Al Sharpton makes the list this week as the guy who, only weeks ago, ran Don Imus up the flagpole for calling a the Rutgers University women’s basketball team ‘nappy headed hos’. To be sure, Sharpton is not an Arrogant Jerk for calling Imus on the carpet; rather he makes my list only these few weeks later for knocking presidential candidate Mitt Romney for being a Mormon.
More specifically for attempting to make Romney look like less of a believer by stating ‘As for the one Mormon running for office, those who really believe in God will defeat him anyways, so don’t worry about that; that’s a temporary situation.’
‘…those who really believe in God’? Mitt doesn’t really believe? Is Sharpton somehow aware that Mitt has been faking it all this time? How can you tell? Perhaps Sharpton just wanted to point out that Mormons don’t really believe in God, you know, the way all those Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, Hare Krishna’s, Born Again’s, and Buddhists do. Is Sharpton saying that among the plethora of choices out there, that Mormonism is to be held up to the light as the single option unworthy of real belief? Oh my, that is Arrogant.
And by the way: Sharpton is the exemplary of believerdom? Lord help us if this be the case; I cannot recall a single incident where I left the room feeling that Sharpton was genuine in any way. This guy worships his reflection in the camera lense, and nothing more. His sound bytes are more rehearsed than a bible-slinging evangelist. —Say Hallelujah!
Sharpton was quick to jump on Imus’ blunder. Nothing wrong with that; Imus spoke some nasty words and people certainly have the right to call him on his bad behavior. But wouldn’t a real reverend know that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, the rest of us can stand back and watch Al Sharpton be the first to pick one up.
This is just another example of Al’s Arrogant Jerkiness in the form of a double standard: ‘don’t attack people for their personal stance, unless you are me.’
Get with the program you Arrogant Jerk, and show some respect for other cultures (even the white ones). Maybe that bandwagon shouldn’t have such an easy way to get on and off.
I agree with anyone who says Al Sharpton is an arrogant jerk. He is also a knee jerk responder. His reaction to the newscaster’s small talk about lynching Tiger Woods is ridiculous. I would celebrate if he crawled back into a hole.
Al Sharpton is nothing but a trouble maker always looking for some incedent to stick his big fat nose into he is just like that idiot JESSIE JACKSON i scandal monger always getting themselves involved in things they have no buisness getting involved in