Sharpton

In the past two weeks there was an attack on a gay club in Colorado and another in Atlanta. In both cases the original reporting was that these types of attacks are the results of right wing prejudice against gays. It was later reported that the attackers were not straight and this resulted it what is called the Al Sharpton defense. You recall that Sharpton came to the defense of Tawana Brawley a girl who claimed she was attacked by a gang of white men. When she later confessed that she made up the story Sharpton declared that maybe it didn't happen this time but it has happened many times and this became known as the Sharpton defense. This began his rise to fame and to this day he has his own show on MSNBC.