What the hell is wrong with Larry King?

[Archae]

You'd think that Larry King could find someone to properly debate and rebut "Sheriff Joe" Arpaio on this new Arizona "show us your papers" law.

Who DO they get?

Rabble rousing liar and all-around scum Al Sharpton. :grr:

[Bluebear]

1. "all-around scum Al Sharpton." - - - Wow.

[muffin1]

19. No kidding...

WTF?

[msanthrope]

64. Sharpton took GOP money from operative Roger Stone to campaign against Dems.

He's an utter piece of shit, in my book--and don't get me started on that fucker yelling the Central Park rape victim's name and address from the courthouse steps..


Sleeping With the GOP
A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs—neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.

Sharpton denounced the Voice's inquiries as "phony liberal paternalism," insisting that he'd "talk to anyone I want" and likening his use of Stone to Bill Clinton's reliance on pollster Dick Morris, saying he was "sick of these racist double standards." He did not dispute that Stone had helped generate matching contributions and staff the campaign. Asked about the Stone loans, he conceded that he "asked him to help NAN," but attributed the financial aid to his and Stone's joint "fight against the Rockefeller drug laws," adding: "If he did let me use his credit card to cover NAN expenses, fine." The finances of NAN and the Sharpton campaign have so merged in recent months that they have shared everything from contractors to consultants to travel expenses, though Sharpton insists that these questionable maneuvers have been done in compliance with Federal Election Commission regulations.

Stone's Miami-based Fairbanks Limited also set up an e-mail service called Sharpton-at-the-beach, which has issued dozens of releases highlighting campaign achievements before news of them was posted on the campaign website. His impact on strategy even included giving Sharpton the ax handle he wielded at the July NAACP convention, which Sharpton used as a symbol of former Georgia Democratic governor Lester Maddox, who became famous in the '60s by chasing blacks from his restaurant with one. Sharpton stirred the crowd, yelling from the podium: "Anytime we can give a party 92 percent of our vote and have to still beg some people to come talk to us, there is still an ax-handle mentality among some in the Democratic Party." Sharpton said he doesn't remember whether Stone gave him the ax handle. Stone declined to comment, but has boasted to friends that he came up with the theatrics.
More at link.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[muffin1]

20. self-delete

dupe

[Mother Smuckers]

21. Never mind

Tawana Brawley, anyone?

[Bluebear]

29. Tawana Brawley, Tawana Brawley. I bet you said "Chappaquidduck" plenty in your time, too.

[Mother Smuckers]

32. Actually no, I have never heard of Chappaquidduck.

Sorry.

[Bluebear]

33. 'I have never heard of Chappaquidduck.' - - Big history junkie I see. :)

[Mother Smuckers]

36. Interestingly, Google doesn't recognize it either.

http://www.google.com/search?q=Chappaquidduck

[EOTE]

40. But google is smart enough to see when a single letter is wrong.

Apparently, you are not.

[Mother Smuckers]

45. Apparently not.

:rofl:

[slackmaster]

58. Quack

[Bluebear]

31. hello?

[Ikonoklast]

41. You still here?

[Bluebear]

46. .

[Bluebear]

47. Amazing no?

[cliffordu]

43. Yep.

[msanthrope]

62. Al Sharpton is a piece of shit--he took GOP money to campaign against real Dems.

Sleeping With the GOP
A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
Comments (0) By Wayne Barrett with special reporting by Adam Hutton and Christine Lagorio Tuesday, Jan 27 2004



Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs—neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.

Sharpton denounced the Voice's inquiries as "phony liberal paternalism," insisting that he'd "talk to anyone I want" and likening his use of Stone to Bill Clinton's reliance on pollster Dick Morris, saying he was "sick of these racist double standards." He did not dispute that Stone had helped generate matching contributions and staff the campaign. Asked about the Stone loans, he conceded that he "asked him to help NAN," but attributed the financial aid to his and Stone's joint "fight against the Rockefeller drug laws," adding: "If he did let me use his credit card to cover NAN expenses, fine." The finances of NAN and the Sharpton campaign have so merged in recent months that they have shared everything from contractors to consultants to travel expenses, though Sharpton insists that these questionable maneuvers have been done in compliance with Federal Election Commission regulations.

Stone's Miami-based Fairbanks Limited also set up an e-mail service called Sharpton-at-the-beach, which has issued dozens of releases highlighting campaign achievements before news of them was posted on the campaign website. His impact on strategy even included giving Sharpton the ax handle he wielded at the July NAACP convention, which Sharpton used as a symbol of former Georgia Democratic governor Lester Maddox, who became famous in the '60s by chasing blacks from his restaurant with one. Sharpton stirred the crowd, yelling from the podium: "Anytime we can give a party 92 percent of our vote and have to still beg some people to come talk to us, there is still an ax-handle mentality among some in the Democratic Party." Sharpton said he doesn't remember whether Stone gave him the ax handle. Stone declined to comment, but has boasted to friends that he came up with the theatrics.

More at link...
http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[MrScorpio]

2. It's televised street theater

Kinda lame, since lives are at stake

[Archae]

3. Exactly, MrScorpio.

It was one grandstanding liar against another.

[Ron Green]

4. If Larry King ever had a sense of what kind of TV programming serves a democracy, it was about

5 or 6 wives ago.

[Archae]

5. Agreed.

Larry King is better at giving air time to phony "psychics" like Sylvia Browne.

[Moochy]

6. The Problem Isnt Larry

The Problem is the box that Larry is coming out of, TV. It's performing to specifications, keeping you angry and uninformed, and making you ask your doctor about wonderful pharmaceutical products!

[Whisp]

52. Larry isn't thinking right, his mind is on boinking his ex-wife's sister...

wretched vomit spewing in buckets.

[DeltaLitProf]

7. Wait a minute here

Al Sharpton has done a lot of good in the world since the Tawana Brawley fiasco. Who in the world are you to call him scum?

[KonaKane]

8. All around scum?

Takin' it a bit far out into right field there, arent you?

[Bluebear]

18. +++

[donheld]

9. Glad to know you are without sin.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Actually, I thought Al Sharpton was one of the few bearable things about the 2004 election.

Seriously. The guy said some great stuff.

[Bluebear]

12. Absolutely.

[Justitia]

48. LOL - "Slap the donkey!", I'll never forget it - ha. -eom

[Enthusiast]

11. Al Sharpton is pillar of integrity

compared to the common office holding Republican.

[NM_hemilover]

15. That's a bumper sticker you'll never see,

AL SHARPTON IS A PILAR OF INTEGRITY


I don't know how much "integrity" Al Sharpton brings to any debate, but much like instinctively looking at the kleenex after I blow my nose, you've got to watch Al Sharpton, just to see the "splatter factor" of the mess.

[Bluebear]

16. What "mess" does Shaprton "bring" to any "debate"? Which "ideas" of his are so "messy"?

[NM_hemilover]

35. Actually I think he ..

is extremely entertaining.


But, "I" think that "The" Rev Al Sharpton, comes off as a "boob" a lot of the "time", due in part to "his" tendency to mug for the "spotlight" in matters of "race", only when it will get "his" face on camera. "The" Rev Al Sharpton, also has opened "his" own can of hypocritical racial "bullshit", several "times" by making infantile "racist" jokes about "jews" in NY.

[Justitia]

50. You wanna back up that loaded assertion w/any actual examples?

And I'm talking about the "racist" "jews" jokes - specifically.

[NM_hemilover]

53. sure,

There are numerous to choose from, not just racist, but flat out stupid. I know the common idea is to say, PROVE it, without taking any time at all to even try to research it, how else can someone stomp their feet and say PROVE IT ? I know it's my responsibility to offer an example, so

Here's one,

Al Sharpton's comments regarding "Diamond Merchants", an accepted code/slang for Hasidic JEWS, at the Crown Point Riot, where the crowd was whipped into a frenzy, chanting "KILL THE JEW", and one JEWISH male was killed. And yes I believe calling a Jewish people "Diamond Merchants" in that neighborhood, at that time, in those circumstances more than qualifies as racist. Just like calling Mexican businessmen "bean counters" they are both racist comments.

BTW, I also thought The "Rev" Jesse Jackson's comment regarding "Himme Town" was also racist and uncalled for. Whod a thunk it huh ?

[NM_hemilover]

54. Specifically, he's a racial ambulance chaser, forgot to say that. n/t

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[Mother Smuckers]

22. It could easily be a bumper sticker but it would never be a truth.

...

[msanthrope]

60. All sharpton used the GOP to finance his Presidential campaign---

it's all there...

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[Johonny]

13. I'm guessing Larry doesn't book his own show

[spanone]

14. Rabble rousing liar and all-around scum Al Sharpton.....pfffft

[blm]

17. Newsroom production office is where alot of proGOP decisions are made. Ask Will Pitt.

.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. Al Sharpton is fine by me

Hyperbolic, unsupported slander, not so much.

[Bluebear]

24. +

[Dappleganger]

25. I'm not a fan of Al Sharpton...

but this is one area where he does a LOT of good. Like it or not, he does bring attention to civil rights problems and while I don't like him I do respect him for that.

[NaturalHigh]

26. Agreed.

Al Sharpton is lower than whale crap in my opinion.

[Bluebear]

28. Do tell why he is "lower than whale crap" in your esteemed opinion?

[msanthrope]

59. Because he used Roger Stone, GOP operative, to finance his

campaign for President...

Sleeping With the GOP
A Bush Covert Operative Takes Over Al Sharpton's Campaign
Comments (0) By Wayne Barrett with special reporting by Adam Hutton and Christine Lagorio Tuesday, Jan 27 2004


Roger Stone, the longtime Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000, is financing, staffing, and orchestrating the presidential campaign of Reverend Al Sharpton.

Though Stone and Sharpton have tried to reduce their alliance to a curiosity, suggesting that all they do is talk occasionally, a Voice investigation has documented an extraordinary array of connections. Stone played a pivotal role in putting together Sharpton's pending application for federal matching funds, getting dollars in critical states from family members and political allies at odds with everything Sharpton represents. He's also helped stack the campaign with a half-dozen incongruous top aides who've worked for him in prior campaigns. He's even boasted about engineering six-figure loans to Sharpton's National Action Network (NAN) and allowing Sharpton to use his credit card to cover thousands in NAN costs—neither of which he could legally do for the campaign. In a wide-ranging Voice interview Sunday, Stone confirmed his matching-fund and staffing roles, but refused to comment on the NAN subsidies.

Sharpton denounced the Voice's inquiries as "phony liberal paternalism," insisting that he'd "talk to anyone I want" and likening his use of Stone to Bill Clinton's reliance on pollster Dick Morris, saying he was "sick of these racist double standards." He did not dispute that Stone had helped generate matching contributions and staff the campaign. Asked about the Stone loans, he conceded that he "asked him to help NAN," but attributed the financial aid to his and Stone's joint "fight against the Rockefeller drug laws," adding: "If he did let me use his credit card to cover NAN expenses, fine." The finances of NAN and the Sharpton campaign have so merged in recent months that they have shared everything from contractors to consultants to travel expenses, though Sharpton insists that these questionable maneuvers have been done in compliance with Federal Election Commission regulations.

Stone's Miami-based Fairbanks Limited also set up an e-mail service called Sharpton-at-the-beach, which has issued dozens of releases highlighting campaign achievements before news of them was posted on the campaign website. His impact on strategy even included giving Sharpton the ax handle he wielded at the July NAACP convention, which Sharpton used as a symbol of former Georgia Democratic governor Lester Maddox, who became famous in the '60s by chasing blacks from his restaurant with one. Sharpton stirred the crowd, yelling from the podium: "Anytime we can give a party 92 percent of our vote and have to still beg some people to come talk to us, there is still an ax-handle mentality among some in the Democratic Party." Sharpton said he doesn't remember whether Stone gave him the ax handle. Stone declined to comment, but has boasted to friends that he came up with the theatrics.

Mpore at link...

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[waiting]

27. Al Sharpon is no more a scumbag rabble rouser or a liar than any republican politician.

The Tawanna Brawley case was not his fault, he was lied to as well. Accusing someone without evidence makes you just as bad as the right wing liars out there. And he is better than anyone of the losers on the right engaging in racial politics like they have been doing since Obama was elected. Sharpton is not a liar and deserves more respect from democrats than that.

[Mother Smuckers]

38. LOL! Couldn't you set the bar just a teeny bit lower there?

:rofl:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

30. LOL

What argument on the issue did Al Sharpton make that you disagree with?

[conscious evolution]

34. cool

New additions to my buddy list.

[Raineyb]

37. Not that there has ever anything right with Larry King but I don't see what's wrong with

Al Sharpton. Were you preferring someone who pretends that racism is a thing of the past?

[WI_DEM]

39. When was the last time Larry King had an original idea?

[KharmaTrain]

42. Blame The Producers

They're the ones who set up these food fights. Larry is lucky to be able to sit in the chair for an hour without needing a Depends change.

For the most part, it's the producers who call this shots on these things...with their handy-dandy roldexs and the RNC and AEI on speed dial. Either by choice or habit, these asshats have learned to be lazy...find the usual suspects they know love to mug in front of the camera and let 'em have at it. Larry just sits there and tries to stay awake.

[AsahinaKimi]

44. Maybe he is excited about his May 1st Interview with

Conan Obrien. Obrien has been under a "Gag" order in regards to the situation with Jay Leno and the Tonight show. That "gag" order is rescinded on May 1st. I am sure King figures that to be THE hot topic.. of the week.

[political_Dem]

49. Nobody ever likes the people who fight for the rights of people of color.

Derogatory comments were spewed forth about Dr. King and his contemporaries back in the day. And now in the present day (with the help of Beck, Rush, Hannity and their filthy ilk), the venom is spewed at Reverends Jackson and Sharpton as well as others who speak out against racism and injustice.

And it is a shame that this stuff has to come up during the time we are honoring the life of a civil rights icon.

[Bluebear]

56. +

[msanthrope]

65. Did MLK ever take money from GOP operatives???? 'Cause Sharpton did.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[Whisp]

51. Sharpton is not scum...

you on the other hand, I don't know from a hole in the ass.

[butterfly77]

55. +1

[HipChick]

57. +100

[msanthrope]

66. He is scum--He took money from the GOP to campaign in 2004--all there in the FEC filings.

See abov posts for excerpts, but he took money from Roger Stone--yes, THAT Roger Stone, to campaign against real dems....


http://www.villagevoice.com/2004-01-27/news/sleeping-with-the-gop/

[sabrina 1]

68. I wouldn't bring up campaign contributions to denigrate

anyone. Roger Stone doesn't have much influence in the scheme of things. But Wall St. and the Health Insurance Industry on the other hand, have pretty much bought our government and the results as we know, have been devastating . Your anger seems a bit misplaced to me.

Did he take money from Wall St.? I could see getting upset over that, but Stone? The guy is a clown, if he wanted to donate to a Democrat, why not take it from him? Isn't that what we are told when people complain about Republican ads on Democratic boards? It was a waste of his money,he achieved nothing and where is he now? Wall St. otoh, are embedded in our Government. Where is the outrage over that?

And when Democrats stop marginalizing liberals maybe they won't feel the need to go outside the party for support.

If you were a minority living in NYC before Sharpton, being targeted and often brutalized by the NYCPD, even killed sometimes, your outrage wouldn't be at the few missteps taken by Sharpton because they don't even come close to the issues that made someone like him necessary in the first place.

I will be forever grateful to him for not allowing Rudi Giuliani and others before him and his rogue cops to get away with their treatment of minorities and the poor in that city.

If you know someone who is perfect and without 'sin', willing to be the watchdog and outspoken opponent of the corrupt bigots who are always lurking in the back-ground unless they are kept under control, then produce that person. Until then, Sharpton with all his faults, will have to do, and he has done very well as it turns out.

[msanthrope]

69. Roger Stone organized the Brooks Brother's riot, and you defend him?

He helped Baker swing Florida in 2000, and you call him a clown? Stone didn't merely donate--he bankrolled Sharpton's campaign in its entirety. Why? To get al Sharpton's dog-n-pony show in the debates and on the national stage. Read the article--Fairbanks ran the campaign.

Look, Al Sharpton can't get elected dog catcher in NYC--have you ever considered why?

[Enrique]

63. Larry King, Al Sharpton and Joe Arpaio

sounds like some enlightening TV right there. :thumbsup:

[pipoman]

67. Oh heck, I thought

you were referring to his slow metamorphosis into a 'lower' primate...

[Octafish]

70. Check him out with GHW Bush when they think the mic and camera are turned off...

...they talk about new narcotic drugs, including one put out by Larry's cousin. The conversation was taped off the satellite feed during a commercial break. It's at the 47:20 mark.