Al Sharpton: Republicans Wrong To Claim There's A Social Safety Net

REVEREND WRONG

Sharpton Claims Poor People Are On Their Own







There are two men of the cloth in Barack Obama's life: hate-filled extremist Reverend Wright and his partisan establishment counterpart, Reverend Wrong. By the latter, of course, we mean Al Sharpton, who spent a portion of today's radio show blasting Mitt Romney over the issue of poverty in America.

As you may have heard, the former Massachusetts governor is taking heat for saying he's "not concerned about the very poor", meaning he believes there is a strong government-run safety net for the least wealthy in the United States.

In response, many Democrats are trying to claim George W Bush is "the real food stamp president", though growth in the program has greatly accelerated under Obama. The facts just don't back up their crazy assertion.

But Sharpton's approach is different: he's furious with Romney for suggesting the poor have anywhere to turn at all in this mean-spirited, cold-hearted country. From today's edition of Keeping It Real:

AL SHARPTON (5:20): This statement by Mitt Romney today, he’s trying to walk it back saying that he wasn’t concerned with the poor concerned with the middle class said he’s trying to clarify it but even in his clarity he exposes to many the misconceptions he said, 'well there’s programs for the poor, I meant my focus'.

What programs for the poor? They [Republicans] keep acting as if poor people have all of these things helping them.

Yes, between food stamps, housing vouchers, SSI payments, etc, why would anyone be crazy enough to believe poor people could survive in America?

Libtalker Stephanie Miller Sorry Governor Brewer's Finger Wasn't Severed

CHOP BREW-EY

Libtalker Longs For Days Of Political Violence







You know what's wrong with politics today? There just isn't enough violent thuggery.

Why, in the good ol' days, daring to challenge a revered leader's wisdom would have been met with a quick finger chopping, followed by something even more horrible.

Obama's media defenders have been incensed since Arizona Governor Jan Brewer held her ground with the "progressive" messiah during the latter's visit to Arizona earlier this week.

Though raw video captured by the Associated Press shows the Republican greeting Obama warmly upon arrival, Democrats have insisted she was out of line. But audio from the incident has yet to be located, if it exists at all.


Below, take a look at the AP feed, followed by libtalker Stephanie Miller's nostalgic call to violence and ridiculous use of the race card:

STEPHANIE MILLER (Hour One - 30:02): You know it is exhibit you know six thousand two of the unbelievable disrespect for this President. You know it’s like she (Gov. Jan Brewer) almost was posing for that picture on the tarmac of her with her finger up in the President’s face you know it’s like Lyndon Johnson would have broken that off and shoved it up your bleep.


[...]


MILLER (Hour Three - 2:01): What did someone on my Facebook page say she’s playing the fragile white woman scared of black man card? Yeah.

LAVOIE: Yeah.

MILLER: Six minutes after the hour yeah the white woman must be right (snoring noise)

WARD: [using southern accent] He [Obama] took the note and threw it in the car.

LAVOIE: She [Gov Jan Brewer] doesn’t like it when the help talks to her that way.

MILLER: No! I just got a DVD copy of The Help, I’ll watch it again in honor of Jan Brewer again this weekend.

Governor Brewer has done interviews since the encounter explaining her side of the story, telling KTAR / Phoenix hosts (audio here) that Obama was angry over the contents of her book and words were exchanged over the illegal immigration issue.

But who needs facts when emotional calls for violence and childish race-baiting tactics are so much more effective?

Geraldo Rivera Makes Liberal Use Of Divisive Race Allegations To Slam SC Voters

KING GERALDO

Rivera's Race Card Rhetoric Could Make Al, Jesse Blush







Move over, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson: there's a new Race Card King in town. Geraldo Rivera's fledgling radio career has provided an opportunity to spout more divisive rhetoric than the Justice Brothers could cook up in a lifetime.

Why? Who can understand anything Geraldo does?

But there he is, slamming South Carolina voters as racist secessionists just waiting for a Second Civil War to begin.


Particularly bizarre here is Rivera's assertion that Newt Gingrich has somehow mispronounced "Juan" in a way that he "swears to God" is a "racial epithet". We've reviewed this repeatedly and it just doesn't sound out of the ordinary. What does he mean?

Geraldo apparently is unaware that Juan's real detractors are found at sewer-dwelling "progressive" sites such as DailyKos. They hate him even more at NPR. How is his name pronounced there?

Equally peculiar: repeated public assertions (even just yesterday) that he's a "militant centrist" when in fact his own on-air language couldn't possibly sound further to the left.


From Thursday's WABC / New York broadcast:

GERALDO RIVERA (04:46): He [Jimmy Carter] may be, as many people suggest, one of the most unpopular former presidents. I think he's very underrated.


GERALDO RIVERA (11:32): I think that if you had stood up in that crowd in South Carolina during that debate and if you had said, I want South Carolina to secede from the nation again just as we did in 1860, we're going to be a, you know, or '61, we're going to be an independent country, we're going to leave this dreadful union, I bet they would have cheered that too.

BIZARRE BONUS CLIP: Sharpton & Friends lament mistreatment of Santorum!

AL SHARPTON: Let me ask you this how does Rick Santorum stand now with this? You've got Rock Santorum just got a major announcement that he really won Iowa, yet Rick Perry is going with Gingrich. Does this [Gingrich ex-wife controversy] give Santorum new life or is it too late?


KAREN HUNTER (PROFESSOR / ANALYST / GUEST): No no I think it’s too late and you were absolutely spot on, they absolutely robbed him of his opportunity to have momentum after Iowa. And there was a question right after Iowa and the vote actually the delegates whatever were split. I mean it was just really they did him (Santorum) a disservice. They did him really dirty in my opinion and I think the momentum is gone now.

Yes, we're sure you're CRUSHED that Rick Santorum has been so mistreated. Talk about disingenuous.