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Al Sharpton and his troubled relationship with money was recently in the news again. Last month, the New York Post reported on the reluctance of New York authorities to investigate suspicious financial behavior at his nonprofitthe National Action Networkthat pays him $1 million annually.

According to the Post:

There are certain things that are universally true in New York: the sun rises in the east, it sets in the west, the subway is late and no one wants to pick a fight with Al Sharpton, said one top Democratic insider. Wheres the political benefit to doing it?

Similarly, BizPac Review poked around and revealed that a $1 million salary is roughly triple the going rate for somebody running a nonprofit the size of the National Action Network.

These issues and more are covered in the extensive Influence Watch profile of Al Sharpton.

For example, there is the little-reported matter of him being an informant for the FBI against New York mafia crime family members. The potentially less than honorable reasons for that were covered in a recent CRC magazine profile of Sharpton: The Lefts Street Boss.

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On Tuesdays broadcast of MSNBCs Deadline, network host Al Sharptonargued Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) had to drop out of the 2020 presidential campaign in part because of racism and sexism.

Sharptonsaid, First of all, I think that she ran a great race. I think that she is a great candidate.

He continued, But she is dealing with an environment where you have for the first time, that you have these kind of rules that are different.

Host Nicolle Wallace asked, What rules?

Sharpton said, Certain amount of money, certain amount of polling to be in the debates. And when you have a Tom Steyer who is fine, raised great issues, but this woman is a U.S. senator, was attorney general of the state and was a district attorney. Steyer could come in and buy commercials and up his polling. And I think that the real problem the Democrats are going to have is the next debate, you have no black on that stage. The Democratic Party cannot have a stage where black voters do not see themselves reflected.

He continued, Where they dont see themselves reflected and expect that well come out and vote in big numbers. You must have had black turnout, but we dont turn up in the debate? There is something that is wrong with that, and some of us are not going yo be quiet about it.

Wallace asked if Sharpton believed Harris was treated badly by the press?

Sharpton said, I think she was definitely treated badly by the press. Ive never seen a candidate taken apart the way she was in the last several days. Yes, there are organizational problems. Yes, there were financial problems. You have people on that debate stage with no organization at all, and the press is not writing about it.

He continued, I think again a lot of assessment has to be made how the media dealt with it, we have to look at the rules.

He added, What are you going to say to black voters when they look at that stage, and nobody like them is there? The Democratic Party will have to look at that and deal with that because that is a problem.

Wallace asked, I worked for Sarah Palin. I carefully watched and covered the campaign of Hillary Clinton. I do think that women are still held to different standards as candidates. They have to have a well-run campaign, never mind that Donald Trump didnt have a campaign. He literally flew around with Hope ironing his pants. They have to be perfect on the stump, which I never saw her stumble. Joe Biden is beloved, and he is never perfect on the stump. I think there is a gender piece here that we still suck at talking about.

Sharpton said, Youre right.

He added, Women are held to a different standard, and black women especially are held to a different standard.

Wallace said, And black women though, by the way, voted for Trump in the lowest numbers. So they can say that they told us so.

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WASHINGTON Civil Rights Activist Rev. Al Sharpton said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats proceeding with impeachment is "not partisan, it's patriotic."

"I think that they've done the right thing moving forward. I think the evidence is there and I think that they've made a clear case," Sharpton said before the Urban One Honors, hosted by Radio One, where he received a leadership award on Thursday evening.

When it comes to a trial taking place in the Senate, Sharpton said that "the question is are they party first or are they patriots first? Are they going to stand up for what's right for the country? Can you set a precedent where a sitting president will use congressionally approved funds to ask a foreign government to interfere in our election by smearing his potential opponent? That's what's on trial here."

Sharpton, host of PoliticsNation on MSNBC, was also asked for his opinion of "cancel culture."

"I believe that we need to not cancel anybody. I think everybody has a place. Everybody ought to celebrate who they are -- that's what we're here about tonight. We shouldn't have to conform to anything and anybody and feel that we're going to be canceled out," he said. "We need to move the boundaries no matter who and what we are -- that's what God made us to be, we ought to celebrate that."

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Journalists grew concerned about a political partys supposed racism this week. Only this time the media were complaining about the Democratic Party.

What took them so long?

Democratic presidential candidate and Sen. Kamala Harris of California ended her campaign for the nations highest office, likely resulting in an all-white group of candidates appearing on stage for the sixth televised debate of Democratic presidential contenders Dec. 19.

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who is African-American, went off about it on MSNBCs All In with Chris Hayes.

We're spiraling towards a debate stage that potentially we're still fighting to get on it, but could have six people with no diversity whatsoever," he complained. (Democrats used to consider gender part of diversity. Oh well.)

Booker barely scratched the surface of the problem. A series of controversies had reporters covering stories they ordinarily try to ignore or downplay. The scandals involved top-tier candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

But the Harris narrative finally captivated a news media that had eagerly forgotten the controversy regarding Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northams college yearbook photo showing one person in blackface and another in Ku Klux Klan garb.

NBC News carried a story headlined: With Sen. Kamala Harris' exit, Democrats can't avoid a tough conversation about diversity.

NPR agreed, asking: #DemsSoWhite? Kamala Harris' Exit Raises Hard Questions About Race And Power.

It was an unusual spot for journalists who typically depict those on the right as racist and those on the left as enlightened.

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary and current presidential candidate Julin Castro blamed the news media for what Buzzfeed described as treating candidates of color differently.

To me, they held her to a different standard, a double standard, to other campaigns, Castro said.

Castro criticized The Washington Post, New York Times and Politico for writing very gossipy-sounding big articles trashing the campaign.

The Root was upset that Kamala Harris Wasn't Allowed to Fail Up Like a White Boy. Senior Reporter Terrell Jermaine Starr said the media fixated on her previous job as a lock em up prosecutor and attorney general.

Starr added that former Vice President Joe Bidens own background is far worse and Biden is still running. If Harris is a cop, Biden is the police chief, he wrote.

And MSNBC host Al Sharpton added: Women are held to a different standard and black women especially."

The Democrats problems with race didnt stop there.

Warren once more addressed her phony past claims to be a Native American. She spoke at a presidential forum on Native American issues, according to The New York Times. She offered a direct, public apology for the harm she caused with her past claims of Native American ancestry and pledged to uplift Native people as president.

I shouldnt have done it. I am not a person of color, Warren told the audience, according to Bloomberg News.

Journalists have repeatedly defended Warren on this issue and bashed President Trump for nicknaming the senator Pocahontas because of her lie.

The New York Times called Trumps comment a slur and a racially incendiary jibe. The Times Magazine devoted more than 8,000 words to profiling Warren, but included just one paragraph to her about her pivotal controversy.

MSNBCs Morning Joe Host Joe Scarborough had called the presidents criticism of Warren coded racism and an appeal to the white nationalist wing of, of this movement.

Meanwhile, a staffer whose tweets contain anti-Semitic, homophobic, misogynistic and racist language is no longer with the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, according to ABC News.

The Washington Free Beacon revealed how new Deputy Director of Constituency Organizing Darius Khalil Gordons past on Twitter was filled with a ton of things that I wont quote here.

Of course, traditional outlets didnt discover the comments, so kudos to the Free Beacon for doing actual research.

New candidate Michael Bloomberg was even caught in the controversy. His opponent Booker also found it stunning when he learned Bloomberg had referred to him as "well-spoken. It was a gaffe reminiscent of Bidens comment about then-candidate Sen. Barack Obama as the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.

Not to be left out, the Buttigieg campaign had a gathering of African American supporters in South Bend, reported NBC News. The kicker was that Buttigieg was interrupted by a man wearing a Black Lives Matter shirt.

Liberal racism, sexism and anti-Semitism have been the donkey in the room for a long time. The media were finally forced to confront it, at least briefly.

Nancy Pelosi blasts reporter

Journalists are quick to defend anyone in the media who is criticized by the president. But when a reporter is criticized by the Democratic speaker of the House, the rules change.

Sinclair Broadcast Group reporter James Rosen asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California a simple question: Do you hate the president, Madam Speaker?

Pelosi, who has bashed Rosen before as Mr. Republican Talking Points, used the opportunity to claim she had the moral high ground.

As a Catholic, I resent your using the word hate in a sentence that addresses me, she said.

The news media, who love it when Pelosi opposes the pope and the Catholic Church on abortion, rallied around her faith when it suited them. Both CBS and NBC promoted an identical Pelosi quote: Dont mess with me.

Imagine the media reaction to a Republican politician calling out a reporter, pointing a finger directly at the journalist and telling him Dont mess with me.

Actually, you dont have to imagine it. We see it daily when the press rallies in defense against every criticism they get from the right.

USA Today Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page described Pelosi as fierce.

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NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell took Pelosis side readily. Mitchell said that the speaker, as a person of deep faith, which we know to be the case with her, really took offense at anyone questioning.

Mitchell didnt seem to recall that Pelosis deep faith has strident disagreement with the Catholic Church on abortion.

CNN loved it as well. Chief Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin described Pelosi comments as one of the many iconic Nancy Pelosi moments from this period.

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MSNBC talking heads were just as excited. Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski was thrilled that Pelosi went right to her Catholic roots.

Joe Scarborough mocked the reporter for daring to ask a question. Maybe James Rosen would like to ask Donald Trump, do you hate children, or do you hate Jesus?

The confrontation was a reminder of how faith is both a sword and a shield for the press. They wield it against anyone they disagree with and use it to defend those they support.

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George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed African-American teenager Trayvon Martin, is suing Martins family, the lawyer who represented them, and other people associated with the murder case. Zimmerman is being represented by a right-wing lawyer who supported the anti-Obama birther movement, and the claims in the lawsuit stem from a documentary by a fringe filmmaker who traffics in conspiracy theories.

Zimmerman fatally shot Martin in a 2012 case that sparked a national debate over racial profiling and gun laws. Martin, 17, was unarmed when Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, reported him as suspicious as he walked through a gated community where Martin was visiting family in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman shot and killed Martin, claiming he acted in self-defense. He was later acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges. Now hes suing Martins family and associates for $100 million, based on claims from a discredited documentarian.

The lawsuit targets Martins mother, father, various people associated with Martin and his case, the state of Florida, the Martin familys lawyer Benjamin Crump, and HarperCollins Publishers, which released Crumps book on the killing of minorities this year. The suit claims one of the witnesses against Zimmerman misrepresented herselfwith Crump and the Martin familys knowledge.

Zimmerman is being represented by Larry Klayman, an attorney described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a professional gadfly notorious for suing everyone from Irans Supreme Leader to his own mother.

While accusing President Barack Obama of secretly being Muslim in 2013, Klayman called for a second American nonviolent revolution to get Obama to leave town, put the Koran down [...] and to figuratively come out with his hands up.

A birther who claimed Obama faked his U.S. birth certificate, Klayman has also claimed the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was ordered by Saddam Hussein. Klayman is a founder of the conservative group Judicial Watch, which has repeatedly sued the Clintons. This summer, a D.C. legal ethics panel recommended barring Klayman from practicing law for 33 months over a complaint by a former client who accused Klayman of exploiting her financially when she refused his advances. Klayman said he planned to appeal and claimed the hearing was politicized. The panel told The Daily Beast the appeal was ongoing.

In a statement to The Daily Beast, Klayman said, George Zimmerman seeks justice not just for himself, but for all of those others victimized by dishonest prosecutors who seek convictions to further their political and other unethical agendas to advance their careers. He also seeks justice against those who would divide the nation by pitting the races against each other for fun and profit, including the Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump and his friend Al Sharpton. (Sharpton is not a defendant in the case.)

In a statement on behalf of himself and Martins family, Crump blasted Zimmerman.

This plaintiff continues to display a callous disregard for everyone but himself, revictimizing individuals whose lives were shattered by his own misguided actions. He would have us believe that he is the innocent victim of a deep conspiracy, despite the complete lack of any credible evidence to support his outlandish claims. This tale defies all logic, and its time to close the door on these baseless imaginings, Crump said Wednesday.

Those alleged baseless imaginings stem from a new documentary by a longtime conservative conspiracy theorist.

The facts pled in this Complaint, which set forth the injury suffered by Plaintiff, were only recently discovered by Plaintiff Zimmerman on or about September 16, 2019 through the publication of the book and film by Hollywood director Joel Gilbert, both entitled The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud the Divided America, the lawsuit reads. (Klaymans announcement of the lawsuit also advertised a screening of the film.)

Gilbert is a repeat Infowars guest who has peddled a number of right-wing conspiracy theories. In 2012, he made a movie claiming President Barack Obama was actually the secret son of labor leader Frank Marshall Davis, and that Obama had been raised from birth to lead a communist revolution. (Gilbert accounted for the two mens lack of physical similarities by claiming Obama had plastic surgery to hide his link to Davis.)

Gilbert also pushed a hoax that claimed Obama wore a ring inscribed with a declaration of Islamic faith, and that Obamas mother posed naked for fetish magazines (both claims were debunked).

During the 2016 presidential election, Gilbert produced a film falsely accusing Bill Clinton of fathering an illegitimate child (the man in question took a DNA test decades ago that indicated Clinton was not the father). Gilbert also designed a pro-Trump Times Square billboard, paid for by Roger Stones super-PAC. He previously marketed other conspiracy films, including one suggesting Paul McCartney is secretly dead. The film was later reclassified as a mockumentary.

Gilbert claimed to have mailed millions of copies of his anti-Obama documentary to swing state voters in 2012, raising questions about his financial backing. The Federal Election Commission mulled legal action against Gilbert that would have required him to disclose his funding, but the agencys general counsel ruled that the videos counted as a media action, not an independent political expenditure.

Zimmerman has previously tried to capitalize on his fame from the Martin shooting. In 2017, he advertised a celebrity boxing match against rapper DMX. The fight was later cancelled. Later that year he likened Martin to a dog. He also made $138,900 auctioning the gun he used to kill Martin.

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