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‘Moral Stain’: Black Church Coalition Demands MSNBC Suspend Al Sharpton Over Undisclosed Kamala Harris Campaign Payments

A black church organization is calling on MSNBC to suspend and investigate host Al Sharpton over donations his organization took from Kamala Harris’s campaign.

The National Black Church Initiative, a coalition that says it represents 27.7 million people and 150,000 black churches across the country, said Wednesday that the payment to Sharpton’s group “puts a moral stain on the integrity of the black Church.” The group, which said it is “very concerned” by the “growing scandal,” urged MSNBC to “launch an investigation” and expressed support for “Rev. Sharpton’s suspension until the investigation is complete.”

The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Harris campaign made donations of $250,000 on September 5 and October 1 to Sharpton’s National Action Network, the nonprofit he founded in 1991. Sharpton aired an October 3 segment featuring Harris on his MSNBC show PoliticsNation and conducted a favorable interview with her on October 20.

Founded in 1991, the National Black Church Initiative says it represents 27.7 million churchgoers across the country, with a mission of reducing “racial, social and … economic disparities” and preserving “the authority of the black church’s voice.” The group has focused on health issues pertaining to black Americans and has criticized Sharpton before for taking donations from tobacco companies while opposing a ban on menthol cigarettes, which are popular among black smokers.

The initiative’s president, the Rev. Anthony Evans, said Sharpton is “loved and admired by many in our coalition.”

“But that does [not] take away from the fact he is facing significant moral and journalism ethics [concerns] regarding this payment or donation to the National Action Network,” Evans went on. “In addition, Rev. Sharpton is a minister of the Gospel. This payment does not look good for a man supposed to represent integrity.”

Sharpton did not disclose the donations to viewers or to MSNBC executives, according to a spokesman for the network.

The host has not addressed the scandal, and MSNBC has refused to comment on whether he was punished for failing to disclose the apparent conflict of interest. In 2010, MSNBC suspended network hosts Joe Scarborough and Keith Olbermann for donating to political campaigns, saying that the payments violated the network’s policies that require employees to disclose political activity to company executives.

The Society of Professional Journalists, a prominent journalism ethics group, has criticized MSNBC and Sharpton over the conflict of interest, calling it a “black eye” for the network and the media industry as a whole.

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MSNBC Blasted For Article Sympathizing With Laken Riley’s Murderer: ‘These People Are Sick’

MSNBC is facing significant backlash yet again after publishing a sympathetic opinion piece on Jose Ibarra, the illegal immigrant who brutally murdered 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley in February.

The title of the article originally was “Laken Riley’s killer never stood a chance,” before the outlet edited the headline to “The guilt of Laken Riley’s killer was never in doubt.”

In a few excerpts of the article, MSNBC columnist Danny Cevallos wrote many troubling lines that stood out, in addition to his original title.

“Saving the judge from a pointless jury trial might have been Ibarra’s best chance at life with the possibility of parole… in Ibarra’s case, the judge cut him no breaks — jury or no jury.”

Or maybe his line that reads: “Sometimes defense counsel just gets handed a truly awful, unwinnable case.”

Soon after, journalist Kyle Becker posted on X, highlighting the distasteful and morally bankrupt opinion piece.

“MSNBC got *CAUGHT* trying to defend Laken Riley’s illegal alien murderer. Now, it has backtracked and changed its headline. Too late. We see you, MSNBC. We know this is who you are,” posted Becker on X.

The MSNBC article was released after a judge sentenced Ibarra to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Tolerance: Joy Reid Tells Viewers To Stay Away From Trump Supporting Family Members

MSNBC’s most infected Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer Joy Reid once again proved just how tolerant and magnanimous she is by bringing on a guest who advised viewers to shun members of their own family if they voted for president elect Donald Trump.

Speaking to Dr. Amanda Calhoun, a third-year Adult/Child Psychiatry Resident at Yale School of Medicine, Reid asked “how do you interact with people who you know voted for this?

“If you are an LGBTQ person and you know someone in your family voted essentially against your rights or you’re a woman,” Reid continued, “do you recommend, just from a psychological standpoint, being around them? We got the holidays coming up.”

Calhoun responded, “So I love that you asked this question because there is a push, I think, just a societal norm that if somebody is your family, that they are entitled to your time.”

“And I think the answer is absolutely not,” she declared.

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MSNBC’s Maddow Calls On Military, Media & Millions Of Americans To Defy Trump Administration

Fearmongering to MSNBC viewers following Donald Trump’s presidential election landslide win, far-left talking head Rachel Maddow urged citizens, U.S. military leaders and media personalities to resist the incoming administration so that America doesn’t become “authoritarian.”

Speaking to Democrats feeling dismayed at the outcome of this week’s election, Maddow said, “History doesn’t end. Time doesn’t stop. Now we have the benefit of knowing how this has gone in every other country that has been through a democracy to authoritarian transition. And sadly, there are a lot of them. We have the benefit of seeing what’s happened in those other countries, though, and what we know is that the more ground the authoritarian takes, the harder it is to ever get that ground back.”

“And so the first order of business is to stop them from taking any uncontested ground right from the outset. When it comes to what our system of government is and what our democracy is, right, we know from other countries experiences that quickly– I mean now in the next few weeks if not the next few days –they are going to start pushing to see how far the country is going to let them go, without pushback, without protest.”

Next, the mainstream media anchor tried to mobilize Harris supporters, saying, “They’re counting on all those tens of millions of Americans to be despondent, to feel powerless, to check out, which, of course, would mean letting them do what they want, letting them run the table. What they really don’t want is for the half the country that voted against them– the half the country that wants to keep our democracy –what they really don’t want is for those tens of millions of Americans to wake up tomorrow feeling scrappy as hell.”

“Now we can work full time on being freaking pirates. On being a thorn in the side to anyone who now intends to try to turn this country into some pin pot tyranny. What they want, least of all, is to realize that half the country went to bed sad tonight, but then woke up tomorrow fired up with a new sense of purpose, knowing that, apparently, this is what we are on this earth to do with American citizens in this generation,” she added.

Maddow claimed protest “has to be done now” and “has to happen in sort of every aspect, every corner of our society.”

“The U.S. military needs to give the American people binding assurances that they will not deploy U.S. military force against the civilian population in this country. They can give those assurances, and now they should,” she stated.

“The free press needs to give the people of this country assurances that they will not become state TV,” the Democrat newswoman continued.

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And the Meltdown Begins: Dangerous MSNBC Wacko Joy Reid Calls Florida an “Extreme Right-Wing Fascist State” and Attacks Half of the Country for Supporting Trump

The leftist media is having a meltdown as President Trump’s popularity surges across the nation. Now, Joy Reid, the famously radical MSNBC host, is throwing a tantrum on live television, calling Florida a “fascist state” and attacking half the country for supporting Trump.

Reid’s comments come on the heels of Trump’s record-breaking rise on prediction platforms like Polymarket, where he has seen his largest gain yet. Even The New York Times grudgingly acknowledges that Trump holds an 83% chance of winning.

As usual, Reid couldn’t hold back her disdain for conservatives and for Trump supporters for aligning with Trump’s vision to make America great again.

“You just think about just the last two weeks and the things that Donald Trump has said into, into the TV that people could hear him say and do. The vulgarity in front of families with young children and the threats to do mass deportation and a violent start, violent start to his dictatorship on day one. And you name it. If all of that gets you half of the votes, what does it tell you? I mean, we need to really take a step back and think about what does that say about us?”

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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Asserts Media Has “Said All They Can” To Help Kamala Win

Illustrating how the fourth estate is now brazenly a branch of the political establishment, MSNBC’s Joy Reid asserted that the media has “said all they can” to help Kamala Harris win the election.

Reid made the revealing comments during her show last night.

“We begin our final sprint having arrived at that point in the election season where basically we, on this side of the TV screen have said, all we can, we’ve laid out the stakes in this crucial election,” she said.

The talk show host went on to engage in her usual blathering word salad of implying all Trump supporters were fascists and that Trump himself was Hitler and Mussolini combined.

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‘The Cheating Has Already Started’: MSNBC Proclaims GOP ‘Steal’ of Election Underway as Early Voting Surges For Trump

The MSNBC talking heads are setting the stage for disputing a Trump election victory, claiming on Saturday that Republicans are already stealing the 2024 election.

MSNBC’s Michael Steele and Symone Sanders sounded the alarm that the GOP “steal” of the 2024 election has already begun just 10 days out from Election Day.

“I think we’re going to see a bunch of actually, mini January 6ths in the state certifications. Never forget, [Trump] went to the East Room at the White House on election night, declared victory like some authoritarian dictator,” Sanders said.

Steele agreed and praised Democrat lawyer Marc Elias for preparing legal challenges against election results in the event of a Republican victory.

“It’s good to see the Democrat Party, the [Kamala Harris] campaign, and third-party organizations out there in the democracy space have got lawyers geared up and ready to go,” he said.

Steele then declared that Republican “lying and the on-ground cheating has already started.”

“We’ve seen it’s and has the official patina of legislative action like we see in Georgia,” he said. “But that’s part of their steal and their lie about this election. So overwhelm the ballot with your vote baby. They can’t top that.”

These comments are notable given the American people have been reliably told for years that this kind of rhetoric questioning elections is a “threat to Democracy.”

But the left is now changing its tune because Republican voters have so far cast much more early ballots than Democrats in the swing states of Arizona, Nevada and North Carolina.

The early returns are prompting total panic from Democrats and a ray of optimism for Trump supporters.

Trump meanwhile issued a “cease and desist” message on Friday to anyone thinking of participating in election fraud or rigging, warning they will “be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law.”

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Joy Reid Suggests Black and Brown Men Voting For Trump Are “Fascists”

MSNBC’s Joy Reid has discovered the true reason why more black and brown men are planning to vote for Donald Trump in 2024 – they’re all secret fascists who hate women.

Yes, really.

Reid is flummoxed by polls which suggest that significantly fewer non-white Americans plan to vote for the Democratic candidate compared to previous elections.

According to an average of polls, Kamala Harris’ margin of victory among black men aged 18-44 is set to be the lowest since 1960.

Obama won that demographic in 2012 by a margin of 81 points, but Kamala is down to 41 points, a shift that could swing a tight race in Trump’s favor.

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MSNBC Loon Joy Reid Says Trump Victory Would Lead To “Hitlerian Dictatorship”

Demented MSNBC host Joy Reid never stops pushing extremist rhetoric in an effort to “extinguish” Donald Trump.

Her latest outburst came Friday as she declared that the US will become a fully fascist country akin to Nazi Germany if Donald Trump is elected for another term in office.

“Donald Trump knows he can’t win the election based on the crappy job he did as president or his frankly crazy ideas for another administration, like spiking the cost of everything we buy through tariffs,” Reid ranted.

“So instead, he’s going with fear of immigrants,” she continued.

Reid was at pains to admit that “a majority of voters say they trust Trump more when it comes to dealing with the border,” but then described the former president as “a man who doesn’t know the difference between political asylum and an insane asylum.”

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MSNBC’s, POLITICO’s Lemire Falsely Claims Vance Dismissed Shootings as ‘Fact of Life’

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” MSNBC host and POLITICO White House Bureau Chief Jonathan Lemire denounced Republicans for not banning “AR-15 -style rifles. Even when, even when it was one of those weapons that shot Donald Trump just six weeks or so back. Even then, no outcry from Republicans about changing it.” And then repeated the untrue claim that 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) dismissed school shootings as “just a fact of life, a sad fact of life that these school shootings keep happening.”

Lemire said, “There is no widespread movement here to ban these weapons of war, these AR-15 -style rifles. Even when, even when it was one of those weapons that shot Donald Trump just six weeks or so back. Even then, no outcry from Republicans about changing it. In fact, we hear from JD Vance yesterday, saying that it’s just a fact of life, a sad fact of life that these school shootings keep happening.”

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