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Melissa Harris Perry will officially be out of a television job today. MSNBC — which signed the the 42-year-old four years ago to host her own weekend program — will officially make that announcement today, according to an unimpeachable source. The decision comes after Harris-Perry publicly accused NBC News Chariman Andy Lack and MSNBC President Phil Griffin of pre-empting her program due to racial reasons. Per an email she sent to staff that made its way quickly to the New York Times on Friday: “I will not be used as a tool for their purposes. I am not a token,...

"I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back." Ms. Harris-Perry is black, and Mr. Lack and Mr. Griffin are white. In the phone interview on Friday, Ms. Harris-Perry clarified her remarks and said she did not think race played a role in her recent absence from the air. "I don't know if there is a personal racial component," she said. "I don't think anyone is doing something mean to me because I'm a black person." An NBC News spokesman said...

What do you do if you’re a liberal who supports a woman’s Gosnellian right to abortion on demand after 20 weeks performed by a doctor who’s failed to secure admitting privileges at the local hospital? MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry has the obvious answer: Wear tampons on your ears. http://conservatives4palin.com/2013/07/msnbc-host-dons-tampon-earrings-to-demonstrate-solidarity-with-late-term-abortion-fans.html