Smoking Gun: So, What About Rev. Al Sharpton’s Suspension?

Good question! Here’s the answer—Al Sharpton is an employee in good standing with NBC because he’s exactly who NBC is. If I ran NBC I would never hire a man like Sharpton because integrity means a lot to me. The fact NBC did it and he still remains there screams volumes of the kind of corrupt place NBC has become. Case closed! Brain Williams was a small part of a bigger whole.

With its swift and severe punishment of Brian Williams, NBCUniversal declared yesterday that it will not stand for on-air talent lying to viewers.

Now that the media conglomerate has delineated that bright line, when does the

Rev. Al Sharpton’s suspension without pay begin?

In the wake of last year’s lengthy TSG report about Sharpton’s secret work as a paid FBI Mafia informant, the MSNBC host sought to blunt the story’s disclosures with a series of lies told at a pair of press conferences, on his nightly “Politics Nation” program, and in a report on Williams’s own NBC Nightly News (which was rebroadcast on NBC’s Today show).

Sharpton, 60, cast himself as a victim who first ran into the FBI’s warm embrace when a scary gangster purportedly threatened his life. He was “an American citizen with every right to call law enforcement” for protection, Sharpton told his MSNBC audience. His sole motivation was to “try to protect myself and others.”

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