[See NewsBusters for more.] On Saturday's installment of Velshi on MSNBC, left-wing activist, provocateur, and PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton joined guest host Lindsey Reiser to say that the country is heading back to the days of Jim Crow and to criticize Democrats for not passing Sharpton's partisan wish list.
Reiser got the hyperbolic segment started by quoting Sharpton's recent comments to Politico, declaring and wondering "do you feel, I feel like it was much more on the front burner several months ago when we were seeing states pass these restrictive voting laws and then like any news cycle the attention shifted. So, do you think the public attention will shift also?"