The Network of Sharpton, Reid, and Bashir Now Lectures Us on Journalistic Integrity

Better yet, MSNBC host Joy Reid could deliver an unhinged monologue denouncing the network for endorsing "white supremacy." Reid was promoted in 2020 to fill the time slot vacated by Chris Matthews, the former Democratic aide who argued it was racist to refer to Barack Obama as "Obama." Matthews resigned abruptly after being accused of sexual harassment, whereas Reid did not resign after online sleuths uncovered bigoted posts on her old blog. She blamed it on hackers. (It wasn't hackers.) She got promoted anyway.

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Reid could continue the conversation with MSNBC political analyst Al Sharpton, the formerly obese racial agitator who instigated deadly anti-Semitic riots in New York City during the 1990s. Sharpton continues to use his platform on MSNBC to sow racial division. For example, he argued that criticizing Harvard president Claudine Gay, who resigned in disgrace earlier this year amid a flurry of scandals involving serial plagiarism and anti-Semitism on campus, was "an attack on every black woman in this country."

This is the same network that hired Martin Bashir, who compared criticizing the IRS to using the n-word and ultimately resigned after inviting his viewers to defecate in Sarah Palin's mouth. This is the network that employed Melissa Harris-Perry, best known for making fun of Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild, and Ed Schultz, best known for calling Laura Ingraham a "right-wing slut," and Brian Williams, best known for lying about coming under fire in Iraq, and Touré Neblett, a 9/11 truther accused of sexual harassment who suggested Holocaust survivors benefited from "the power of whiteness." The less said about former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann the better.

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Ed Morrissey

Of all the networks to have a staff revolt over a political hire, NBC News is perhaps the worst-positioned of all -- especially in its MSNBC incarnation. Sharpton was arguably an actual inciter of riots, not just an "apologist" for them (as NBC hosts accused McDaniel of being), and they have given Sharpton a platform for the last two decades. Andrew has a lot more to add to this list, too, from other outlets. 

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