ABC Boots Tony Perkins From Sunday Show So MSNBC Invites Him

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by DAVID BADASH
June 19, 2016 1:59 PM

ABC News announced earlier this week that Family Research Council president Tony Perkins would be George Stephanopoulos' guest on Sunday's "This Week" to discuss the Orlando mass shooting anti-LGBT hate crime terror attack. After pushback on social media and a petition by Faithful America that received over 28,000 signatures in just two days, ABC apparently got the message and revoked its invitation. Tony Perkins did not appear on "This Week."

But Tony Perkins managed to appear on another major network, MSNBC, early Sunday afternoon, as he happily tweeted at the last minute ...

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/abc_news_boots_hate_leader_tony_perkins_so_msnbc_invites_him_to_represent_evangelicals

[Bluenorthwest]

1. MSNBC is corrupt but also not a 'major network' in any way that compares to the way ABC is a major

network. MSNBC is a niche market cable commentary outlet with extremely modest viewership. ABC is a major network.

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5. True, a basic cable channel is not a network

But wasn't it nice of MSNBC to provide a platform to Tony Perkins when ABC decided not to have him on? After all, how could the country possibly know about Perkins' hateful religion-cloaked bigotry if he didn't get a nice featured spot? Sure the news programs would like to cover issues like affordable housing, living wages, and better schools, but there was a massacre in Orlando, and who better than Tony Perkins to explain it all to us?

[Stinky The Clown]

2. MSNBC is COMCAST's(R-Fuck You Libs) attempt to outfox Fox

[Beaverhausen]

3. I had MSNBC on for a few hours and it was all Trump

All Trump, all the time, including MTP.

[Ilsa]

4. No one watches msnbc on weekend afternoons. It's assumed

they are rerunning their prison documentary series.

The only folks watching that are Trump followers looking for relatives.