Sharpton: I'm Not Sure Hillary Understands Race
RUSH: Al Sharpton. We talked about Republicans earlier. The Democrat primary, Bernie's fading out. Bernie, for all intents and purposes, he's conceding and surrendering in South Carolina and moving on. I mean, his crowds might be big, but the turnout at Democrat primaries way down there. There just isn't anywhere near the emotion on the Democrat side as there is on the Republican side. Nowhere near it. And I don't care how anybody on the left wants to hear that or analyze it, what it boils down to is this is a campaign on the left about Hillary Clinton, and there isn't a whole lot of unbridled excitement about it out there.
There may be some pro forma, perfunctory attitudes about it as though, well, she's the nominee, we already know that, she's gonna be elected, we know that, but there's no excitement about it. Nothing comparable to what's happening on the Republican side.
Now, granted there's not a whole lot of drama, either, on the Democrat side. But Hillary's not jazzing anybody, and Bernie may be drawing crowds but he's not turning people out. It's a very, very important dose of reality. You get caught up in the buzz of Bernie's campaign, get caught up in the buzz of his big crowds. Just like Romney was drawing huge crowds in the last week of the 2012 campaign, but they didn't show up, or they were dwarfed by others who did show up on Election Day.
Now, there are two stories in the last couple of days about Al Sharpton and Hillary and how he's not all-in on Hillary. Reverend Sharpton is not clear that Hillary gets racial issues. There was a Politico story. This one is the Washington Free Beacon, and the headline: "Sharpton Doesn’t 'Quite Trust' Hillary Clinton, Questions Her Understanding of Racial Issues -- MSNBC host and controversial activist Al Sharpton doesn’t 'quite trust' Hillary Clinton, according to sources in a Politico article posted Monday, and he wouldn’t fully endorse Clinton’s understanding of racial issues. Politico‘s Glenn Thrush reports: People close to Sharpton say he likes Clinton, and is probably inclined to endorse her -- but he doesn’t quite trust her."
Now, just imagine how sketchy you have to be for Al Sharpton not to trust you. For crying out loud, can you imagine what that says about Hillary Clinton, if somebody like Al Sharpton doesn't trust you?
"Sharpton also said that he wants to see how her sputtering campaign performs, and is intent on exercising maximum leverage on the issues he cares most about: community policing, sentencing laws, urban economic development," and forgetting tax bills. "The minute you endorse you become a surrogate and I want to be an advocate," said Sharpton. Translation for that is, Sharpton's not gonna endorse Hillary until he figures he's wrung all the promises he can out of her.
Now, given all that Obama has given Sharpton, that's gonna be a high bar. Obama's given Sharpton everything, access, who knows what. And that's gonna be a big bar for Hillary to overcome. Glenn Thrush asked Sharpton if Hillary gets race. And Sharpton said, "I think she's familiar with it." I think I have the sound yesterday, didn't get to it, but she's doing her black dialect. She was doing her Southern dialect. "I ain't no ways tired." Wherever she goes she tries to sound like she thinks her audience speaks. It's transparent as you can get.
Sharpton says, "I think Hillary's familiar with race. She worked for Marian Wright Edelman," that was the Children's Defense Fund. "And she marched for Dr. King, and I think that her husband and his Arkansas background and living more with blacks, they were more 'accultured.' But comfort and culture is two different things."
But that's strange, because you go back to 2008 Sharpton threw down the race card on Bill Clinton. Remember that? Well, properly so. Clinton was sitting around talking with Ted Kennedy, you know, and Obama walked by, and Ted Kennedy sitting there, and Clinton said, "Hey, hey, you know, Ted, it wasn't that long ago that guy'd be fetching our drinks." He said that of Obama. Obama heard about it and all hell broke loose. So, anyway, my only point here is that things are not just rosy smooth on the Democrat side.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/sharpton-doesnt-trust-hillary-clinton-questions-understanding-racial-issues/
RUSH: Al Sharpton. We talked about Republicans earlier. The Democrat primary, Bernie's fading out. Bernie, for all intents and purposes, he's conceding and surrendering in South Carolina and moving on. I mean, his crowds might be big, but the turnout at Democrat primaries way down there. There just isn't anywhere near the emotion on the Democrat side as there is on the Republican side. Nowhere near it. And I don't care how anybody on the left wants to hear that or analyze it, what it boils down to is this is a campaign on the left about Hillary Clinton, and there isn't a whole lot of unbridled excitement about it out there.
There may be some pro forma, perfunctory attitudes about it as though, well, she's the nominee, we already know that, she's gonna be elected, we know that, but there's no excitement about it. Nothing comparable to what's happening on the Republican side.
Now, granted there's not a whole lot of drama, either, on the Democrat side. But Hillary's not jazzing anybody, and Bernie may be drawing crowds but he's not turning people out. It's a very, very important dose of reality. You get caught up in the buzz of Bernie's campaign, get caught up in the buzz of his big crowds. Just like Romney was drawing huge crowds in the last week of the 2012 campaign, but they didn't show up, or they were dwarfed by others who did show up on Election Day.
Now, there are two stories in the last couple of days about Al Sharpton and Hillary and how he's not all-in on Hillary. Reverend Sharpton is not clear that Hillary gets racial issues. There was a Politico story. This one is the Washington Free Beacon, and the headline: "Sharpton Doesn’t 'Quite Trust' Hillary Clinton, Questions Her Understanding of Racial Issues -- MSNBC host and controversial activist Al Sharpton doesn’t 'quite trust' Hillary Clinton, according to sources in a Politico article posted Monday, and he wouldn’t fully endorse Clinton’s understanding of racial issues. Politico‘s Glenn Thrush reports: People close to Sharpton say he likes Clinton, and is probably inclined to endorse her -- but he doesn’t quite trust her."
Now, just imagine how sketchy you have to be for Al Sharpton not to trust you. For crying out loud, can you imagine what that says about Hillary Clinton, if somebody like Al Sharpton doesn't trust you?
"Sharpton also said that he wants to see how her sputtering campaign performs, and is intent on exercising maximum leverage on the issues he cares most about: community policing, sentencing laws, urban economic development," and forgetting tax bills. "The minute you endorse you become a surrogate and I want to be an advocate," said Sharpton. Translation for that is, Sharpton's not gonna endorse Hillary until he figures he's wrung all the promises he can out of her.
Now, given all that Obama has given Sharpton, that's gonna be a high bar. Obama's given Sharpton everything, access, who knows what. And that's gonna be a big bar for Hillary to overcome. Glenn Thrush asked Sharpton if Hillary gets race. And Sharpton said, "I think she's familiar with it." I think I have the sound yesterday, didn't get to it, but she's doing her black dialect. She was doing her Southern dialect. "I ain't no ways tired." Wherever she goes she tries to sound like she thinks her audience speaks. It's transparent as you can get.
Sharpton says, "I think Hillary's familiar with race. She worked for Marian Wright Edelman," that was the Children's Defense Fund. "And she marched for Dr. King, and I think that her husband and his Arkansas background and living more with blacks, they were more 'accultured.' But comfort and culture is two different things."
But that's strange, because you go back to 2008 Sharpton threw down the race card on Bill Clinton. Remember that? Well, properly so. Clinton was sitting around talking with Ted Kennedy, you know, and Obama walked by, and Ted Kennedy sitting there, and Clinton said, "Hey, hey, you know, Ted, it wasn't that long ago that guy'd be fetching our drinks." He said that of Obama. Obama heard about it and all hell broke loose. So, anyway, my only point here is that things are not just rosy smooth on the Democrat side.
http://freebeacon.com/politics/sharpton-doesnt-trust-hillary-clinton-questions-understanding-racial-issues/