A Sunday in the Life…of Al Sharpton
- Posted on March 6, 2011 at 1:02pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Ever wonder what it’s like to be Al Sharpton? Ok, probably not, but The New York Times did. And so today it published a “day in the life” with the censorship-loving Rev. The Times had him explain a typical Sunday, and among the gems are his love of Starbucks mochas, he recites two poems every morning, and he doesn’t want his own church:
REVERENCE I’m always up by 5:30 or 6. My ritual is I start the day with prayer — for my family, for my mother, who’s got dementia, and whatever particular concerns I’ve got that day. I’m always thankful that I’m alive. The wake-up is a victory.
INSPIRATION I recite two poems, always, every day. When I was doing 90 days in jail in 2001, former Mayor Maynard Jackson visited me, and he told me he read Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s “Will” every day — that’s how he became the first black mayor of Atlanta. It’s very inspiring. It talks about how, no matter what, if you have strong will, you can make it. And I recite “Invictus,” which is similar in theme: I’m the captain of my fate, the master of my destiny.
BREAK THE FAST, BARELY My breakfast is two boiled eggs and an orange juice. That’s it. I’m down to 177 pounds, but I’ve been up as high as 311. Two years ago, I was between 238 and 240. But I don’t even have an appetite anymore. I just feel better. Doc says I’m fine.
REVVING UP My building has an exercise room, so I’ll do the treadmill about 30 minutes, maybe a little weights, but not crazy — then come back up, go on the Net, read the daily papers. By 8, I’m showered and ready to head downtown.
Read the rest from the Times here.
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Comments (102)
RightPolitically
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:32pmGood for Al. The only thing is, he ought to be doing this routine BEHIND BARS!
Report Post »scoter
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:31pmIf Rev. Al Sharpton And Rev. Jesse Jackson are Rev. i am to. I will be praying for them. they need it. Both will brun in HELL.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 6:42pmGo check out the other story on the Blaze. There is no hell. sorry, he’ll be sitting right beside you in where ever – Heaven if that’s where you are going.
Report Post »swonga
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:28pmYou are a racist, too. Don’t forget to say that too, Al.
Report Post »bkeely
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:25pmWho cares what this ‘poser’ does… and he it’s good to know he is not a pastor of a church that will save on church from going to hell.
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Eblaze44
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 6:41pmApparently YOU care, or you wouldn’t put anything here. People who don’t care, ignore the obvious.
Report Post »RightThinkingDiva
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:53pmI suppose his statements keep him in the news and in front of cameras because it is certainly not his contributions to this country. I’ve linked to a funny parody about another “poverty pimp”…Sheila Jackson Lee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC3sYWTsZw0
They say that laughter is the best medicine…
Report Post »Dar3k
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:46pmThe reverend appears to be the head of The Church of Al–which, I suppose, makes it easy to let bitterness rule his heart and his decisions. Especially since all of it makes him a rich man. But not exactly what Christ asks of us when he tells us to pick up our crosses in order to follow Him. Not that I’m perfect but that I strive to acknowledge my humanity before the Grace He extends to me. That involves time on my knees, not time wailing before TV cameras and fleecing the public.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:28amIf he spends time on his knees it’s here…….http://thejaghunter.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/lets-ask-and-do-tell-is-obama-gay/
Report Post »Kathleen3
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:42pmThe media dignifies this charlatan, along with his sidekick Jesse Jackson, when they give one second of recognition (print or broadcast) to either one of them.
Report Post »Contrarian51
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:01pmInteresting that the “reverend” doesn’t seem to find a way to fit church attendance into his Sunday.
I’m still amazed that a guy who was so intimately involved in the Tawana Brawley con is taken seriously by anyone.
Report Post »Fitz of DE
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:52pmwell when one uses trurth & turns to LIES, He knows not THE FATHER IN HEAVEN…Best to say he is full of SLEF & THE WORLD … & He will do the will of hos father the DEVIL
Report Post »aro5o75
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:51pmYeah, “Iam the captain of my fate, the master of my destiny………oh, but not you little people.
Report Post »Dar3k
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:50pmAll I read from Al about his devotions is I, I, I. I do not see a Christian‘s need for God to be included in Al’s big day. I do not see a reverence for God, only for Al. Invictus as devotional? Really? How about a humble prayer for God’s blessing before the two boiled eggs? Or a blessing for those who prepared his food?
Report Post »JROCCOD
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:47pmD@#k Head
Report Post »ds7
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:44pmnotice the guy never gets in his car and drives to “his job”…why? because his “job” is extorting money by running around and yelling “racist” and getting “paid” to go away.
Report Post »mingfurecon
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:31pmThat will come in handy when youre in the slammer for tax evasion.
Report Post »My2
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:23pm…and by 8:30 am I’m on the street corner, bullhorn in hand, ready to shakedown another victim.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:25amLike Seinfeld“ he is the master of his domain”
Report Post »Helldogger
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:23pmI still want to know where’s the church he preaches at.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:09pmHe Forgets the part about getting out of his mistress’s bed….
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:07pmI’m impressed that he has memorized poetry. In public schools these days, they don’t want “rote learning” and kids don’t learn how to memorize anything, none of the mnenomic devices. It‘s so bad that many don’t know their own phone numbers and addresses – and I’m talking kids 9 years old and up. Now if only this man could remember what is in the Constitution.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:44pmWell, don’t be too impressed………….I had to memorize that poem in school and it doesn’t go exactly like Rev.quoted it!! Here it is:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Strange little poem for any Rev. to quote… Guess I also missed out on the Bible reading :-)
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:55pmAddendum: His Bible reading..not mine!!! :-)
Report Post »Highland
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:02pmWhat a joke to use the honorific adjective “reverend” with this lying hateful jerk.
Report Post »Evileye
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:47pmWell it saves him from the IRS.
Report Post »Said he was ordained at 8 years old (HUM)
Al the impostor no pastor
Oil_Robb
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:09pmHe got his papers (acreditation) from the same match book diploma mill that Barry Satoro’s main man Rev.“ God Damn America” wright did…..
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:54pmdoc says he’s ok…if obamacare is ever fully implemented, he might have to wait a few weeks for a check up.
Report Post »tarbush
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:06pmCome on, get real! You don‘t think he’ll get special treatment??!! You and I will wait months, but when he calls someone that has an appointment today will suddenly be rescheduled to open a spot for Al. That’s how its always worked under socialism.
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:59pmtrue…he’ll get a pass no doubt. he’s connected
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 12:22amProbably a honorary democratic senator, free everything1
Report Post »Airb0rne4325
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:51pmHe needs to add half a slab of bacon, a pot of coffee, his two boiled eggs before he does his 1/2 hr on the treadmill.
Then a long walk on a short pier to complete the day.
Report Post »Shylow1959
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:51pmI really don’t give a rats @ss what this racebaiting scumbag does!!! I really wish he could follow me around for a day to see how most people really live.. Poems hahahahah I swear everytime I hear his name, my toilet gets and extra flush!!!!!!!!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:29pmI doubt that he could keep up .. without his driver .. the ‘man” doesn’t drive .. what’s that about? .. too hard or beneath him.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:43pmDoes he wake up next to Jesse J?
Report Post »WHITE LOTUS2x
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:21pmRug: No, brother Al is too old for Jessie. Jessie is a player and likes em a bout,oh, between 40 and 50And lots of emI heard.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:06pmI wonder if Jesse Jackson and Slick Willy ever shared lil Black books…Im sure Jesse J wouldnt mind sharing a cigar or two with the odd fat intern.
Report Post »tbolt71
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:42pmal needs to realize that he inherited his mother’s dimentia…well at least that answers some questions
Report Post »Goobergregory
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 6:33pmOh Al.. Aren’t you just one heck of a guy??? I bet that your prayers include going back to the basic principles of our Constitution too!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:10pmNote to Al …. You are no Billy Graham. Jesse Jackson okay but Billy Graham no way!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:14pmAl Sharpton = Phony as 3 $ bill .
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:17pmA Sunday in the life of Al Charleton?
Report Post »LAM2
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 7:46pmThe NY Times would not be running a feature on Al Sharpton, someone who’s been around for decades, just to fill empty newsprint. They are repackaging and rehabilitating him — just wonder for what purpose….
Report Post »mzmaj7
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:10pmImagine if Ms. Palin wrongly recalled a poem she recites daily:
“I am the master of my fate / I am the captain of my soul.”
Report Post »DVT
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 8:14pmIs this somehow supposed to make him relevant? If it is I don’t see how!
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 9:27pmAnd I recite “Invictus,” which is similar in theme: I’m the captain of my fate, the master of my destiny.
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Okay, here’s the full poem, a Victorian work by William Ernest Henley, an Englishman who lost a foot to tuberculous at 25 and died in his 50′s.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
While it was used in the movie about Nelson Mandela, it was also the piece recited by Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber just before his death sentence was carried out.
Interesting choice for a Christian minister to recite each day. It’s so full of acknowledgment of Christ the King, and his sovereignty. I am not often grateful for the Times reporting, but it did clarify for me exactly who is calling the shots in Al’s life.
Report Post »Sparky101
Posted on March 6, 2011 at 11:15pmI’d encourage him to read the scriptures to grow closer to God.
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 1:22amYou are a moron Al.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 6:58amThe only one listening is YOU, Al. Turn it off.
Report Post »Miguelito
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 8:08amAre intelligent people still listening to this guy?
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 11:02amHe doesn’t want his own church because he would not be able to maintain his lifestyle on the donations freely given by both of his supporters!
Report Post »Robert W
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 6:41pmShouldnt Jesus be the “captain of your fate” minister?
Report Post »waggie
Posted on March 7, 2011 at 8:41pmHow did he get to be a “Reverand” anyway? Is that a title he made up one day? I want to know where he went to school and who taught him so I can go have a few words with them. What a sham!
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 8, 2011 at 5:52amI am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my SOUL…..(by William Earnest Henley, 1875)
Did REV Al deliberately change the word SOUL from this famous poem ?????
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