Al Sharpton: Cindy brought fight "to the doors of the president's home"

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Noted Fox News asshole John Gibson, filling in for Bill O'Reilly, trying in vain to bait the good Reverend Al.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167339,00.html

JOHN GIBSON, GUEST HOST: In the "Personal Story segment" tonight, Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war protester known as the peace mom is now back in Crawford, Texas. And she will have a high profile visitor this weekend — the Reverend Al Sharpton. But before he heads down to see Ms. Sheehan, he's making a stop right here in the no-spin zone. There he is. So the president, she has called the president a lying pardon my impression, but it was her, bastard, a filth spewer, an evil maniac, curer, the world's biggest terrorist who's committing blatant genocide, waging a nuclear war. Are you going in to support her?

AL SHARPTON, ACTVIST: I'm going because I respect the fact that this is a woman who lost her son in a war that I opposed from the beginning, who I feel the president misled us saying that we were in imminent danger of weapons of mass destruction. And she's had the moral courage to bring that fight, bring her pain to the doors of the president's home. And I think that it is appropriate. And I think that, of course in pain, this woman lost her child -- you say a lot of things.

GIBSON: Look, you're out of the blocks a little earlier than this normally. It's — she's been down there for weeks. And you're only going now. Isn't it true that the reason anti-war figures such as yourself and others, are attaching to her now is it looks like she's got a little momentum, where you can make this.

SHARPTON: Absolutely not. I'm going because they're having a prayer vigil and they've invited clergyin at this point. And I think that it is very important the last Sunday she's there that we show support. And I think thousands of people show support if she goes on a bus tour around the country. This is not academic to her. She lost a son. It is not academic to other family members.

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1. When You Need Fiery Rhetoric Nobody Does It Better Than Al

I saw some of the video of his speech and he was cool and dispassionate as he gave the reasons why the right had no business attacking her. It's great to see left-wingers embracing their base publicyly. He was cheered and welcomed by everyone. For too long we've let the rigt-wing media and the DLC tell us that we need to be more like them, now they see they need to be more like us.