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In case you are living under a rock somewhere, we hope Republicans out there all see the Alinsky-Al Sharpton style methods work:  over the weekend, two of David Letterman’s sponsors apparently dropped him:  Embassy Suites and Hellmann’s Mayo (still waiting on confirmation on that one, but it’s been appearing in emails to people from Hellmann’s corporate all morning). 

These are not some of the four biggest advertisers of Letterman’s like Olive Garden, Mars Candy, Kelloggs, and Johnson + Johnson, but it’s a great start. 

CBS obviously felt the heat and instructed Letterman to make another statement regarding his jokes about statutory rape.  Once again, instead of just saying he was wrong, admitting his staff wrote a joke about a 14 year-old being statutory raped by 33 year-old Alex Rodriguez, and then tried to claim he was actually “joking” about “some other Palin daughter” thousands of miles and several time zones away, Letterman hemmed and hawed and tried to excuse his behavior. 

Well, there is no excuse for his behavior. 

Just as, to the Left, there was no excuse for Don Imus’ behavior. 

Imus apologized after calling the Rutger’s female basketball team “a bunch of nappy-headed hos”.  Al Sharpton heard that comment and, Adam West style, immediately slid down the race-baiter pole to his top-secret race-baiting cave deep beneathe Harlem, where his rally signs, protest banners, and legion of wailers and screamers are always revved up and ready to go.  No sooner had the words left Imus’ mouth, it seemed, did Sharpton begin his march in front of the cameras, rolling around on the floor with a hue and cry for Imus to be fired.

For RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM!

Sharpton may be a lot of things (a crook, a liar, a snake, a cheat, a shameless race-baiter), but he man is a GENIUS when it comes to holding the MSM accountable for what he personally feels is RAAAAAAAACIST.

You can agree with Sharpton or not.  You can think his tactics are childish and ridiculous — and we would agree with you.  But, there’s no one who can deny Sharpton’s effectiveness.  If forcing corporate America to its knees were an Olympic sport, Sharpton would be Michael Phelps, though hopefully not squeezed into anything manufactured by Speedo.

Ironically enough, Republicans most often remind us of the Gore Recount campaign back in 2000 whenever they are up against the MSM.  Have you seen the HBO movie “Recount”?  It’s worth a watch just for the depiction of Warren Christopher and Donna Brazile as the two most bumbling and asinine advisors a presidential candidate ever had.  At some point in the movie, someone notes that Gore’s team “brought a knife to a gun fight”, because Christopher and Brazile kept saying how undignified this or that was, or how they were going to take the high road here or there, and how they had all these other bigger battles they needed to fight.  

Yap. Yap. And more yap.

Meanwhile, at Bush HQ, Rove, Baker, and the Republicans actually operated effectively.  As James Carville notes on his speaking engagements with Rove, “Bill Clinton would have won in 1992 with or without Carville, but Bush would never have won in 2000 without Rove”. A truer statement was never made, and largely this all boils down to the way the two camps approached that 2000 recount.  

The other night, a group of friends was talking to us about another movie, Showgirls, with Elizabeth Berkley and many others whose careers have never recovered.  The movie is terrible, but 99% of the people in it act their parts like they’re in a Royal Shakespeare production — all except Gina Gershon, who knows just how awful a movie she’s in, and revels in it.  Everyone else pretends they’re in a much better movie than they’re actually in, but Gershon alone gets it.  

Republicans got it back in 2000.  They brought Uzzis to the knife fight.  

Republicans got it back in 2004.  Say what you want about Rove, but he masterfully rolled that election. 

And then, after having won the White House for two terms in a row, Republicans wandered off into a fog and forgot where they were and what world they are living in.  Rove is your Gina Gershon, but instead of following his example, you’ve all been pretending you are things you are not, living in an alternate reality whenever you try to pretend the MSM’s bias isn’t important and that you needn’t counter it each and every day to keep the moonbats in check.  

There is absolutely nothing more important than hitting back HARD every time the opponent takes even the slightest swing at you.  

Boy, does Al Sharpton ever know that.  He declared all-out-war on CBS and its advertisers over the nappy-headed hos remark.  Sharpton could not possibly care less about the Rutgers basketball team.  We doubt he’s thought much about it since.  But, it was an opportunity for him to flex his muscles and remind the MSM that any jab at the black community would be addressed with a loud, angry, take-no-prisoners mob.  

Republicans, and women, need to realize that as repugnant as Al Sharpton is, the man is certainly effective.  And did we mention repugnant. Because he is.  On both counts. 

And the great irony is that if Republicans and women both co-opted Sharpton’s playbook, and kept asking themselves “what would Al Sharpton do?” whenever they are confronted by something like David Letterman’s putrid statutory rape jokes, Al Sharpton and his fellow race-baiters like Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, James Clyburne, Eric Holder, and John Lewis would all be sizably diminished.  

As things stand now, Sharpton and company are the only ones who stand up to the MSM with sustained and dedicated effort to pressure sponsors and executives alike to hold on-air “talent” (a term used as loosely as possible) accountable to standards of behavior Sharpton and company themselves set. 

You want fair and balanced media?  Then put a little Sharpton in your life.  Shake that rump.  Rev up those pipes.  Bellow and bluster and scream out at the obvious bias in the media, directing all your volume at the sponsors.  If you take down the sponsors, you take down the networks.  It is that simple, and it is what Sharpton has been doing now for over 20 years. 

The same is true for women: you want an end to sexism and misogyny?  You want political activists like David Letterman to be as afraid of making statutory rape jokes as they are about telling jokes about a watermelon patch or fried chicken?  You want the MSM to be as afraid of being called sexists and misogynists as they are positively terrified of being labeled RAAAAAAAACIST?  

Then you need to follow Al Sharpton’s example and HOLD THE SPONSORS ACCOUNTABLE.  In turn, they will hold the networks accountable, which is something Al Sharpton has always known and has proven on more than 100 occasions to be true. 

As much as you will hate to admit it, “What would Al Sharpton do?” is a question we ALL need to ask ourselves when dealing with the MSM media and the agenda it’s pushing for the radical socialist Left.