Giuliani Was Correct...
WaPo Fact Checker: Giuliani Right on Sharpton Visits to WH
By Jennifer G. Hickey - Dec 30, 2014
When Rudy Giuliani contended that President Barack Obama was contributing to propaganda encouraging people to "hate the police," it drew a four-Pinocchio (mostly false) rating from The Washington Post. Rather than backing down, the former New York City mayor defended his statement, taking on the Post's Fact Checker.
Responding to a question on CBS News' "Face the Nation" about the Post's fact-checking of his statement, Giuliani said: "So, I think the Washington Post fact-checking was substantially inaccurate. And they missed the one big point, Al Sharpton" and the number of times he has visited the White House since 2009.
That response was noted by Glenn Kessler, the Post's Fact Checker, who has issued a revised rating, bringing the four-Pinocchio rating down to one.
"Is it correct Obama invited Sharpton to the White House upwards of 85 times? And does that make Sharpton a close adviser of the president?" asked Kessler in laying out the basis for his re-examination of the former mayor's assertion.
He confirms that Sharpton has visited the White House on 72 occasions, including 5 one-on-one meetings, 20 meetings with staff members or senior advisers. The majority of visits, however, were part of group or public events.
Giuliani explained an anti-police message is sent "when Sharpton, an outspoken agitator who has protested homicides of minorities by police since the 1990s, is in public with leaders such as Obama or New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio," according to Kessler.
Giuliani also said Sharpton "stands for something. He is involved in every racial or quasi-racial issues that has involved any police officer
always on the side of whoever is against the police. Some of them have been legitimate, many of them have been illegitimate.
While backing off his initial analysis of Giuliani's assertion, Kessler concluded that it still earned a "one Pinocchio" rating because his characterization of Sharpton as a "close adviser" was an exaggeration.
Giuliani is not alone in asserting that Sharpton's relationship with Obama contributes to an anti-police environment.
The National Review has also contended that the visits illustrate "the extraordinary access Sharpton has had to the president and his top advisers."
Despite Kessler's conclusion that no special relationship exists between Obama and Sharpton, some White House officials say otherwise.
Noting that after the riots exploded in Ferguson, Missouri and Sharpton emerged as the informal spokesman for an administration wishing to remain engaged and distant at the same time because, a White House official told Politico that "theres a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down.
The official added: He gets it, and hes got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. Theres really no one else out there who does what he does.
Its not just Bill de Blasio. Bill de Blasio could turn around and say Al Sharpton is welcome at the White House, why are you blaming me for using him as an adviser? This starts with the president of the United States legitimizing the Al Sharpton's of the world who, again, have made a name for themselves bashing cops and blaming whites in general for all that ails the black community, said Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley on Fox News' "Special Report."
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Who else than a black man who knows about blacks and their possible next move, than Sharpton? Who are they going to talk to some white a hole who doesn't have a clue? I sure as hell wouldn't ask Giuliani about anything. He couldn't find the ground if he fell on it!
elmer wrote:
Who else than a black man who knows about blacks and their possible next move, than Sharpton? Who are they going to talk to some white a hole who doesn't have a clue? I sure as hell wouldn't ask Giuliani about anything. He couldn't find the ground if he fell on it!
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Well Thank you for sharing... Don D.
elmer there are hundreds of black men that could and would better advise the so called "commander-in-chief". Sharpton and Obanana are of the same mind set to put plainly. Rile up as the communist manifesto states to cause havic so other things can be a reason to take action as hate the cops has become in the BLACK COMMUNTIES. S I C
Don G. Dinsdale wrote:
WaPo Fact Checker: Giuliani Right on Sharpton Visits to WH
By Jennifer G. Hickey - Dec 30, 2014
When Rudy Giuliani contended that President Barack Obama was contributing to propaganda encouraging people to "hate the police," it drew a four-Pinocchio (mostly false) rating from The Washington Post. Rather than backing down, the former New York City mayor defended his statement, taking on the Post's Fact Checker.
Responding to a question on CBS News' "Face the Nation" about the Post's fact-checking of his statement, Giuliani said: "So, I think the Washington Post fact-checking was substantially inaccurate. And they missed the one big point, Al Sharpton" and the number of times he has visited the White House since 2009.
That response was noted by Glenn Kessler, the Post's Fact Checker, who has issued a revised rating, bringing the four-Pinocchio rating down to one.
"Is it correct Obama invited Sharpton to the White House upwards of 85 times? And does that make Sharpton a close adviser of the president?" asked Kessler in laying out the basis for his re-examination of the former mayor's assertion.
He confirms that Sharpton has visited the White House on 72 occasions, including 5 one-on-one meetings, 20 meetings with staff members or senior advisers. The majority of visits, however, were part of group or public events.
Giuliani explained an anti-police message is sent "when Sharpton, an outspoken agitator who has protested homicides of minorities by police since the 1990s, is in public with leaders such as Obama or New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio," according to Kessler.
Giuliani also said Sharpton "stands for something. He is involved in every racial or quasi-racial issues that has involved any police officer
always on the side of whoever is against the police. Some of them have been legitimate, many of them have been illegitimate.
While backing off his initial analysis of Giuliani's assertion, Kessler concluded that it still earned a "one Pinocchio" rating because his characterization of Sharpton as a "close adviser" was an exaggeration.
Giuliani is not alone in asserting that Sharpton's relationship with Obama contributes to an anti-police environment.
The National Review has also contended that the visits illustrate "the extraordinary access Sharpton has had to the president and his top advisers."
Despite Kessler's conclusion that no special relationship exists between Obama and Sharpton, some White House officials say otherwise.
Noting that after the riots exploded in Ferguson, Missouri and Sharpton emerged as the informal spokesman for an administration wishing to remain engaged and distant at the same time because, a White House official told Politico that "theres a trust factor with The Rev from the Oval Office on down.
The official added: He gets it, and hes got credibility in the community that nobody else has got. Theres really no one else out there who does what he does.
Its not just Bill de Blasio. Bill de Blasio could turn around and say Al Sharpton is welcome at the White House, why are you blaming me for using him as an adviser? This starts with the president of the United States legitimizing the Al Sharpton's of the world who, again, have made a name for themselves bashing cops and blaming whites in general for all that ails the black community, said Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Riley on Fox News' "Special Report."
Newsmax.com
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Sharpton visits WH 72 times and still owes $4 million in back taxes. Carson speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast once and gets audited almost immediately after having NEVER been audited in 30+ years of practice. Sure glad IRS is on the up and up. Ain't govt great!
All right get one. I don't care which one. But no matter who it is there will be a bitch there some where.
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