Sharpton Compares Himself to
Holocaust Survivor Elie Wiesel
by Ben Shapiro 24 Oct 2013, 1:25
PM PDT
MSNBC’s Al Sharpton is no stranger to
self-aggrandizing statements. But in his new book, The Rejected Stone, he takes
self-aggrandizement to its limit: he compares himself to iconic Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. Sharpton
describes going to church with President Obama in 2009 just before his
inauguration:
As we left that church, I stopped
and met Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate who had survived the Holocaust camps in
Nazi Germany. I thought about how there currently were and had been battles
fought all over the world for human rights, whether against the Nazis, against
apartheid, against slavery and segregation, against Northern racists…I knew
that, like me, they had had periods in their lives when they were not exactly
warmly embraced in the corridors of power, when they might even have been
considered pariahs.
Sharpton once complained about the
“diamond merchants” in Crown
Heights, suggesting, “All
we want to say is what Jesus said: If you offend one of these little ones, you
got to pay for it. No compromise, no meetings, no kaffe klatsch, no skinnin'
and grinnin'. Pay for your deeds.” He also said in Harlem,
“If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come
over to my house.”
Al Sharpton
Al
Sharpton is the host of PoliticsNation.
Note: PoliticsNation
is a MSNBC program.
Harold E. Ford Jr. is a political
commentator at MSNBC, an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue
Committee.
George
Soros is the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (think tank), and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Elie
Wiesel is an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a
member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (think tank), a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and a co-founder at the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.
David
N. Pincus is a director at the Elie
Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, and was an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee.
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