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To: KLP who wrote (15976)	11/12/2003 9:24:08 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793587

I guess my opinion/position has been misunderstood. I clearly stated that I am not in a position to pass judgement, because I never heard of this person until a few days ago. I also said, I would probably have not heard about him, if he had made the same comments in the same places, without a military uniform - thats what got media attention. I hope that clarifies things.

To: KLP who wrote (15976)	11/13/2003 5:34:29 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793587

Jeff Jacoby: Won't Democrats rebuke Sharpton? Jeff Jacoby Boston Globe Published 11/12/2003 Last week, the Democratic candidates forced Howard Dean to furl the Confederate flag. Now perhaps they'll take on the real race-baiter in their midst: Al Sharpton. Whatever sins Dean may have committed in his 54 years, he has a long way to go before he can touch Sharpton's repulsive history of racial demagoguery. For instance, did Dean ever go out of his way to share a stage with the likes of Khalid Muhammad -- a gay-bashing, Jew-hating, anti-Catholic racist -- or praise him as "an articulate and courageous brother"? Of course not. But Sharpton did. Nor did Dean -- or any other candidate -- ever go on the radio to demand that a "white interloper" -- the owner of a Harlem clothing store -- be forced out of business, or whip up a racial protest that ended with seven people dead in a horrific arson attack. But Sharpton did.. The continuing scan-dal of the 2004 presidential campaign is the reluctance of virtually the entire political establishment -- the candidates, their campaigns, and the media -- to say anything about Sharpton's noxious history. To this day, President Bush gets criticized for his February 2000 visit to Bob Jones University, which at the time banned interracial dating. Dean was pilloried for saying that he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks." In the recent Mississippi governor's race, Republican Haley Barbour was blasted for allowing his picture to appear on the home page of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens. But Sharpton, whose résumé is more repugnant than all of them combined, draws nary a rebuke. It is as if David Duke were running for president and the leading figures in politics and the press decided not to make an issue of the fact that he had been an Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Is it even remotely conceivable that Duke would be regarded as just another candidate, let alone a candidate qualified to criticize the racial failings of others? Yet there was Sharpton at the CNN debate in Boston last week, lecturing Dean on "brotherhood" and quoting Martin Luther King. "You're not a bigot," he said, "but you appear to be too arrogant to say 'I'm wrong.' " This from the slanderer who to this day refuses to apologize for his role in the contemptible Tawana Brawley hoax, and for his poisonous libel of an innocent man. That man was Steven Pagones. In 1988, he was an assistant district attorney in the upstate New York county where Brawley claimed she had been abducted. Her story -- that six white men had raped her over four days -- was vivid, shocking and, it turned out, entirely fictitious. But Sharpton swore it was true, and vehemently accused Pagones of being one of the rapists. "If we're lying, sue us," he taunted, "so we can go into court with you and prove you did it." The gutsy Pagones did just that. He sued Sharpton (and two of his associates) for defamation. In 1998 he was completely vindicated; the jury awarded $345,000 in damages REST AT startribune.com