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SHARPTON REP DENIES NY POST STORY: Article claims Rev. blasted Obama for trying to "grandstand in front of white people."
*Rev. Al Sharpton is denying a New York Post story that claims he and Senator Barack Obama had a "heated" phone call about plans to protest the acquittal of three cops in the Sean Bell case.
In the article, reporters Chuck Bennett and Kavita Mokha quote sources who say Sharpton was "infuriated" by a plea for nonviolence made by Obama in the wake of the verdicts, and accused the Illinois Democrat of trying to "grandstand in front of white people." Read NY Post article here.
Sharpton's National Action Network responded immediately with a statement calling the article "an outright falsehood.""Everything stated in the New York Post regarding yesterday's conversation between Senator Obama and Reverend Sharpton is false, and is either a fabrication of the Post journalists who wrote the story or the supposed unnamed source for the story," said Charlie King, Acting National Director for the National Action Network. "In my view, there is a big difference between tabloid journalism and shoddy journalism. This story is clearly the latter and is unacceptable.
"For the record, Reverend Sharpton and Senator Obama had a good conversation yesterday about the need to address both police misconduct and reducing crime. As with the numerous conversations they have, it was friendly, respectful and substantive."
King also said that Rev. Sharpton was alone during his telephone conversation with Sen. Obama.
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