Al Sharpton

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

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

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

Al Sharpton Decries Capitalism: ‘As Outdated as Bell-Bottom Pants’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

MSNBC Hosts Lament Overlooking ‘the Charisma of Kamala Harris’
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…

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

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

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

Morning Joe on Haley Slavery Slip: Doesn't Realize Can't Win MAGA Vote
On Morning Joe, self-described "Never Trump conservative" Matt Lewis says that in refusing to mention slavery when asked the cause of the Civil War, Nikki Haley misreads her core constituency. MAGA voters will never vote for her. She is running to win the primary in New Hampshire, not in Alabama or Mississippi.

Scarborough Hits Panic Button: Trump On a Path to Win Again in 2024!
Joe Scarborough pounds the table in frustration over Biden not getting credit for the economy, and says that unless things change, Trump will be the next president.

Forget Hamas! Sharpton Asks Maddow to Explain How Trumpism Is Fascism
MSNBC may have benched its al-Jazeera veterans as hosts, but they left Rev. Al Sharpton, whose inflammatory remarks against "white interloper" Jews live in New York infamy. On Saturday's Politics Nation, Sharpton brought on fellow MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to promote her book Prequel, which draws a strong line between American Nazi sympathizers in the World War II period and…

POWERFUL MSNBC Panel on ‘Barbaric’ Hamas Terrorists Had ONE Problem
After carrying a Tel Aviv press conference Tuesday morning of families of those kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Saturday, MSNBC’s Morning Joe turned to the indefatigable Bari Weiss of The Free Press and former Obama official/Anti-Defamation League (ADL) head Jonathan Greenblatt for what were emotional reactions imbued with moral clarity about the “barbaric irrationality of terror.” But amid…

Nice Try, Morning Joe! Show Argues Trump, Not Biden, Not 'All There'
Morning Joe, trying to cover for Biden's latest senior moment at his press conference in Vietnam that got so bad that his spox Karine Jean-Pierre had to step in to loudly end things, claims that it is fact Trump, and not Biden, who is not "all there."