Comments on: Al Sharpton as Torquemada http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/ Just another Pajamasmedia.com weblog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:02:54 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dick http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86657 dick Sat, 14 Apr 2007 15:08:06 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86657 For those who think nobody pays attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, I would beg to differ with your. A couple of years ago I was up in the Bronx to see a doctor and get a special test. On the bus going home a black guy got on and started passing out handbills advertising a special appearance by Al Sharpton. I was amazed to see how many people took the handbills and commented on how much they supported Sharpton and how he took it to the man. They admired him so much. Based on the demographics I just kept my mouth shut but I could not believe all the people who bought this POS guy. He strikes me as the perfect role model for that minister with his rent-a-riot crews in Bonfire of the Vanities and he has been pushing this crap for a long time. For those who think nobody pays attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, I would beg to differ with your. A couple of years ago I was up in the Bronx to see a doctor and get a special test. On the bus going home a black guy got on and started passing out handbills advertising a special appearance by Al Sharpton. I was amazed to see how many people took the handbills and commented on how much they supported Sharpton and how he took it to the man. They admired him so much.

Based on the demographics I just kept my mouth shut but I could not believe all the people who bought this POS guy. He strikes me as the perfect role model for that minister with his rent-a-riot crews in Bonfire of the Vanities and he has been pushing this crap for a long time.

]]> By: Wellspring http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86656 Wellspring Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:00:09 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86656 "Most people don't even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God." They should. What happened in Crown Heights could happen anywhere. However loathsome it was, to my knowledge nothing Don Imus has said has ever gotten anyone killed. “Most people don’t even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God.”

They should. What happened in Crown Heights could happen anywhere.

However loathsome it was, to my knowledge nothing Don Imus has said has ever gotten anyone killed.

]]> By: exguru http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86655 exguru Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:31:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86655 The hayday of race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson may be almost over, judging from Michigan's vote against affirmative action last fall. Opposed by both parties and every newspaper, church and state organization, Ward Connerly's amendment to the state constitution prevailed nevertheless by about 2-to-1. Not only that, his ballot language had been watered down by an unfriendly judge, so the voters saw "end affirmative action" instead of "end racial preferences," which opponents thought was going to be a poison pill. Mrs. O'Connor was totally reversed, and Michigan took a long step toward the creation of a colorblind society. The hayday of race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson may be almost over, judging from Michigan’s vote against affirmative action last fall. Opposed by both parties and every newspaper, church and state organization, Ward Connerly’s amendment to the state constitution prevailed nevertheless by about 2-to-1. Not only that, his ballot language had been watered down by an unfriendly judge, so the voters saw “end affirmative action” instead of “end racial preferences,” which opponents thought was going to be a poison pill. Mrs. O’Connor was totally reversed, and Michigan took a long step toward the creation of a colorblind society.

]]> By: dclydew http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86654 dclydew Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:40:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86654 Sorry, not "at the behest of the Gipper", but rather "under his administration". I don't know that he was personally involved (Sorry, caught the mistype on rereading it) Sorry, not “at the behest of the Gipper”, but rather “under his administration”. I don’t know that he was personally involved (Sorry, caught the mistype on rereading it)

]]> By: dclydew http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86653 dclydew Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:39:19 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86653 'The New Inquisition' has been around for awhile. Robert Anton Wilson wrote a book by that title in the early-mid eighties. He was also one of the first to realize the potential impact of PC and the feminist movement of the 70's. Did you know that the US government, has, on occasion, burned books because they didn't like the subject matter or the information? Did you know that the US government has made statements that do not agree with facts, in order to further policy? Better yet, did you know that the GAO has made a ruling which stated that it was OK to lie to the public in order to further policy? Did you know that some areas of research were banned and much of the existing documented work on the topic was destroyed? Worse yet, that happened at the behest of the Gipper himself. America has been fighting between freedom and opression for quite some time. ‘The New Inquisition’ has been around for awhile. Robert Anton Wilson wrote a book by that title in the early-mid eighties. He was also one of the first to realize the potential impact of PC and the feminist movement of the 70’s.

Did you know that the US government, has, on occasion, burned books because they didn’t like the subject matter or the information?

Did you know that the US government has made statements that do not agree with facts, in order to further policy? Better yet, did you know that the GAO has made a ruling which stated that it was OK to lie to the public in order to further policy?

Did you know that some areas of research were banned and much of the existing documented work on the topic was destroyed? Worse yet, that happened at the behest of the Gipper himself.

America has been fighting between freedom and opression for quite some time.

]]> By: Grumpy Old Man http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86652 Grumpy Old Man Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:03:16 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86652 <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bonfire-Vanities-Tom Wolfe/dp/0553381342/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-2144664-9813608?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176444125&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">Tom Wolfe</a> had this one nailed years ago. Tom Wolfe had this one nailed years ago.

]]> By: Ray Zacek http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86651 Ray Zacek Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:07:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86651 There you go again, Roger, thinking rationally. Don't you know it's now a world prone to irrationality? My own theory is that excess CO2 emissions have no effect whatsoever on global warming, but have a deleterious effect on human thought processes thus producing an environment conducive to such irrational phenomena as Imus, Anna Nicol Smith, Al Gore preaching the eschatology of global warming, and a cheap demagogue like Al Sharpton morphing into a form of moral arbiter. There you go again, Roger, thinking rationally. Don’t you know it’s now a world prone to irrationality? My own theory is that excess CO2 emissions have no effect whatsoever on global warming, but have a deleterious effect on human thought processes thus producing an environment conducive to such irrational phenomena as Imus, Anna Nicol Smith, Al Gore preaching the eschatology of global warming, and a cheap demagogue like Al Sharpton morphing into a form of moral arbiter.

]]> By: ElMondo http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86650 ElMondo Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:48:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86650 Er... Roger's right in invoking Torquemada. Sorry that I didn't make that clear. Er… Roger’s right in invoking Torquemada. Sorry that I didn’t make that clear.

]]> By: ElMondo http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86649 ElMondo Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:47:31 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86649 Hmm... you're right, Roger. I never thought of things that way before. The campus PC wave in the late '80s through today, the Al Sharpton portion of the racial movements, the Duke rape case and the "Group of (fill-in-the-blank with their latest count)", the UW Law School Hmong isssue... all these come across as the second coming of the Inquisition. Except the trials are websites with their deliberations being comments on angry blogsites (Kos? Marcone's site? FDL? etc.) and the torture is belittlement, condescension, and hectoring. Granted, I'm not going to carry the analogy <i>too</i> far... there's not been any burnings at stakes yet, but there have been Auto-de-fe's of sorts (remember, the Auto-de-fe wasn't the torture and burning of heretics itself, it was the public display/humilitation where the sentences were read and the condemned persons reactions were witnessed). Recall the antics of the Group of 88 in the Duke case as an example. Modern day racial or political "activism" may not rival the Inquisition in effect, but in spirit it's pretty durn close. Damn all the heretics and all that. Nice analysis, Rodger; I never thought of things in those terms before. Hmm… you’re right, Roger. I never thought of things that way before. The campus PC wave in the late ’80s through today, the Al Sharpton portion of the racial movements, the Duke rape case and the “Group of (fill-in-the-blank with their latest count)”, the UW Law School Hmong isssue… all these come across as the second coming of the Inquisition. Except the trials are websites with their deliberations being comments on angry blogsites (Kos? Marcone’s site? FDL? etc.) and the torture is belittlement, condescension, and hectoring.

Granted, I’m not going to carry the analogy too far… there’s not been any burnings at stakes yet, but there have been Auto-de-fe’s of sorts (remember, the Auto-de-fe wasn’t the torture and burning of heretics itself, it was the public display/humilitation where the sentences were read and the condemned persons reactions were witnessed). Recall the antics of the Group of 88 in the Duke case as an example.

Modern day racial or political “activism” may not rival the Inquisition in effect, but in spirit it’s pretty durn close. Damn all the heretics and all that. Nice analysis, Rodger; I never thought of things in those terms before.

]]> By: Terrye http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86648 Terrye Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:02:53 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2007/04/12/al-sharpton-as-torquemada/#comment-86648 Most people don't even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God. Most people don’t even pay attention to the likes of Al Sharpton, thank God.

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