Terri
01-21-2003, 03:54 PM
Sharpton: I Want Clinton, Kennedy Scandal Protection
NewsMax
January 21, 2003
Citing the media's reluctance to confront Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy about scandal skeletons in their closet, Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton demanded Monday that the press give him the same pass on ethical questions about his past.
"The next time anybody wants to know about Tawana Brawley, I'm going to ask them, 'Do you ask Teddy Kennedy about Chappaquiddick? Do you ask Hillary Clinton about her husband?'" the firebrand reverend complained to Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, while he was preparing for his Martin Luther King Day commemoration.
During an appearance nine days ago on "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert grilled the Harlem-based presidential candidate relentlessly on the 1986 Tawana Brawley rape imbroglio. But the NBC Washington bureau chief, who has interviewed Sen. Clinton on several occasions, has yet to question her about a still-outstanding rape allegation lodged against her husband in 1999.
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Excellent point!
NewsMax
January 21, 2003
Citing the media's reluctance to confront Senators Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy about scandal skeletons in their closet, Democratic presidential candidate Rev. Al Sharpton demanded Monday that the press give him the same pass on ethical questions about his past.
"The next time anybody wants to know about Tawana Brawley, I'm going to ask them, 'Do you ask Teddy Kennedy about Chappaquiddick? Do you ask Hillary Clinton about her husband?'" the firebrand reverend complained to Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin, while he was preparing for his Martin Luther King Day commemoration.
During an appearance nine days ago on "Meet the Press," host Tim Russert grilled the Harlem-based presidential candidate relentlessly on the 1986 Tawana Brawley rape imbroglio. But the NBC Washington bureau chief, who has interviewed Sen. Clinton on several occasions, has yet to question her about a still-outstanding rape allegation lodged against her husband in 1999.
Full Story (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtm l?a=2003/1/21/125546)
Excellent point!