For years, Al Sharpton has been dishing out something - and.it sure is not news. And that makes him perfect for MSNBC. Stuart Stevens, prompted by a New York Times and Retropreport.org documentary, writes in the Daily Beast an expose of the sordid history of Al Sharpton: [Tawana] Brawley was 15 years old in 1987, when she was found in her hometown of Wappingers Falls, New York, with "Bitch," "KKK," and "Nigger" written on her stomach, her jeans burnt in the crotch, feces in her hair, and her tennis shoes sliced open. She said that she had been abducted and raped by a group of white men. A trio of increasingly prominent, and radical, New York City black activists represented her and her family: attorneys Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason and the Rev. Al Sharpton. Brawley told them said that a cop had been one of her attackers, and Sharpton named that officer as Harry Crist Jr., a police officer from a nearby town who had committed suicide shortly after Brawley was...(Read Full Post)