Want to see why Meet the Press has gone down the toilet in quality and ratings since the passing of Tim Russert? Look no further than today’s episode of Meet the Press featuring race hustler Al Sharpton who will give a eulogy at Michael Brown’s funeral. Meet the Press gave Sharpton an unchallenged platform to spew his race hustling propaganda and his involvement in Ferguson.
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| Meet the Press gives Al Sharpton platform to spew propaganda |
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Throughout the interview, Jansing failed to ask her guest a single difficult question and never challenged Sharpton about whether it was appropriate for him to be so closely involved in Ferguson.
The NBC reporter began by hyping how Sharpton will “deliver the eulogy at that service” before promoting how “there has been a dramatic shift in the mood in Ferguson, for the better. Much calmer now. What can you say tomorrow to help that along?”
As the segment continued, Jansing lobbied her guest to push for even more action in the wake of Michael Brown’s death:
You and I talked a lot though, Reverend, after the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case. You’ve said that needs to be a moment. Many others said the same thing. We have also seen, as you alluded to, you led a march yesterday after another black man died in an incident involving police in New York City. Now you’re going to be giving the eulogy for yet another funeral tomorrow. What’s it going to take for that moment to change things freely?
Jansing proceeded to gush over Sharpton’s relationship with the Obama White House and wondered if Obama was doing enough to satisfy the MSNBC host’s activism:There’s a big article on you in Politico Magazine this week. It talks about how close your contact is with the White House, how you often serve as a kind of surrogate for the White House. But let me ask you about the president, and in the case of Ferguson in particular, race relations in America in general. Is he doing enough?
The NBC reporter could have used the 4 minutes she had with Sharpton to ask him about his controversial past, including the Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights Riots cases. Instead, Jansing spent the entire time pushing Sharpton’s activism without once questioning his motives.Jansing’s softball interview is no surprise given that the two are colleagues at NBC, but her lack of serious questions, both to the MSNBC host and earlier to Governor Jay Nixon (D-MO) exposes how the NBC reporter has failed to drop MSNBC’s “Lean Forward” liberal agenda.