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MSNBC's Maxwell: Trump Raising 'Obamagate' Is 'The New Birtherism'
May 17th, 2020 8:14 AM
On Saturday's PoliticsNation show with Rev. Al Sharpton, MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell made her latest foray into throwing around accusations of racism as she claimed that President Donald Trump's use of the word "Obamagate" is "the new birtherism " and suggested that the word is code for "He is a black president."
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MSNBC's Zerlina Maxwell: Whites Pushing to Reopen Economy Are Racist
May 5th, 2020 3:45 PM
On Sunday's PoliticsNation, as MSNBC's Al Sharpton hosted a discussion of the push to reopen the economy and how doing so might effect minorities, MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell theorized that those pushing to reopen want to do so because they learned that minorities are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus.
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Sharpton Wrongly Claims Trump Never Condemned Anti-Asian Racism
May 4th, 2020 2:51 PM
On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton devoted a segment to claiming that President Donald Trump has stoked up racism against Asian-Americans by accurately linking the COVID-19 virus to China. He also incorrectly claimed that President Trump had not spoken out against anti-Asian racism even though the President did so not only on Twitter but also in one of his televised press…
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Sharpton: 'To My Surprise,' President Trump Called Me to Discuss Virus
March 21st, 2020 9:18 PM
Al Sharpton opened his MSNBC show this evening by announcing that, in response to his "moral appeal" to the White House, President Trump, "to my surprise," had called him to discuss the compassionate treatment of the homeless and incarcerated in light of the coronavirus epidemic.
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Mika: Will Bloomberg Put '$$ Where Mouth Is' to Get Sharpton 'Pass?'
February 17th, 2020 10:44 AM
On Morning Joe today, Mika Brzezinski told Al Sharpton that he was in a position to grant Bloomberg a "pass" on racial issues, and that Bloomberg is certainly "looking for it." And Mika wondered whether Bloomberg would "put his money where his mouth is?" What is she asking? That Bloomberg give money to Sharpton's National Action Network?
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Spike Lee Jokes to Sharpton: Senate Republicans Will 'Burn In Hell'
February 4th, 2020 7:43 AM
Rev. Al Sharpton welcomed leftist movie director Spike Lee on his Politics Nation show on Sunday night to discuss Kobe Bryant, but Sharpton finished the segment by asking about impeachment. "Have to ask you on the way out, because I know the activist side of you, have you been following the impeachment?" Lee cracked the Republicans are "going to burn in Hell" if they took an oath on the Bible…
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Sharpton Repeats Flawed Claim Hate Crimes Spiked After Trump Rallies
January 8th, 2020 8:10 AM
Over the weekend, MSNBC host Al Sharpton repeated a study highlighted last March by the Washington Post that made the claim that during the 2016 presidential race, there was an increase in hate crimes in counties that held Donald Trump rallies, even though the findings were discredited as misleading last September by another study published by Reason magazine. MSNBC host Yasmin Vossoughian also…
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Al Sharpton Applauds Election of Woman who Flipped Off Trump
November 10th, 2019 6:34 PM
On Sunday, outspoken race baiter and Sunday MSNBC host Al Sharpton dedicated his weekly “gotcha” segment to a full-throated celebration of Democratic gains in Tuesday’s election. At one point, Sharpton implied that a Trump golf course in Loudoun County, Virginia was somehow in danger now that an obscure critic of the President had been elected to serve on that county’s board of supervisors.
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MSNBC, NPR, CBS Let Guest Claim Police 'Genocide' Against Minorities
October 29th, 2019 10:59 PM
Over the past couple of weeks, MSNBC, NPR, and CBS have given a mostly unchallenged forum to liberal attorney Benjamin Crump to promote his new book, provocatively titled Open Season: Legalized Genocide Against Colored People, in which he promotes an alarmist view of widespread discrimination against the country's minority population, covering issues from police violence, high incarceration…
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Sharpton Lets O'Rourke Compare Trump Admin to Third Reich
October 22nd, 2019 10:15 PM
During an interview with 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton failed to push back on the far-left Democrat when he compared the Trump administration to the Third Reich. O’Rourke basically had free rein to compare the President to Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, while Sharpton, well-known for making incendiary remarks himself, allowed him to…
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Sharpton: Omar Elected on Vow of 'Making America Great in the Future'
July 21st, 2019 11:02 PM
How about that, perpetually aggrieved House Democrat Illhan Omar and President Trump have something in common -- both want to make America great, at least as Al Sharpton sees it. The difference being, Trump remembers an America that was great before it fell into decline while Omar sees no greatness whatsoever in its past, again according to "the Reverend" Sharpton.
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Sharpton Praises Pro-Abortion Women For Doing 'the Actual Creating'
May 15th, 2019 10:27 AM
Is there a more consistently inane presence on cable television than the Reverend Al Sharpton? If there's any doubt, his commentary about a new abortion law in Georgia during Sunday's PoliticsNation on MSNBC should end what paltry debate remains. Sharpton was describing pushback against the law from a predictable trio of Hollywood malcontents, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood when his commentary…
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Sharpton Can't Scold Others for Being Slow to Note Black Church Fires
April 23rd, 2019 3:25 PM
On Saturday's PoliticsNation show, MSNBC host Al Sharpton devoted a segment to fretting that the rebuilding of three black churches struck by arson in Louisiana have not received as much attention as the destruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in France. Sharpton went along with his guest's blatantly incorrect claim that the national media ignored the black churches even though nearly every network…
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MSNBC Touts Host Sharpton Holding Campaign Event for 2020 Dems
April 3rd, 2019 6:00 PM
Unburdened by basic journalistic ethics, on Wednesday, a series of MSNBC hosts eagerly promoted 2020 Democratic candidates lining up to speak at the annual National Action Network conference in New York City – put on by their fellow MSNBC host Al Sharpton. Not concerning themselves with the obvious conflict of interest presented by the event, the anchors hailed it as an “influential” forum for…
