Al Sharpton is at it again.... (1 Viewer)

[poopdawg]

Bottom line - people need to start worrying about bigger and better things. Do people really get offended over stupid #### like this? Its a ####### cartoon in a newspaper, even if miscontrued to what people want to believe.

It's not worthy of discussion, so here's my 2¢ on it.

If someone wants to write up a cartoon and talk about dumb, imbred honkies, Im not going to get offended. I dont give a ####.

Your assertion carries no weight unless you're a dumb, imbred honky. Are you?

I do live in central PA, and while Im not dumb or imbred, I would consider myself a honky. Im as white as they come (but not racist).

 

[Mookie Blaylock]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

I bet those are some 'spensive pockets.

 

[poopdawg]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

Just saw that he is calling for the jailing, yes jailing of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Post. Just once, I wish someone would grow a set of balls, and tell Sharpton to shove it up his ### sideways.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

Just saw that he is calling for the jailing, yes jailing of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Post. Just once, I wish someone would grow a set of balls, and tell Sharpton to shove it up his ### sideways.

The Post did there, Dawg. For now at least. The Editor in Chief said “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”

MSNBC and WFAN immediately backed down to Sharpton and his protests with Imus. When corporations have no backbones, the special interest groups gain more and more power. The Post is standing by their talent and for now is looking to ride it out. If they do ride it out (as well as the advertisers), it may pave the way for other entities to stand up to special interest groups. Firing the guy just gives Sharpton more and more power.

The Post took a chance running this; they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Guess what? The first thing I did when I logged onto the net this morning was check the guy's latest comic to see what was there. It sparked interest.

I just don't like the maneuver as the comic was clearly inciteful.

 

[poopdawg]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

Just saw that he is calling for the jailing, yes jailing of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Post. Just once, I wish someone would grow a set of balls, and tell Sharpton to shove it up his ### sideways.

The Post did there, Dawg. For now at least. The Editor in Chief said “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”

MSNBC and WFAN immediately backed down to Sharpton and his protests with Imus. When corporations have no backbones, the special interest groups gain more and more power. The Post is standing by their talent and for now is looking to ride it out. If they do ride it out (as well as the advertisers), it may pave the way for other entities to stand up to special interest groups. Firing the guy just gives Sharpton more and more power.

The Post took a chance running this; they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Guess what? The first thing I did when I logged onto the net this morning was check the guy's latest comic to see what was there. It sparked interest.

I just don't like the maneuver as the comic was clearly inciteful.

I agree with some of your points, Dawg Look, I know racism exists in many parts of the country. Im not blind. But for this ####### idiot to call for someone to go to jail for owning the paper that writes a cartoon that may or may not be misconstrued is setting relations way, way back.

I know that the Post hasnt backed down yet, and I hope they dont just for the sheer fact that I cant stand this mother####er. He would likely be homeless if it werent for racism. Think about that for a second.

 

[DawgPoundNJ]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

Just saw that he is calling for the jailing, yes jailing of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Post. Just once, I wish someone would grow a set of balls, and tell Sharpton to shove it up his ### sideways.

The Post did there, Dawg. For now at least. The Editor in Chief said “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”

MSNBC and WFAN immediately backed down to Sharpton and his protests with Imus. When corporations have no backbones, the special interest groups gain more and more power. The Post is standing by their talent and for now is looking to ride it out. If they do ride it out (as well as the advertisers), it may pave the way for other entities to stand up to special interest groups. Firing the guy just gives Sharpton more and more power.

The Post took a chance running this; they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Guess what? The first thing I did when I logged onto the net this morning was check the guy's latest comic to see what was there. It sparked interest.

I just don't like the maneuver as the comic was clearly inciteful.

I agree with some of your points, Dawg Look, I know racism exists in many parts of the country. Im not blind. But for this ####### idiot to call for someone to go to jail for owning the paper that writes a cartoon that may or may not be misconstrued is setting relations way, way back.

I know that the Post hasnt backed down yet, and I hope they dont just for the sheer fact that I cant stand this mother####er. He would likely be homeless if it werent for racism. Think about that for a second.

Thanks Dawg. Your Browns are looking better with Mangenius. To review strategy, by now Sharpton and his protests usually have results. There usually would be a suspension or firing by now, advertisers would be threatening to pull out, etc. Nothing like this has happened yet.

This is where Sharpton has to up the ante and get even more controversial himself. Sharpton is smart enough to know that no one should go to jail, but sensationalizing it even further keeps Al's cause and name in the news, keeps people reporting on the situation, and keeps his group clinging onto the power they have.

I can't stand Reverend Al either as he needs racism to survive so he can wear those fancy suits.

 

[poopdawg]

That race card must have been burning a hole in Sharpton's pocket.

Just saw that he is calling for the jailing, yes jailing of Rupert Murdoch, the owner of the Post. Just once, I wish someone would grow a set of balls, and tell Sharpton to shove it up his ### sideways.

The Post did there, Dawg. For now at least. The Editor in Chief said “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”

MSNBC and WFAN immediately backed down to Sharpton and his protests with Imus. When corporations have no backbones, the special interest groups gain more and more power. The Post is standing by their talent and for now is looking to ride it out. If they do ride it out (as well as the advertisers), it may pave the way for other entities to stand up to special interest groups. Firing the guy just gives Sharpton more and more power.

The Post took a chance running this; they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. Guess what? The first thing I did when I logged onto the net this morning was check the guy's latest comic to see what was there. It sparked interest.

I just don't like the maneuver as the comic was clearly inciteful.

I agree with some of your points, Dawg Look, I know racism exists in many parts of the country. Im not blind. But for this ####### idiot to call for someone to go to jail for owning the paper that writes a cartoon that may or may not be misconstrued is setting relations way, way back.

I know that the Post hasnt backed down yet, and I hope they dont just for the sheer fact that I cant stand this mother####er. He would likely be homeless if it werent for racism. Think about that for a second.

Thanks Dawg. Your Browns are looking better with Mangenius. To review strategy, by now Sharpton and his protests usually have results. There usually would be a suspension or firing by now, advertisers would be threatening to pull out, etc. Nothing like this has happened yet.

This is where Sharpton has to up the ante and get even more controversial himself. Sharpton is smart enough to know that no one should go to jail, but sensationalizing it even further keeps Al's cause and name in the news, keeps people reporting on the situation, and keeps his group clinging onto the power they have.

I can't stand Reverend Al either as he needs racism to survive so he can wear those fancy suits.

Whoa there. You can insult me all you want, but I'll be damned if you call me a Browns fan (actually I love the rivalry we have and you guys have a lot of potential and I look forward to '09 now that you guys have a decent coach). As for Sharpton, perhaps I would have a bit more respect for him if he would come to these protests in some ragged clothes, fighting for a cause that he really believed in, rather than something that would fill his doosh pockets. Im sorry, but if he flipped his car a few times, I really cant say I would be sad.......

 

[flapgreen]

Please die. tia

 

[poopdawg]

Please die. tia

Who?

 

[DrJ]

I'm going to have to cancel my subscription. :(

 

[Novice2]

Since when can you call for the killing of the president of the United States

UnFrEaKiNgBeLiEvAbLe

 

[poopdawg]

Since when can you call for the killing of the president of the United States

UnFrEaKiNgBeLiEvAbLe

Wow.Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.

I love how all of the articles keep insinuating that "the President wrote up the stimulus bill" and therefore the cartoon is clearly a shot at him.

THE PRESIDENT, WHETHER HE BLACK, WHITE, GRAY, YELLOW, ......... DOES NOT WRITE UP THIS BILL. We're talking about a bill that quite frankly, was written by MONKEYS, so far in the fact that it was written up so that it was not even comprehensible since it was far too much to read.

What I mean is that it was a bill that was supposed to be signed upon between the hours of 7 pm until 4 am of the next morning. If you do the math, with the number of words that had to be read, each voter had to read at a rate of 700+ words per minute. The average reader reads at a rate of 250-300+ words per minute with the fastest reader in the world on record of less than 700 words per minute. I cant help but think of a group of monkeys here.

I love the fact that this cartoon took a shot at monkeys in congress. Its too bad that others have a completely different agenda.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Sharpton is absolute disgrace ... and maybe dangerous.

Someone got killed in Crown Heights, let's remember that.

Now he has a national prime time TV show and an evening national radio program.

He speaks in Ferguson, worsens the situation, and then goes on his show and discusses the racial tension. This is the absolute worst kind of demagoguery.

 

[flapgreen]

Didn't see it but Sharpton and Jackson are always on the front lines stirring #### up. They're bad h man beings plain and simple.

 

[metoo]

I have to give it to Al, he has been pimping white people for years.

 

[Sand]

Didn't see it but Sharpton and Jackson are always on the front lines stirring #### up. They're bad h man beings plain and simple.

Jesse is pretty mellow these days. He's extorted his millions and seems to be pretty content.

 

[flapgreen]

Didn't see it but Sharpton and Jackson are always on the front lines stirring #### up. They're bad h man beings plain and simple.

Jesse is pretty mellow these days. He's extorted his millions and seems to be pretty content.

That explains it.

 

[tom22406]

The gift that keeps on giving

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/politics/al-sharpton-finance/

Report: Al Sharpton owes $4.5 million in unpaid taxes


By Ashley Killough, CNN



(CNN) -- Civil rights leader and MSNBC host Al Sharpton and his for-profit business owe more than $4.5 million in current state and federal taxes, according to a New York Times report out Tuesday.

His tax liabilities come despite making a hefty salary, and he and his nonprofit advocacy organization, National Action Network, have been missing payments to hotels, landlords and travel agencies, the report says.

Sharpton has been a regular face in New York and Washington political circles. The report points out that President Barack Obama has raised money for Sharpton's group, and that Sharpton attended the recent announcement that Loretta Lynch would be the White House's pick to be the next Attorney General.

Sharpton's former aide Rachel Noerdlinger is also adviser to the wife of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, Chirlane McCray.

Sharpton has said he's paying back the money, thanks in part to help from more donations to his organization. He said he also lent money to the group, and didn't take a salary at times.

"You can say I'm not a great administrator," he told the paper. "You can't say that I'm not committed."

Sharpton is expected to speak to the media later Wednesday in New York in regards to the pending grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, regarding police officer Darren Wilson.

 

[Rayderr]

The man is unpatriotic.

 

[Widbil83]

Does MSNBC pay him minimum wage?

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

As Sharpton Rose, So Did His Unpaid TaxesThe Rev. Al Sharpton, who came to prominence as an imposing figure in a track suit, shouting indignantly at the powerful, stood quietly on a stage last month at the Four Seasons restaurant, his now slender frame wrapped in a finely tailored suit, as men in power lined up to exclaim their admiration for him.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo hailed him as a civil rights icon. President Obama sent an aide to read a message commending Mr. Sharpton’s “dedication to the righteous cause of perfecting our union.” Major corporations sponsored the lavish affair.

It was billed as a “party for a cause,” in honor of Mr. Sharpton’s 60th birthday. But more than a birthday celebration, or a fund-raiser for his nonprofit advocacy group National Action Network, the event in Manhattan seemed to mark the completion of Mr. Sharpton’s decades of transition from consummate outsider to improbable insider.

“I’ve been able to reach from the streets to the suites,” he said that night.

Indeed, Mr. Sharpton’s influence and visibility have reached new heights this year, fueled by his close relationships with the mayor and the president.

Obscured in his ascent, however, has been his troubling financial past, which continues to shadow his present.

Mr. Sharpton has regularly sidestepped the sorts of obligations most people see as inevitable, like taxes, rent and other bills. Records reviewed by The New York Times show more than $4.5 million in current state and federal tax liens against him and his for-profit businesses.

And though he said in recent interviews that he was paying both down, his balance with the state, at least, has actually grown in recent years. His National Action Network appears to have been sustained for years by not paying federal payroll taxes on its employees.

With the tax liability outstanding, Mr. Sharpton traveled first class and collected a sizable salary, the kind of practice by nonprofit groups that the United States Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration recently characterized as “abusive,” or “potentially criminal” if the failure to turn over or collect taxes is willful.

Mr. Sharpton and the National Action Network have repeatedly failed to pay travel agencies, hotels and landlords. He has leaned on the generosity of friends and sometimes even the organization, intermingling its finances with his own to cover his daughters’ private school tuition.

He has been in the news as much as ever this year, becoming a prominent advocate on behalf of the families of Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died in police custody, and Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo. He also has a daily platform through his show on MSNBC.

Behind the scenes, he has consulted with the mayor and the president on matters of race and civil rights and even the occasional high-level appointment. He was among a small group at the White House when Mr. Obama announced his nomination of Loretta E. Lynch, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York, to become the next attorney general.

Mr. Sharpton’s newly found insider status represents a potential financial boon for him, furnishing him with new credibility and a surge in donations. His politician-heavy birthday party, at one of New York City’s most expensive restaurants, was billed as a fund-raiser to help his organization. Mr. Obama also spoke at the organization’s convention in April, its primary fund-raising event.

But the recent troubles of Rachel Noerdlinger, Mr. Sharpton’s closest aide for many years and more recently a top official in the de Blasio administration, served as a reminder of Mr. Sharpton’s fraught history and how easily it can spill over into the corridors of power in which he now travels.

Ms. Noerdlinger took a leave of absence from her post on Monday, after her teenage son’s arrest on trespassing charges. The decision capped weeks of scrutiny after news accounts revealed that she had failed to disclose a live-in boyfriend with a criminal record on a background questionnaire when she became the top adviser to Mr. de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray.

The omission was unrelated to Mr. Sharpton, but it is the kind of paperwork oversight that has been a trademark of his nonprofit, where Ms. Noerdlinger built her career.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/nyregion/questions-about-al-sharptons-finances-accompany-his-rise-in-influence.html?_r=1

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Politico’s Mike Allen to Holder: Is Sharpton ‘Too Close’ to White House?Mike Allen, Politico’s chief White House correspondent, sat down for an in-depth interview with outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder. They touched on Holder’s Republican critics, race, Ferguson, and the Department of Justice’s record in cracking down on journalists, among other things. But Allen also asked a question that many critics of the Obama administration have been asking: “Is Al Sharpton too close to this White House?”

Sharpton has been to the White House on many occasions, particularly amid cases where race is concerned, and many on the right and Fox News have questioned why President Obama would elevate a provocateur like Sharpton, especially given that report last year about how he owes millions in taxes.

Holder shot down the idea Sharpton is “too close” to the White House, saying, “The president has a number of people who he listens to, who he interacts with. You know, Reverend Sharpton is a person who has interacted with people within the administration, including myself. But we also hear from people who have, you know, fundamentally different views than Al Sharpton has.”

He said President Obama “gets a lot of input from a variety of sources,” not just from Sharpton, and hearing all those different perspectives is important.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/politicos-mike-allen-to-holder-is-sharpton-too-close-to-white-house/

 

[tommyGunZ]

Are we worried that Obama is getting counsel from Sharpton on administrative tax issues?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

Are we worried that Obama is getting counsel from Sharpton on administrative tax issues?

I'm a little more worried about him getting advice from Sharpton on racial issues. The tax thing is just comic relief.

 

[SaintsInDome2006]

Are we worried that Obama is getting counsel from Sharpton on administrative tax issues?

I don't think so.

I went to look at a house recently and it turned out it was a foreclosure. It turned out the former (current technically) owner had not paid mortgage in over 2 years. I was amazed by this. This happened again recently when I went to look at another house. It might have been longer. I was like, this goes on?

How long can someone go around with $4.5+ million in tax liens???? Indefinitely?