Lookin’ Sharp, Sharpton

On this day, 24 years ago, a major(ish) tv news personality’s career was born.

You can’t just get on television and start blaming the police for brutality that they didn’t commit—-you have to work up to that.  It’s a high calling.

So, today we honor the birth of an MSNBC career.

Happy Tawana Brawley day, Al Sharpton.   On this day in 1987, a young girl claimed she was raped by police officers (among others)–claims that were later shown to be embarrassingly  false.  Sharpton blindly ran to her defense, immediately vilifying the police…basically saying they acted stupidly without having any of the facts.  This was the moment he arrived in our collective consciousness.  Who knew that blaming the police for brutality that they did not commit would be such great training for his future Occupy Wall St. coverage.

 

Think about that.  24 years ago, wildly blaming the police for brutality they didn’t commit made you a crazy outcast (with admittedly  awesome hair.)

Today–it gets you a seat at an anchor’s desk.
How far we’ve come.  The blaze has more of Al’s interesting past.
  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Al Sharpton has in his career become the personification and fulfillment of everything bad and demented among the progressives socialization agenda in regards to those in America who want to tame the fed’s and restore the nation.

  • Anonymous

    What a dirtbag. A greasy looking bafoon.

  • Kevin Jensen

    Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and all the racists blacks would be out of work if people would just realize these hate mongers make their living by abusing the people they claim to protect. Wake up people, throw these bums out of your life!

  • anarohah

    This is the only thing this crap can do. He is unable to make better.
    Simply he and this company are irrelevant.

  • Anonymous

    If he would be white, he reminds me of Hitler with that mustache. Maybe needs a little trimming.

  • Anonymous

    One of the most racist men in America! He is an embarrassment to black people everywhere!

  • Anonymous

    Lowest common denominator rules.  This is a man who personifies the old axiom, “It’s impossible to overestimate the stupidity of the American public”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_362KPH4LM5YLNEJVBYXKMHKE4Y Carl

    Al Sharpton is a racist and wouldn’t have a job if he didn’t keep stirring the racist pot; you have to keep stiring the racist pot to keep those donations coming in otherwise you’d have to find a real job.  The same goes for his pal, Jesse jackson; what has either one of them done for the world to make it better. They’re always yelling RACISM………..RACISM no matter what the occasion if they see an opportunity.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_362KPH4LM5YLNEJVBYXKMHKE4Y Carl

    Al sharpton and Jesse Jackson are two racists that survive as long as they can convince people racsim is still alive. Without racsim they wouldn’t get any donations and would have to find a real job. Keeping rascism alive is their only purpose; what have they really done for the good of this country?

  • Anonymous

    a  parasite feeding on humans

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_I7VU52PMERM2MTJOYWXKGSXI6M philf

    The guy is a race hustler who takes advantage of his own race for his owm enrichment. He has done nothing for black Americans except take their money and lead them down the same liberal socialist garden path. He has done nothing to improve any Americans life let alone black Americans.

  • Anonymous

    Never figured out why they gave baffoons like Sharpton any airtime on FOX, let alone any network.  He is a racist that wants to keep blacks suppressed for his own benefit, he’s inarticulate, and has flawed logic. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Patrick-OBrien/1034481046 Patrick O’Brien

    Another reason why NOT to watch MSNBC.

  • Anonymous

    Are you serious??  Is he still on?  I thought even BSNBC (yes, BS) would be embarrassed by him by now.  What does that tell you?  Sharpton is an extreme racist as well as BSNBC.  All they see is color.  Character does NOT matter to him or the network.

  • w. Parker

    An instigator of trouble and hate.  A slime ball from the deepest depths of hell.  David Duke was silenced, why the double standard – and why is this scum bag preaching on MSNBC?  He’s nothing more than a black terrorist

  • Anonymous

    That is why people like Al Sharpton and Jessy Jackson are AFRAID of men like Herman Cain! When people realise that the Republican Party is NOT racists but Champian equaility ( and always have) then what are they left with?
    WHat does everyone think of the smear job they are doing on Cain? Has anyone even noticed that all the women coming forward are WHITE women with questionable pasts?

  • Anonymous

    He looks like chick magnet to me.

  • Anonymous

    This perp is truly a racist promoted by LMSNBC!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Lee-Sullivan/100000256745869 Lee Sullivan

    Al Sharpton is one of the most racist individuals ever!!  He has a reprobate mind pitching hate and blame everywhere but his way.  Titus 1:16: They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

  • Anonymous

    sharpton came out the closet

  • Anonymous

    sharpton came out the closet,now its jacksons turn

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MVAUED5KJJRYG2PFW4MDSL5Q Sunshine Kid

    How in the world can you say so much in such a short sentence?

    But you are very correct!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MVAUED5KJJRYG2PFW4MDSL5Q Sunshine Kid

    Keep in mind that the left’s attacks on the right discourage those who are on the left from even looking at what the other side has to say.  Prime example:

    Anita Moncrief at C-PAC Part 1
    Anita Moncrief at C-PAC Part 2

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MVAUED5KJJRYG2PFW4MDSL5Q Sunshine Kid

    Know your enemies:  Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MVAUED5KJJRYG2PFW4MDSL5Q Sunshine Kid

    MSNBC and other leftwing media outlets are immune to embarrassment.

    Either that, or they take a lot of drugs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_42MVAUED5KJJRYG2PFW4MDSL5Q Sunshine Kid

    Turkey chicks?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_WXCRTKD5TKKAHQIHSSWPP4XSA4 Jose-De-Plumr

    Al is a typical socialist/atheist/marxist/progressive-democrat.  He and Jessee Jackson shook down the auto industry to force them to hire his cronies into their businesses and it keeps on getting better.  This reverend needs lots of help if he ever approaches the pearly gates of heaven.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=738629147 Michelle Wise

    Can’t wait to see you in Fort Walton Beach Glenn!

  • Anonymous

    When insane people become the normal people,normal people become outcast,reality becomes blurred and the nation accepts arrogance as intellect,lip service for experience and a skin color as a qualification.

    When a person who has never been without since their first lie,is placed on a network of lies,then who would ever believe the truth can occupy the same space?

    If not for the act of a person denied all civil rights,this person would have no rights,The only fairness left to us is the fairness or equal time for equal lies,equal injustice for equal justice and Al Sharp-ton for true, responsibly vetted cometary.

    How this patron of deceit becomes a national figure for truth is evidence of the coming rapture.God help us all.

  • Anonymous

    Gobble, Gobble!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tammy-Campbell/100000810652926 Tammy Campbell

    lol

  • Anonymous

    Look has changed the stupidity is the same.

  • Anonymous

    No thanks Sunshine Kid. I prefer to eliminate my enemies.

  • Andrew Ziegler

    He’s so pathetic, that he’s an embarrasment to MSNBC too. Without this clown, MSNBC might be able to pass itself off to a kool aid addict as just another news channel, but whatever made them hire Sharpton was some sort of…. desperation? I guess it’s desperation? I’m glad I don’t understand their thinking.

  • Andrew Ziegler

    Yeah, that pretty much goes without saying. That’s the leftist way. They are always right factually and morally, all who oppose are crazy, stupid or evil and if you think any differently, you better shut up or you will face the most bitter, blind and wreckless hatred. In my humble opinion, leftist idealogies step from defects of character.

  • Andrew Ziegler

    Wait a second, let’s not forget… these are leftists we’re talking about here. Racism is OK if you are not white, especially if it is directed at white people. Also, at MSNBC no matter what lie you tell, it is the truth as long as you repeat it over and over again. All you have to say is “Republicans are evil, greedy and racist and only help the rich and George Bush is evil” to some little fucker in college and in 4 years you got a good little voting monkey.

  • Andrew Ziegler

    I think you give Al Sharpton too much credit… he’s not shitty enough to embody everything rotten that is the left.

  • Anonymous

    Goes to show just how hard up MSNBC is for talent.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jimbo-Wales/100002357391558 Jimbo Wales

    Flagging your comment for misuse of the word “talent.”

  • Anonymous

    So who is listening or watching this bigmouth, racist liberal? No one I know is!

  • Anonymous

    Did you mean “buffoon”? or Baboon?

  • Anonymous

    Quit monkeying with me.;)

  • Anonymous

    A vile, disgusting racist that should be in jail.

  • Soulphoenix

    He’s an embarrassment to ALL people everywhere.

  • Soulphoenix

    Al and Jesse are two of the most corrupt, hyper-selfish, power-craving overlords in America.  It is seriously depressing to see so many people completely brainwashed by them.  Their reckoning will come, but that is little solace at the moment.

  • barbara clemen

    Their counting on the tired line that all black men want white women…
    How low will they go? 
    Better yet what are they afraid of?

  • jess mcclure

    another spokeshole for Obama – this guy will end up looking for work soon -

  • jess mcclure

    whats new with MSNBC -

  • Anonymous

    I noticed that too! We can see that the democratic party is trying to hand pick the candidate for the GOP. They smeared Herman Cain, and they spent their time pointing out poor Perry’s brain stalls, and now they are attacking Newt Gingrich. Nancy Pelosi was willing to commit an illegal act in order to try to sling mud on Gingrich! The Dems are the ones trying to convince America that Mitt Romney would be the candidate to beat their beloved president. Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, could have done something really great, but instead they stroke their own popularity, and ego’s. With Herman Cain, and his alleged sexual conduct, it was like blood in the water to a bunch of sharks! It drove the liberal media into a feeding binge. I didn’t vote for our current prez. but I thought if there could be one good thing he could do, it would be to make America colorless. Instead, racism has been used at every turn to further the liberal agenda, and now class warfare has been added. One of the ten commandments is that we are not to covet our neighbor. But, our President seems to be willing to break that golden rule to promote jobs. Mainly, his and everyone he must pay back for voting for him.

  • Anonymous

    I will post this truth on every video/posts that GBTV ever puts on here. Thank you for encouraging me more!

  • Anonymous

    GB is a hypocrite for posting a video about a drunk when he has admitted to being in AA.  Amd he wants to divide the country in half with a wall!  But I have actually tried to connect on common ground but people name call and like the division.  I have said from the beginning that this country will fail if we don’t work together and when you boil away all of the BS…most people wan the same thing.  Most people on here make up things and call me names for no reason.  I am not part of OWS but I do support the middle class ( now lower class) who have been robbed from corruption.  The problem is most people fail to see both sides are equally corrupt and only blame Obama and the middle class (OWS) which is wrong.  Yes there are a few bad apples but they would be that way no matter what.  They did not create this problem.  The rich elites ho who want more money and power did and it is both the Right and the Left.  If people fail to recognize this and think that the same corruption on the Right with the next election will change anything is highly mistaken!

  • Anonymous

    thank you ST for my new compassion in life.  I will post the truth on every video on GBTV for the rest of my life!

  • SoThere

    That makes you a spammer and a hatemonger and a hypocrite. Ad in the fact that you’re also a vulgar little boy and you make up strtlk.

    How may people are you going to bring together doing that? You’re not very bright are you?

    “YMP”

  • SoThere

    That makes you a troll and a spiteful hate filled spammer.

    I see that you started your spamming attacks when you got to work and are continuing them when you should be working. Get your A$$ back to work and stop wasting the tax payers money.

    What you are witnessing is strtlk throwing a hissy fit because he was booted from Glenn Becks site. He’s spamming the site with his hatred for Glenn Beck.

    This is what an uneducated liberal does while he should be working cleaning offices in Government buildings.

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    Thank you so much for giving me a new passion for the rest of my life to post the truth on ever GBTV ever posted on here.

  • Anonymous

    You obviously don’t work…stop wasting my taxpayer money you waste of life!

  • SoThere

    New compassion in life, astounding goal for liberal achievement. Enjoy your pitiful life little boy. Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

    Go get some psychological help, you need it.

    LMAO

    “TMP”

  • SoThere

    I own my own business little boy. I’m one of the filthy rich you cry about all the time. I’m the guy who hired you to clean the toilets.

    I pay your salary.

    LMFAO

    “TMP”

  • Anonymous

    be it sharpton, jackson or the like. these men have missed the mark. in this nation we gain growth through hardships. sharpton, jackson and the naacp need to stop putting the stripes my great grand father took upon my back. the only chains that bound me are those i put on myself.  if it is not the white man, then its something else from the past. i am a free man. i do not need sharpton, jackson or the naacp to tell me how to stand freely under this sun. they have brought more division than unity ( king would be very sad ). how can one preach against one man, yet take his money to build up his greed? they know nothing of true freedom nor  of the scares others bore to allow them their rights.  white man took nothing from me. ask these two people when was the last time the were whippped, chained or picked cotton? they should be preaching one nation under God. not, this remember what they did to great grand dad. so basically their speach is of the same tone as the kkk. jesus dont have nothing to do with it. keep harping on the past. just do not be surprised  if you lose the future. hell is full of so called preachers and pastors also, tread softly when speaking.

  • Anonymous

    i ask all and any black americans who walks your footsteps? my father taught me to be a man above all else. jackson and sharpton has distorted all that history has taught freemen. it is as though they need strife, hate and evil to preach their thoughts of God. God gave men two things ( each was a long time coming ). one the lord jesus christ and two, freedom in a land called america. why can they not preach upon these two thoughts? because it do not line their pockets or keep them in the news. i would love to debate either of them.

  • Kevin Koloff

    In websters, under racist, there is no inscription, just an image of Al.

  • Anonymous

    Some of the American people probably thought they were voting for hope and change when they voted for President Barack Obama on Nov. 4, 2008. But according to Rev. Al Sharpton, they were voting for socialism. Sharpton, the founder of the National Action Network and talk radio host said during special coverage of the House of Representatives’ passage of health care reform legislation, this victory for President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would begin “transforming” the country.”I think that the president and Nancy Pelosi get credit,” Sharpton said. “I think this began the transforming of the country the way the president had promised. This is what he ran on.” And if that transformation is socialism, then so be it, he explained. That is what the American public “overwhelmingly” voted for.