According to Al Sharpton, GOP Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is trying to suppress the African-American vote by criticizing Barack Obama in his efforts to reach out to black voters.
Apparently, Sharpton doesn't understand that candidates criticize the incumbent during political campaigns.
While appearing with MSNBC's Cenk Uygur on Friday, he called Gingrich's outreach "an insult" to “cover up the fact that his campaign is falling apart,” according to Mediaite.
He also believes it's an evil, underhanded plot to suppress the black vote.
According to Mediaite:
Sharpton, who spoke to host Cenk Uygur yesterday, explained his outrage against Gingrich for telling Republicans to “have the courage” to sell their ideas to the most Democratic African-American voting block. Sharpton argued that black people received “disproportionate injury from Republican policy” that was so obvious it was offensive for him to promote those policies at all. In doing so, he argued, Gingrich “assumes that we’re stupid,” or “is trying to throw something out at the media to cover up the fact that his campaign is falling apart.”
Sharpton also used the interview as an excuse to claim Gingrich was courting the "racist vote" as well, although Sharpton did not say who the racists are.
"We have to have the courage to walk into that neighborhood, to talk to that preacher, visit that small business, to talk to that mother," Gingrich said.
This, according to Sharpton - and the equally clueless racer, Cenk Uygur, is racist, and designed to supress the black vote as well as the Latino vote.
According to Sharpton, Gingrich's use of the phrase "food stamp President" and referencing what the former House Speaker called Obama's “anti-colonial, Kenyan” views are "dog whistle" remarks - meaning they are subtle messages aimed at racists; meaning, anyone who disagrees with Obama and MSNBC about anything.
In other words - Sharpton thinks Republicans should not criticize Obama about anything, and to do so is racism.
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