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Thursday, July 25, 2013

AL SHARPTON AND PANEL ACCUSE ‘RIGHT-WING PUNDITS’ OF STOKING RACIAL FEARS FOR RATINGS: BECK, O’REILLY, LIMBAUGH SPECIALIZE IN ‘WHITE GRIEVANCE’

On “Politics Nation” Wednesday, MSNBC host Al Sharpton and his panel agreed that “right-wing pundits” like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly are stoking racial fears to boost their ratings. Some might call this accusation ironic as many argue that Sharpton has built an entire career by doing that exact thing.

MSNBC contributor Joy Reid asserted that successful conservative personalities, including the ones previously mentioned, have carved out a special niche in talk radio by actively promoting “white grievance” to their old, white audiences.

“All of these people are destroying what they see as their America, and that siege bunker mentality is great for ratings because it keeps people on edge, angry, and feeling like they need to hear from their guru every day. So it’s all done for ratings, but it doesn’t deal with real problems,” Reid said.

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6 comments:

paul Adams said...

Are these people on Crack....?

Anonymous said...

Just racial rabble rousers.

Anonymous said...

The right wing pundits of whom he spoke are wasting their breath.The only people who get it are those of us who always got it.There is actually a difference between not wanting to hear something and not getting it.Equality is impossible with such a huge disparity between the races.It would be best to quit trying to patch things up.To ignore is to disarm.

Anonymous said...

8:00 is right. For the most part they do not want to hear it. I see it as they've been beat down by their modern day house slaves such as Sharpton to believe they are victims, which equates to slaves. This way the banks and big corps (the slave masters) can continue to get richer off of what the government sees fit to dole out to them. Every time an illegitimate baby is born to a teenage mother it's easy dollars for the slave masters. Every time someone is sentences to prison time it's easy money for the executives who profit off of the prisons such as the institutional food corporations.
By continuing to allow themselves to be kept down they are making the mega rich even wealthier.

Anonymous said...

"‘RIGHT-WING PUNDITS’ OF STOKING RACIAL FEARS FOR RATINGS: BECK, O’REILLY, LIMBAUGH SPECIALIZE IN ‘WHITE GRIEVANCE’"

100% on point analysis of the situation. Same analysis applies to left wing pundits. Both use political, religious, racial, and any other type of "grievance" they can to shake the public's emotions, all in the race for higher ratings and more $$$. If you can't see that this is the game, then you might be lost in the sauce. Sad truth is that instead of consuming this media for strictly entertainment purposes, many of you actually think these folks are trying to inform you with the truth. Too many people can't seem to distinguish "made for tv" from reality anymore.

Anonymous said...

5:51 By looking at pics of Al, yes, yes they are.

FFS, when are people going to remove this a$$ from the spotlight. He's f-ing worthless. And he's on NBC, of course his "panel" would agree, they're SHEEP.