Al Sharpton blows up on Confederacy-defending GOP candidate after being called a 'race-hustler'

[DonViejo]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/watch-msnbcs-sharpton-blows-confederacy-defending-gop-candidate-called-race-hustler/

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Deflection is the only thing that works with people like Corey Stewart.....

Al Sharpton asked direct questions that Corey Stewart refused to answer and deflected from.

Forget the HISTORY of the Africans taken from their villages for money by White Settlers in the New World in the early 17th century who needed forced labor. The generations after that, enslaved and devalued as human beings, to be bought and sold at whim, as more were taken from Africa a century later.

The American Civil War was about SLAVERY, not state's rights. Slavery as an institution was wrong! All the books written about this, I have to assume Corey Stewart never read, but Al Sharpton most likely did.

[Major Nikon]

5. Corey Stewart is a Neo-Confederate dipshit who claims the Civil War wasn't about slavery

He once called a white nationalist his hero and is to this day a birther dipshit who believes in the pizzagate insane nonsense. Even the GOP hates him. The best part is he's the perfect GOP candidate and will get crushed in the election.

[olegramps]

10. In 1861 VP of the Confederacy Alexander Stephens made slavery the keystone:

In a rather lengthy article he stated that Jefferson had correctly stated that slavery would be the "rock upon which the Old Union would split." He wrote that the founding fathers belief that the enslavement of African was in violation of the "laws of nature" and was wrong in "principle, socially, morally, and politically..." Stevens stated that they were wrong since it was based on the equality of the races. He laid out the foundation of the Confederacy in clear concise terms stating that their new government the cornerstone on which it is formed is that the "negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery-subordination to the superior race-is his natural and normal condition." This declaration of their constitution was published throughout the South and the North.

My ardent wish is that every newspaper throughout the nation reprint his statement removing any doubt as to the cause of the Civil War. Further, it should be broadcast whenever some nincompoop like Corey Stewart tries to mislead the citizens.

[Afromania]

2. Sharpton was even keeled considering Stewart went and ran to the Big Bigot Book of Talking Points

almost immediately. Almost ten whole minutes and the initial question went unanswered.

[Hav]

3. Good job by Sharpton

He didn't allow the conversation getting derailed by continuous name-calling and always brought it back to the topic. That didn't work out well for Stewart. Instead, all he could offer was the usual word salad and deflections we see again and again by people like him.

[spicysista]

4. Rev. Sharpton handled that clown with far more class than he deserved.

[IronLionZion]

6. It is tough to keep calm when dealing with these assholes

Sharpton handled it like an experienced pro

[heaven05]

7. damn

what a piece of racist shit. Spewing his, he thinks, intelligent distraction/diversion to cover his racist BS.

[maddiemom]

8. This A-hole is from MINNESOTA.

That blows my mind, since my grandfather came from that state and, like many other Scandinavians whose families settled there, was VERY liberal. The whole state was pretty liberal for many years. My grandfather could remember the old timers who remembered the infamous James gang raid (Northfield).

[Perseus]

9. Well done Rev

Normal repub tactic, you don't want to answer the question?
1. Talk about how much you love history
2. Talk about how much you love the state you intend to represent and how resilient, and brave the people from the state are.
3. Insult the host, or whoever asked the questions you are avoiding to answer
4. Run around the issue
5. Blame the liberals
Blah, blah

I just loved watching his face when the Rev flatly unmasked him from running around the bush. They are so full of sh&(*

[gopiscrap]

11. Way to go Rev!

I met Rev Sharpton at the SFO airport once, very classy guy!!! He handled that asshat very well.

[Quixote1818]

12. Sharpton is much, much smarter than he ever gets credit for. I really like him. nt

[oasis]

13. Al handled Stewart's condescending ass. Smackdown.

[MrScorpio]

14. Stewart is pretty much another living example that the GOPrs are the confederate party now.

The Party of Lincoln is no more.

[Puzzler]

15. Sharpton keeps right on point

... refuses to be baited, and says so.

“Mr. GOP” is essentially “Gish-Galloping”, by attempting to throw in multiple irrelevant talking-points. Not once, but repeatedly.

In the end it’s clear that Sharpton looks good (to the average viewer, IMO) and the other guy looks like a “typical politician” ... which gives Sharpton a clear “win”.


Apologies if it looks like I’m making it sound like a silly game, but the typical GOP tactics need to be shown exactly for what they are.

(in my opinion!)


-Puzzler