{"id":23637,"date":"2014-08-24T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23637"},"modified":"2014-08-24T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T23:56:03","slug":"what-are-these-people-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23637","title":{"rendered":"What Are These People Smoking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about comments made by Al Sharpton on NBC<\/a>\u2019s \u201cMeet The Press<\/a>\u201d today. The Reverend<\/a> Sharpton was responding to a question about a recent article in Politico Magazine describing him as a surrogate of President Obama<\/a> regarding race relations.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019m not a surrogate,\u201d he contended. \u201cI have access to the White House<\/a> in every era going back to Lincoln with Frederick Douglass<\/a>. Presidents talk to those that were leading at that time.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNot comparing Marc Morial<\/a> or Melanie Campbell and I to Frederick Douglass,\u201d Sharpton added (though the \u201cand I\u201d was barely audible). \u201cBut that\u2019s nothing unusual.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI went to Ferguson because the family, the grandfather called to ask me to come,\u201d he said. \u201cThe White House called while I was there, talked to me, the head of the NAACP<\/a> and others. So it\u2019s not a surrogate, it is a customary, traditional role.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reverend Sharpton is no Frederick Douglass. Let’s talk a little bit about the Reverend Al Sharpton<\/a>. He has done more to stir up strife between races than to quell it. Reverend Sharpton has a way of showing up in a difficult situation and throwing gasoline on whatever fire is raging. More than one of the situations Reverend Sharpton has been involved in included\u00a0 information that was questionable at best at the time, and later proved false. Reverend Sharpton is not a man seeking peace and harmony between races, he makes a living by stirring up strife and claiming to be a peacemaker. If harmony between the races occurred, Reverend Sharpton would be out of the spotlight and out of a job. He is very aware of that.<\/p>\n

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