Al Sharpton: A Demagogue's Never-Ending Rise

In August 2014, a white police officer, acting in self-defense, shot to death an attacker, Michael Brown, a black youth in Ferguson, Missouri. Al Sharpton's rhetoric had much to do with the subsequent local rioting. This was nothing new. He had been applying his patented demagoguery to incidents with racial implications for decades, in his native New York City and elsewhere, under the guise of "justice" and "civil rights."His many prominent supporters have catapulted him to the apex of Amer...