I yield to no person in my progressive bonafides. Arrested for the first time during the Cambodian incursion I had been a red diaper baby since I can remember. If there has been a fight against sexism, racism, militarism or homophobia I have been there. I spent almost fifty years fixing people's shoes, rather than going into investment banking which I was qualified to do. I was delighted when I got a satellite TV. setup and discovered MSNBC. It was like finally the potential of the progressive media might just transcend the economics of corporatism. I wasn't happy about Olberman's firing, but he stuck his head above the sandbags a little too far and got it blown off. Someone has to be out there on the bleeding edge, and that was Kieth's job. His replacement, Rachel Maddow, is more wonderful than I could ever hope. While I was picking up the empty beer bottles in my mind and sweeping the broken chips and bong water from the celebration, a little noticed, at least on my part, change in hosting at the anti-fox network. A horrible horrible change that threatens the entire credibility of MSNBC and gave the tea party as much ammunition as David Duke did back in his day. I can only assume someone was suffering from a brain aneurism when they hired Al Sharpton, the Reverend (of what remains a mystery). Al Sharpton, god's gift to the pomade industry and religious ambulance chaser first came to my attention when he helped fabricate the Tawana Brawley scandal, and then when presented with the inescapable truth of that sorry story continued to flog that poisonous lie and suckle at its racist teat. Al's career has gone downhill from there. I applauded the network for promoting women of color and of the LGBT persuasion. The root rot that Sharpton brings with him will destroy the network ans we will be left with CNN or FOX. please if anyone can figure out how to get word to leaders at MSNBC that Sharpton must go and go now. The only "fire Sharpton" sites I can find on the web are right wing snake-pits that are Run by racist jackasses. Surly there are other unfortunate communities that Sharpton can con money out of to make his retirement nut. Al has got to go.
