Last night -- this is from the New York Times today -- last night Christopher Hitchens and the Reverend Sharpton had a debate, and it was sold out. I don't know what the capacity of the place was, but it was before a crowd that packed the Celeste Bartos Forum at the New York Public Library's Beaux-Arts headquarters on Fifth Avenue. Mr. Hitchens said he realized that belief in God was something that a lot of people hold dear. Mr. Sharpton -- this is on printed page five of the New York Times -- the Reverend Sharpton, "Mr. Sharpton, in a jab at Mitt Romney (and the Mormon religion, which Mr. Hitchens had criticized because it once endorsed racial segregation), added, 'As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyway, so don’t worry, that’s a temporary situation.'"
And from Powerline:
Al Sharpton is, and has been for many years, an appalling person. He got his big career break by participating in a frame-up not unlike Michael Nifong's prosecution of the Duke lacrosse players. Of course, Nifong won't be running for President. To its everlasting shame, the Democratic Party has accepted Sharpton as a legitimate political figure and taken him seriously as a Presidential candidate. Few if any leaders of the party have criticized Sharpton or even distanced themselves from him.Click HERE for the video.
Now, perhaps, Sharpton has gone too far, with this naked expression of religious bigotry, directed at Mitt Romney:
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My prediction is that this display of bigotry by the good Reverend will die a quick death because Reverend Al is after all the Reverend Al and not a Republican, just like O'Bama saying that 10,000 people died in the Kansas tornado was only because he was tired. If he wins the presidency, I guess the only thing we have to worry about is that he gets enough sleep before he does any tough negotiating.
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