FLASHBACK: Obama’s $150,000 ‘BRIBE’: His campaign team ‘paid Rev Wright to stay quiet during 2008 campaign’

This is news to me. It can be expected because Democrats use the Saul Alinsky strategy: Accuse others of what you have done, and try to do the accusing first, BEFORE the real facts come out.

I forgot all about him. I prefer not to think about Obama and the “Reverend” Wright.
He lives in a lovely mansion in a white gated community.

I didn’t forget about two more “Reverends”. “Reverend” Jessie Jackson and “Reverend” Al Sharpton.
Both made a career of “shake downs” for silence. Kind of like a nuisance lawsuit from a whore. Pay them and shut them up so they go away. I wouldn’t want to discriminate…. Remember “Reverend” Al Sharpton?

How Sharpton gets paid to not cry ‘racism’ at corporations
By Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein
January 4, 2015 | 12:23am

The Rev. Al Sharpton called the lawsuit brought against him “frivolous at best.”
Want to influence a casino bid? Polish your corporate image? Not be labeled a racist?
Then you need to PAY Al Sharpton.

For more than a decade, corporations have shelled out thousands of dollars in donations and consulting fees to Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN). What they get in return is the reverend’s supposed sway in the black community or, more often, his silence.

Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal met with the activist preacher after leaked emaial showed her making racially charged comments about President Obama. Pascal was under siege after a suspected North Korean cyberattack pressured the studio to cancel its release of “The Interview,” which depicts the assassination of dictator Kim Jong-un. Pascal and her team were said to be “shaking in their boots” and “afraid of the Rev,” The Post reported.
No payments to NAN have been announced, but Sharpton and Pascal agreed to form a “working group” to focus on racial bias in Hollywood.

Modal Trigge rSony exec Amy Pascal leaves her hotel after a meeting with Sharpton.
Sharpton notably did not publicly assert his support for Pascal after the meeting — what observers say seems like a typical Sharpton “shakedown” in the making. Pay him in cash or power, critics say, and you buy his support or SILENCE.

“Al Sharpton has enriched himself and NAN for years by threatening companies with bad publicity if they didn’t come to terms with him. Put simply, Sharpton specializes in shakedowns,” said Ken Boehm, chairman of the National Legal & Policy Center, a Virginia-based watchdog group that has produced a book on Sharpton.

And Sharpton, who now boasts a close relationship with Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio, is in a stronger negotiating position than ever.

“Once Sharpton’s on board, he plays the race card all the way through,” said a source who has worked with the Harlem preacher. “He just keeps asking for more and more money.”

The donations, meanwhile, came at an opportune time for Sharpton, as NAN was deep in debt to the IRS in 2008. It owed $1.3 million in unpaid federal, state and city payroll taxes including interest and penalties.

AEG viewed its payments to Sharpton as more of an insurance policy so he wouldn’t scuttle its chances by criticizing the group, said a source familiar with the racino controversy.
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Cost of doing business

Sharpton raised $1 million for NAN at his 60th birthday bash in October, with donations rolling in from unions and a corporate roster of contributors including AT&T, McDonald’s, Verizon and Walmart.

Companies have long gotten in line to pay Sharpton. Macy’s and Pfizer have forked over thousands to NAN, as have General Motors, American Honda and Chrysler.

NAN had repeatedly and without success asked GM for donations for six years beginning in August 2000, a GM spokesman told The Post. Then, in 2006, Sharpton threatened a boycott of GM over the planned closing of an African-American-owned dealership in The Bronx. He picketed outside GM’s Fifth Avenue headquarters. GM wrote checks to NAN for $5,000 in 2007 and another $5,000 in 2008.

Sharpton targeted American Honda in 2003 for not hiring enough African-Americans in management positions.

“We support those that support us,” Sharpton wrote to the company. “We cannot be silent while African-Americans spend hard-earned dollars with a company that does not hire, promote or do business with us in a statistically significant manner.”

Two months later, car company leaders met with Sharpton, and Honda began to sponsor NAN’s events. The protests stopped. Sharpton landed a gig as a $25,000-a-year adviser to Pepsi after he threatened a consumer boycott of the soda company in 1998, saying its ads did not portray African-Americans. He held the position until 2007.
As for Sony, Sharpton denied that his meeting with Pascal resulted in a donation to NAN.
“I have had no discussion with her about money,” Sharpton told The Post. “There was never even a remote discussion about money.”

Additional reporting by Amber Jamieson
https://nypost.com/2015/01/04/how-sharpton-gets-paid-to-not-cry-racism-at-corporations/

A man is known by the company he keeps. So is a p*ssy preident.

So a man who considers that he is a man of God can be bought off with hush money? Doesn’t sound like he’s all that Godly to me but hey, that’s just an observation and not considered to be a judgmental and factual statement.