Liberal and former Democratic Presidential candidate “The Reverend” Al Sharpton, who preached his first sermon at the ripe old age of four and was licensed and ordained as a “Reverend” at the ripe old age of ten years old, helped bring down radio show host Don Imus recently for his allegedly racist comments. The Reverend is all about the bigotry and racism and such. He makes a living on it. Like so many other liberals. The liberal media loves him, because he’s so against conservatives and Republicans and President Bush.
Yesterday, though, he said this, regarding the good Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, to absolutely no outrage whatsoever from any liberals or any of their media:
“As for the one Mormon running for office, those that really believe in God will defeat him anyway so don’t worry about that …. that’s a temporary … that’s a temporary, uh, situation.”
Then the folks in the audience laughed and applauded uproariously.
In lieu of any liberal media outrage whatsoever, Mitt Romney responded today:
“I can only, hearing that statement, wonder whether there’s not bigotry that remains in America.”
“The Reverend” issued forth a hideous denial, today, of what he said yesterday, despite what he actually said, much as Canada’s Red-Green Party leader Elizabeth May denied linking Prime Minister Harper to a Nazi appeaser the other day. She ascribed the comments to a dead British Prime Minister instead. Sharpton said he meant that other believers in God—Republicans—would defeat him, as, um, a Mormon, like he said. Uh huh. Yup. No word on why he chose to single Romney out as a Mormon, however, nor why anybody would seek to defeat him on that basis—as “the one Mormon running for office”, nor why anybody would “worry” about that not happening.
Columnist and radio show host Hugh Hewitt rightly says, and asks today:
What an ignorant man, who will be given a pass by the MSM. … If Al had declared that a Buddhist, Hindu or Muslim candidate would be defeated by those “who really believe in God,” how great would the outcry be?
Also today, multi-gazillionaire liberal Democratic Presidential candidate and former John Kerry (multi gazillionaire) running mate John Edwards (see one of several blog entries about Edwards here) is in the news again. This time it’s not for hiring two (allegedly, but I saw it) rabidly anti-Christian campaign bloggers to do his bidding on the Internet (only one of whom he has now “let go”). But here’s a tiny bit of backup on today’s story from the liberals’ very own Washington Post which wrote last month,
Two years ago, former senator John Edwards of North Carolina, gearing up for his second run at the Democratic presidential nomination, gave a speech decrying the “two different economies in this country: one for wealthy insiders and then one for everybody else.”
Four months later, he began working for the kind of firm that to many Wall Street critics embodies the economy of wealthy insiders—a hedge fund.
Edwards became a consultant for Fortress Investment Group, a New York-based firm known mainly for its hedge funds, just as the funds were gaining prominence in the financial world—and in the public consciousness, where awe over their outsize returns has mixed with misgivings about a rarefied industry that is, on the whole, run by and for extremely wealthy people and operates largely in secrecy.
[…] But it was an unusual choice of employment for Edwards, who for years has decried offshore tax shelters as part of his broader campaign to reduce inequality. While Fortress was incorporated in Delaware, its hedge funds were incorporated in the Cayman Islands, enabling its partners and foreign investors to defer or avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Today, the liberals very own New York Times even reports:
John Edwards has made poverty a top issue as he stumps for the Democratic Presidential nomination. So his connections to Fortress Investment Group, a highly profitable hedge fund and private equity firm with several executives on Forbes’ latest billionaires list, have provoked quite a bit of interest from campaign watchers. Asked about his decision to join Fortress as a senior adviser in 2005, Mr. Edwards told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he did it “mainly in order to learn about the relationships between financial markets and poverty.”
But the reporters and editors at the A.P. didn’t let him off that easy.
Did he really have to join a hedge fund to learn about that? they asked Mr. Edwards, a former United States senator and trial lawyer. “How else would I have done it?” he responded. Well, you could have taken a class, it was suggested.
“That’s true,” he allowed.
He also conceded that he worked for Fortress in part because “making money was a good thing, too,” but insisted he did it “primarily to learn.”
[…] The Washington Post reported last week, as noted by DealBook, that Fortress is the biggest employer of donors to Mr. Edwards’ campaign. In all, Fortress employees gave about $167,000, according to the Post.
Business Week wrote in 2005 that the company Edwards worked for,
…has some $15 billion in equity under management, nearly half of which is tied up in hedge funds. Its recent acquisitions include stakes in assisted-living provider Alterra Healthcare and newspaper chain Liberty Group Publishing.
Etc.
And so it goes.
Quietly.
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