Showing posts with label Tawana Brawley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tawana Brawley. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Al's never apologized

December 24, 2014 Al Sharpton , Investor's Business Daily 0 Comments
Tawana Brawley Pays For False Rape Charge Al Sharpton Profited From

Investor's Business Daily, Aug 5, 2013

Sharpton has never paid in human terms for the damage done to Pagones' life, which quickly unraveled, even as Sharpton's career as a race-baiting hustler pushed him forward to his current job as an MSNBC commentator.

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Wednesday, May 7, 2014

FLASHBACK: Al Sharpton STILL Won't Admit Tawana Brawley Case Was A Hoax --Pathetic

May 07, 2014 Rev. Al Sharpton , Tawana Brawley 0 Comments


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Sunday, April 13, 2014

FLASHBACK (2000): Newsweek Whitewashes Sharpton By Larry Elder --Anti-semitic, race card hustler got two thumbs up!

April 13, 2014 Cocaine Deal , Crown Heights 0 Comments
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By Larry Elder, Aug. 5, 2010

A well-known "civil rights activist" made the cover of Newsweek, the left-wing "news" magazine reportedly sold for its debt and $1. Based on this cover story, the buyer overpaid.
The headline, above the flattering photograph of a Man of Gravitas, reads: "The Reinvention of the Reverend Al: From Tawana to Obama, What Sharpton's Longevity Says About Race in America."

It's good to be the Rev. Al Sharpton, one of America's pre-eminent race-hustlers and demagogues. The word "shameless" doesn't do him justice. The word "whitewash" understates the gushing makeover accorded him by Newsweek.

The article discusses, but minimizes, the how and why of Sharpton's rise to national prominence: He falsely accused a man of rape. Almost 20 years ago, Sharpton became famous by championing the cause of a black teenager named Tawana Brawley, who, it turned out, lied when she claimed that she'd been abducted and sexually assaulted by whites. Sharpton not only offered Tawana Brawley up as a sympathetic victim of America's alleged pervasive racism, he accused Steven Pagones, a white assistant district attorney, of committing the crime.

A grand jury found that Tawana Brawley fabricated the whole thing. Sharpton not only refused to apologize, he dared Pagones to sue him for defamation. Pagones obliged. A jury unanimously found Sharpton liable, and Pagones' lawyer spent years trying to get Sharpton to pay the judgment. To this day, Sharpton refuses to apologize to Pagones, who said he received death threats.

Newsweek says Sharpton "has been right much more often than wrong in his choice of causes." Obviously, this offsets the numerous times Sharpton, without due cause, screamed and blustered and bullied, pulling race cards from every pocket.

The piece barely touches on or completely ignores many items on his long list of schemes, fraudulent race-based hustles and scandals. Nothing about the FBI surveillance video of Sharpton arranging a cocaine/money laundering deal with a mobster-turned-informant. Nothing about Sharpton calling the first black mayor of New York a "n---er whore." (With typical gall, Sharpton later pushed to "ban" the use of the N-word.)

Newsweek says, "His enemies sometimes charge, bizarrely, that he has chosen a career as a peripatetic community activist for the money." Bizarrely? Nothing about how he signed with one of Hollywood's biggest agencies, which then shopped a sitcom starring Sharpton, called "Al in the Family." Nothing about his gig as a paid pitchman for LoanMax, a "predatory lender" that cannot legally operate in New York.

Crown Heights tells us everything one needs to know about Sharpton. A 7-year-old black child was accidentally struck and killed by a car driven by a Hasidic Jew in that section of Brooklyn, N.Y. It sparked three days of riots, resulting in a hundred people injured and the stabbing death of a young Jewish scholar, who was surrounded by a mob chanting, "Kill the Jew." Sharpton fanned the flames, leading some 400 protesters through a Jewish section of Crown Heights. He said: "The world will tell us that (the child) was killed by accident. ... What type of city do we have that would allow politics to rise above the blood of innocent babies? ... Talk about how Oppenheimer in South Africa sends diamonds straight to Tel Aviv and deals with the diamond merchants right here in Crown Heights. ... All we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you got to pay for it. No compromise. Pay for your deeds." Later he said, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house."

Want a different perspective on the reverend? A November 2004 Village Voice article led with this title: "On a New High, Sharpton Hits a New Low: TV's Democratic Minister of 'Moral Values' Takes a Hypocritical Plunge."

Newsweek: "He has lived an upper-middle-class, although hardly opulent, life." The Village Voice: Sharpton and family lived in "their enormous Brooklyn mansion."

Newsweek: "(Sharpton) is one preacher who has managed to negotiate the temptations of fame untouched by sexual scandal." The Village Voice, on Sharpton's apparent extramarital relationship with a married employee: "The ... saga is not just a question of sex; it's a window into the dysfunction of Sharpton's universe."

So what, indeed, does Sharpton's "longevity say about race in America"? It says that Newsweek and others who should know better apply a different and lower standard of acceptability for a black race-hustler like Sharpton than for a white race-hustler like David Duke. And, assuming Sharpton ever mattered, does he now?

Blacks and whites were asked by Gallup in 2003 to name "the most important national leader in the black community today." Four percent of blacks and 2 percent of whites named Sharpton. 

 On some things, it appears, whites and blacks are not so far apart. Perhaps the Rev. Al achieved some racial unity after all.


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Saturday, April 12, 2014

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

April 12, 2014 60 Minutes , Articles by Larry Elder 0 Comments

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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Friday, April 11, 2014

FLASHBACK: Larry Elder vs. Rev. Al Sharpton

FLASHBACK: Larry Elder vs. Rev. Al Sharpton

April 11, 2014 CNN , Enron 1 Comments



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Thursday, April 10, 2014

SNITCHGATE: Bad news for Sharpton Is That SNITCHGATE May Force Media To Re-examine The Tawana Brawley Scam

April 10, 2014 Associated Press , Avi Zenilman 0 Comments
Rev. Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley
The Worst of Al Sharpton

By William Saletan, Ben Jacobs and Avi Zenilman, Sep. 8, 2003

Slate continues its short features on the 2004 presidential candidates. Previous series covered the candidates' biographies, buzzwords, agendas, worldviews, and claims to fame. This series assesses the story that supposedly shows each candidate at his worst. Here's the one told by critics of Al Sharpton—and what they leave out.

Charge: In 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley went missing and was found four days later covered in dog feces and with racial slurs written on her body. She claimed that at least two and possibly six white men, one of them carrying a badge, had repeatedly raped her in the woods in upstate New York. Sharpton took up Brawley's cause and defended her refusal to cooperate with prosecutors, saying that asking her to meet with New York's attorney general (who had been asked by Gov. Mario Cuomo to supervise the investigation) would be like "asking someone who watched someone killed in the gas chamber to sit down with Mr. Hitler." According to the Associated Press, Sharpton and Brawley's lawyers asserted "on 33 separate occasions" that a local prosecutor named Steven Pagones "had kidnapped, abused and raped" Brawley. There was no evidence, and Pagones was soon cleared. Sharpton then accused a local police cult with ties to the Irish Republican Army of perpetrating the alleged assault. The case fizzled when a security guard for Brawley's lawyers testified that the lawyers and Sharpton knew Brawley was lying.

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