in boxing. He said the FBI asked him “what I know about [boxing promoter] Don King.”

  


That was then, in 2011. Sharpton said nothing about the mob from the record business -- the reason he now offered up on “Morning Joe.” The feds, in 1983, caught Sharpton on tape attempting to arrange a drug deal. In exchange for prosecution, Sharpton cut a deal. Nothing noble, just a phony “civil rights” leader condemning drugs while dealing them -- at least attempting to deal them. A con artist agreeing to snitch to save his hide. Nothing more, nothing less.

  


Yesterday, CBS released these outtakes, calling them an “interesting exchange” given this week’s “new revelations.” They show the lying, shifty, obviously uncomfortable Sharpton dodging and deflecting -- clearly unhappy with the line of questioning. Some CBS producer or exec decided not to broadcast this part of the interview on TV. Were these “interesting” outtakes available online in 2011 when the Sharpton profile first aired? If not, why? Sharpton probably threatened to sue for defamation, and CBS backed down.

  


If so, shame on “60 Minutes” for only releasing these bombshell outtakes just now -- having sat on them for three years. And shame on the mainscream media for allowing The Smoking Gun to do the job they should have done a long time ago. After all, the fraudulent “civil rights” leader made his bones knowingly and falsely accusing a man of raping Tawana Brawley. Since then, Sharpton has compiled an impressive and lengthy rap sheet of race card hustles:  Al Sharpton's Rap Sheet By Larry Elder


Obscenities like Sharpton usually make enemies.  He has, including some who began as friends or colleagues.

One, described by the New York Post as a “drug trafficker who worked for Al Sharpton’s nonprofit in the 1980s, recently told the newspaper, “It was greed. [Sharpton] just wanted money.”

  


Sharpton was ‘eager to get slice of 1980s coke deal’: pal

And in a “People” magazine Sharpton profile, a former aide, Perry McKinnon, claims Sharpton, knew that the whole Tawana Brawley affair was a hoax. No matter, Sharpton allegedly assured McKinnon, “We’ll be the biggest n---gs in the country.”

Trials of Tawana By James S. Kunen

It’s good to be Sharpton. As a “civil rights leader” he’s managed to avoid prison despite being million of dollars light in federal and state income taxes: Taxes Are For Little People

He also failed to pay payroll taxes in his money losing non-profit:

Al Sharpton can't shake his money problems      

His busy life includes a daily hour show on MSNBC; a three-hour daily radio show; and CEO of a non-profit “civil rights organization” called the National Action Network. Sharpton claims to put in a 40-hour workweek at NAN, in addition to preparing for and putting on his daily radio and television show.

By the way, is the IRS at all interested in how Sharpton manages to do all this -- and still work 40 hours per week to justify his $250K NAN CEO salary? No, the standard 24-hour day clearly does not apply to Sharpton.

Celebritynetworth.com clocks him in $5+ million. Not bad for “no justice, no peace.”

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