Idk... I think calling tapper alt right is a little too much, but him going after her about Assata Shakur reeks of misinformation and corporate toeing of the line. That Shakur case is all sorts of sketchy.

No winners here.

Douchebag allowed on a tie for douchebaggery.

Is Sarsour the one that heralds all the great things about Sharia Law?

He was going after her for several things. He was only speaking to the women's march re Shakur. The comments on Sarsour were regarding the fact they continue to tie themselves to her despite all of the awful positions she takes, which are counter to their public stands. He also called out the Dyke March in a similar manner, but I can see where you would be confused to think he was connecting Sarsour and Shakur, but that was not the case.

He was criticizing Women's March for who they keep as company, and rightly so.

Has anyone noticed how whenever she is questioned, she instantly jumps to the combination of ad hominen and playing the victim card? I guess that's all you can do when your positions are indefensible.

I don't know enough about her, but I can say I am beyond fatigued with the hijacking of progressivism by these types. Trying to be the ying to the alt right's yang.

Should just make this a rolling thread

she provides material weekly so it probably will be.

Don't you start stalking her public twitter account, Ogie.

Yup, every story I read about her is the same thing. Any and all criticism of her results in exactly what you said.

Anti-Trump 'resistance' hero Linda Sarsour steers Harvey relief funds to political activist group

You never want a serious crisis to go to waste, apparently.

Progressive activist and Women's March co-organizer Linda Sarsour is under fire this week for sharing a misleading pitch for Hurricane Harvey relief funds. This particular controversy begins with a tweet.

The Palestinian-American left-wing activist published the following message early Tuesday morning: "Donate to the #Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund."

Her note links to a fundraising webpage maintained by the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund. This organization is not exactly in the disaster relief business. Rather, the TOP is an activist organization, whose chief focus is advancing political goals through elections.

The group uses "community organizing, and civic and electoral engagement" and it "conducts direct action organizing, grassroots lobbying and electoral organizing," according to its webpage. "With every campaign we run, every issue we fight for and every neighborhood we organize, we focus on creating effective ways to ensure that voices of low income and minority communities are not only heard, but that they have sufficient power to advance their issues."

Now as to their hurricane relief fund webpage, which is sponsored by multiple left-wing and labor groups, including the Service Employees International Union, the Communication Workers of America, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid and the Workers Defense Project: The TOP promises that donations will be used to organize and raise awareness and legal aid for displaced Houstonians.

"Together we will organize and advocate for our devastated communities, shining a spotlight on inequalities that emerge in the restoration of lives, livelihoods, and homes, amplifying the needs of hard-hit communities, and providing legal assistance for residents wrongfully denied government support," reads the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund's hurricane relief page, which allows user to donate anywhere between $20 and $10,000.

"Your donation is vital to ensuring that we have the resources we need to organize and fight for Texans devastated by Hurricane Harvey!" the page added.

Many have characterized Sarsour's relief fund tweet as a form of bait-and-switch. Who can blame them? If someone tweets, "Donate to the #Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund," you're not crazy for assuming they are asking you to help pay for immediate humanitarian aid, not to pay activists to organize or raise awareness.

That said, it's worth mentioning that the TOP has a record of assisting hurricane victims in low-income and minority communities, as noted by the Weekly Standard's Andrew Egger.

"After Hurricane Ike hit Houston in 2008, the group lobbied the government to ensure that federal reconstruction funds would go toward helping repair the homes of low-income residents," he wrote.

Sarsour, for her part, maintained Wednesday that she did not mislead anyone, explaining that she was merely sharing a list of "dozens of [organizations] to support" that had been provided to her by other activists, some of whom explicitly oppose the Red Cross' relief efforts.

"Long term support/advocacy needed too," she added on social media. "TOP is one of many organizations on this list you can choose to support. Grassroots orgs on ground. Long term needed."

Her explanation is a clear admission that she's aware that the fund to which she directed her followers doesn't provide immediate humanitarian relief to the hurricane's victims, and that the supposed "relief funds" will come in the form of community organizing and possible future legal aid.

She should have provided that information to her 230,000-plus followers from the get-go, and there's no good reason for why she didn't. It's almost as if she wanted to mislead well-intentioned people. But no one would be that ghoulish, right?

Sarsour did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

I rarely hear/read a word about her anymore, unless it's here. I pretty much dismissed her as a grandstanding fraud when she attacked Ayaan Hirsi Ali. I really cannot remember the last time I even saw her, or the other sanctimonious apparatchik Glen Greenwald on television pushing their stupid progressive purity test.

Women’s March organizer accused of covering up sex abuse

Controversial Muslim activist and Women’s March organizer Linda Sarsour bullied an underling to cover up sex-abuse allegations in her Brooklyn office, a report said.

Asmi Fathelbab told blog The Daily Caller that a man repeatedly rubbed his crotch on her while she worked for the association under Sarsour in 2009.

But when Fathelbab reported the abuse, Sarsour — a self-proclaimed feminist and co-founder of the Women’s March organization — fat-shamed the woman and threatened to blacklist her from political jobs, the woman told the website.

“She oversaw an environment unsafe and abusive to women,” said Fathelbab. “Women who put [Sarsour] on a pedestal for women’s rights and empowerment deserve to know how she really treats us.”

The Daily Caller reportedly spoke on condition of anonymity with another association employee and a political operative that worked alongside the organization, and both corroborated Fathelbab’s account of the abuse and Sarsour’s intimidation.

Fathelbab took a contract gig with the association in 2009 and claims she was repeatedly accosted by a man who lived in the same Bay Ridge building as the group’s office.

“He would pin me against the wall and rub his crotch on me,” she told the Caller.

“It was disgusting… You have no idea what it was like to stand up and feel that behind you.”

But Sarsour called her a “liar” when Fathelbab reported it and told her “something like this didn’t happen to women who looked like me,” Fathelbab charged, clarifying on Twitter that the the rebuff was a dig at her weight.

Fathelbab went to the president of the Arab American Association’s board of directors, Ahmad Jaber, but says he told her the accused man, Majed Seif, was incapable of the allegations because he is a “God-fearing man” who was “always at the Mosque.”

Furious that Fathelbab went over her head, Sarsour threatened to have her blacklisted from New York political and activist circles — and that’s what Fathelbab says happened.

“She told me I’d never work in NYC ever again for as long as she lived,” the 37-year-old New York native Fathelbab said. “She’s kept her word. She had me fired from other jobs when she found out where I worked. She has kept me from obtaining any sort of steady employment for almost a decade.”

Sarsour did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The problem there is that Susan Sarandon is good while Linda Sarsour is bad.

She didn't "turn" anything, she's been remarkably consistent.