Apparent Teleprompter Failure Leaves Sharpton Flailing
Probably not the "defining moment" MSNBC had in mind last night.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, invariably the glibbest pundit in the green room, hit a bumpy patch last night and veered into incoherence. (video after page break)
Sharpton was talking about that day's recall elections in Wisconsin when he said this --
Tonight is the measure of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin a national drive to push back or whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance. But resist we much. We must and we will much about that be committed.
Such gaffes may help explain why MSNBC has yet to sign Sharpton for the 6 p.m. hour, a deal reported as "all but certain" in July after the network gave Cenk Uygur the bounce.
John Hudson at The Atlantic Wire wrote an interesting post on Friday, "The Case Against Al Sharpton at MSNBC," from the perspectives of black journalists, left-leaning pundits, "conspiracists" and conservatives.
A suggestion to MSNBC for helping its audience decipher future meanderings from Sharpton -- subtitles.
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Veered into incoherence?
Submitted by Mike Bates on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:34pm.
The Rev revels in incoherence.
That he does!
Submitted by Jack Coleman on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:38pm.
Great line, I love it
Anybody got a Sharptonics dictionary?
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:06pm.
I'm tempted to order a written transcript of that show just to see how they interpreted that gibberish.
Ebonics fo' Dummies ...
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 11:20am.
... can be ordered frum da Gummint Print'n Office ifen you wants one. Wid dat, an a hit o'two o' Ripple, you can begins to unnerstan da Rev. De sells fo' like a dolla two niney-fii, I'm thanking.
I been workin' wid it fo' awhile, now, an I's gittin to da point dat I can awmos unnerstand da fool. But i's gotta tell you, it ain't no easy trick follerin' dat moe-ron, you know what I'm sayin'?
Good thang I spend a big part o' my yout working da fields, cause it give me a leg up, yo.
He still make moe since din Prissy!
Actually I think the Rev.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:45am.
was dipping into the Sacramental wine before the show! He looks like a bleary eyed drunken sot!
It was a test
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:34pm.
It was a test to see how cool he can stay when the rug gets pulled out from under him.
Of course, I was actually thinking of Bruce Almighty during the scene when he was messing up the teleprompter on the character played by Steve Carell(Still cracks me up to think of that scene!).
-Jon
Aww c’mon, he’s still more
Submitted by Reaver on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:34pm.
Aww c’mon, he’s still more coherent than Mathews
Resist we much!
Soon to be seen as a campaign bumper sticker
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:36pm.
RESIST. WE. MUCH!!!!!
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I like it! The only downside
Submitted by Immortal Fish on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:12pm.
I like it!
The only downside is there's no way to work in the O logo. I.E. The logO?
RESIST. WE. MUCHO????
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:52pm.
How's that?
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Speaking of logos
Submitted by ant on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:41am.
Take a second to check this out;
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/08/07/government-logo-fail-of-the-day/
I'm no engineer, but it looks like a perfect symbol of government.
"..we will much about that be
Submitted by ant on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 6:39pm.
"..we will much about that be committed." Maybe he was just trying out his Yoda impersonation. "Racist you are, hmm?"
You can't make this stuff up
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:11pm.
I'm sure there were outbursts of laughter in the studio control room.
He sounds like one of Bill Cosby's characters, or Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles.
I'm just glad the children
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:21pm.
I'm just glad the children were here today to hear it.
As long as you covered their eyes
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 9:29pm.
"The horror. The horror." -- the last words of COL Kurtz, US Army
That's a line from Blazing
Submitted by balboa on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 9:32pm.
That's a line from Blazing Saddles!
Yep, I recognized it
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 4:31pm.
In fact, it was just on AMC again this week.
I hope that the teleprompter mechanic
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:29am.
moves over to the White House.
I'd bet they probably had to call Madcow into the control room to cue the next show, the guys in there were probably still rolling on the floor.
Common folks.....He meant to
Submitted by DWoSD on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:17pm.
Come on folks.....He meant to say something profoundly socialist. It's all about intentions, so don't judge so harshly.
Blame the teleprompter, a terrorist tool planted by the tea party.
Sharpton is one of the great flimflam artists of our time.
Submitted by Thalpy on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:19pm.
He should be broadcasting from a prison cell.
That much we must. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:31pm.
coherent. uh, incoherently babble and uh, continue to assist, uh, resist we much, uh, must. Another lib, descending into irrelevance. . .
No no, Jack!!! It's "sub-tylas"
Submitted by Blonde on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 7:35pm.
Please....you're going to have to learn how to sound out these things the Good Reverend spews. Here's how it's done.
Maybe MSNBC could hire Corrine Brown to be his "Mika".....gaze at him adoringly and act as a human emote. They could call the show "Evening Dopes".
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
I would not have thought that Brown---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 8:00pm.
could possibly look or sound more ignorant than what I observed the first time I viewed that travesty of a presentation, but I swear she comes across as more ignorant with each successive viewing.
As entertaining as her clown act is, it represents to me either the stupidity, or the cupidity, of those who would pull the lever to put this beacon of intellectual purity and worshiper of proper semantics in office.
Alas, she is but one of a seemingly countless number of nitwits, nimrods, and do-nothing fools who live quite well on the proceeds of ill-gotten gains.
Tax monies taken from the working class, to be specific.
MD
Badaa, Bbb, Badda,Bbbb,
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 8:05pm.
Badaa, Bbb, Badda,Bbbb, bddda... That's All Folks!
Yes, All these Buffoons on MSNBC have Screws Loose,
Submitted by Comrade Jim on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 8:14pm.
But what about the people who hire them?
I don't see a difference He
Submitted by fatboy on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 8:29pm.
I don't see a difference. He made as much sense as he always does.
Mark Levin has played this
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 8:33pm.
about 10 times tonight. Very funny
mutts. We mushts and we will muts
Submitted by Injest on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 10:33pm.
But that's not what he said! What he said was:
Tonight is the measure,.... of whether the country begins in the state of Wisconsin,... a national drive to push back,.... or whether we have, more to go,... to build a movement of resistance. But resist we mutts. We mushts and we will muts..... about that be committed.
That's what he said!
A suggestion to MSNBC for helping its audience decipher future meanderings from Sharpton -- subtitles.
Or don't allow host to go on the air, drunk! Tingles too!
Fatman is a moron.
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:11pm.
Where is the surprise?
PLEASE MSNBC
Submitted by Jman449 on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:13pm.
Will anyone with a sense of humor working the teleprompter at MSNBC play the Charles Barkley "I'm a dumbass" joke on Sharpton? No way he doesn't read it!
Please, post spew alerts, Jman.
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 08/10/2011 - 11:46pm.
I just wasted a good sip of a fine Canadian whiskey. And, FWIW, I agree, there is absolutely no way he doesn't read it.
I'm gonna hafta look up the
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:11am.
I'm gonna hafta look up the definition of 'glib', since it's being used on Al the Racebaiter. I've heard this guy many a time, and what I hear is a bunch of crap-rap flappin' and snappin' out of his big but stupid claptrap. This guy is a street hustler, a race baiter, a common criminal, and an extortion specialist......................he'd be nothing but another loud-mouthed street punk if he didn't strong-arm these networks into putting him on, in the name of 'racial equality', or some such other BS..............
Sharpton Lost His Muchness
Submitted by Avus on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 4:59am.
Poor Al has lost his muchness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haiF5DOWwRo
He was channeling his inner Seuss
Submitted by Denny Crane on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 5:05am.
One year we had a Christmas brunch
with Merry Christmas Mush to munch.
But I don't think you'd care for such.
We didn't like to munch mush much.
We Are The 53%
Reverends aren't as powerful without a live audience.
Submitted by Denny Crane on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 5:07am.
To chant back every weird thing they say.
We Are The 53%
Neither are Carnival Barkers...
Submitted by Grumpy in Arizona on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 6:47am.
.
- Grump :o)
Check it out, check it out, Denny!!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 10:48am.
I thank you may'uh got to da bottom of dis, yo!
Da Rev be speakin' in tongues!!
I hear dat duh School of Journalisms at Columbia be gonna' 'ppoint da Rev to da faculty as a add-junk perfesser. You know anythang 'bout dat, yo?
Let's go wid dat.
I have trouble hearing lower
Submitted by amyshulk on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:23pm.
I have trouble hearing lower tones, so I figured that's why I couldn't understand what he was saying on MJ - but it's NOT just me??? Does he have marbles in his mouth?
Ronald Reagan
Sharpton replaced soon?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 12:55pm.
If they haven't signed Sharpton by now, more than likely they aren't going to sign him. Unless, of course, there's a ton of behind-the-scenes contract negotiations but I doubt that.
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MSNBC Preshow Disclaimer: "The following program has been close-captioned for the Sharpton-impaired."
Al Sharpton, America's first illiterate news anchor!
Submitted by GlenStanish on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:40pm.
Hilarious post in the Daily Rash - Al Sharpton, America's First Illiterate News Anchor http://www.thedailyrash.com/al-sharpton-americas-first-illiterate-news-a...
I Peed my Pants Watching Al on MessNBC...
Submitted by gruyere cheese on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 3:51pm.
Note to unemployed liberals; Sharpton has a paying job even though he has no qualifications and you DON'T. How is that Hope & Change thingy working out for you?