The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, who hosts CNN’s Reliable Sources media watchdog program on Sunday, doesn’t think it’s acceptable for the Rev. Al Sharpton to host a cable news program while organizing political rallies.Al Sharpton is desperate to be considered relevant, and racially-oriented rallies are all he has left. If MSNBC pushed the issue I bet he'd quit the network so he could be viewed as a victim and keep running around crying racism wherever he feels it's convenient.
Sharpton hosts MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” on weekdays, and he has been at the forefront of recent racially-focused political rallies in Sanford, Fla., and around the country after the killing of 17-year-old black teenager Trayvon Martin.
Sharpton has been pushing these rallies despite the fact that all the evidence and information about Martin’s killing hasn’t yet come out. MSNBC has been silent on why the network is allowing Sharpton to organize these events.
Network spokesman Jeremy Gaines didn’t immediately respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment on the matter.
Even so, Kurtz believes it’s time for MSNBC to crack down on Sharpton and hold him to the same standards to which Fox News has held its hosts.
“Folks, we criticized Hannity when he went to Tea Party rally & was yanked back by Fox,” Kurtz tweeted on Sunday afternoon. “MSNBC should hold Sharpton to same standard at rally.”
Sharpton fanned the flames of racial politics in Sanford on Thursday, and he’s expected to be a part of another rally in the central Florida town on Monday afternoon.
I'm looking forward to the day with both Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are so irrelevant nobody in the media cares what they think about anything.
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Howard Kurtz hasn't gotten the memo that ABC, CBS, MSNBC, and even CNN have been organs of the Democrat Party for at least a decade. Telling them to step away from Sharpton would be like telling Susan G Komen to part with Planned Parenthood.
Al Sharpton's show should at least be suspended from MSNBC while he advocates for the Martin case. "Politics Nation" is an incorrect title for the show now which focuses 90% or more of it's time on the Martin case. A more precise title would be "Treyvon Martin: Why we should lynch George Zimmerman". Susan G Komen doesn't have an outlet like Sharpton does. There's no comparison there.
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