I hate to sit here and defend Al Sharpton, but I have to.  You see in the wake of the Michael Vick scandal he was quoted as saying:

If the police caught Brett Favre (a white quarterback for the Green Bay Packers) running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other, would they bust him? Of course not,” Sharpton wrote Tuesday on his personal blog .

Ok.  that is clearly the most absurd thing ever.  I am no lover of Sharpton, and he has a history of absurdity, but that had to be bogus.

And it was:

MSNBC Duped By Blog Parody Site

What does a major news organization do on a big story when it looks for a lively quote?

Reporters will interview people, or, in this day and age, do an internet search. And then you can strike GOLD: that great QUOTE on a website that fits a story perfectly.

But there are danger signs on the cyberspace highway.

I swear, just about every time this bozo opens his mouth something else elitist and ignorant pops put ans reinforces my belief that he really is that far out of touch with not just the average American, but with reality.

Edwards: Americans should sacrifice their SUVs

 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards told a labor group he would ask Americans to make a big sacrifice: their sport utility vehicles.

The former North Carolina senator told a forum by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, yesterday he thinks Americans are willing to sacrifice.

Edwards says Americans should be asked to drive more fuel efficient vehicles. He says he would ask them to give up SUVs.

And I imagine he drove off in his Cadillac SUV, and flew away in his private jet for his next 400 dollar haircut before heading home to his 28000 sq ft house.

(Source Politico)

Putz.

I’m sick of this patronizing “do as I say not as I do” attitude, which is common in politics in general, but in the environmental matters in particular, seems to permeate the Democrats.

My initial reaction was to laugh.  Damage control.

But a part of me has to wonder why.  Afterall, the money he raised was legal right?  So why act as though it was tainted?

Clinton Donor Under a Cloud in Fraud Case

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign said yesterday that it would give to charity $23,000 it had received from a prominent Democratic donor, and review thousands of dollars more that he had raised, after learning that the authorities in California had a warrant for his arrest stemming from a 1991 fraud case.

The donor, Norman Hsu, has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for Democratic candidates since 2003, and was slated to be co-host next month for a Clinton gala featuring the entertainer Quincy Jones.

The event would not have been unusual for Mr. Hsu, a businessman from Hong Kong who moves in circles of power and influence, serving on the board of a university in New York and helping to bankroll Democratic campaigns.

So why so much focus just on Democratic scandals?  Because they annoy me pointing the finger at the corruption in the Republican party when their house is just as dirty.

They claim to be the party of the working class and accuse the Republicans of being owned by rich money. As this story shows, they have more then a little cash on their side:

Soros-linked group hit with huge fine

The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the last cycle’s biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated soft money to boost John Kerry and other Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.

America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 2004, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits.

The group’s big donors included George Soros, Progressive Corp. chairman Peter Lewis and the Service Employees International Union.

The settlement, which the FEC approved unanimously, is the third largest enforcement penalty in the commission’s 33-year history.

And speaking of the Democratsd and their finance woes, here is another: