{"id":7009,"date":"2015-02-23T19:29:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-23T19:29:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:29:35","slug":"what_s_going_on_with_rev_al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/02\/23\/what_s_going_on_with_rev_al\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Going on with Rev. Al?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Yeah, okay, well, that\u2019s the second place that I have seen it, but I haven\u2019t seen any real confirmation. We have a caller up here that we\u2019re gonna get to in a minute that says that Al Sharpton has lost his show at PMSNBC. And I got an e-mail from a friend earlier today that Al Sharpton lost his show at PMSNBC. I haven\u2019t seen it anywhere else. It\u2019s not on the Drudge Report, and, if it\u2019s not on the Drudge Report, it hasn\u2019t happened. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So I don\u2019t know, it has to have gotten started somewhere that they\u2019ve canceled Sharpton. Frank Sinatra III they got rid of as well, and some woman, Melissa Harris-Perry, is that who it is? (interruption) Oh, yeah, Joy Reid. They got rid of Joy Reid and Frank Sinatra III, Ronan Farrow, but everybody knows. It\u2019s not Frank Sinatra Jr. \u2019cause there is one, who, do you know, hates me? Frank Sinatra Jr., the people at Patsy\u2019s told me and they can\u2019t explain, but he does. I\u2019ve seen it elsewhere. Frank Sinatra Jr. or at least he used to, and hasn\u2019t anything changed since then. I don\u2019t know why. I have no clue why. <\/p>\n

I never said anything about his dad. I\u2019ve always admired his dad, always did admire. It\u2019s just a little throwaway. But I\u2019ve not seen it elsewhere on Sharpton. I did see that Frank Sinatra III\u2019s gone. (interruption) Well, they are worried about ratings. They have to be. They don\u2019t have any. But this Frank Sinatra III, this was hilarious. This guy is, what, 26 years old, had never, ever done TV. I would have thought this guy would have been hired in radio first. That\u2019s generally where people who have never done it before get hired. Ahem. Ahem. Excuse me. Slap my face. Anyway, after three days on the job, Frank Sinatra III won the Cronkite award for excellence in journalism, after three days on the job. This is a classic example of how the liberals and the Democrats circle the wagons. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ve just been handed a news flash. “The National Association of African-American Owned Media alleges that Sharpton and other advocates have been bought off.” This is the Hollywood Reporter. “Comcast, Al Sharpton Hit With $20 Billion Racial Discrimination Lawsuit.” Does this say that Sharpton\u2019s been canned? (interruption) Okay. <\/p>\n

<\/a>“Even though the FCC hasn\u2019t yet ruled on the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, one group has already filed a lawsuit claiming at least $20 billion in damages from the way the two giants allegedly discriminate against black-owned media. The complaint, filed in California on Friday, comes from the National Association of African-American Owned Media, which also filed a similar suit against AT&T and DirecTV in December. This time, the plaintiff is not only targeting both Comcast and TWC — on the eve of the two companies merging to become what would be the largest pay television distributor in the United States — but also various African-American advocacy groups and MSNBC host Al Sharpton for allegedly facilitating discrimination.”<\/p>\n

What the hell? How did Sharpton discriminate at MSNBC? Look, does anybody doubt why Sharpton got the gig? You know, this is — (interruption) Journalistic talent, give me a — Al Sharpton can\u2019t read a teleprompter. Journalistic talent, he\u2019s not a journalist. If anything, he might come alive and be the real Al if they gave him a megaphone, one of those hand-held megaphone things from the old march days, public march. The protest days. But put him on TV? They bought him off. One of the reasons you hire Sharpton is to get him to not oppose your merger. <\/p>\n

Shakedown. There\u2019s no doubt why they hired Sharpton. But I\u2019ve had two different people tell me Sharpton has been fired. I can\u2019t find it. This is on Mediaite as well as the Hollywood Reporter. All right. “The lawsuit goes on to say that Comcast made large cash ‘donations\u2019 to obtain support for its acquisition.” This is all about the merger with Time Warner. “The money includes –” here you go. Here it is. “The money includes $3.8 million to Sharpton and his National Action Network.” And despite that, the guy still owes the IRS four million bucks. <\/p>\n

So the lawsuit says that Comcast, which owns NBC, paid Al Sharpton $3.8 million, Sharpton and the National Action Network. “The money, it\u2019s charged, was meant to pay Sharpton to endorse the NBCU deal and divert attention away from discrimination. As for Sharpton\u2019s MSNBC gig, the complaint says, ‘Despite the notoriously low ratings that Sharpton\u2019s show generates, Comcast has allowed Sharpton to maintain his hosting position for more than three years in exchange for Sharpton\u2019s continued public support for Comcast on issues of diversity.'”<\/p>\n

I knew it. So somebody\u2019s filed a lawsuit based on all this. Okay, cool. The National Association of African-American Owned Media is making this charge. This is black-on-black lawsuit action here. You can\u2019t say this is racism. You can\u2019t say it\u2019s discrimination. This is the NAAAOM. That\u2019s the acronym. They\u2019re firing him because of the lawsuit? (interruption) Well, now they\u2019re shouting at me that Sharpton\u2019s been fired because paying him off didn\u2019t work. They got sued anyway. Doesn\u2019t matter. They haven\u2019t won the suit yet. (interruption) Well, no, it wasn\u2019t supposed to prevent the suit. It was supposed to prevent Sharpton opposing the merger, and the Reverend Jackson. Now, he didn\u2019t get a gig, but it\u2019s the Justice Brothers. You buy one, you buy both. <\/p>\n