Al Sharpton
Full
disclosure; I do not like Al Sharpton, at all. I believe he's a con-artist, a
racial arsonist and a bigot-for-profit. I stand by my earlier assertion that
MSNBC's hiring him was equivalent to a network hiring Tom Metzger of the Aryan
nation (the ONLY white group leader who has actually inspired racial violence
over the past fifty years) as a host.
Hiring
Al Sharpton remains as much a stain on that network as hiring the likes of
Metzger would've been. Some stains just don't ever wash off...and this (in my
view) is one.
Having
said all that, while I'm deeply saddened that MSNBC hired Sharpton, I don't
take any pleasure in his on-air demise, just as I wouldn't take pleasure in the
on-air demise of a Tom Metzger either. I'd have been deeply saddened to see
that person hired and would consider it a plus when they're off the air, but
I'd take no personal gratification from another person's misfortune.
An
MSNBC source has reportedly told the Daily Beast: “Going left was a brilliant
strategy while it lasted and made hundreds of millions of dollars for Comcast,
but it doesn't work anymore. The goal is to move away from left-wing TV.”
IF
that's true and Comcast has belatedly seen the light, then that's to the good,
BUT I remain skeptical. For one thing, the statement DOESN'T ring true. Going
far-Left has been a disaster from the start for MSNBC...always the cable news
door mat. Keith Olbermann couldn't beat FNC or CNN, neither could Rachel Maddow
and Al Sharpton has been so much of an embarrassment that his legendary
teleprompter gaffs were even fodder for uber-liberal SNL..."Sta Lois....I mean, St.
Louis..." Funny stuff, but waaaaay too close to the humiliating reality.
Will
MSNBC change course?
And
to WHAT, exactly? A "little LESS Left," or "As Left as the major
networks (ABC, CBS, NBC)?
Seriously,
WHERE do they go from here?
The
Daily Mail has a full article on this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970133/Al-Sharpton-bullet-MSNBC-bins-left-wing-programming.html
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