Posted on 07/21/2011 9:59:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Al Sharpton to Join MSNBC As a Host; He's a Perfect Fit for Network By Ken Shepherd Created 07/21/2011 - 12:11pm
When MSNBC shuffled Ed Schultz up to the 10 p.m. slot they placed left-wing blogger and radio host Cenk Uygur (pronounced jenk you-gur) in the 6 p.m. Eastern time slot that Ed vacated as an interim host.
But Uygur has been curiously absent from his dinnertime perch since early July, with the Rev. Al Sharpton filling in but not explaining why Uygur was out. Yesterday MSNBC announced that Uygur had officially left the network and today the New York Times is reporting that Sharpton's hiring as a full-time host is "imminent."
The past is prologue, so a look back at Sharpton's wacky pronouncements to date should be instructive. We at NewsBusters have a full archive on Al Sharpton that you can find here, but I thought we'd highlight a few items that stand out.
Who can forget the time, for example, when Sharpton insisted on March 21, 2010 that "we have to say the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama"? Sharpton was defending passage of ObamaCare and dismissing Republicans who claimed that the bill's passage was against the wishes of the American public.
It was a fine moment of raw honesty from the good Reverend, but as we've seen in the past two weeks, Sharpton has been remarkably good at adapting his message to toe MSDNC's party line.
Sharpton, you may recall, has been portraying Obama as more Reaganesque than the Tea Party, and saying that as a way to compliment Obama and bash conservatives over the debt ceiling fight.
One might even argue Sharpton is ahead of MSNBC's bias curve. In April 2010, Sharpton agreed with a guest on his radio program who suggested that Rush Limbaugh's political commentary may set off unbalanced, violent people. MSNBC really picked up that drumbeat in early 2011 after the Gabby Giffords shooting.
The days of Sharpton proudly declaring Obama to be socialistic may be long gone, but his penchant for race-baiting is sure to shine through.
For example, just last month, Sharpton suggested Republican presidential Rick Santorum was racist for saying that America "was great before 1965." Santorum was referring to the advent of LBJ's Great Society, including programs like Medicare, but Sharpton hinted that Santorum really meant the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Sharpton's deranged view of Republican candidates doesn't stop at Santorum, of course. In July 2009, following Michael Jackson's death, Sharpton failed to call out a caller on her crazy theory that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin may have had something to do with Jackson's death:
FEMALE CALLER: He (Michael Jackson) is truly the soundtrack of my life. I also have a theory about Sarah Palin as well and I'm going to put it out there on radio, hopefully someone can investigate.
But, I think maybe she did something to Michael Jackson. Maybe there's a scandal there. Maybe she's stepping down because something's about to come out. I don't know, but I'm gonna just put it out there on your show so we'll see.
SHARPTON: All right, thank you for your call, Ashley. That's interesting. I'll put it out, we'll see. I don't know.
No objective journalist by any stretch, Al Sharpton is a media-hungry race hustler who has, with the media's help gradually been mainstreamed to the point of acceptable employment by the liberal "establishment" at MSNBC.
He's a perfect fit for a network devoted to Obama boosterism and trashing conservatives.
Whatever happened to Alan Grayson’s time slot? Optics man, Optics.
Sharpton -- he doesn't have a sense of humor at all does he? He's a low-downn race pimp. Yeah, I suppose Spitzer's engaging than he is. He's all business.
We've come such a long way since then, cuz you couldn't even think "belligerent black activists" without being shouted down and accused of hate speech.
You know how Mr. Wright is . . . quite cynical, to say the least!!
Rev Al will supply weekly antics to get viewers watching MSNBC. It won’t be ‘news,’ or meaningful news analysis, but it will be fun and funny.
I thought there were supposed to be a major change when Comcast took over.
Cenfully Uglier is gone?
300,000,000 in America, and msnbc is hiring the same old stump. The worst malady these timid little people suffer from is a terminal lack of imagination.
Hey, helps Reb’rend Al make a libin’, dough.
wonder where that boy is today.
Hilarious.
‘No one manipsnapes me or my family’
oh, he’s one of those. I have a pretty good tuner-outer. He’s been on my “spam” list since way before there was email.
With Ted Kennedy stinking up a grave in Massachuesetts Sharpton is now the foremost Democrat with actual blood on his hands (not to mention feces—Remember Tawana!—under his nails).
It’s only fitting that MSNBC would hire an murderous thug to host their supper hour program.
Presumably they also summoned former Democrat Sen. Bob Kerrey for an audition. But while Kerry was lionized by the left for owning up (twenty years after the fact) to war crimes in Viet Nam his victims were merely innocent Vietnamese villagers; Sharpton can lay claim to the deaths of working, taxpaying Americans, always a plus for the Peacock Network.
What a twisted bunch of saboteurs we find at the nexus of politics and media in Washington and New York. I pray for our nation and its young.
A mistake. A broadcaster, he isn’t
“Al Sharpton to Join MSNBC As a Host”
Sharpton has been a foul, blood sucking, racist parasite his whole life up until now so this will be a welcome change. We will see how he likes being the host.
https://twitter.com/#!/larryeldershow/status/94199834319392768
Sharpton an MSNBC show? Tax deadbeat, falsely accused man of rape, provoked Crown Heights riot, anti-Semitic, race hustler=qualified!!
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