Shearing the hapless sheep

Today, the national civil rights pulpit is largely occupied by second-rate shakedown artists.

There used to be a secularist line about fat shepherds and thin sheep, but the joke here is not just at the expense of a man who never pretended to be much more than a hustler.

The joke is on those of the "flock" who tithed themselves to achieve this level of comfort for a man who must be pinching himself when he wakes up every day.

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