Al Sharpton to host Ed Show tonight!

[Brigid]

Fasten your seat belts; it's going to be a bumpy ride.

[dkf]

1. Who booked this woman defending Medicaid for low income residents of NJ?

She was not a good representative. Her health problem is the palpitations she is getting from the thought of being removed from Medicaid?

Man they should have put on a family with kids in need or something.

[jberryhill]

2. Yes, they need more telegenic well-spoken low income people with health problems

...who have enough spare time to appear on TV

[dkf]

6. She was perfectly fine looking.

She actually looked quite affluent. She was unemployed but was living on savings and didn't qualify for food stamps apparently as she wasn't on them. Her argument is that health care should be her right. I am not sure what the asset qualifications are, but she seemed well to do. Just unemployed and having a difficulty with health insurance as anyone unemployed or even self employed would be.

[jberryhill]

7. "she seemed well to do"

Because she wasn't wearing rags?

Point out the next "not perfectly fine looking" person you see a TV network put in front of a camera.

This was one of her stops on the way to the studio:

http://nbcnews.tumblr.com/post/2585623919/a-look-inside-msnbc-hair-and-makeup-from-john



A look inside MSNBC hair and makeup from John Bell.

[dkf]

10. You seemed to be criticizing her appearance in some way

I thought she looked perfectly fine.

[jberryhill]

13. No, I was making fun of your comment

But you missed the point

[dkf]

15. Yeah instead I rushed in to defend her physical appearance.

Looks are off limits IMO.

[BuelahWitch]

8. She was going to be on television, maybe she wanted to look nice.

Did you ever think of that? Jesus!

[dkf]

11. I wasn't the one criticizing her appearance.

Look at the post I'm responding too. It sounded like some sarcastic dig at her looks to me.

The problem wasn't her appearance, it was her message.

[Raine]

12. That is NOT her health problem that she is getting

medicaid for. What she said was that she began having heart palpitations etc. because of the worry about what will happen to her. The heart palpitations are IN ADDITION to her ongoing health problems which Sharpton never asked her about.

[Historic NY]

3. Actually he was doing a pretty good job....he may have a big mouth but he isn't dumb.

[jberryhill]

5. Copy-reading is not his strong suit

I went through a period in the 80's where I couldn't stand the guy, but one of us has aged well.

Apart from not being used to reading a teleprompter, he's a fun, witty guy.

[HipChick]

4. "The wheels have come of the Palin Bus" "She's the one that needs educating"

lol!

[winstars]

9. I lived through the Tawana Brawley BS in NY, total BS, but...

the Rev has sort of grown on me over the years. Maybe it was that Soul Train repeat I saw him on with James Brown when the Rev was like 16 and pushing his Action Network even then!!! He was a little rough around the edges tonight but rather amusing in a good way. And, as we say in the streets, not for nothing but the more brothers and sisters on the TeeVee the better for this white boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And a fellow Brooklynite!!!

[TheKentuckian]

14. Is Al still hand in hand with Newt, Joe Scum, Pat Robertson, and Arne pushing

the education deform that has been the goal of the Reich for decades?

[alp227]

16. Ed's still suspended? Hmm...I was surprised by this choice

But sharpton's appeared on the ed show several times to criticize right wing hate radio. Anyway here's a highlight from the show where Rev. Sharpton interviewed someone from Natl. Council of La Raza about Sarah Palin's immigrant trash talk at Ellis Island. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/43262104#43262104