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WashPost Uncorks Long Gushy Story On 'Reverend' Al Sharpton's Self-Importance
Sunday’s Washington Post devoted a front-page article that extended an eye-opening three whole pages to Rev. Al Sharpton, the "carefully cultivated leader of the civil rights movement," and his “private doubts,” mostly about his own legacy, as he ponders the creation of a museum to promote his significance.
Post reporter Eli Saslow chronicled how a haunted Sharpton wonders if he’ll ever measure up to Martin Luther King. This is a little like Pee Wee Herman wondering if he’ll ever be Clint Eastwood.
Except Pee Wee Herman never caused racial riots or foisted racial hoaxes on America. The Post turned to Saslow, the same poet who lovingly described Obama and how "The sun glistened off his chiseled pectorals” on the beach. The beginning was evocative of someone convinced of his own greatness:
Al Sharpton had not made news for 13 hours, and this was cause for serious concern. He climbed into the back seat of his luxury SUV, told his driver to take him four blocks to Times Square and refreshed the news feed on his cellphone. “Seriously? Nothing on Ferguson?” he said. “Nothing about my statement on good policing?” His power depended in part on publicity; the civil rights movement depended in part on his power.
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