“What does Alterman say? He calls Sharpton a "dishonest carnival barker."”

Unfortunately, the “mainstream” media don’t highlight the unpleasant aspect of Al Sharpton’s evil career. The same ones who held Trent Lott’s feet to the fire essentially look the other way when it comes to a black ultra-radical. They are probably afraid of being unfairly charged with racism. A double standard definitely exist. Oh well, let’s see what happens when Sharpton actively campaigns for President in the relatively near future.

I thought Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Herald took on Sharpton a couple of days ago...

The NYC tabloids have been pretty tough on Rev. Al, the Times less so.

It is the national/DC press corps that has been, I assume, praying Al will just go away so they don't have to write nasty (accurate) things about him.

As a lifelong registered NY Democrat, I look forward to voting for him in the primaries, as a pure "strategic voting" decision.

FYI

From: http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/1/21/125546

Sharpton: I Want Clinton, Kennedy Scandal Protection

Citing the media's reluctance to confront Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy about scandal skeletons in their closet, Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton demanded Monday that the press give him the same pass on ethical questions about his past.

"The next time anybody wants to know about Tawana Brawley, I'm going to ask them, 'Do you ask Teddy Kennedy about Chappaquiddick? Do you ask Hillary Clinton about her husband?'" the firebrand reverend complained to Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, while he was preparing for his Martin Luther King Day commemoration.

During an appearance nine days ago on "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert grilled the Harlem-based presidential candidate relentlessly on the 1986 Tawana Brawley rape imbroglio. But the NBC Washington bureau chief, who has interviewed Sen. Clinton on several occasions, has yet to question her about a still-outstanding rape allegation lodged against her husband in 1999.

And neither has any other reporter.

In fact, the account given by Clinton rape accuser Juanita Broaddrick to reporter Lisa Myers should have been a major NBC exclusive. But Russert and other network decision-makers sat on the news until after the Wall Street Journal scooped their story.

Sen. Kennedy granted a lengthy interview to ABC's "This Week" last Sunday. But host George Stephanopoulos declined to raise the Chappaquiddick scandal, where the Massachusetts Democrat left campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in a car that he had driven off a bridge - while swimming to safety himself.

Though Sharpton didn't mention the racial disparity specifically, his comments are sure to fuel speculation about whether race has anything to do with the decision by white reporters to give white Democrats like Mrs. Clinton a pass, while repeatedly pressing the leading black candidate about a 16-year-old controversy.

Good point.