If you thought you were hallucinating when you read this heading, don’t worry, I thought I was too when I read a report from the Hollywood Reporter that Comcast and Al Sharpton are being sued for $20 billion for allegedly discriminating against black-owned media.
The complaint was filed Friday in California from the National Association of African-American Owned Media and it alleges that Comcast has made large cash donations to Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in order to obtain his approval for the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger and divert attention away from apparent discriminatory practices of Comcast.According the lawsuit, Sharpton and his group have received roughly $3.8 million in salary and donations to “buy” his endorsement for the merger. Comcast has also allowed Sharpton to keep his television show despite laughably low ratings.
Basically Al’s being called a sellout.
Sharpton has denied the allegations and called the lawsuit “frivolous.” He also defended his TV show, saying that it is the highest rated of any 6 pm broadcast in the history of the network (MSNBC), even though his show perpetually loses to Fox News (of course) and CNN.
You can view the full lawsuit here.
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