WashPost Offers Al Sharpton a Peacemaker Op-Ed: ‘Passion Without Poison’
On the very same day that The Washington Post is shaming Sarah Palin on the front page for using the phrase “blood libel,” the Post editorial page welcomed the shameless Rev. Al Sharpton to paint himself as a peacemaker in the post-Tucson political games. The headline was “Passion without poison.” Nowhere in the article did the supposedly reformed Sharpton find the words to apologize for smearing innocent people with the Tawana Brawley rape hoax, something he's never apologized for. But the Post finds him worthy to deliver their sermon. This may have been organized by Post editorial writer Jonathan Capehart, one of the first on Wednesday to attack Sarah Palin on TV for using the words “blood libel” to describe the evidence-free charge that Palin and other conservatives were guilty for Jared Loughner's murderous rampage. On the Post website,
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