Michelle Malkin: Al Sharpton Is a “Shakedown Artist” Who “Has Blood on His Hands.”

Michelle Malkin: Al Sharpton Is a “Shakedown Artist” Who “Has Blood on His Hands.” Video. Real Clear Politics, August 1, 2013. YouTube.

SEAN HANNITY: Do you think Al Sharpton has ever created a job with all this activism? Has he prevented a life from being taken with all this activism? Has he united anybody, has he solved any problems among any groups that you know of, Michelle?

 

MICHELLE MALKIN: Al Sharpton has blood on his hands. He’s ruined lives, he’s been one of the worst purveyors of racial divisiveness and hate in my lifetime. And it’s – how can you expect an ounce of honor from a man who doesn’t have it? Certainly he’s not going to go out of his way to try to defend yours or be a standup guy. I love you like a brother, Sean. And I was very dismayed when you made that decision, and I know you made it out of good faith, to attend the National Action Network, and this guy is a shakedown artist who hates cops, who hates whites, who hates Jews, who has stoked his rent-a-mob to murder Yankel Rosenbaum, to destroy the life of Steven Pagonis when he lied about Tawana Brawley, and who has done nothing but foment the very kind of anger that he is now accusing you, a once “friend” of, and I think the lesson here is something that I have tried tirelessly to remind all conservatives. If you get in the snake pit, you will be bit. Conservatives have been far too nice to these people in a good faith effort to try and have honest race relations. You can’t with somebody who is a demagogue. And who is evil.

 

HANNITY: Maybe you’re right. Maybe I made a mistake. I gotta tell you. In, especially the first debate – we aired it here on Fox. I confronted him with all his comments about, for a Jewish man to pin his yarmulke on backwards and the white interloper comment that he made at Freddie’s at 125th street, that resulted in deaths. I’m gonna say to him, if this is a battle he wants to fight every day, I’m going to remind everybody, not of one isolated incident, but of a history of vitriol out of his mouth.

 

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HANNITY: If it wasn’t so sad and incendiary, it would almost be like a Saturday Night Live skit, its so over-the-top.

 

MALKIN: It’s chilling, is what it is. Because in an era where we’re supposed to take Martin Luther King Jr.’s words to heart, judging people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, all this man has done is enrich himself by fomenting more racial division. And it should be known that in addition to that long string in history, of racial hate and demagoguery, that the National Action network itself is nothing more than a shake-down vehicle to buy legitimacy. And you have the fact that everyone from President George W Bush to Newt Gingrich to Al Gore. Every Democratic presidential candidate in the 2008 election and preceding it has kissed the ring of this race charlatan. And now he has reinvented himself, he thinks he can lose weight, put pancake makeup on, and all of a sudden he’s respectable. You do that Sean, and remind people every day of where that man came from. Warn people not to make the mistake of being an enabler of Al Sharpton, but be a disabler of his demagoguery.