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THE BROTHER of a war hero who died in Afghanistan broke down in tears yesterday as he followed in his footsteps to become a paratrooper.

Heartbroken Fin Doherty, was just six when Private Jeff Doherty was killed by a Taliban ambush in 2008, just two days after his 20th birthday.

Months later brave Fin proudly wore his fallen big brother's beret at a parade and vowed to follow his idol into the Parachute Regiment.

And now, after a gruelling 19-week training course at Catterick Garrison, North Yorks., he has been formally handed his older brother's beret.

Pte Doherty, now 18, burst into tears as it was given to him by Sgt Major Adam Ireland who fought alongside his brother, known as JJ.

Pte Doherty told The Sun: "It means everything to receive his beret.

"I've always wanted to wear his beret so that it gets to see the things he would have done had his career not been cut short.

"Now I've got it in my possession and I'll keep true my promise to him.

"I stand in front of his grave every time I go and see him and I say 'I will make your beret see what it should have seen'. Now it's with me I'll do just that.

"I've been waiting for this ever since I was six when I found out he had been killed. I've earned it in the same way as he did. I've worked hard.

"No one can take this away from me. Since he died in 2008 this is all I have ever wanted. This is for both of us. Sometimes you sit on your arse end and think what am I doing here. I could be at home, warm in bed.

"But when I found out that he was killed at the age of six this is all I have ever wanted to do."

Pte Doherty, of Southam, Warwickshire, first passed out of the Army Foundation College in Harrogate aged 17 - after being crowned Best Recruit.

The honour saw him take charge of the 700-strong parade of junior soldiers as they marched off the square at the end of the parade.

He then completed his gruelling training at Catterick to receive the beret. Pte Doherty still has eight weeks left but now has his heart set on joining 2 Para.

He added: "JJ would probably say he was proud of me if he were here today but he'd still have a bit of crack with me saying 'you've done nothing yet'.

"He'd still be trying to have a laugh but he'd be proud. To wear that maroon cap, theres no greater pride."

His commanding officer, Second Lieutenant Edward Watkins said: "This is an exceptionally difficult course to come through.

"For someone like Pte Doherty it means that much more to him. He's coped with it tremendously well and he's come out shining.

"He's following in his brother's footsteps. You can see how much it means to him. There are times when the course is exceptionally arduous and a lot of recruits drop out.

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"But you can see he has that drive, he has something about him. He wants to be here and this means absolutely everything. The beret means so much more than just a bit of headwear."

Pte Doherty's brother was killed in a Taliban ambush in Helmand province on June 12, 2008 - just two days after his 20th birthday.

He was on his first tour of duty with 2 Para Battle Group.

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Al Sharpton and his troubled relationship with money was recently in the news again. Last month, the New York Post reported on the reluctance of New York authorities to investigate suspicious financial behavior at his nonprofitthe National Action Networkthat pays him $1 million annually.

According to the Post:

There are certain things that are universally true in New York: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton, said one top Democratic insider. Wheres the political benefit to doing it?

Similarly, BizPac Review poked around and revealed that a $1 million salary is roughly triple the going rate for somebody running a nonprofit the size of the National Action Network.

These issues and more are covered in the extensive Influence Watch profile of Al Sharpton.

For example, there is the little-reported matter of him being an informant for the FBI against New York mafia crime family members. The potentially less than honorable reasons for that were covered in a recent CRC magazine profile of Sharpton: The Lefts Street Boss.

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On Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Deadline, network host Al Sharptonargued Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had to drop out of the 2020 presidential campaign in part because of racism and sexism.

Sharptonsaid, First of all, I think that she ran a great race. I think that she is a great candidate.

He continued, But she is dealing with an environment where you have for the first time, that you have these kind of rules that are different.

Host Nicolle Wallace asked, What rules?

Sharpton said, Certain amount of money, certain amount of polling to be in the debates. And when you have a Tom Steyer who is fine, raised great issues, but this woman is a U.S. senator, was attorney general of the state and was a district attorney. Steyer could come in and buy commercials and up his polling. And I think that the real problem the Democrats are going to have is the next debate, you have no black on that stage. The Democratic Party cannot have a stage where black voters do not see themselves reflected.

He continued, Where they dont see themselves reflected and expect that well come out and vote in big numbers. You must have had black turnout, but we dont turn up in the debate? There is something that is wrong with that, and some of us are not going yo be quiet about it.

Wallace asked if Sharpton believed Harris was treated badly by the press?

Sharpton said, I think she was definitely treated badly by the press. Ive never seen a candidate taken apart the way she was in the last several days. Yes, there are organizational problems. Yes, there were financial problems. You have people on that debate stage with no organization at all, and the press is not writing about it.

He continued, I think again a lot of assessment has to be made how the media dealt with it, we have to look at the rules.

He added, What are you going to say to black voters when they look at that stage, and nobody like them is there? The Democratic Party will have to look at that and deal with that because that is a problem.

Wallace asked, I worked for Sarah Palin. I carefully watched and covered the campaign of Hillary Clinton. I do think that women are still held to different standards as candidates. They have to have a well-run campaign, never mind that Donald Trump didnt have a campaign. He literally flew around with Hope ironing his pants. They have to be perfect on the stump, which I never saw her stumble. Joe Biden is beloved, and he is never perfect on the stump. I think there is a gender piece here that we still suck at talking about.

Sharpton said, Youre right.

He added, Women are held to a different standard, and black women especially are held to a different standard.

Wallace said, And black women though, by the way, voted for Trump in the lowest numbers. So they can say that they told us so.

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WASHINGTON Civil Rights Activist Rev. Al Sharpton said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats proceeding with impeachment is "not partisan, it's patriotic."

"I think that they've done the right thing moving forward. I think the evidence is there and I think that they've made a clear case," Sharpton said before the Urban One Honors, hosted by Radio One, where he received a leadership award on Thursday evening.

When it comes to a trial taking place in the Senate, Sharpton said that "the question is are they party first or are they patriots first? Are they going to stand up for what's right for the country? Can you set a precedent where a sitting president will use congressionally approved funds to ask a foreign government to interfere in our election by smearing his potential opponent? That's what's on trial here."

Sharpton, host of PoliticsNation on MSNBC, was also asked for his opinion of "cancel culture."

"I believe that we need to not cancel anybody. I think everybody has a place. Everybody ought to celebrate who they are -- that's what we're here about tonight. We shouldn't have to conform to anything and anybody and feel that we're going to be canceled out," he said. "We need to move the boundaries no matter who and what we are -- that's what God made us to be, we ought to celebrate that."

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Journalists grew concerned about a political partys supposed racism this week. Only this time the media were complaining about the Democratic Party.

What took them so long?

Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris of California ended her campaign for the nations highest office, likely resulting in an all-white group of candidates appearing on stage for the sixth televised debate of Democratic presidential contenders Dec. 19.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is African-American, went off about it on MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes.

We're spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially we're still fighting to get on it, but could have six people with no diversity whatsoever," he complained. (Democrats used to consider gender part of diversity. Oh well.)

Booker barely scratched the surface of the problem. A series of controversies had reporters covering stories they ordinarily try to ignore or downplay. The scandals involved top-tier candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

But the Harris narrative finally captivated a news media that had eagerly forgotten the controversy regarding Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams college yearbook photo showing one person in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb.

NBC News carried a story headlined: With Sen. Kamala Harris' exit, Democrats can't avoid a tough conversation about diversity.

NPR agreed, asking: #DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power.

It was an unusual spot for journalists who typically depict those on the right as racist and those on the left as enlightened.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and current presidential candidate Julin Castro blamed the news media for what Buzzfeed described as treating candidates of color differently.

To me, they held her to a different standard, a double standard, to other campaigns, Castro said.

Castro criticized The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico for writing very gossipy-sounding big articles trashing the campaign.

The Root was upset that Kamala Harris Wasn't Allowed to Fail Up Like a White Boy. Senior Reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr said the media fixated on her previous job as a lock em up prosecutor and attorney general.

Starr added that former Vice President Joe Bidens own background is far worse and Biden is still running. If Harris is a cop, Biden is the police chief, he wrote.

And MSNBC host Al Sharpton added: Women are held to a different standard and black women especially."

The Democrats problems with race didnt stop there.

Warren once more addressed her phony past claims to be a Native American. She spoke at a presidential forum on Native American issues, according to The New York Times. She offered a direct, public apology for the harm she caused with her past claims of Native American ancestry and pledged to uplift Native people as president.

I shouldnt have done it. I am not a person of color, Warren told the audience, according to Bloomberg News.

Journalists have repeatedly defended Warren on this issue and bashed President Trump for nicknaming the senator Pocahontas because of her lie.

The New York Times called Trumps comment a slur and a racially incendiary jibe. The Times Magazine devoted more than 8,000 words to profiling Warren, but included just one paragraph to her about her pivotal controversy.

MSNBCs Morning Joe Host Joe Scarborough had called the presidents criticism of Warren coded racism and an appeal to the white nationalist wing of, of this movement.

Meanwhile, a staffer whose tweets contain anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynistic and racist language is no longer with the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to ABC News.

The Washington Free Beacon revealed how new Deputy Director of Constituency Organizing Darius Khalil Gordons past on Twitter was filled with a ton of things that I wont quote here.

Of course, traditional outlets didnt discover the comments, so kudos to the Free Beacon for doing actual research.

New candidate Michael Bloomberg was even caught in the controversy. His opponent Booker also found it stunning when he learned Bloomberg had referred to him as "well-spoken. It was a gaffe reminiscent of Bidens comment about then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

Not to be left out, the Buttigieg campaign had a gathering of African American supporters in South Bend, reported NBC News. The kicker was that Buttigieg was interrupted by a man wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.

Liberal racism, sexism and anti-Semitism have been the donkey in the room for a long time. The media were finally forced to confront it, at least briefly.

Nancy Pelosi blasts reporter

Journalists are quick to defend anyone in the media who is criticized by the president. But when a reporter is criticized by the Democratic speaker of the House, the rules change.

Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter James Rosen asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California a simple question: Do you hate the president, Madam Speaker?

Pelosi, who has bashed Rosen before as Mr. Republican Talking Points, used the opportunity to claim she had the moral high ground.

As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me, she said.

The news media, who love it when Pelosi opposes the pope and the Catholic Church on abortion, rallied around her faith when it suited them. Both CBS and NBC promoted an identical Pelosi quote: Dont mess with me.

Imagine the media reaction to a Republican politician calling out a reporter, pointing a finger directly at the journalist and telling him Dont mess with me.

Actually, you dont have to imagine it. We see it daily when the press rallies in defense against every criticism they get from the right.

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page described Pelosi as fierce.

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NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell took Pelosis side readily. Mitchell said that the speaker, as a person of deep faith, which we know to be the case with her, really took offense at anyone questioning.

Mitchell didnt seem to recall that Pelosis deep faith has strident disagreement with the Catholic Church on abortion.

CNN loved it as well. Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin described Pelosi comments as one of the many iconic Nancy Pelosi moments from this period.

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MSNBC talking heads were just as excited. Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was thrilled that Pelosi went right to her Catholic roots.

Joe Scarborough mocked the reporter for daring to ask a question. Maybe James Rosen would like to ask Donald Trump, do you hate children, or do you hate Jesus?

The confrontation was a reminder of how faith is both a sword and a shield for the press. They wield it against anyone they disagree with and use it to defend those they support.

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