Al Sharpton MSNBC Segment on Romney Fundraiser Descends Into SNL-Like Skit
- Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:44am by
Christopher Santarelli
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Remember those concerns and criticisms when MSNBC decided to hire controversial activist the Rev. Al Sharpton as a news host last summer? Perhaps the show that unfolded on Monday was what naysayers imagined when they questioned Sharpton’s journalism credentials.
As you may know, Mitt Romney attended three fundraisers in the Hamptons this weekend, including one at the beach residence of conservative power donor and rabble-rouser David Koch — an event that attracted crowds of protestors from MoveOn.org, the Occupy Movement and the Long Island Progressive. Leading Rev. Sharpton’s “Politics Nation” broadcast on MSNBC Monday, the comedy group Political Subversities — wearing the worst of a J. Crew catalog — reenacted alleged quotes of attendees at the events.
“Tonight’s lead, ‘Life imitating Art’ in the Romney campaign,” bellowed Rev. Sharpton to start the show. “Folks, sometimes Willard Romney’s campaign for president is so hilarious, it seems like it comes from a book. It‘s called ’The Great Gatsby,’ all about the superrich and a big party on Long Island.”
You will undoubtably be laughing at the show’s skit. Who you are laughing at, though, depends on your political tilt, or respect for broadcast journalism:
The quotes used in Sharpton’s skit come from reports of the event from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times – accounts that were explained in a post on The Atlantic on Monday morning.
Despite the impression given by Rev. Sharpton that those quoted would be “calling the shots for this country,” the obtuse remarks reenacted on MSNBC Monday appear to come from only two parties at the weekend’s events: A Range Rover-driving, blue chiffon dress wearing, female New York City donor responsible for the “common person,“ ”we’ve got the message,“ ”nail ladies,“ ”if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated,“ and ”V.I.P. entrance” quotes. And the couple of Ted Conklin and Carol Simmons, who allegedly told the New York Times from their gold Mercedes outside one fundraiser that President Obama “is a socialist.”
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Comments (87)
nobama2012yeswecan
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:55amI got nothing here!!this ones just pathetic!!
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:53amI wish with a great deal of passion that that horrible man and msnbc would just fall off the face of the earth. He’s a race baiter, racist, ramble rouser trying to create class warfare, in a s sorry excuse for a Pastor. Well he and the his counter part’s Wright, Jackson enjoy his show. Shame, shame of you, but that you have no shame.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:00pmNo, race baiting, white people hating, divisive Al Sharpton, you friggn don’t get it. Where was your outrage when your homie Obama was charging $38,500 a plate at Grorge Clooney’s mansion, or when he was vacationing at a multi-million dollar home on Martha’s Vinyard, ro when Michelle O took a vacation in Spain and stayed in a $2,500 a night room or when Obama rented out an ENTIRE hotel in India for one of his trips?
Your divisive hypocrisy is nothing short of satanically inspired delusion. You fraud!!!!
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:20pmSharpton, the problem is not with rich people, the economic problems in this country come from the government, including your homie Obama, spending WAY too much money. It isn’t taxes, it is spending. Here’s some basic economic advice from James Brown:
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOKcdOI25ig
rx4nv
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:24pmSo Romney gets ridiculed for having a $25,000 per plate and $37,500 ($75,000/couple) per plate event, yet Obama is a Saint for having a $40,000 per plate event at George Clooney’s? Notice they had to price it per couple so it sounded more expensive than Obama’s event. What a bunch of cry baby idiots. That is the problem with Democrats, they don’t want to have to work for anything. I‘m surprised that they haven’t changed campaign reform to say that any money raised for any campaign has to be divided evenly among the candidates of all parties. That’s what they are doing for everything else.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 3:52pmAlfred is a worthless, hate filled, racist piece of liberal garbage. Did I leave something out?
Report Post »flrick
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 5:26pmWhat a dope. I had to turn it off after a minute. I can’t handle his blatant hypocrisy and blithering idiocy, compiled with his stupid looking face. What a jackwad. Burn in hell, sharptongue.
Report Post »rightwingheroes
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:55amI could care less if a successful, hard-working private citizen has a fundraiser. What i do care about though is my tax money being used by a never worked a day in his life, career criminal and Chicago mob boss named Don Barack’s lavish vacations, 100 rounds of golf and European shopping sprees.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:22amThe Let them eat Cake Romney supporters on the little people:
“But my college kid, the baby sitters, the nails ladies — everybody who’s got the right to vote — they don‘t understand what’s going on. I just think if you’re lower income — one, you’re not as educated, two, they don’t understand how it works, they don’t understand how the systems work, they don’t understand the impact.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/08/nation/la-na-romney-protests-20120709
Romney is the candidate for the rich, is has no concern for the average american citizen, he enjoys shipping their jobs to china.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:00pmENCIN: Blah..blah..blah.. you sound just like a sound- bite from a Democrat campaign video. Pretty weak on facts but strong on class division. Disgusting.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:05pmencinom, what are you going to do boy, when your buddy Obama is out of a job come November and hopefully Romney starts to dismantle the government teet factory where you’ve been feeding your whole life. Maybe one day we will see parasites like you shrivel up and blow away.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 1:07pmyeah..see..here’s your problem again ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO…the stuff you’re spouting only works on lefties. See…all that “hate the rich guy…you’re all serfs” stuff is just lefty hatespeak. It’s raw meat for lefties meant to incite unrest. It’s the stuff community organizers use to get people angry at other people. You should be reading “The little blue book” because you‘re trying to address conservatives and libertarians but you’re speaking lefty. Is this draining in champ?
Conservatives don’t begrudge wealth and success, they encourage for more people to be wealthy and successful.
Report Post »Serfs you say? So a government beaurocrat determining what you “need” as far as your income goes and how much he will then take from you isn’t serfdom?
You piece of lefty filth every syllable you utter is an insult to one’s intelligence.
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 3:56pmENCINOM, you are clueless. Do you actually believe your idiotic drivel, or are you just a bomb throwing anarchist with no morals whatsoever?
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 5:07pm@Encinom
Report Post »Ah yes…, the spewer of lies posts once again. Your ridiculous “Let them eat cake” mention proves it.
The much maligned and ill fated queen Marie Antoinette was not suggesting that the starving peasants of France should dine on bon bons and fancy iced delicacies.
You are so ignorant of history Encinom.CAKE was a reference to the stale breads leftover from the Patisseries daily sales. CAKE was much like the HARDTACK that our Confederate forces were forced to eat during our Civil War. GOOGLE it!
Tres hilarious you are Encinom.
spirited
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:54amMission: organized chaos (bamboozle)
a). “Yes WE Can”
WE: Who is we??
Can: What??
b). Social Justice
” …with liberty and justice for ALL”
c). Fair Share
redistribution, & retribitution to the resentful
normalize oddities
Report Post »twist and ridicule facts
seeker9
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:53amDid the article actually suggest Sharpton was a journalist? This is the way Dems represent “truth” and why they should be kept away from positions of power. Sometimes I thnk “Koch brothers” is their nuclear grenade. HA!
Report Post »tommyg524
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:50amhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-power-wall-street/#b
Report Post »must see..please share,pass it around
qpwillie
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:37amI have a lot of respect for the Koch brothers. We should all fight this fight with whatever means we have to contribute. The Koch brothers have money and they will use it to help save our country. I can’t think of a more worthy cause.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 12:00pm@QPWILLIE
A willing serf, willing to vote against your best interest and for pocket books of the true masters of the Tea ****** party.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 1:09pmSee there you go again ENCIDIOT/MONICNE/SLEAZY HIPPO..you‘re speaking lefty to people that don’t speak lefty. That whole “serfs..hate the rich guy stuff”…it‘s doesn’t work when you’re talking to rational people it only works on hatefilled, statist, lefty trash like you.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 2:19pm@AvengerK
I understand the average home school drop out tea ****** is unable t think for themselves and relies on Fox news and/or Beck t provide them with their opinions.
Report Post »kfogs1957
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:36amNothing needs to be said here. Just an absolute embaressment to NBC.
Report Post »CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:52amSharpton is a worthless POS… sorry, it had to be said.
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:28amif you are a good journalist and an obama supporter, and you got passed up by this clown to have your own show, I’m sure you are a little pissed.
Report Post »Reformed
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:24amAll I can do is sit and shake my head.
Report Post »IAMIR
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:24amLol….
Report Post »supertas
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:22amComedy gold. Can Cocaine Al do one of these a week. This is better than SNL.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:53amIs it? I wouldn’t know. I last watched SNL when Julia Sweeney and Victoria Jackson were both on it.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:19amThe owner of the American Hotel should sue that guy for defamation.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:19amSharpton has missed his calling. He should be wearing an orange jumpsuit and cleaning the warden’s bathroom.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:16amI think Al was holding a copy of “The Great Gatsby” Cliff Notes.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:13amLiberals are so artsy fartsy…… One day they may be forced to get real jobs….. Their biggest fear.
Report Post »Crazyotto
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:10amaccording to Al this “axe-tually” happened … is he serious .. what about Barry’s weekly foray to Hollywood, the Hampton’s, dinner with the hag from Vogue…etc… Al seemed surprised that Romney had $25,000 a plate fund-raisers when Barry has them weekly… It does make a person feel good knowing there is still a network that will hire a mentally challenged, inarticulate, fraud to anchor a news program… NBC is doing their part for the handicapped…
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:08amMock, Ridicule, marginalize. The Full Alyinski.
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:22amThis is the correct analysis. And it must be shouted from the rooftops that this is what it is. It must also be explained who Alinsky is. Once people know, they will be frightened.
Love your handle, too, Darmok.
Report Post »herculesmom
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:07amWill someone please explain to Sharpton that his lack of education is showing! Please take a few english classes and learn how to speak correctly!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:38amI’ll axe him about it if I ever get the chance.
Report Post »mikedy
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:06amRev. Al Rev. Al?? Did you forget about about Obama and the 1%ers from the film industry when he went to their homes for $75,000/plate? Or the his buddies at Martha’s Vineyard? Of course Rev Al Obama’s list goes on and on from his big money people (Soros) but you are color blind when it comes to Obama’s actions.
Report Post »BOstinks
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:06amThere is one major fact that folks that seek to divide the country tend to over look – you had better be part of the largest side or it’s game, set, match. I hope and pray that the Americans across the country have had enough of this clown and his supporters. November cannot come soon enough for me!
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:58amWho cares what Al says, except the three stooges who actually watch his crap.
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:03amthis is the way they can get ratings…. making up things and presenting them in a comedic form… IS MSNBC LOOKINg AT THE DAILY SHOW AND SAYING…. CAN WE DO THAT…. AHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH your not fully al…. get a real job so you can pay your back taxes
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:57amWhere the skit about the Obama‘s on Martha’s Vineyard? You can’t get any more elitist than that.
Report Post »Mainer forever
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 11:54amDon’t forget seperate trips in Air Force 1 and Air Force 2. For Moochelle.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:56amAl Sharpton and MSNBC Propaganda machinery at their finest and dumbest.
Report Post »hersey10
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:55amWow , Media Matters directing sketch comedy now .
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 8:50amThis is what passes for responsible journalism over on PMSNBC.
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