Road Scholar Wrote:
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> How does this idiot stay on television? He must
> have pictures of the head of MSNBC in the bathroom
> with an 8 year old boy or something.
He essentially wormed his way in by blackmailing Comcast as his organization does other companies by threatening them with racial diversity and discrimination actions unless they make a contribution to buy him off:
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...The lawsuit also accuses Sharpton, the National Action Network (the non-profit civil rights organization he founded in 1991), the NAACP and the National Urban League, claiming that the groups signed “sham diversity agreements” with Comcast in exchange for donations, knowing that the cable company would leverage the agreements to mask its discriminatory practices.
The complaint particularly calls out Sharpton and his non-profit, which it says “has a business model and track record of obtaining payments from corporate entities in exchange for his support.” This critique has been leveled at him before, in the Daily Beast and the New York Post, though neither accusation came of anything.
He "just happened" to get his show after giving Comcast the Sharpton stamp of racial approval.
Which seems fairly obvious when you know the back-story. I mean really, who would hire Sharpton in the first place and then keep his pitiful show with even more pitiful ratings on the air for years otherwise?