Al Sharpton Received $500,000 For Kamala PR Piece At MSNBC

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MSNBC and Al Sharpton, what the hell? I mean, really? Could you ever see Walter Cronkite taking $500,000 so Walter Cronkite would do a PR piece on Kamala Harris?

You know, let me give everybody a little bit of backstory because this one was actually a little difficult to find, but it's a big deal.

Am I right about it? First of all.

Yes. So what happened was, it was October, Harris campaign gives $500,000 to Al Sharpton's organization.

Which is? I never understood.

I forgot the name of it.

It's a touchy feely, I don't know what it is kind of organization. Yeah.

But the campaign half a million dollars. Here you go. Two weeks later, October 20th, she gets this great sit down interview on MSNBC with Al Sharpton. A nice, fun time. Everybody's friendly, no hard questions asked. It was a PR move, absolutely. But Sharpton never once mentioned, oh, by the way, viewers, full disclosure, she just paid me half a million dollars. So the staffers that work on this program, after learning of this, which only happened recently, they're. Other staffers at MSNBC say this is a stain on our network. If you wanted to interview Kamala Harris, you pick up the phone and you say, hey, come in for an interview. It's MSNBC, I'm Al Sharpton.

Well, this is classic Al Sharpen. I mean, it is absolutely classic. We have made Al Sharpton into something that he's not. Okay. Go back and just spend 30 minutes and go back and look at the Al Sharpton history. It will be an OMG moment to know that Phil Griffin hired him because, oh boy, he's a heat talker. Well, you know what? The people, they're still trying to defend this. MSNBC, now, some of 'em may be mad, but you got Joy Reid, these insufferable.

The on-air people, absolutely.

Insufferable people.

The people that make the shows work, they're the ones who are. The behind the scenes producers.

Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid, you go, come on man. Give it up. Sometimes you just have to go with what's real. This imaginary universe you live in, it ain't okay to take $500,000 from a candidate and say, you know what? Come on in. I'm going to give you a bunch of softball hits. You're gonna have, this is gonna be a PR piece for you. It's so wrong, man.

And what's weird too is that usually you would think it would be the host would have to pay them to come on the show. She paid him money and ended up on his show. That just kind of seems like a raw deal because she probably could have gotten it for free.