argued last week on the House floor that the claims of African-American farmers and American Indians who were discriminated against in the 1980s and 1990s by the Department of Agriculture are fraudulent.

"We've got to stand up at some point and say, 'We are not gonna pay slavery reparations in the United States Congress,'" he said. "That war's been fought. That was over a century ago. That debt was paid for in blood and it was paid for in the blood of a lot of Yankees, especially. And there's no reparations for the blood that paid for the sin of slavery. No one's filing that claim."

"Rush Limbaugh has the right to say whatever he wants to say. He can't do it, though, on publicly regulated air waves," Sharpton noted. "The FCC has a responsibility to set standards, to say the public can not be offended based on their race or their gender in this country and use federally regulated airwaves that they give licenses to that are very competitive and the FCC is very selective based on standards."

"How would you monitor racist-type talk on these radio stations that are publicly licensed by the FCC? How would do you this?" asked Schultz "They come back and say it's freedom of speech."

"Clearly I think that Rush Limbaugh's statements would be over the top. You can't say in the name of free speech you can say anything you want, when you are not allowed to do anything you want on radio stations and television stations. We can't have standards everywhere but when it comes to race," Sharpton said.

Conservative blogs have been on the attack against Sharpton ever since he first told Schultz in mid-November that the FCC should take action against stations carrying Limbaugh's show.

"[T]he bottom line is that the left wants to find an excuse, any excuse, to grab the mike from the man who has wreaked so much havoc on their cause," Mark Finkelstein wrote for Newsbusters.