After drafting a lengthy and annoyed post this morning based on this NY Post story, in which a "source" said that Al Sharpton and Barack Obama exchanged heated words during a phone call about Sean Bell, which Sharpton saying that he had hoped Obama would side with the Bell family and instead saw the situation as "an opportunity to grand-stand in from of white people," something in the wording of the article gave me pause and I scrapped it. If Sharpton really wanted to say that, he probably would have said it himself in front of cameras. It's a good thing I scrapped it — Sharpton's people say that either the unnamed source or the reporters fabricated quotes from that conversation, which was actually positive. The rep also said Sharpton was alone during the phone call. Nevertheless, we'll surely see headlines all day about how Sharpton and Obama now hate each other, which we will be encouraged to accept as further proof that Obama is too black for whites and too white for blacks. Then again, some people might have seen a rift between Sharpton and Obama as a positive…