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.”
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.”
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:
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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