Race-Baiter Sharpton

Al Sharpton a race-baiter?

WHAT???

You're kidding!!!

REALLY????

NEW YORK -- Don Imus' former producer on Friday called Rev. Al Sharpton a "race-baiter" who was looking for attention when he led a campaign to fire the radio host, while Sharpton said Imus and his producer got what they deserved for making a racist, sexist remark on the air.

Bernard McGuirk and Sharpton appeared together for a combative debate on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" show. The producer was fired last month for his part in an exchange on the "Imus in the Morning" program in which the members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team were called "nappy-headed hos."

...McGuirk called Sharpton a "crude ... opportunist, a race-baiter" who campaigned against Imus to help his own career and raise his profile.

While McGuirk acknowledged that "these words did hurt these girls," he added, "until you, Reverend Al, got involved, they probably never would have heard of it. They would have probably never, quote unquote, got scarred for life until you got involved for your own self-serving interests."

Sharpton said he wasn't looking for more attention — "if you have any recollection at all, I had been in the papers all year," he said. He said Imus and McGuirk may have apologized for the remark, but "forgiveness is not the point. The question is the penalty."

"Consumers have the right to say to advertisers, are your standards going to be where people are attacked based on your gender and race?" Sharpton said.

McGuirk countered that Sharpton "terrorized these spineless, thumbsucking executives" into taking Imus off the air. In an earlier appearance on "Hannity & Colmes," he said the executives "were in a fetal position under their desks sucking their thumbs on their BlackBerrys, trying to coordinate their response."

Sharpton responded: "What he is saying is we want to apologize and we want to decide what the penalty is." He said that most people wanted Imus fired, including a minister who arranged Imus' meeting with the Rutgers team, and many NBC employees.

I really don't understand why anyone pays attention to Al Sharpton.

He was discredited so long ago.

We're approaching the 20th anniversary of the Tawana Brawley case, when Sharpton made a national, albeit disgraced, name for himself. Prosecutor Steven Pagones successfully sued Sharpton for slander.

That should have been enough to destroy him, but Sharpton was just beginning to do damage.

After the Crown Heights riot in 1991, which left rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum dead, Sharpton didn't attempt to quell tensions. Instead, he incited more.

The man is an anti-Semite.

During the debate, McQuirk challenged Sharpton, "Who elected you the PC police chief? Who elected you to anything?"

Answer: NO ONE.

Sharpton is the pot calling the kettle black.

It's an embarrassment that Sharpton is considered by many to be a spokesman for the African-American community.