Comments on: The Amazing Al Sharpton

By: JD

JD — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:15:38 +0000

Why do we allow Al Sharpton to say anything? Who is this guy and what gives him any right to condone or not condone what anyone else has to say? If you really listen to what he has to say, his comments are usually uneducated and just as racist as the person he is chastising. Why do people really care what this racist has to say? We need to ignore him and maybe he will get a real job and go away!

By: Mike Gibson

Mike Gibson — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:59 +0000

Sharpton has become a joke. He wants ” justice ” for the ” Jena six ” He doesn’t even believe the garbage he’s spouting. He still hopes to become president and he stirs people up hoping to get a vote. He should stay out of the limelight and quit making a fool out of himself.

By: Faith

Faith — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:01:25 +0000

Will Mr. Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and the other protesters meet in Amarillo to protest the arrest of the young men who were in a school fight, since the protest in Jena, LA was not about race?

By: The Monster

The Monster — Fri, 11 May 2007 03:16:36 +0000

I’d say it’s more like the Chewbacca Defense

Ladies and Gentlemen of the alleged electorate, this is Chewbacca….

By: JohnInFlorida

JohnInFlorida — Thu, 10 May 2007 20:29:58 +0000

The Sharpton spin machine is working full time on this one. I just love the “what I meant to say when I said what I meant was that I didn’t mean to say it” defense.

By: copithorne

copithorne — Thu, 10 May 2007 19:21:15 +0000

It is a plausible reading of The Book of Mormon to say that it is not monotheistic. It does not believe in one all powerful God like the New Testament or the Torah. The Book of Mormon is more different from the New Testament than the New Testament is different from the Torah.

It is plausible to say that contemporary Mormons have effaced their own theological history. They have some wallpaper which has Jesus Christ and God and women as people and monogamy. They needed to make this wholesale shift to get into the union and end the persecution. But it is an open question whether this window dressing is coherent with Joseph Smith’s foundations of the faith.

If Mitt and Mormons want to say they believe in God, I wouldn’t argue with them. But I’ll still assert that Al Sharpton’s statement is not bigotry but a plausible and debatable theological view about the Book of Mormon.

By: Paulie Goombah

Paulie Goombah — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:05:52 +0000

Just taken Sharpton at his word for a moment: Did he mean that anyone who does not believe in God is not for public service? Does he mean that atheists are not patriotic, ethical, or capable of leadership in government? How does he justfy that position?

By: Cybrludite

Cybrludite — Thu, 10 May 2007 06:39:54 +0000

BillT,

Given how little attention folks here pay to politicsor current events? I suspect that most black voters have only heard his name in connection with his being involved with what’s left of the Civil Rights movement & would choose to have him stay.

By: Ernie

Ernie — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:39:21 +0000

Sharpton is a pimp`. He pimps his own people.
Poor blacks with “leaders” like him, a bunch of walking scum.

By: Jenn M.

Jenn M. — Thu, 10 May 2007 04:18:56 +0000

There’s an old news room joke from the seventies about “Black Activists” or so-called “Black Leaders.” Their following consists of a dozen black people and a hundred white reporters.

If the newsmedia - including FOX! - stopped calling this ridiculous old pimp, he’d disappear.

By: Ferh

Ferh — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:43:06 +0000

How much ignorance there is out there still about mormons…We believe in God guys, and Christ…and I don’t think we want an ignorant guy that attacks people because of their religion in office. We are a free country. This is not Religion Land. This is free land. We believe in whatever we want to believe, and if this guys doesn’t like then he shouldn’t even run for president.

By: JoeS

JoeS — Thu, 10 May 2007 03:34:33 +0000

The black community seems to have lost their way. They follow morons who do nothing more than race-bait. They think that Sharpton is not a bigot, but they are positive that Imus is.

Let’s listen for Obama to weigh in on this issue. yeah, right!

Larry Elder’s book, Ten Things You Can’t Say in America, #1 is that the black community is the most racist community in America.

By: adam

adam — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:30:18 +0000

“The people who will rush into to defend him are also liars, but they are practicing a more difficult craft. You have to be a black belt in lying to overcome what he said.”

Clever. And funny.

By: Harry

Harry — Thu, 10 May 2007 01:19:15 +0000

I’m as loyal a Republican as there is, but I’ll gladly have the Repubs ditch Pat Robertson if you Dems will send Al Sharpton packing. It’s too bad we couldn’t leave them together on a desert isle for the remainder of their lives. They deserve each other.

By: Bear

Bear — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:49:15 +0000

Don’t quotation marks mean anything anymore?
There’s a big difference between â€œthose of us who believe in Godâ€ (quote used twice in the cited article) and Sharpton’s actual quote, “those who really believe in God.”
Sharpton is trying to claim that he was refering to Hitchens, and not Mormons. But would he say that Hitchens doesn’t ‘really’ believe in God? No, we already know Hitchens doesn’t believe in God. He was at the debate with Sharpton because he IS an atheist.
The target of the jab is obviously the Romney and the Mormons, and changing the original quote only allows Sharpton more wiggle room.