Sharpton For Censoring Rush: 'Imagine The Arrogance Of Allowing People To Say What They Want!'
By Mark Finkelstein | December 22, 2010 | 20:46
Welcome to Al Sharpton's Brave New Radio World. A world in which the FCC would take a hard look at the licenses of stations that carry Rush Limbaugh. Al is outraged at the prospect that the FCC would "allow people to say what they want."
Ed Schultz has, as I've noted, been offering Sharpton a serial stage to trumpet his censoring threats, and there was Al at it again tonight. According to the Reverend, the FCC should clamp down not merely on "explicit" racism, sexism or homophobia, but also on any of those isms or phobias in their "implicit" forms. Got that? Against the repeal of DADT? Implicit homophobia! Off with your license!
View video after the jump.
Watch Al, with Schultz's tacit approval, send a very chilling threat to those who would exercise their First Amendment freedoms in a manner unfriendly to the current administration or its friends.
ED SCHULTZ: Rev. Al Sharpton is fed up with Rush Limbaugh's blatant on-air racist remarks over the years. Last week he met with the FCC and asked them to take action, take a stand on Limbaugh. There will be public meetings.
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AL SHARPTON: Well, first of all, we're not talking about censorship. We're talking about standards. [R-i-i-i-g-h-t.] And there are already standards in place. We're saying those standards ought to include those that in an explicit or even an implicit way practice racism or sexism or homophobia on the airwaves. And can you imagine the arrogance of saying federally-regulated airwaves should not be subjected to federal public hearings, so they should just grant licenses, allow people to say what they want?
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Ed Schultz is like a boil on America's ass
Submitted by ArrowSmith on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:03pm.
The sooner we pop it the faster we can heal!
Liberals are losing
Submitted by Edhenry on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:08pm.
Liberals are losing elections, losing on ideas, losing population, losing jobs & losing influence.
Answer - shut down free speech
let em keep talking, they make the case for conservatism, better than Beck and Rush can.
Dunno Ed, some people agree
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 2:42am.
Dunno Ed, some people agree with this clown. And if it is enough ... then God help us.
The liberal solution to
Submitted by Smartypants on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:17pm.
The liberal solution to anything almost always equates to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Commie Al doesnt want to stifle free speech
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:31pm.
Just what he disagrees with. Yea, go ahead Al, tell us of your civil rights victories. You can flail them around with the education and poverty of those you are supposed to represent.
Imagine the arrogance
Submitted by YankeeBubba on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:36pm.
Imagine the arrogance of allowing Rev's Wright, Pfleger, Jackson, and Fat Albert to say what they want; replete with anti-semitic, racist rhetoric. Someone needs to do something...for the children!
Rev. Al's Rap Sheet
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:36pm.
"TAX EVASION: In a 1988 interview, Sharpton said he saw no reason why blacks should pay taxes. “If we do not have a justice system that protects us, what are we paying for?”"
1987 Twana Brawly hoax
1989 "CENTRAL PARK JOGGER: In 1989 “the jogger,” a young white woman, was monstrously raped and nearly beaten to death in Central Park. Sharpton insisted—despite the defendants’ confessions—that her black attackers were innocent, modern-day Scottsboro Boys trapped in “a fit of racial hysteria.” Sharpton charged that the jogger’s boyfriend did it, and organized protests outside the courthouse, chanting, “The boyfriend did it!” and denouncing the victim as “Whore!” (bold mine)
1991 Crown Heights riots. One Jewish student stabbed to death. “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.”
1995 Freddy's Fashion Mart Fire.
Million Man March Sharpton declared, “O.J. is home, but Mumia Abu Jamal ain’t home. And we won’t stop till all of our people that need a chance in an awkward and unbalanced criminal justice system can come home.”
2002 19 year old surveillance tapes of an FBI sting involving Sharpton and a cocaine deal are made public. Sharpton made the claim that this tape was made public because he was going to run for president in 2004.
2003. Sharpton raising money for his presidential run. "The FBI secretly videotaped Sharpton on May 9, 2003, pocketing campaign donations from two “shady fund-raisers” in a NY City hotel room, and then demanding $25,000 more."
Why anyone gives this man any credibility is a mystery to me.
Quotes above and for more info: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816884/posts
good rebuttal
Submitted by Vic138 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:44pm.
Love to read sharpton's rebuttal to that. He's nothing but a thug and a cancer on american society. Why is anyone even nice to this guy, like geraldo (jerry rivera) or o'reilly?
Maybe it is Al's Showbiz background.
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:40pm.
Starting in 1971 and for the the next 10 years Al was tour manager for the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Al married one of Brown's backup singers. He has been in 4 movies, and had parts in various TV show like Law & Order Special Victims Unit.
Interesting Sharpton video
Submitted by Red Jeep on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:57pm.
1. Al Sharpton: Tawana Brawley and Media Manipulating [In His Own Words] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-kBY5x2YbM&playnext=1&list=PLFCA3509262CA12F3&index=9
2. Vintage Al Sharpton footage: 'You a punk faggot -- now come on and do something'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9IdddtgP2o
3. SHERIFF ARPAIO vs AL SHARPTON pt.1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rou7y5KDOVg&feature=related
4. GATES CASE: Ann Coulter Teaches Al Sharpton & All Racists A Lesson pt2 7/30/09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyb4ZajF264&feature=related
Regarding video 2. I suspect their is a gold mine of Al Sharpton comments to be found if a lot of video exists from the 1980's Morton Downey Jr. Show.
Thanks so much.
Submitted by cyborg0012 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:14pm.
I appreciate the information. With this record, he'll regret trying to attack Rush in a public forum.
How dare you pick a few
Submitted by WarEagle66 on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:52am.
How dare you pick a few isolated incidents from Al's illustrious career!
sarcasm...off
tell us al what youve done for your kind?
Submitted by igor1136 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 9:52pm.
all we ever seen you do is march and bitch. everybody owe you..... waa waa waa. give it up al your a slime ball user. you suck the earning out of people for your garbage. everyones guilty but the black guy. al its old and bull. you cant sell your racist crap anymore. you seem pretty well off for someone whos suppose to be a victum. the only victums are the idiots who buy your lies. its time for you to leave al, your not happy here maybe you can go back to africa and bitch at the african blacks who sold you into slavery in the first place. maybe theyll buy your crap.
GET OUT AL YOUR FREE TO LEAVE THIS AMERICA YOU HATE SO MUCH!
Maybe everyone should
Submitted by Tjexcite on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:02pm.
Sent a million copies of the First Amendment to Al.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
God, I hate to complain, but I have to point out some basics.
Submitted by acaiguana on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:10pm.
Their is not there.
Their is not they are.
Your is not You are. You're is correct.
That is not which.
Which is not that.
If we are going to make a bunch of mistakes - let's make them typos or inane, for example, I use dunno, I don't see none and such language frequently, as sarcasim mostly and I make my share of grammatical and typo errors and even misuse a word once in a while - but lately I've been struck by how sloppy my blog buddies (NB is not the only one) have become with basic thingys.
Note the use of thingy which is a perfectly decent late 1990's slang term used by adolescent girls to their dads as in: "I can't find my thingy, have you seen it?"
I like the use of Youse Guys occasionally. Even the well turned phrase of "I ain't got none."
Just a quick note from the grammer Nazi member of the club.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Ac, How do you feel about
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:18pm.
ACA,
How do you feel about the misspelling of "loser" as "looser"? :)
I hate that.
Submitted by Anon150 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:19pm.
It makes me want to "hone in" and go nucular!
Now, now
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 7:47am.
you just have to "tow the line" and follow the rules.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Yes, looser (which I have been) is not loser. ACA
Submitted by acaiguana on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:22pm.
But misspelliing is mispelling.
ACA
(I have a crappy keyboard which I intend to fix tomorrow that does that to me all the time.)
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Trust me Chris.
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:24pm.
Looser.
Bad speller. Although the keyboard thing(y) is apparently true. Today, anyway.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 138 (and Counting)
Blonde, I swear I have
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:45pm.
Blonde,
I swear I have proofread some of my comments until my eyes bled before saving them and everything looks fine. Then, I see my now posted comment with - yep - typos. So, I go back and edit my typos, hit "save" again and then I see - yep - yet another typo. So... Never has so much work gone into so little...
"misspell" vs. "mispell"
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:35pm.
ACA,
Webster Dictionary on-line begs to disagree with you.
Chris, that was misspell(ii)ng I was referencing.
Submitted by acaiguana on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:38pm.
And the mispelling was on purpose. I know it is misspelling.
Anyway, I really hate looser when they mean loser.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
ACA
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:42pm.
Rats. I'm slow on the uptake tonight. Anyhow, you've now got me feeling paranoid.
It's all good Chris. A lighter moment in an otherwise dark...
Submitted by acaiguana on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:44pm.
Lame Duck Month.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
ACA,
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:50pm.
I must confess that I have instituted an "I'm not going to go ballistic over what's happening in Congress" embargo to preserve my Christmas spirit. I figure after Christmas my brain will explode from the accumulated embargoed rage.
Boo hisss
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:29pm.
Dont I lose enough sleep already?
Now dat dat's over wid...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 8:40am.
... how bout a descussion of da way da Reveren Al talk.
Let me ax you, do "dis, dat, dees, an doze" be proper replace-MENTS fo "this, that, these, and those," yo? Waz up wid dat?
Whatever school give dis clown a degree in anythang, specially religion?
The Libspeak Lexicon
Submitted by nkviking75 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:22pm.
Racism: Any opinions liberals don't like which can be spun as having a racial element, no matter how ridiculously tenuous it is. Used when a lib cannot otherwise compete in a debate with a conservative.
“Always love your country — but never trust your government!" -- Bob Novak (1931-2009)
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
The "Green Police" are being
Submitted by Radical1979 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:35pm.
The "Green Police" are being replaced by the "Thought Police". If I want to, I can still hate any group of people I want, particularly liberals.
Free speech for everybody*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 12/22/2010 - 10:43pm.
I tried to link this article from the Daily Mail but NB 2.0 is misbehavin' tonight.
To quote one of the commenters..."Where is REVERAND AL" when you need him'?
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/12/22/uk-muslims-start-the-evils-of-christmas-campaign/
Al Sharpton and Ed
Submitted by Cowboy on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 1:51am.
Al Sharpton and Ed Schultz
A perfect pair
Jesse Jackson was busy?
The collection plate must be
Submitted by johnsonl on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 7:43am.
The collection plate must be coming back with buttons, coupons and slugs in Rev. Al's "Church of Pay Me Not to Accuse You of Racism". You are irrelevent, Al. Now you have to get a real job.
Sharpton couldn't hold a job
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 9:57am.
Sharpton couldn't hold a job running a gum ball machine.
Never mind holding a job,
Submitted by dscott on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 12:37pm.
Never mind holding a job, first as a person with no marketable skills Al would have to find a minimum wage job. I bet the moron now regrets supporting the increase in the minimum wage which killed off millions of entry level jobs. Wait, never mind, Al would first have to have the mental capacity to grasp the concept of the zero sum paradigm, where increasing wages significantly for the few means less money available to employ others.
Al, repeat after me... "Do
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 1:00pm.
Al, repeat after me...
"Do you want fries with that."
Try it again, Al, but this time slower and without the megaphone.
He wants what?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 10:39am.
Al wants the FCC to allow people to say what Al wants to hear.
ALL HAIL THE GREAT AL! ALL HAIL THE GREAT YANKOVIC!
*huh?*...Sharpton?...not "Weird Al"?....oh....<*pause*>
<*Emily Litella voice on*> Nevermind! <*Emily Litella voice off*>
Al, you're such an idiot!
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 12/23/2010 - 1:44pm.
"And can you imagine the arrogance of saying federally-regulated airwaves should not be subjected to federal public hearings, so they should just grant licenses, allow people to say what they want?"
Al, you're such an idiot! The FCC doesn't grant licenses for what people say. They grant licenses for which FREQUENCIES they can broadcast over! What you're suggesting is the direct control over what is being said, not how's it's being heard by the general public! That is a DIRECT violation of the First Amendment!
Hay, Al, if you don't like what's being said over "public airwaves," then I suggest you exercise your "public" right to not listen and change the channel!
You can complain as loudly and as often as you like about what other people say, and I will fully support your right to do so, but don't you DARE tell me that it takes a "federal public hearing" to decide what I can hear and what others can say! THAT'S call totalitarianism and I will not abide by it.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.