The New York Times — one of the conservative movement’s favorite targets — has done something that left-leaning activists might not have imagined.
The paper has reported on the Rev. Al Sharpton’s back tax bill, which according to the Times amounts to more than $4 million.
Four million bucks!
Wow! Let this one sink in for a moment.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/19/politics/al-sharpton-finance/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Sharpton is a noted MSNBC commentator. He also has become known as a civil-rights activist and a founder of the National Action Network, an organization dedicated to seeking justice on behalf of disadvantaged Americans.
Sharpton is an outspoken progressiveĀ firebrand who — and this is where the irony kicks in — regularly rails against wealthy tax cheats or those who use their wealth and standing to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
Now comes this report that Sharpton himself has a serious issue with the Internal Revenue Service.
Sharpton has fought back. He says he has paid down the bill, that he doesn’t owe as much as the NYT says he does.
Let’s wait for this thing to play out.
My advice for MSNBC, though, would be to take Sharpton off the air while this matter gets sorted out. Any time he speaks out against wealthy tax cheats is going to produce nothing but laughter across the land.