Article: The Sharpton image; Tell me again why such a big deal is being made of Al's presence in Chicago?

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The previous Pious Al to briefly set his carpetbag down in Chicago, Alan Keyes, also talked big about changes he would bring to the city.

We're still waiting.

So it is something of a mystery why anyone would make a big deal about the arrival of the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose interest in Chicago seems mostly commercial, promoting his talk radio program now airing on a local station here.

Sharpton's flaws are so numerous, one hardly knows where to begin. Fairness might tempt a person to discount the Tawana Brawley case as old news, had Sharpton ever apologized to the innocent men whose lives he tried to ruin and kept trying, long after the facts became clear.

But he ...

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