Byline: DAN LYNCH
POUGHKEEPSIE -- On a sun-splashed sidewalk outside the looming fortress that is the Dutchess County courthouse, it looked as if the Rev. Al Sharpton might be saying something important. So, I hustled over to join a surging circle of reporters and TV camera people.
``Listen,'' Sharpton was saying. ``When Adam Clayton Powell lost a defamation case, it bolstered his career. It's a real tribute to my status that I'm being sued.''
What a cockeyed optimist, that Sharpton. As if being a defendant in this case is just one hell of a career move.
Sharpton can spin it any way he likes, but losing that defamation case was a key factor in Powell's unseemly exit from Congress decades ago. And Sharpton knows deep in his gut that exposure here of just how irresponsible his conduct was a decade ago could kill his chances of ever making it as a serious mainstream politician. Sharpton had been an …
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