Ho hum, nothing to see here, just a little payola between friends.
One has to wonder at MSNBC’s identity as a news and current affairs channel. It had been well over two weeks since the Washington Free Beacon’s Chuck Ross first revealed that Al Sharpton’s nonprofit National Action Network received $500,000 from Kamala Harris’ campaign. The money came in two separate $250,000 remittances, one on September 5 and the other on October 1.
Just coincidentally, Sharpton then gave Harris airtime to wish him a happy birthday on October 3, and then conducted an infomercial on MSNBC’s air disguised as a news interview:
Sharpton, 70, conducted a glowing interview with Harris on Oct. 20 in which he touted her “extraordinary historic campaign” while referring to Trump as “hostile and erratic.” His questions lined up closely with messages that Harris sought to…
