Campaignin' large with the Rev. Al Sharpton
Posted Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 11:08 am
UPDATE: The DUmmies weigh in and manage to show a perfect example of doublethink. Not only is the FBI out to oppress The Reverend, but he's also a GOP tool. As proof of the latter, they point to this 2/05/04 article:
WASHINGTON - The FBI, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the Rev. Al Sharpton, secretly videotaped him pocketing campaign donations from two shady fund-raisers in a New York City hotel room and then asking for more, it was reported yesterday...The Reverend denies all charges.
An FBI wiretap picked up Hawkins telling White he believed they had raised more than $140,000 for Sharpton in the previous quarter โ but Hawkins fretted because Sharpton had reported only about $50,000 on his federal election filing...
"He's a train wreck โ a plane crash waiting to happen," Hawkins told White about Sharpton, according to the [Philadelphia Inquirer]...
UPDATE: The DUmmies weigh in and manage to show a perfect example of doublethink. Not only is the FBI out to oppress The Reverend, but he's also a GOP tool. As proof of the latter, they point to this 2/05/04 article:
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...