Yes, This Is Al Sharpton‘s ’Lin Forward’ MSNBC Ad
- Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:18pm by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Al Sharpton got in on some of the “Linsanity” fervor that’s gripped the basketball-watching world, recording a “Lin Forward” MSNBC parody ad in honor of New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin.
“We’ve been waiting for a movement like this for decades, Americans have hope again and there’s real change in the air,” Sharpton says. “It’s got people from Wall Street to Main Street looking for their own diamond in the rough. It’s about looking past the surface, beyond the stereotypes and giving unlikely people a chance.”
As Sharpton finishes speaking, MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” logo comes up, only to replace the word “lean” with “Lin.”
The “Lean Forward” ad campaign has produced some memorable spots, including Sharpton reminiscing about gorging himself on blueberry pie as a child.
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Comments (97)
2theADDLED
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:05pm“Americans have hope again and there’s real change in the air”
Report Post »Sorry to inform you Al someone just passed gas.
decendentof56
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:47pmSharpton…..You are one stereotype thats awfully hard to look beyond.
Report Post »Shut up… AL!
Uranium Wedge
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 9:21pmWho cut the change?
Report Post »I can smell it in the air…. Gross!
turkey13
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:15pmDoes this mean the Rev. al paid the million $$ he owes in back taxes?
Report Post »Glock31
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 11:41pmal, will you PLEASE have a stroke already?
Report Post »SaveOurConstitution
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:16amThat’s all the Dems want us to do is lean forward and take it!
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 2:58amResist We Much! We Must! And we will Much about that be committed.
Report Post »Callie369
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 4:57amI hope everyone noticed BIG MOUTH SHARPTON didn‘t get invited to Whiteney’s funeral. Boy that must have been a blow to him.
I did see where Jesse Jackson pushed his way in by REQUESTING an invitation. He looked like either he had been on drugs……………or is 90 years old. He was downright ugly!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 8:37am“Americans have hope again and there’s real change in the air”
Sorry to inform you Al someone just passed gas.
Lean Forward and have another whiff Al, beans aren’t just for breakfast anymore!
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 8:47amI thought he always talked like that.
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 8:53amRev Al, I think your ‘muther’ is calling; or is that whats-her-face Broderick?
Report Post »JohnTwoFeathers
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 10:35amHay Big Al….lean forward….Barney Frank is commin up behind you.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 11:09amYou suppose he’s referring to the “stereotype” of ‘qualifying’ for a mortgage? or citizenship?
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:35pmAl is unlikely. I do not like him AT ALL!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 6:04pmlean foward with barney in the room
Report Post »AmericanPatriot01
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:34pmThat is exactly what I have been thinking ever since they started using that slogan. Just “lean forward” so we can give to you any way we want to, lol
I laugh every time I hear it.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 12:59pmWouldn’t it be funny if Lin sued msnbc/Sharpton for trademark infringement? Just a thought.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 5:47pmSharpton said in the video.. “giving unlikely people a chance” What a moron.. There is nothing “unlikely about Lin” His game speaks for itself.
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:28pmBack a while ago,Sharpton started to criticize President Obama then miraculously he got his own show on MSNBC and then his criticisn stopped….just a coincidence i’m sure.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:38pmAlfred Sharptongue, what an idiot
Report Post »EP46
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 5:07amI was wondering about that….not long ago Rev Al and Jessie and others were on tv constantly talking about the high unemployment rate among blacks….then it just all went away. The unemployment rate among blacks is 3 or 4 times the nationa average…do they not care anymore, or were they told to sit down and shut up ?????
Report Post »MJR
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:14pmHey Al Twana Brawley…….
Report Post »Magyar
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:36pmYup, I remember the Tawan Brawley debacle and how Sharpton lied and fanned the flames of racial unrest…. He is ignorant and has a difficult time with ENGLISH! Golly gee, what a great role model!
Report Post »thetreyman
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 3:02amdont forget Freddie’s Fashion Mart.
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:13pmremember Tawana brawly??? folks look it up!!!
Report Post »flatbroke
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:11pmahhhhaaa! the professional race bater at it again huh!
Report Post »robert
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:10pm“It’s about looking past the surface, beyond the stereotypes and giving unlikely people a chance.”
You’re lying again, Al Baby. If you really wanted to give “unlikely” people a chance you would be pushing to let midgets play in the NFL.
After all, black basketball players in college are allowed to play and their collective I.Q. is somewhere in double digits for all five of them.
You pushed for unqualified blacks to go to college. You pushed for women in combat. You pushed to overturn DADT. all of which are square pegs in round holes.
How is forcing the NFL teams to include midgets any different than these things?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:52pmHey al, I am an unlikely person; Caucasian, middle class, unemployed with wife working, sees to world going to heLL in a handbasket.
Give me that teleprompter,camera, and microphone, and i will do a far better job than you.
Report Post »rambosharley
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 7:56amYou got that right!
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:48pmWhatever, Al. Sorry buddy, but I really don’t care what you think. Sigh.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:47pmStick with lean al……..I like it better. More befitting. Lotus.
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:45pmif AL don’t keep racism alive.how would he make money?crack on the corner I guess!
Report Post »Dale
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:34pmHey Everyone you’re missing the point: He said that we finally have hope (that we’ve been looking for for decades – ergo BHO has not provided the promised hope, while serving up a big change helping). The racist comments miss the point, giving unlikely ‘people’ a chance: can you tell me anyone more unlikely than the current usurper-in-chief.
Report Post »Latter-Day-Soldier
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:19pmWow, the way our current White House squatter, Sharpton and other blooming-idiots (that were yesterdays flower children) keep bringing up race and race “relations” one would think they were back in the 1960′s civil rights movement.
Report Post »shirleyandpearl
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:04pmSharpton is just a regugetated ‘60-70‘s bottomfeeding hack playing on what’s left of the whitie Democrat gentry’s guilt money. He’s in the same I.Q. level as Maxine Waters and Shiela Jackson Lee, who count on the product of The Great Society to put em back in congress over and over again. These people do nothing but propagandize resentment and covet “thy neighbor”. Isn’t the later activity something the “reverend” should discourage?
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:17pmHe is a joke and should be treated as a joke. And a racist.
Report Post »Dave In Arizona
Posted on February 20, 2012 at 9:47pmYeah, he’s a joke; a very bad joke.
Report Post »I.Gaspar
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:06pmSomebody…please drive a Delorean back in time and keep Al’s parents from going to the dance….please!!!
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:16pmProblem there is, he can get in Doc Brown’s Time Train and make the trip to stop you from stopping them, thereby stopping your stop without even having to make a stop at the train stop.
Report Post »ZomBrad
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:57pmGive Christopher Lloyd a call and ask how close he is to inventing the flux capacitor……
Report Post »twistin
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:01pmHe’s so worried about making mistakes, he doesn’t even peel his eyes once off the teleprompter.
Read Carefully We Much.
Report Post »IMPEACHBHO
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:59pmRacist.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 4:06pmSharpton demonstrates his true self each time he speaks.
Report Post »Moozmom
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:58pmHe is stuck in the 1960′s. Very sad.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:57pmRacist! Fire him!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:53pmMaster(race)bater.
Report Post »hi
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:44pmI thought Al hated Christians.
Report Post »TheObamanation
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:43pmUnlikely people ? You people ? What does he mean unlikely people ? Just because he‘s asian means he’s not likely to be a basketball player ? … That’s VERY racist !!!!!
Report Post »txjb
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 7:42pmThat’s the first thing I thought .
Report Post »mrundgren
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:42pmI guess Tim Tebow was too white for the Reverand’s commercials.
Report Post »momsense
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 5:40pmyou betcha !
Report Post »Ralphbp
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:40pmThe ultimate race baiter. It is getting really tiresome. Rev. Sharpton is a disgrace.
Report Post »Pokerjoe
Posted on February 19, 2012 at 10:09amYes Sir
Report Post »PAINESMAN
Posted on February 21, 2012 at 12:02amMsnbc is the bigger joke for giving him a job. This was a race based decision as well. You telling me there was not a better journalist available to take obermans spot. Complete idiots all. They should be embarrassed but they will have a heck of a time firing him. I doubt the moron writes any of his tripe anyway. Like another poster mentioned he cant stray from the teleprompter. Matter of time till he screws up and then the lawsuits will be huge, Al baby, I’d go with discrimination against the handicapped if I were you. You got a good case already.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:24pmIt’s racist, didn’t you hear what he said…Oh wait a minute, only if a white man says something can it be twisted into racism!
Report Post »kegbuna
Posted on February 18, 2012 at 3:33pmHear what who said?
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