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Melissa Harris-Perry boycotting her own MSNBC show: report
The Hill ^

Posted on 02/26/2016 2:24:45 PM PST by Sub-Driver

February 26, 2016, 04:29 pm Melissa Harris-Perry boycotting her own MSNBC show: report

By Mark Hensch

Melissa Harris-Perry is refusing to host her MSNBC show this weekend after presidential election coverage repeatedly pre-empted her, according to The New York Times.

“I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” Harris-Perry wrote in an email obtained by the Times.

"I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC News chairman Andrew] Lack, [MSNBC President Phil] Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”

Harris-Perry resents the show’s pre-emption over the last two weeks and MSNBC dictating how it presents content, the report said.

“It is perfectly fine, 100 percent reasonable and perfectly acceptable for MSNBC to decide they no longer want the M.H.P. show,” said Harris-Perry, who has hosted the show since 2012. "But they should say that, they should cancel the show, they should stand up.

“And maybe it would be rewarded with huge ratings, but they shouldn’t kill us by attrition and take us off the air without telling anybody, including us. That for me is what’s painful and difficult.”

Harris-Perry added that she does not see believe racial bias is motivating MSNBC’s decision-making.

“I don’t know if there’s a racial component,” she told the Times. "I don’t think anyone is doing something mean to me because I’m a black person.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; andrewlack; demagogicparty; election2016; melissaharrisperry; memebuilding; msnbc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; partisanhack; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; primadonna; trump
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To: CGASMIA68

Take them all and shut the place down.


41 posted on 02/26/2016 3:41:55 PM PST by disndat
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To: Sub-Driver

Melissa Harris-Perry has a show????


42 posted on 02/26/2016 3:42:22 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Jack Black

Melissa Harrisperry needs to check her Black Privlege


43 posted on 02/26/2016 3:43:18 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: chopperman

...I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head...

Oh, but you most certainly are.
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My thoughts as well, she pretty much defined herself.


44 posted on 02/26/2016 3:46:54 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Sub-Driver

She said it’s not racial and then she says this”I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head:’


They just can’t carry on a conversation without bringing race into it.

It’s so tiring.

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45 posted on 02/26/2016 3:47:20 PM PST by Mears
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To: Sub-Driver

I’ll bet Melissa’s pair is hairy.


46 posted on 02/26/2016 4:06:40 PM PST by West Texas Chuck (OBAMA: Fundamentally Twerking America)
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To: Sub-Driver

Her next “One Woman Show” - “Unemployed for Fun and Profit”.


47 posted on 02/26/2016 4:09:18 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Sub-Driver
"Melissa Harris-Perry is refusing to host her MSNBC show this weekend after presidential election coverage repeatedly pre-empted her, according to The New York Times."

Maybe MSNBC should support her boycott by taking her off the payroll. Let's get real with this boycott thing!

48 posted on 02/26/2016 4:09:32 PM PST by StormEye
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To: Sub-Driver

Harris-Perry: MSNBC does not exist for news; It exists for ME!


49 posted on 02/26/2016 4:37:49 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Mears

They all suffer from Chronic Perceived Racism Syndrome. What a pathetic way to live.


50 posted on 02/26/2016 4:52:27 PM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: Vendome

LOL....


51 posted on 02/26/2016 5:21:57 PM PST by Gator113 (~~Go Trump Go~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything is gonna be alright.)
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To: Gator113

Forgot I posted that.

Still makes me laugh...


52 posted on 02/26/2016 5:27:49 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: Sub-Driver

“I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by [NBC News chairman Andrew] Lack, [MSNBC President Phil] Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.” Harris-Perry resents the show’s pre-emption over the last two weeks and MSNBC dictating how it presents content, the report said.”

Every token has this moment of clarity when they realize they ARE tokens; for Obama it came early, when he had to endorse “homosexual unions” while betraying black Americans in the interests of illegals. Melissa is a token to herd black thought processes.


53 posted on 02/27/2016 5:16:44 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Jack Black

Many have come to expect the preferential treatment used by some companies (and mainly by the government itself) to pretend they have a viable role in a modern economy. In the end, they simply provide more job security for the non-tokens doing the actual work; they are just a “diversity tax” paid by organizations.


54 posted on 02/27/2016 5:21:00 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Sub-Driver

How will the world of political and societal destruction survive? Hilarious. Ask Mike Rowe over @ cnn what it feels like and how often he’s been ‘pre-empted’. And he has a show with practical, real-world information. Go hyphenate yourself Melissa and take your oh-so-clever tampon earrings with you.


55 posted on 02/27/2016 5:27:06 AM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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