MSNBC Just Made Huge Announcement About Sharpton, Rev. Al’s Reaction Is Priceless

"...on my birthday weekend..."

Norvell Rose
August 27, 2015 at 10:43am

As MSNBC struggles to redefine itself in the midst of disappointing, stagnant audience ratings, the cable net has just announced another shakeup in its lineup. Al Sharpton’s four-year-old show, Politics Nation, will soon be shifted in the schedule to a day and time that means it is all but disappearing from view. However, to hear Sharpton describe the move from weeknights to early Sunday morning, you’d think the lineup change means Rev. Al’s long-held wish is finally coming true.

As an article in the New York Daily News puts it, “The Rev. Al Sharpton’s MSNBC show is moving from prime time to church time.” Just as presidential politics is shifting into a higher gear, Sharpton’s regularly scheduled appearances on the far-left network will be shifting into a lower-value time slot.

Despite the fact that — as of the second week in September Politics Nation will no longer be seen at 6 p.m. Monday-Friday, rather at 8 a.m. Sundays starting in early October — Sharpton tries to make it seem as though he’s ecstatic about the move. In a couple of tweets he issued on Wednesday, he suggests that the schedule change was his idea, his call.

But as anybody remotely familiar with the business knows, the host of a ho-hum-rated show like Politics Nation doesn’t call the shots — network brass decide the lineup. Still, the self-righteous Rev. Al tried to sell a happy tale to the Daily News, spinning the MSNBC move so crazily it might make the paper’s readers dizzy.

“I’m very happy,” he said Wednesday. “First, I can reach a wider audience of people who don’t get home by 6 at night. Second, I can now get the A-list guests and newsmakers I want. And third, a Sunday morning host is what I always wanted to be.

Let’s deal with just the last claim in Sharpton’s spin, that he “always wanted to be” a Sunday morning host. If that were truly the case, do you think he would have kept plugging away at the weekday slot for some four years?

But Sharpton’s most dramatic reach concerning his show’s coming relegation to a spot in the Sunday morning shadows may have been the following statement quoted in the Daily News article:

“’I never wanted to be a weeknight pundit. I wanted to be a Sunday morning newsmaker. I wanted to be Dr. Martin Luther King, not Larry King.’”

If Al Sharpton really thinks that his future broadcasts on Sunday mornings in a time slot that virtually guarantees fewer viewers, reduced visibility and less commercial revenue makes him Martin Luther King, then some people might come to the conclusion that Rev. Al is more out of it than previously suspected.

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the logic on both sides is quite ridiculous actually

on the one side Sharpton haters who say the network decides the timeslot so he couldn't have had the sunday idea YET he was the one who plugged the weeknight spot


and on Shaprtons side,,,saying that he always wanted a Sunday show and so he got it,, but he couldn't 'get' that timeslot when they put him on weekdays


the most logical common sense conclusion


he didn't realize the work and time involved in the weeknight slot but needed the opportunity,,so he took it'

and now that not as many watch, and he is older and possibly not interested in the weeknight slot any longer, its a perfectly timed coincidence that he probably is happy with

Happy tax evasion weekend, Al.

couldn't happen to a nicer Guy!

“’I never wanted to be a weeknight pundit. I wanted to be a Sunday morning newsmaker. I wanted to be Dr. Martin Luther King, not Larry King.’”


Every time, he has the gaul to compare himself with
"Dr Martin Luther King Jr ", I am sure there is a denomination somewhere screaming ' blasphemer! '

my mom is 76,, her hours were reduced quite a bit with her retirement from the 9-5 but the time it freed up for her to work her own schedule was more than welcome


but if people sleep better believing something terrible has happened for the Reverend

,,more power for ya


and really, much respect if you get to be nearly 80 and still are hoping to continue a five day workweek

however many days he decides to

that's the beauty of not worrying about an employers schedule



I cant wait to be in that boat

"MSNBC struggles to redefine itself in the midst of disappointing, stagnant audience ratings".

Since Sharpton is now redundant & Obama won't be around, he has to kiss someone else's butt... It is his REAL job. ' Political Side-kick '

He has been following Bernie Sanders like a dog & making rounds for months.
* Mass shooting?... Wait until we leave*
Got to push that 'saviour sh@t' & got to get them guns, so we can have real slavery in Socialism.

wow,,,there are some fit folks around these parts

must be all the S-T-R-E-T-C-H-I-N-G.....lol

Yep.. ' Saviour **** ', they buy it hook, line & sinker

Trump thread is elsewhere,,,,lol

Bonjour ça va

Bonsoir

many, many people have incomes and no employer,,,

what a very republican ASSumption


what do the millions of retired people live off of?

are they all therefor 'leaching'? aren't they free from an employers schedule?

lol

so we agree,, not relying on an employees schedule is NOT the same as leaching

enjoy the weather

I'm not sure, which surprised me the most.


That msnbc is still on the air.

Or,

That Al Sharpton has a TV show.

its not like the bar is high

if Trump and the Kardashians and honey boo boo qualify....who doesn't?

now it's Al Dullston!

JOKE: From a blogger

The Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, while visiting a
primary school class, found themselves in the middle of a
discussion related to words and their meanings.

The teacher asked both men if they would like to lead the discussion
of the word "tragedy". So the illustrious Rev Jackson asks the class for an example of a "tragedy".

One little boy stood up and offered: "If my best friend, who lives
on a farm, is playing in the field and a runaway tractor comes
along and knocks him dead, that would be a tragedy."

No," says the Great Jesse Jackson, "that would be an accident."

A little girl raised her hand: "If a school bus carrying 50 children
drove over a cliff, killing everyone inside, that would be a tragedy."

I'm afraid not," explains the exalted Reverend Al. "That's what we
would call a great loss. " The room goes silent. No other children
volunteered.

Reverend Al searches the room. "Isn't there someone here who
can give me an example of a tragedy?"

Finally at the back of the room little Johnny raises his hand.
In a stern voice he says: "If a plane carrying the Reverends
Jackson and Sharpton were struck by a missile and blown
to smithereens that would be a tragedy."

Fantastic!" exclaims Jackson and Sharpton, "That's right. And
can you tell me why that would be a tragedy?"

"Well," says little Johnny, "because it sure as hell wouldn't be
a great loss, and it probably wouldn't be an accident either".