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To: Wayners who wrote (649937)	4/1/2012 10:06:15 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Respond to of 1574093

Talk to Brumey, he brought Breitbart up...

To: Wayners who wrote (649937)	4/1/2012 10:12:49 PM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574093

MSNBC's as yet unrealized problem: They will be unable to fire Al Sharpton. one man's opinion... Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:55:33 PM by ken5050 As baseball hall-of-fame member Satchel Paige once famously noted, "...the light at the end of the tunnel may be a train coming straight at you in the opposite direction..." The suits running MSNBC, and the bigger suits they report to at NBC and Comcast, have absolutely no idea how the insipid decision to hire Al Sharpton, and give him his own platform nightly at 6PM, will soon come back to bite them all on their collective asses, big time. MSNBC's editorial policy is now devoted 24/7 to seeing that George Zimmerman is arrested, tried, convicted, sentenced, tarred and feathered, and then drawn and quartered, all in prime time. They have gone "all-in" on the side of Trayvon Martin, including featuring pictures of him as an angelic 14 year old. According to MSNBC, Martin did nothing wrong, and Zimmerman is a racist, white, right-wing thug...and America is still evil at heart. The person leading this parade on MSNBC is good old Rev. Al. When asked early on if Sharpton's overt advocacy, if not his fostering a lynch mob mentality every night on his show, is OK by the MSNBC suits, they replied stuporifically that "they knew of his passionate advocacy when he was hired, and expected that he would continue in that manner on air.." As the Martin/Zimmerman saga continues to unfold, holes are starting to appear in the version of events being pushed by MSNBC. And as others take note, comparisons are being made to the Duke lacrosse scandal. There is considerable validity in that analogy, but given Rev Al's immersion into this case, a more apt example might be the Tawana Bradley scandal. Sharpton appears to be reprising his role in that sorry episode. Everything that Tawana claimed happened, and that Sharpton maintained was the gospel truth, turned out to be a lie. The entire event was fabricated by a scared girl, who was basically afraid to admit that she'd broken curfew. But instead of finally consigning Sharpton to the dust bin of racial hatemongers, he was allowed to escape, get away without any consequences, and indeed reinvent himself and his career. And managing to rack up millions in unpaid income taxes along the way, yet is still allowed to spew venom nightly on MSNBC. Back then, Sharpton was a fat loudmouth, sporting a velour tracksuit, and a ridiculous medallion around his neck, about the size of a turkey platter. Sharpton appears to have invented "bling", before "bling" became cool among certain social classes. But it's obvious what is about to happen. The imminent train wreck that is Rev Al will soon derail. As sure as day follows night, it's inevitable. Sharpton will cross way over the line, and something, bad, and most likely sad as well, is about to happen, instigated by Sharpton. And that's when MSNBC's and the upstairs suits' problems will really begin. Because Sharpton's bulletproof. They can't fire him, but soon they will need to do just that. 1 posted on Sunday, April 01, 2012 9:55:39 PM by ken5050