Obama Speaks At Sharpton Organization: Big Media Says Obama Helps Legitimize Sharpton As News of Sharpton Informing for FBI Resurfaces

Obama speaks at Al Sharpton's headquarters in Harlem. (Screen capture from YouTube
video)

By Celeste Katz , Annie Karni
In a fiery speech, Obama said that Republicans are threatening the right to vote. Meanwhile, Obama’s appearance represented a presidential seal of approval of Sharpton’s role as a civil rights activist, amid the new revelations about how Sharpton used a wire to record mobsters for the feds in the 1980s.

President Obama stood Friday with the Rev. Al Sharpton and accused Republicans of trying to keep millions of Americans from voting, in a fiery speech days after new revelations about Sharpton’s past as an FBI informant.

“The right to vote is threatened today in a way that it has not been since the Voting Rights Act became law nearly five decades ago,” Obama told the annual convention of Sharpton’s National Action Network in Manhattan.

Obama’s appearance represented a presidential seal of approval of Sharpton’s role as a civil rights activist, amid the new revelations about how Sharpton used a wire to record mobsters for the feds in the 1980s.

The Smoking Gun website said Sharpton cooperated with the FBI after being caught on tape with a drug kingpin discussing cocaine deals.


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