Sharpton’s legitimization consummated

I am about to speak unspeakable words.

Al Sharpton was a guest of President Bush’s at the White House this week, at some event honoring Black History Month.

It was reported in yesterday’s New York Sun. Not because the Sun thought it was notable or shocking that Sharpton was a guest of the president’s, but because Bush in greeting him mistakenly referred to his daughter as his wife, which created an embarrassing moment. Without that faux pas, the Sun wouldn’t even have mentioned Sharpton’s presence at the White House.

Sharpton is the unrepentant racial character assassin who in 1987-1988 disseminated Tawana Brawley’s story that prosecutor Steven Pagones and other men had kidnapped Brawley, held her captive for several days while raping her, then left her in a garbage bag covered with feces and with racist slogans scrawled on her body. He held New York State hostage for a year with this story—even accusing New York’s hapless, ultra-liberal Attorney General Robert Abrams of participating in a racist cover-up—until the liberal media exposed it as a complete fabrication. Sharpton is also the man who called the owners of a department store in Harlem “white interlopers,” sparking an arson attack that destroyed the store.

Of course, for years, Democrats, who are simply traitors to this country and to all decency, have not only legitimized Sharpton but honored him, with leading Democratic politicians regularly making the pilgrimage up to Sharpton’s headquarters in Harlem to receive his blessing. The media—even the New York Post which despises him—have treated him as a legitimate figure on our political landscape.

For me personally, the fact that Sharpton, instead of disappearing forever after the Tawana Brawley affair, survived politically and become an honored figure, was a shocking event, a kick in the gut, an abomination which showed that America had changed into a different country, that it no longer had the standards it once had. But at least Republicans had not gone along with this disgrace. One of the greatest things Rudolph Giuliani ever did, shortly after he became mayor in 1994, was to refuse to meet with the race-mongering black “leaders” including Sharpton. But now President Bush has welcomed this unspeakable individual as his guest, completing his legitimization.

Imagine how you would feel if you were Steven Pagones, whose life was turned upside down by this vile racial lie, seeing Sharpton not only become a fixture in American politics, but greeted by a “conservative” president, George W. Bush, at the White House.

As far as I’m concerned, Bush’s official designation should be changed from POTUS to POS.

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Harry Horse writes:

Which is more symbolically damaging to our country, Sharpton, or pornographer, Larry Flynt, as a dinner guest at the White House during the Clinton Administration?

LA replies:

We all know about the Clintonian degradation of America. So what’s the point of making such a comparison, other than to diminish the importance of the Bush/Sharpton story? My point is that now a Republican president has legitimized Sharpton.

Rachael S. writes:

I think President Bush is a conscious participant in the New World Order, and his job is to destroy conservatism in subtle ways without us knowing it is going on, like the white mice who (in Douglas Adams’ Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy) experimented on humanity to find out the question to the answer of “life, the universe, and everything”.

Though inviting Al Sharpton to the WH is far from subtle to us, I think mushy-middle conservatives are further down the scale of cultural nerve-deafness, and aren’t as bothered by this as we are (they would excuse it away).

Tim W. writes:

Don’t forget that Don Imus went on Sharpton’s radio show to beg forgiveness after his joke about the Rutgers basketball ladies. Imus’s joke was indeed crude, and I wouldn’t have objected to him apologizing to the team itself. But the idea that he needed to apologize to the entire black community, over and over, and debase himself for days on end was excessive to say the least. And to make the centerpiece an appearance on Sharpton’s radio show, where the “Reverend” sat as his moral judge and repeatedly told him he hadn’t, indeed, couldn’t, do enough ever to absolve himself was appalling. Here was a man who built a name for himself stirring up hatred for whites, particularly Jews, with false allegations and deliberately hurtful rhetoric, sitting as moral judge, jury, and executioner over a white man for telling a crude off-the-cuff joke.

By the way, Glenn Beck, the conservative pundit, has developed a friendship with Reverend Al. When Sharpton said some negative things about Mormons, Beck, who is Mormon, invited him on his show to discuss his comments. They had a polite discussion, agreed on some things, disagreed on others, and departed on good terms. Had Beck said something bad about blacks, things would have been very different, as we all know.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at February 14, 2008 09:27 AM | Send