AL CHARLATAN
Posted on 09/21/2019 12:41:44 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
MSNBC host has historical issues with facts, names, spelling
MSNBC PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton mourned the passing of journalist Cokie Roberts on Tuesday by sending out a tweet with pictures of the still-living journalist Christiane Amanpour.
Sharpton tweeted, "Saddened to hear of the passing of legendary journalist Cookie [sic] Roberts. Here is a Easter Sunday special we did in 2011. May she Rest In Peace," along with several pictures of Amanpour. Aside from the obvious misidentification of the deceased, Sharpton misspelled Roberts's name.
Critics were quick to point out Sharpton's errors, and he deleted the tweet.
Justin Baragona ✔ @justinbaragona Al Sharpton just deleted this tweet in which he said he was "saddened to hear of the passing of legendary journalist Cookie Roberts" while sharing images of Christiane Amanpour
Roberts worked for decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News. She died on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., after a long battle with breast cancer.
Amanpour is the chief international anchor for CNN and hosts Amanpour & Company on PBS. She lives in London.
Sharpton, who began his career as a civil rights activist, has a history of mispronouncing, misspelling, and misidentifying people, places, and things while on TV.
In August 2018, he misspelled legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin's most famous lyric in her 1967 hit "Respect." Sharpton was criticizing President Donald Trump for his treatment of former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, whom the president called a "dog" on Twitter.
"So in the words of my late friend Aretha Franklin, show some R-E-S-P-I-C-T, and the next time you get a black woman and a beagle confused, remember this: I got you," Sharpton said in response to Trump's insult.
The word "respect" is not spelled that way in Franklin's hit.
Throughout his many years as a TV anchor, Sharpton has produced a long and fabled history of gaffes and mistakes.
Bet that was embarrassing.
Are Sharpton and Biden cousins, or did they both go to the same comedy classes?
Shut up Snoopy.
Doh!
Probably thinks ‘they all look the same’.
He used to it. The Reverend Al has been an embarrassment since the late '80s.
AL CHARLATAN
Well, all of us broadcasters look the same to him...
He’s no Reverend. He’s never has a church, never had a congregation, never went to divinity school. He was “ordained” at age 10 by a DC preacher and has perpetuated the fraud ever since. He’s a disgrace, especially to those who earned the title.
I know. I thought the sarcasm was obvious.
They went to different high schools together.
I don’t believe Sharpton is sufficiently self-aware to be embarrassed.
Dead man walking is more like it. He’s nothing but skin and bones and looks like death warmed over.
It is no wonder the guy has cognizant/mental issues, all of his lying, habitual race hatred/baiting has rotted his brain. Tagine
You should never underestimate the power of Reverend Al...he is the stealth commentator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
Oh for a do-over. Or at least a spell check
LOL!!
You HAVE to watch the outtakes of not so sharpton doing the news.
The guy’s functionally illiterate.
I liked it better when he was a big fat dude.
Nothing embarrassed him.
Sharpton = ignorant (among many other negative things)
What a despicable human being. What a waste of “air”.
Sharpton & Nadler, lap band brothers from another mother.
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