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What? NY Times' Source for Calling Donald 'George Wallace' Trump Racist: Inflammatory Al Sharpton

By Clay Waters | December 23, 2015, 3:25 PM EST

Liberal blinders fastened tight, the New York Times set up inflammatory race-baiter turned MSNBC host Sharpton as an arbiter of someone else’s racism on Tuesday’s front page. Maggie Haberman and Steve Eder’s report, “ Trump’s Rise Divides the Black Celebr ...

Ferguson Media Darling Joshua Williams Sentenced to 8 Years For Arson

By Tom Blumer | December 13, 2015, 11:24 PM EST

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Thursday that Joshua Williams "was sentenced... to eight years in prison for starting a fire at a QuikTrip in Berkeley (a St. Louis suburb) after an officer-involved shooting there." The Dispatch apparently d ...

Bernie Sanders: Abortion Is 'Choice' But Death Penalty is 'Murder'

By Mark Finkelstein | November 1, 2015, 11:25 AM EST

I took it for granted that a leftist like Bernie Sanders would be opposed to the death penalty. Still, I was truly shocked  to see Sanders—not in some throwaway comment on the campaign trail but in prepared remarks on the Senate floor—flatly call the deat ...

Sharpton Shuts Down Republican Saying Hillary Lied About Benghazi

By Mark Finkelstein | October 25, 2015, 9:16 AM EDT

Talk about an inconvenient truth... Don't know if we've ever witnessed such a blatant suppression of facts--even on MSNBC. Republican strategist Jessica Proud was a guest this morning on Al Sharpton's MSNBC show, which has been turfed out o ...

Scarborough: 'I Blame Cable News' for Cops Being Less Safe

By Mark Finkelstein | August 31, 2015, 12:46 PM EDT

You wish he had named names... On today's Morning Joe,  Joe Scarborough flatly stated "I do blame it on cable news" for "people wearing uniforms being a lot less safe today than they were before Ferguson." So just which cable netw ...

Scarborough: Sharpton’s New Show a ‘Strong Lead In’ for Meet the Press

By Jeffrey Meyer | August 28, 2015, 11:33 AM EDT

Al Sharpton’s weekday program PoliticsNation will move to Sunday mornings starting in September, and the folks on  Morning Joe gushed at the new opportunities this would give the MSNBC host.  Joe Scarborough called Sharpton’s move “happy news” and eagerly ...

Scarborough Thanks MSNBC Boss for Booting Liberal Hosts

By Mark Finkelstein | August 27, 2015, 1:52 PM EDT

The morning after Al Sharpton was exiled  to the Sunday morning desert from his evening show, and not long after Ed Schultz and Alex Wagner were relieved of their hosting duties, Joe Scarborough has profusely thanked NBC News honcho Andrew Lack for making ...

Hallelujah!: MSNBC Shuffles Al Sharpton Off to Sunday Show

By Ken Shepherd | August 26, 2015, 8:12 PM EDT

"Al Sharpton is leaving MSNBC's weekday dayside lineup, and moving to Sunday mornings," Politico's Alex Weprin reported shortly after 7:30 Eastern this evening at CapitalNewYork.com. The activist-cum-TV host's last Politics Nation ...

Rev. Al Sharpton Lobs Softball Question to EPA Chief Over Animas River Pollution

By Ken Shepherd | August 18, 2015, 8:50 PM EDT

Last week, you may recall, an EPA bureaucrat fouled the Animas River in Colorado by accidentally unleashing a torrent of polluted water from an abandoned mine. Fast forward to today and the Obama/McCarthy EPA's announcement of a new rule intended to ...

MSNBC's Alter: GOP Getting 'Their Just Deserts' for Creating Trump 'Frankenstein Monster'

By Brad Wilmouth | November 10, 2015, 11:11 PM EST

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's PoliticsNation, MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter-- formerly of Newsweek-- rejoiced over Republicans being uneasy over Donald Trump's presidential campaign as he asserted that GOPers "have created Trumpenste ...

Sharpton Astounded Rand Paul Thinks People Who Work Harder Earn More

By Mark Finkelstein | August 10, 2015, 7:57 PM EDT

In the liberal universe, there's no correlation between hard work or ingenuity and financial success.  As President Obama recently put it, the rich are simply " society's lottery winners. " Sounding a similar theme, Al Sharpton today d ...

Barnicle Bemoaned Police Militarization, Now Calling for National Guard?

By Mark Finkelstein | July 10, 2015, 8:26 AM EDT

What does it say about Mike Barnicle that, in a discussion of the surge  in inner-city homicide, Al Sharpton sounded a lot more reasonable than the former Boston Globe columnist? On today's Morning Joe, Sharpton almost echoed the NRA's famous &q ...

Eugene Robinson: SCOTUS Decision Confirms ObamaCare 'As Part of the Fabric of American Life'

By Connor Williams | June 26, 2015, 1:49 PM EDT

The cheerleading for the president by MSNBC following the Supreme Court’s decision to affirm the federal subsidies in ObamaCare has been virtually ubiquitous. On the June 26 edition of Morning Joe, Eugene Robinson, Al Sharpton, and Mika Brzezinski were al ...

NewsBusted: Well, Jew've Lost Al Sharpton Now, Mr. President

By NB Staff | June 11, 2015, 3:48 PM EDT

"It’s been reported that President Obama considers himself the closest thing to a Jew that has ever sat in the Oval Office. As a result, the President’s close friend, Al Sharpton, is now giving him the cold shoulder."-- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Mi ...

FNC’s Kelly, Napolitano Hit Sharpton for Creating ‘Legal Problems’ Over Speech

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 2, 2015, 10:01 AM EDT

On Monday’s The Kelly File, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Judge Andrew Napolitano blasted MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for using a speech for the tax-exempt NAACP to “simultaneously attack police, criticize Republicans, advocate for the Democrats, organize street prot ...