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In Sharpton Promo, MSNBC Lumps Republican Tax Policy With 'Back-of-the-Bus' Racism
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/25/2012 7:35:24 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

It's one thing for Al Sharpton to spout racialized politics on his MSNBC show every evening. It's even another when one of his guests attacks Mitt Romney with the lamest of Rosa Parks/racism analogies.

But when MSNBC itself produces a promo featuring Sharpton lumping Republican tax policy with the racism that kept blacks in the back of the bus and denied women the vote, the network has taken a very ugly turn. Yet that's just what the latest "Lean Forward" Sharpton promo does.

View the video here.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; msnbc; racism; republicans

1 posted on 01/25/2012 7:35:32 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 01/25/2012 7:36:42 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

If Sharpton were white, he’d be in jail for the rest of his life right now. Because he’s black, he has a high-paying job on MSNBC.


3 posted on 01/25/2012 7:37:35 AM PST by bigdirty
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course!

If you mess with my government handout and ask me to be responsible, you’re a racist.....


4 posted on 01/25/2012 7:38:53 AM PST by G Larry (We need Bare Knuckles Newt to fight this battle.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I don’t even begin to get the connection between tax policy and “back of the bus racism”...

I guess you have to be a racialist to see racism in everything.

Do these tax policies somehow have “blacks will pay more” in them?

If it’s by “proxy”, ie, whites are favored more by conservative tax policy, couldn’t the same be said of liberal policy? That they favor one racial group over another?


5 posted on 01/25/2012 7:40:56 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: All

Memo to Al: Hey, boy, it ain’t working.
America has done more than any nation on earth to attone for slavery and it is all for naught.
We are SICK of the race card.
America is READY to send Political Correctness to a watery grave.....rave on that men shall know you mad....


6 posted on 01/25/2012 7:41:30 AM PST by Maverick68
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In every cloud there is a silver lining. As America becomes dominated by Mexicans, it will be enjoyable to watch the dominant culture, (Mexicans), tell the blacks to shove that stuff up their heiney.


7 posted on 01/25/2012 7:44:11 AM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: G Larry

I have actually heard some leftist, probably one of these race baiters, perhaps Al himself, say

“personal responsibility” is a racist codeword.


8 posted on 01/25/2012 7:45:29 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The tax policy in this country discriminates only against those who work hard. Then they are hated by the government and the fools who eat only because they labor.


9 posted on 01/25/2012 7:47:35 AM PST by formosa (Formosa)
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To: bigdirty

I guess not everyone feels the same way.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2816541/posts


10 posted on 01/25/2012 7:57:01 AM PST by Rational Thought
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