Fresh from his triumphant 6th-place showing in the Democratic primaries and
alliance with a Republican consultant, Al Sharpton took to talk radio to bash Howard Dean.
As DNC chair Dean has appointed Karen Finney, the DNC's first black communications director, and Cornell Belcher, the DNC's first black polling director. And then Sharpton went on New York's WWRL and said this, which I've grabbed from the anti-Clinton site Newsmax.
"I'm taking Dean to task right now for the lack of black inclusion at the highest levels of the Democratic Party," Sharpton told WWRL radio hosts Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. "It's the lowest in thirty years."
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The Harlem firebrand and one-time presidential candidate said that as things stand now, the Republican Party is making more progress including blacks than Dean's team.
"We ought to have more to show [for our support]," he complained. "And we should ask why, as the Republicans, ironically, are running blacks [for office], that [Dean] has left blacks out of the top echelon of the Democratic Party."
Sharpton also said that Dean needed to apologize for racially charged remarks last February, where the top Democrat suggested that Republicans could attract blacks to their party if they summoned the "hotel staff."
"That was at a DNC session where we were running candidates for chair and vice chair," Sharpton recalled. "I said right at that session that he ought to apologize, absolutely."
I think I'm going to forego my usual incisive commentary and try to be succinct.
What an asshole.
Well, ok, I'll add a little more: It's a shame that Dean's high-level black appointments aren't getting any credit in the media. It's a travesty that another Democrat would lie and back-stab Democrats to keep that truth hidden.