Al Sharpton radio producer tweeted: "it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups"

[alp227]

Original tweet here: https://twitter.com/NidaKhanNY/status/323883100557950976

"We don't know anything yet of course, but it is tax day & my first thought was all these anti-gov groups, but who knows"

Nida Khan, producer of Al Sharpton's radio show, also retweeted some conservatives' angry responses then tweeted some more responses:

"So ...according to conservatives tweeting me, it's ok to highlight that it could have been a terrorist group, but not an anti-gov group, smh"

"Well it's amazing how people think that it's ok to speculate on certain groups & not others"

"If we're going to speculate, speculate on all the possibilities"

And right wing blogs have been swarming all over Khan because of these Tweets. Defensible or not defensible, in your opinion? And should Sharpton fire Khan?

[bushisanidiot]

1. Republicans are in denial that they have literal terrorists in their party.

Domestic or foreign, a terrorist is a terrorist.

[bluestate10]

2. And should Sharpton fire Khan? No. nt

[Cleita]

3. Al isn't the only one whose thinking that from what I'm reading on this

and other internet sites.

[Nancy Waterman]

10. That was my first thought

It is Tax Day and it is the day Lincoln signed the Emancipation Act in 1862.
It is hard to think these are coincidental.

[freshwest]

4. It's up to Al. But Khan was just stating facts. It's been in the news. How could anyone miss it?

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As far as them complaining - they squawked when that study came out years ago, so much so that the government folded.

Add that to the daily incitement dished up by the RW, did they think no one could connect the dots between hatred of the IRS, Federal Reserve, Obama, the government and all of that?

I hope it's none of that, since chances anything will be done are nil. Methinks they doth protest too much, ya know?



We aren't elephants, but we do remember. Unlike some, our attention spans are a bit longer than three minutes. We know you...

[alp227]

7. The producer is a woman n/t

[freshwest]

9. Thanks, I'll edit. DU was fighting with me there for a while...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. You'd think the purveyor of the Brawley hoax would show more discretion. n/t

[Dr. Strange]

20. Well, in his defense...

at least he didn't accuse Steven Pagones of being the bomber.

[graham4anything]

6. Al Sharpton is the only person I listen to on tv. In Al I trust & I voted for him proudly.

He never lied to me.

[freshwest]

14. He's been a voice for the disenfranchised. I have no problem with him despite the years of bile from

rightwing, blow hard pundits.

They don't speak for me and I don't parrot their lies.

Those clowns never did a damned thing for me or anyone else!.

People need to think about that before they spout that stuff.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. No, but media types

Should leave the speculation to the side in general.

[freshwest]

12. MSNBC, CNN and FOX are about opinions. Freedom of speech, y'all, free-dumb!

Other than that:

If we ever get a mainstream media not owned by a few conservative billionaire cranks, we might have some say so on being factual and not indulging in speculation.

Like CNN's epic' Obamacare struck down' fail, Faux Newz wishful crawl 'Obama dead' and their 'Bush Wins Florida.'

At this time, we are listening to slickly packaged gossip. I won't criticize Khan or Sharpton in the current atmosphere they work in. As far as RWers being oppressed because of tweets by a news producer, not gonna lose any sleep over it.

Their journalist standards don't have to be as high as yours in the real working world.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Opinions are fine when based

On facts...

But he'll, that's ok.

I said nothing.

[bigtree]

16. his show has a discussion/support feel

. . . which is bound to bring out folks speculating. It's good to have someone there to channel all of that thought and emotion. It's probably not wise to just leave a vacuum on the left for reasoning through this. There's always going to be talk from the right to counter with those facts. It's just not always going to be a straight line to relate them to a wider public.

[freshwest]

19. Talk to Faux Newz, the purveyor of fact free newz and opinion.

They are so far gone from reality that they wouldn't hear a word you had to say.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. Look, tweety was not much better yesterday.

The media has not been the paragon of non speculation and just facts.

[freshwest]

22. That's why I quit watching them. Unfortunately, in your profession, you have to watch and rate it.

I am not a fan of anything that mainstream or self-righteous alternative media spout, either. I'm not attacking you or Khan.

I usually don't comment on personality news threads or comparative media heroes as those who argue with each other over who is going to lead a revolution. Because they are a small part and there will be no revolution to benefit the masses of people. More likely a fascist one, slow or fast motion.

But I like Sharpton even though some despise him, just the way the right does. He may have made his mistakes, but the knee jerk slander of the man and anyone associated with him, like those of Jesse Jackson and others, says more about basking in the support of the good old boy status quo than helping the truth come out.

These men have fought all their lives to help the disenfrancised, more than anything else. IMO. That's why I commented on the thread, as I'm not into vanity news. You do the real thing, nadin, so we needn't argue.

Peace Out.

[Nevernose]

11. Not all of these are bombings, of course

But there is enough craziness at this link to justify speculating that it was right wing loons:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/terror-from-the-right

[freshwest]

13. Thank you, I'm sure that's what she was thinking about. We may not be able to do much about them.

And denial of the intentions and more than that, proven actions of these groups won't help.

[slackmaster]

17. He's certainly got a track record in rushing to judgement on crimes.