Rev. Al Sharpton Will Probably Join MSNBC As 6 PM Host

No stranger to controversy, the Reverend Al Sharpton looks he'll be like the newest member of MSNBC's left-leaning talk show crew. Last week, TV Newser reported that Sharpton, filling in for usual 6 p.m. host Cenk Uygur, had higher ratings in a key demographic and now the NY Times says, "Mr. Sharpton’s imminent hiring, which was acknowledged by three people at the channel on condition of anonymity because the contract had not been signed, is significant in part because MSNBC and other news channels have been criticized for a paucity of minority hosts in prominent time slots."

Earlier this week, Sharpton's spokeswoman told the NY Post, "There have been no formal discussions, but he is having a lot of fun. He's been doing talk radio for the past five years -- with a daily show and several radio shows that he hosts during the weekend -- so he has an audience." Of course, the Post tries to dampen any kind of enthusiasm over the show, reminding, "The Sharpton-hosted show airing nightly would, at the very least, generate plenty of ink for MSNBC, due to Sharpton's outspoken and often inflammatory nature. CNN tried much the same thing when it hired disgraced "Love Guv" Eliot Spitzer last fall -- two years after he resigned from office in a hooker scandal -- to host its 8 p.m. show with conservative columnist Kathleen Parker (who left shortly thereafter). That experiment ultimately backfired when Spitzer -- who, like Sharpton, had no professional background in TV -- failed to find a steady audience."

However, let's consider Sharpton's (Tweeted) words from Tuesday, "Activism is like playing a football game and you have the ball. Some in the crowd will cheer u, others will jeer u. Your job is to score."

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By Jen Chung in News on July 21, 2011 5:44 PM

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LEZETTET

So its official Brother Al Sharpton has he own show on MSNBC. Thank you MSNBC for initiating a new face on prime time and someone who can put forth black people issues.

OPINIONATED03

WOO SO MANY JUDGES TRYING TO PLAY THE PART IN THIS WORLD AND NONE OF THEIR OPINIONS DON'T REALLY MATTER AT ALL WHETHER YOU LIKE HIM OR NOT HE HAS THE JOB HE IS NO DIFFERENT FROM RIGHT WING TV HOST THAT ARE OUT THEIR SPEWING THEIR OPINIONS AND SOMEWHAT CLAIMED VIEWS ON THE WORLD AND PEOPLE TALK SHIT ABOUT THEM SO STOP HATING ON A PERSON WHO IS DOING NOTHING NO DIFFERENT THAN SOME OF THOSE RIGHT-WING HOST I'M GLAD HE IS ON TV IT GIVES A DIFFERENT PROSPECTIVE ON THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THIS WORLD IF YOU DON'T LIKE HIM AND WHAT HE BELIEVES IN THEN MF'S CHANGE THE DAMN CHANNEL THAT IS YOUR MF CHOICE SO STOP BITCHING AND MOVE THE FCK ON DAMN

Guest

Well, Well, Well!

JackBrat

White America must come to terms with living with the American Negro sub-culture, as has arisen over the last 60-years since the success of the civil rights movement begun in the late 50's!
Terms- like being accepting of strange first names like 'Chlorine' and 'Knisha'- and yes; even unusual fashion statements like the one with pants falling-down to reveal one's underwear- fashioned after the attire of the inmates of Riker's Island Prison. . . inmates with whom a lot of Negroes identify!
Then of course there is the strange attraction for large, garish gold jewelry called 'Bling' or, when displayed in excess: 'Bling-Bling'. . . -and an unusual affinity for overly large wheels on one's automobile- augmented by a total new paint job in an unusually strange and vibrantly garish color not yet offered by any automobile manufacturer!
The of course there is this sub-culture's 'music'- (inspired, no doubt, by a combination of MoTown Music; the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; -and the poet: Bobby Dylan! ) called 'Rap' (actually, this is a 'cultural in-statement'- a play on the word 'Rape'!) inasmuch as much of this 'music' is inherently disrespectful of women: which are referred to as 'Bitches 'n' Ho's ! ( Many white Americans are totally unaware as to what exactly a 'Ho' actually is!! )
White America must wake up and realize that the American Negro subculture is here- and is here to stay!! The next step in this progression, it to vote in a TOTALLY Negro President of the United States- rather than the half-ass'd offspring of a Negro and an American White female banking executive. Yes- AL SHARPTON for President. (Whatever happened to Tawana Brawley- perhaps she'll be appointed Secretary of State in the Sharpton Administration- After all- anything is possible here in America!! )
Is it 2012 yet?!

XavierTruth

You're absolutely right JackSpratBabyFat! The BLACK MAN is here to STAY. He never went anywhere, since it's a scientific FACT that the oldest living remains ever discovered was those from a woman of African decent, and of course we all know that her MAN came first ;-). I personally would put your content of words in the opposite direction by saying that, your SUPERIOR (in your mind) race, the White Oppressors are here to stay, since it is a proven FACT JACK, that your folk has been oppressing people since they've stepped on AmeriKKKan soil. Oh, and of course the sheer thievery of our AMERICAN Indian brother's land, and the GREEDily Slaughters and Rapings of their women and children! Yes NEIGHBOR, the BLACK MAN (and so many other people of COLOR) with our RICH cultural history and HOT (it's in our blood), trendy, and constantly new cultural statements will ALWAYS be apart of the WORLD's fiber and INFLUENCES, not just here in AmeriKKKa! BLING-BLING, and ALL! Neighbor!

JackBrat

Geez= how'd you find out about we White Oppressors going to secret courses in college on how to oppress the Negroes in America. . . and how to keep them from succeeding in OUR civilized economy- except in the area of music, drive-by shootings, and, or course drug manufacturing, distribution and sales. . . with perhaps a few inroads in the sale and distribution of handguns. . . and Gold Teeth along with a sub-specialty of something called 'Bling'!

Is it 2012 yet?!

XavierTruth

Continue to live your miserable life worrying about people of color, particularly the black race, surpassing your kind in life, and getting our fill of that sweet AMERICAN (without the KKK) pie. I said all that I had to say. Done with you clown. Therefore, your WHITE buffoonery gets no more air play. From me or Mr. Sharpton. LOL!

JackBrat

Hey- Xavier! <-(Geez, I hope you don't mind the familiarity of my addressing you on a first-name basis!!)

Anyhow, Xavier- Being a a first-name basis- I'd like you to know that I don't take your comments in reply to mine,
-personally or even to heart. . . I have come to realize that the complaint that most American Negroes have involving American Cuacasians; American Asians; American Indians; and Americans in general- now get this---> IS THAT BEING THE COLOR BLACK- AMERICAN NEGROES ARE EASILY IDENTIFIED AS BEING PART OF THIS OUT-OF-STEP SUBCULTURE- WETHER AT CONEY ISLAND OR RIKER'S ISLAND!!
Yes- American Negroes don't like being the COLOR black- and that makes them constantly cranky!!

Is It 2012 Yet?!

'JackSprat- the Brat'

LICnative

They hired a black racist. Maybe the current Grand Wizard can get the 7 o'clock slot.

XavierTruth

Why is he a Racist, because he stands up for the rights of the underprivileged, which happens to be his own race and other minorities in America? Or did he personally call you a cracker? I'm just sayin...

LICnative

I'm calling him a racist, because he's a racist. When it walks like a duck an talks like a duck, it's a duck.

. At Freddy's fashion mart, at the Korean deli boycott and in the Tawana Brawley fraud, nothing but raced based thuggery in word and action.

As to the term "cracker", I've been called it plenty of times. It rolls off like water on a duck's ass. Frankly, there's no term in this language that can steal my self-esteem or self-respect. I don't have a "magic word" that can steal my soul. I know of one that would blow the relaxer out of the fat man's bad hair do, but I don't need to go there to make the point.

It's easier to point out what he is. A racist, charlatan, snake oil salesman. A reverend without a church, a guy who doesn't own his own suits, a guy who doesn't pay his taxes.

Who has Fat Al served other than himself?

JackBrat

Will the low-life gadfly Sharpton - because he is black- be allowed by the FCC to use the word: NIGGER. . . or will he have to use the profoundly stupid 'N'-Word'- an embarrassing social commentary on the state of our heretofore, at least openly honest civil society!!
So what about the 'W'-Word' for WOPS. . . -and the 'K'-Word' for KIKES. . . -and the 'S'-Word for SPICS. . . -and the 'C'-Word' for CHINKS (also available for use in describing cantankerous females. . .??)
WHAT A JOKE AMERICAN SOCIETY IS BECOMING, OWING TO THE LIBERAL CONCEPT OF 'POLITICAL-CORRECTNESS!!

SonnyBobiche

Typical show would sound like this:

" So, in conclusion, whites are evil, blacks are victims and I'm needed to help them get what's theirs. And now, Tawana Brawley with the weather. Take it away Tawana!"

Phil Ryan

In the words of Maggie Thatcher, whom I'm sure he hates: "No, no. no."

ddhboy

NO. Please. I hate his hosting style. He's so awkward anytime there's any sort of time delay (which is all the time since MSNBC always uses Cisco Telepresence) and cuts off every other respondent Plus he does that whole yelling into the microphone thing he always does.

Christopher J. Stephens

Wait, the reason you don't like this is because of his television manner? As opposed to him being a hateful race-baiter? Please tell me that was supposed to be tongue in cheek.

PYTCOLORBLIND

SAD AMERICA IS SO JUDGEMENTAL WITHOUT GIVING THINGS A CHANCE. AGAIN RACISM RARES ITS UGLY HEAD. SAD AND SHAME ON YOU WHO CANT SEE PERSON INSTEAD OF COLOR

AlexTheOriginalPartyDog

You were obviously sleeping during the Tawana fiasco. You were also probably sleeping during spelling and grammar classes.

Greg Froober

when I see sharpton I see racism and double standards

THAT is what is wrong with sharpton, not his color.

You don't seem to understand that people dislike sharpton for things he has done. He is not some new guy that "hasn't been given a chance."

Racism has many ugly heads... and one of those heads is sharpton's

jamieob256

I remember well when Sharpton said that he didn't want white interlopers in Harlem, which resulted in the torching of Freddy's Fashion Mart, a white-owned business. Many died because of Sharpton's words.

Sharpton is pure filth.

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