Trade you Sharpton for O'Reilly, Malkin, Limbaugh, etc.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wonders why we still listen to Al Sharpton. Good question!

Still, it's hardly a reasonable place to start asking that question. Rev. Al has been wrong about lots of things, about Tawana Brawley the most viciously. But he's a piker compared to practically any wingnut pundit bloviator.

Why does anyone still listen to the entire Fox network, to Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, David Broder, or a thousand others? They obviously couldn't find their often ample asses with both hands and a map, yet the elite media keep thrusting them at us instead of finding better analysis.

So, by all means, leave Rev. Al to talk to himself - it's my guess he won't try silence - and find someone fresher and more likely to make a valid point. But while you're firing idiot pundits, make a very long list.