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Embarrassed? MSNBC Reduces Sharpton Appearances after Harris Scandal

November 27th, 2024 12:57 PM

Longtime MSNBC host and race huckster Al Sharpton has seen his guest appearances on MSNBC cut nearly in half, following a scandal involving undisclosed payments from the Kamala Harris campaign. According to The Washington Free Beacon, the Harris campaign shelled out $500,000 to Sharpton’s non-profit, just weeks before his October 20 softball sit-down with the Vice President.

Editor’s Pick: Free Beacon on Team Kamala’s Donation to Sharpton Group

November 12th, 2024 3:18 PM

Our friend Chuck Ross at the Washington Free Beacon penned a story Tuesday raising yet another set of questions about the wretched finances of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign as he found it gave half a million dollars to MSNBC host Al Sharpton’s liberal advocacy group National Action Network just weeks before his softball-filled October 20 interview.

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SO SAD: 'Mourning' Mika, Near-Tears McCaskill, Sharpton Blames 'Bias'

November 6th, 2024 11:09 AM

The morning after the election, "Mourning" Mika is dressed all in black. Claire McCaskill is near tears, saying Trump understood the electorate better than the Democrats, that "anger and fear" work, and that America's "better angels" have fled. Al Sharpton blames racial and gender bias, and says there's a lot of "misogyny" among black and Hispanic men.

PBS on Trump: 'Spent Time Sowing Fear Around Transgender Americans'

October 24th, 2024 1:18 PM

The PBS News Hour led off two nights in a row with campaign trail reports from Laura Barron-Lopez, their most partisan reporter. Anchor Geoff Bennett set the scene Monday evening, with Donald Trump in North Carolina on a post-hurricane Helene trip and Kamala Harris touring with former Republican congresswoman and famed anti-Trumper Liz Cheney. The story’s online headline did much of…

Sharpton Campaigns for Harris... Days After He Interviewed Harris

October 24th, 2024 11:57 AM

Remember the quaint old days (think 2010) when MSNBC hosts were suspended for a few days for donating to politicians? This kind of policy has never applied to activist Rev. Al Sharpton. The Hill reports Sharpton is touring Michigan on Thursday to get out the vote for Harris....four days after his MSNBC interview with Harris. 

PBS Ties Vance to 'Far Right' Preacher, Kamala Not Tied to Sharpton

October 23rd, 2024 10:24 PM

When Republican vice presidential hopeful J.D. Vance appeared at a Christian conservative town hall in Monroeville, Penn., hosted by controversial right-wing preacher Lance Wallnau on September 28, PBS ran a full story two days later on the threat of “Christian Nationalism” and by implication, of Vance himself. Never mind that Vance was not actually interviewed by Wallnau, who didn’t even…

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WRAPPING MEDIA WEEK: Al Sharpton’s Soft Non-Interview of Kamala Harris

October 20th, 2024 8:50 PM

Vice President Kamala Harris’s big media week featured friendly visits as well as a couple of rough spots. However, the Democrat nominee was assured a super-soft landing this week by sitting down with race arsonist-turned MSNBC host Al Sharpton.

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Sharpton: Trump Voters Want Women And Minorities To Have No Rights

September 4th, 2024 2:17 PM

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton joined colleague Joy Reid on Tuesday’s edition of The ReidOut to allege that the reason why some people still support Donald Trump is because they seek to take the country back to a time when women and minorities had no rights.

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Al Sharpton Decries Capitalism: ‘As Outdated as Bell-Bottom Pants’

August 26th, 2024 6:06 PM

Infamous race-baiter and MSNBC weekend host Al Sharpton lashed out at Republicans and Congressman James Comer (R-KY) during Monday’s Morning Joe, because the latter expressed concern that Democratic vice presidential nominee Governor Tim Walz (MN) was elected by and promoted anti-capitalist special interests, including China. According to Sharpton, the GOP ideals Comer was promoting…

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MSNBC Hosts Lament Overlooking ‘the Charisma of Kamala Harris’

August 26th, 2024 3:24 PM

Even with hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski away on Monday, the fill-in cast of MSNBC’s Morning Joe managed to meet their high bar for obnoxious praise for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign; at one point even lamenting that they had overlooked how supposedly charismatic she was as they misguidedly focused on her failed 2020 run. A Washington Post

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Morning Joe Loves Michelle's 'Hope Making A Comeback'

August 22nd, 2024 4:28 PM

Morning Joe is enraptured by Michelle Obama's line from her DNC speech: "hope is making a comeback." But remind us: who's been in charge for the last—apparently hopeless—four years? Oh, right: it was the administration of Joe Biden and . . . Kamala Harris.

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Sharpton: Eliminating Ballot Drop Boxes Means 'Voting Will Not Matter'

July 29th, 2024 12:30 PM

On Morning Joe, they freaked out over Donald Trump joking to Christians they won't need to vote in four years because "we'll have it fixed." Al Sharpton suggested that Trump is planning to eliminate early voting and drop boxes, which would mean that "voting will not matter."

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Sharpton: People Getting News From 'Wrong Source' Like Slaves

June 19th, 2024 6:32 PM

On Morning Joe, Al Sharpton, discussing Juneteenth, says that people who get their news from the "wrong source" are like the slaves in Texas who didn't realize until two-and-a-half years after the Emancipation Proclamation that they were free.

MSNBC: One Man’s ‘Election Denier’ Is Another Man’s TV Host

March 28th, 2024 11:41 AM

MSNBC, the “news” outfit on which the Rev. Al Sharpton has a show, briefly hired former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, at $300,000 per year, to serve as an on-air pundit. Why did the rabidly anti-Trump, anti-Republican network make her the offer?