Certainly there is. The cite is Rush Limbaugh. Does that not raise questions for you?
I believe that is something we can all agree on.
Not necessarily, given that I don’t listen to Limbaugh. Nor does the thrust of this thread go to that issue. Like I said, I haven’t scrutinized every post, but the main discussion seems to be what a bad guy Limbaugh is for egging on Sharpton and his followers and the disruption they’re likely to cause in Denver. I don’t recall seeing anyone calling bullshit on Sharpton’s supposed comments, and it was with that spirit in mind that I made my post.
If Sharpton has indeed said no such thing I will retract my post, but with the caveat that the lambasting Limbaugh is coming in for here should be directed at his misrepresentation of what Sharpton said and not for cheering it on.
Now to a sensible human being it would seem that *irrelevant *of what Sharpton said, Rush said degenerate hateful bullshit.
I actually wanted to hlp you here and find the original Sharpton quote and post it here with whatever context was available, but if he ever really said it, I can’t find it. After a whole bunch of google news searches, the only source I can find for the alleged Sharpton quote is Limbaugh himself. I don’t know what Limbaugh was referring to or if he was making it up, but I can’t find a cite for Sharpton saying “There’s going to be trouble [if the superdelegates take the nomination away from Obama],” other than Rush Limbaugh saying he said it.
Even the statement as alleged is pretty vague and does not at all imply any dark threat of violence. Who doesn’t think it would cause trouble if Obama was denied the nomination after winning the pledged delegates and the popular vote?
Maybe I’m too generous, but I think it’s unllikely that Rush just made up the quote out of whole cloth. To me it has the feel of Al Sharpton answering a question somewhere sometime (though I can’t actually find it), and Limbaugh putting a completely disingenuous spin on it.
Sheesh. You try to give a guy the benefit of the doubt, and think perhaps that he was just posting idiocy in the heat of the moment…
Jackass.
I agree in both regards, Dio. I’ve been searching myself, and like you I’ve been unable to find anything other than Limbaugh saying that Sharpton said it. And yet, like you, I find it difficult to believe that Limbaugh just made it up out of whole cloth.
I’m inclined to agree with you also that Sharpton said something along that line at some point and that Limbaugh put his own spin on it.
Without Google we ain’t got much, huh?
Reminds me of South Park a couple of weeks ago when the internet went out. No one, not even news programs, could find out what was happening. 
On the other hand, it’s not at all hard to keep track of your knee-jerk, right-wing, party line idiocy.
Kinda hard to keep awake through it, though.
Well I’ll give you some help on that one.
Sure it’s not a ton of replies to it but the thread was about Rush’s quote not Al’s.
Actually, the latest from Sharpton is that he is threatening riots in NYC, because the courts acquitted the cops. (Cite.), and it’s not like Sharpton hasn’t made racist and inflammatory comments in the past. And of course, we all remember 1968.
Regards,
Shodan
It does, sometimes, if you have a microphone. That’s what Rush is counting on, anyway. See posts #21 and 32.
Sharpton does not threaten riots in your cite. He doesn’t even say that he dreamt about riots.
I believe MLK claimed to have had a dream; he certainly made a lot of the things he dreamed of come to pass. You might do well to remember that idiocy is as idiocy does, as Forrest Gump might have said.
Sharpton was not in Chicago AFAIK. But Rush remembers 1968; it’s the whole inspiration for his Operation Chaos.
And King got the idea from Gandhi, who was accused of inciting riots, I’m sure, but not honestly.
Try reading the Sho-bot’s posts in a Dalek voice. Helps a lot.
Sharpton didn’t say anything about riots in NY, the portrait of Sharpton as a racist is dubious at best (oooh…he said “white interlopers” :rolleyes: ), and what does 1968 have to do with Al Sharpton? Also, what does protesting a police shooting in Harlem have to do with the Democratic Convention in Denver?
The bottom line is that there is no cite for Sharpton ever threatening to riot anywhere and no cite other than Limbaugh for Sharpton even saying there would be “trouble” at the Convention (which every pundit says there would be) if the popular vote is overridden by the superdelegates.
Do many members here on the straight dope habitually cite things without reading them first? I just want to know what I can get away with in future debates…
Roseanne Barr did not “take over” for Randi Rhodes. Barr is one of a series of guest hosts who have filled the time slot since Rhodes quit. Others include Joy Behar and Richard Belzer. Barr has not to the best of my knowledge been hired as the permanent host of that time slot.