Al Sharpton now threatening to sue Rush Limbaugh over WSJ column

alsharptonAl Sharpton on Saturday threatened to sue Rush Limbaugh for writings in a Wall Street Journal column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots. In that article Limbaugh accused Sharpton and Jesse Jackson of making comments that helped get him booted from a group that was trying to buy the St. Louis Rams NFL team. Limbaugh derided Sharpton as having played “a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot” and the “1995 Freddie’s Fashion Mart riot.” The comments obviously pissed off Sharpton, who called both allegations false. (You know, kinda of like those BS racism quotes from media hacks at CNN, MSNBC, and numerous other places?) More from Fox News:

Sharpton was not present for or involved in the rioting in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section in August 1991, during which hundreds of blacks were involved in attacks on the neighborhood’s Jewish residents. He did deliver a eulogy at the funeral of the youth whose death in a traffic accident triggered the violence, but that didn’t happen until the violence ended.

Sharpton also wasn’t present on Dec. 8, 1995, when a lone, black gunman burst into Freddie’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business in Harlem, started shooting and set the building on fire. Seven people died. There was no riot.

Sharpton’s organization had, like other black groups, been involved in picketing the business over its plans to expand into space occupied by a black-owned business, but he said he couldn’t be blamed for the madman’s rampage.

“Unless Mr. Limbaugh apologizes and clarifies his statements, attorneys for Rev. Sharpton will move forward with a lawsuit,” said a written statement released Saturday by Sharpton’s spokeswoman. “He has the right to criticize Rev. Sharpton, but he does not have the right to accuse him of criminal activity, and riots and murders are criminal.”


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October 17, 2009 · Filed Under Rush LImbaugh

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