Al Sharpton Is Getting Fired After Something Amazing Happened According to recent reports, Al Sharpton was fired from MSNBC after a $20 billion racial discrimination lawsuit was brought against him. The Hollywood Reporter reports that even though the FCC has not yet ruled on the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, the National Association of African-American Owned Media has just filed a lawsuit claiming at least $20 billion in damages. The group claims that the two giants discriminate against black-owned media. The group first made headlines when they filed a similar suit against ATT and DirecTV in December. Now, the plaintiff is targeting Comcast and TWC, as well as several African-American advocacy groups, including MSNBC host Al Sharpton. The group claims that these parties are all facilitating discrimination. Rumors have sparked of Sharpton losing his prime TV show as a result. What do you think of the lawsuit? UPDATE Aug 27: MSNBC is putting their morning talk show host, Al Sharpton, out to pasturehis show will now air on Sunday mornings at 8:00am. Thats quite the demotion: his show previously aired at 6pm on weekdaysits now moving from five shows a week to just one show a week, and now at a time where hardly anyone is watching TV. Sharpton has been a controversial choice for MSNBC almost since the onset. He has a long history not as a media pundit, but as a racial agitator. In recent months, MSNBC has faltered in the ratings. A number of shows have been axed, and a number of once-promising pundits have been fired or demotedand, clearly, Sharpton is on his way out as well. -LibertyNewsNow 