NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots.
In a column published by the Wall Street Journal today about his derailed bid to become part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, he accuses Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making comments that helped get him booted from a group that was trying to buy the NFL team.
Sharpton, Rush in Riot Row
NEW YORK, NY [AP] — The Rev. Al Sharpton threatened to sue conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for writing in a column that the civil rights leader played a role in two New York race riots.
In a column published by the Wall Street Journal today about his derailed bid to become part-owner of the St. Louis Rams, he accuses Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson of making comments that helped get him booted from a group that was trying to buy the NFL team.
Limbaugh derided Sharpton as having played “a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot” and the “1995 Freddie’s Fashion Mart riot.”
Those comments prompted a quick retort from Sharpton, who called both allegations false.
Sharpton was not present for or involved in the rioting in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section in August 1991, during which hundreds of blacks were involved in attacks on the neighborhood’s Jewish residents. He did deliver a eulogy at the funeral of the youth whose death in a traffic accident triggered the violence, but that didn’t happen until the violence ended.
Sharpton also wasn’t present on Dec. 8, 1995, when a lone, black gunman burst into Freddie’s Fashion Mart, a Jewish-owned business in Harlem, started shooting and set the building on fire. Seven people died. There was no riot.
Sharpton’s organization had, like other black groups, been involved in picketing the business over its plans to expand into space occupied by a black-owned business, but he said he couldn’t be blamed for the madman’s rampage.
“Unless Mr. Limbaugh apologizes and clarifies his statements, attorneys for Rev. Sharpton will move forward with a lawsuit,” said a written statement released today by Sharpton’s spokeswoman. “He has the right to criticize Rev. Sharpton, but he does not have the right to accuse him of criminal activity, and riots and murders are criminal.”
A spokesman for Limbaugh, Tony Knight, of Sitrick and Company, did not immediately respond to an e-mailed request for comment.
Shlomie
Yes we need to Support Rush, Sharpton is a Rusha Mrusha and yes he did instigate the crown height riots, we need to destroy this man!
chaim
We need to destroy this man! The Chayeh AL
mendy
is there video of sharpton marching in ch during the riots
Chanie
Excuse me, Mr. Sharpton, but I vividly recall you marching down my street when I was a child, with throngs of black youths behind you, screaming “no justice, no peace” …which fired up these youths and ultimately lead to a vicious stabbing and murder that same night of Yankel Rosenbaum. So if Limbaugh attributed you to having a role in the Crown Heights riots of 91, he is 100% correct in that assertion.
antimesira
Rush is the man, Stick it to them!
Don’t let them intimidate you, they just want to shut you up.
Keep speaking the truth and I will keep supporting you.
We need more people like Rush who are not afraid to say whats right!
TRUTH-EMES (is hard to hear)
Rush is not afraid to say and do whats right,
thats why they hate him.
Hes a treat to their way of life, so they must terminate him.
The “new/fake Vaad tried to do the same to Crownheights.info,
If you stick to the truth everything will be alright.
GO RUSH!!!
Al (not so)Sharpton is trying to rewrite history, it aint gonna work. This will be his downfall, finally.
Support Rush!
Slime
Before the riots sharpton used to demonstrate often in crown hights about so called bias treatment that law abiding jews get over blacks. This caused a environment of hate which still plaigs us today. Then durring the riots he was silent (and probably very happy). He organized busses of yung black men to come to crown hights durring the riots to “protest”. 400 were arrested in one night, ask them who organized the bus that they came on.
jane
I’m grateful someone has spoken the truth publically. I’m ashamed that my people have not made this pongrom better known. If hundreds of Jews attacked blacks Jerimiah Wright would be reminding everyone in America of it every 5 minutes for eternity.
SHARPTON...
I WAS IN CROWN HEIGHTS THAT ILL FATED NIGHT AS SHARPTON WAS LEADING A BUNCH OF BLOOD THIRSTY BLACKS INCITING THEM TO RIOT! I WAS THERE ON PRESIDENT STREET AND SAW HIM AT THE FRONT WITH HIS LONG HEAR AND UGLY HATEFULL FACE. I WILL NEVER FORGET THAT PICTURE.
WE MUST NOT LET SHARPTON WEASEL OUT OF THIS ONE. WE MUST COME FORWARD AND TESTIFY AS TO HIS HATEFULL INCITEMENT THAT ENDED IN THE MURDER OF YANKEL ROSENBAUM…HYD!…AND THE DISTRUCTION AND PAIN TO ALL JEWS OF CROWN HEIGHTS THAT FOLLOWED.
WE MUST NOT LET HIM GET AWAY WITH MORE LIES!
anti PAUL ther GOY
in 1991 was sharpron
in 2009 is PAUL ther GOY HUEBNER (a/k/a Nissim Buron)
PAUL YM”S HUEBNER is leading a mesira on JEWS in crown heights and this is time to stop him. shone him and his family the drug dealers and mechaleli chaboss.
The Chanina Sperlin Vaad Weights In
Dear Toshvei Hash ‘chuna
As you well know, we live in a sensitive neighborhood and depend on the NYPD and Al Sharpton for our protection and peaceful coexistence with our neighbors. B“H and thanks to the valiant efforts of community activists last summer, we now have exceptional leadership at the 71st precinct. The commanding officer, Inspector Simonetti and Al Sharpton, They are both kind, deeply religious men, who works tirelessly to keep our community safe and secure.
Unfortunately, there are some in our community (Like Rush Limbaugh and CrownHeights.info) with a personal interest in poisoning our relationship with the police department and Al Sharpton and inflaming racial strife. Several stories have been misreported and used to stoke public opinion against the police and Al Sharpton. We urge you to verify stories you hear or read on websites before jumping to conclusions. As a community, we cannot afford to alienate the police and Al Sharpton or to undo the tremendous progress, made over the past eighteen years, toward mutual respect and peaceful coexistence with our neighbors. We need only look back to last summer to realize what we stand to lose Ch”v. If you do have a complaint against the police or Al Shartpon, please turn to us so that we can address the problem constructively.
Fishel Brownstein – Chairman
Chanina Sperlin – Vice Chairman
Zev Cadaner – Treasurer
Elie Poltorak – Secretary
Rabbi Eli Cohen – Executive Director
the lowlife Rev sharpy
if it does come to it and they move forward with a lawsuit, all the crownheightsers that have witnessed Sharpton marching should be present at the trial.
Law
Why is Sharpton till not in Jail after the riots he caused?????????
HOW DARE YOU SPERLIN!
What does Sharpton have to do with the Police Dept.!!!!????
We respect and appreciate the Dept. It’s Sharpton who finally has to be exposed for what he is and what he did to encite the riots!
How dare Chanina Sperlin and the rest of the group accuse anyone of anything.
SHAME ON YOU SPERLIN! YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO ACCUSE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THROUGH THE HORRORS OF THAT PERIOD WITH ANYTHING.
YOU AND YOUR SHOITIM COMRADS WHO SIGNED ON THE ABOVE COMMENT SHOULD IMMEDIATELY STEP DOWN! YOU ARE NOT OUR REPRESENTATIVES!
SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU! SHAME ON YOU!
no strong response?
why is crown hights. info not responding strongly to sperlins accusations? what gives?????
Milhouse
Ahem. It seems some people are a little thick today.
Bad joke
B“H
That ”Weights [sic] in“ note, supposedly from the new Vaad, is someone’s idea of a terrible joke!
Since when is Jewish Crown Heights happy with Simonetti!!!!! And the day that Al Sharpton (yemach shemo!) is truly someone we ”depend on“ for ”peaceful coexistence“ is never going to happen, please Hashem!
Come on, people — Milhouse is trying to point out that ”some people are a little thick today” (meaning that they are thinking with thick heads, not smart ones!
But I personally think the fradulent use of the names of the Vaad, even in the name of humor (except perhaps on Purim) was a pretty stupid idea.
disillusioned
Eli, do you stand with these men that have listed your name with theirs?
Revolting
How can any of you call yourself Chossids!
I don’t know what is worse, your blind hatred, or your love of this anti-semite mouthpeace for neo facism.
You make a great case for going off the derech!
Keep it up!
ughh
yemach shemo vezichrono
CH Mom
As a young mother during the crown heights riots I remember clearly not being able to go outside at the end of summer in the two weeks between camp and school because Al Sharpton was leading marches,I did go out one afternoon and was turned back by police telling me Sharpton was marching with black youths and it could become dangerous.Rush has nothing to worry about the facts on on his sie.
john facas
al sharpton makes me so sick with the part he played in freddies fashion mart, crown heights riot, and the tewanna brawley case, when will we stand up to the race pimps of the world who cause nothing but trouble and blame others when it goes sour, may the evil reverend rot in hell