Al Sharpton Show: Did Sarah Palin do something to Michael Jackson?
Yesterday, NewsReal Blog was obliged to revisit Al Sharpton’s history of disturbing, not to mention felonious, activities — none of which has prevented him from becoming and remaining one of the most famous men in American public life.
Most recently, of course, he wasted no time insinuating himself into the coverage surrounding Michael Jackson’s death; as reported here, Sharpton used his eulogy of Jackson to deliver another of his screeds against “racist” white America which was dutifully broadcast, without criticism, by the major television networks to an audience of millions.
This week, however, a remark made on Al Sharpton’s radio show failed to make the news.
Radio Equalizer’s Brian Maloney snagged an audio clip of Sharpton’s July 6 broadcast, which featured this exchange with a surprisingly sane sounding female caller:
FEMALE CALLER (31:50): He (Michael Jackson) is truly the soundtrack of my life. I also have a theory about Sarah Palin as well and I’m going to put it out there on radio, hopefully someone can investigate.
But, I think maybe she did something to Michael Jackson. Maybe there’s a scandal there. Maybe she’s stepping down because something’s about to come out. I don’t know, but I’m gonna just put it out there on your show so we’ll see.
SHARPTON: All right, thank you for your call, Ashley. That’s interesting. I’ll put it out, we’ll see. I don’t know.
As Maloney says, “It’s probably the wackiest Sharpton moment since The Reverend called Somali pirates a “voluntary coast guard”.
Note that Sharpton doesn’t challenge the caller’s deranged theory, but calls it “interesting”.
“Sure, why not?” writes Maloney. “No theory is too bizarre for the king of conspiracies.”
No word on whether or not Keith Olbermann will take Sharpton to task for letting the conspiracy pass; after all, Olbermann wasn’t in a forgiving mood after Glenn Beck “nodded” at one of his guest’s contentious observations.
Are these people out of their minds?????
Sarah Palin had nothing to due with Michael Jackson’s death. Everyone in the ‘hood knows it was Tawana Brawley who did him in.
How did she off Jackson all the way from Argentina?
While I hate Al Sharpton, I can’t find fault with the way he handled that caller. Even he prolly thought she was a crackpot and was just politely dismissing her.
What was contemptible about Sharpton’s latest media surfacing act is the way he hijacked Michael Jackson’s death to put his ugly mug in the limelight again. Come on, pretending a person of indeterminate sex and race was some major black power figure is really going out there.
That’s all Sharpie said?? “That’s interesting…” ???
More like he’s blowing off a kook caller – come on! Unless he went on to openly advocate this, it’s obvious he was just letting it slide; some of you got hit by lightning in your tin foil hats; Sharpie’s made $$$ making trouble but this isn’t one of them; are you sure this didn’t come from THE ONION?
I vaguely recall one or two other talkmeisters getting rid of kook callers in similar fashion. Be polite and get ‘em off the air ASAP.
“That’s all Sharpie said?? “That’s interesting…†???
More like he’s blowing off a kook caller – come on! Unless he went on to openly advocate this, it’s obvious he was just letting it slide; some of you got hit by lightning in your tin foil hats; Sharpie’s made $$$ making trouble but this isn’t one of them; are you sure this didn’t come from THE ONION?”
That’s what call screeners and time delays are for; I’m sure he has those, to be sure any racially conscious (that is, non-suicidal) Whites get through to tear him a new one .
Correction – to be sure Whitey does not get through
yes, i’d say that was a blow-off, though i consider sharpton a peddler of conspiracy theories in his own right, and nearly as off the wall as the caller this was a bit too much for even him to swallow without a full gram of salt, not just a grain.
Not to belabor the obvious, but , YES!!!