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Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross lost her network gig in 2022 — but during a recent podcast, she claimed that “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough played a role in her abrupt exit. During an episode of her newly-launched podcast — “Native Land Pod”, co-hosted by Angela Rye and Andrew Gillum — Cross referred to Scarborough as MSNBC’s “favorite white boy” and claimed that she was pushed out for not wanting to spend all her time covering former President Donald Trump. […] Cross went on to say that although she believed Scarborough had worked behind her back to submarine her at...

Columnist Karen Attiah claimed 'attacks against Black educators, authors and journalists are increasing across the country'Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah blamed racism for MSNBC’s abrupt firing of Black weekend anchor Tiffany Cross earlier last month.In a Friday column, Attiah argued that Cross’s ouster was a "a reminder that the rug could be pulled out from under [Black journalists] at any time." She added that it was a "bad look" in a time when "attacks against Black educators, authors and journalists are increasing across the country."

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said she was confident she would win her race against incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) — provided voters were able to overcome the "difficulties" implemented by state Republicans. Abrams made the comment while appearing on MSNBC Saturday morning, after being asked by host Ali Velshi for her thoughts on the state of the race given that she is trailing Kemp by double-digits in the polls. Abrams replied by arguing that polls had inaccurately portrayed what was truly happening in the race, going on to claim that it was an issue of voter suppression if...

More than 40 African-American political leaders are demanding a meeting with MSNBC president Rashida Jones over the network’s decision not to renew weekend host Tiffany Cross’ show. In a letter circulated in recent days and obtained by Semafor, civil rights figures including NAACP president Derrick Johnson and Color of Change president Rashad Robinson, as well as media personalities including the former ESPN commentator Jemele Hill criticized Jones for the move. The letter requests a meeting to “discuss a path forward that is restorative to the reputation and dignity of Ms. Cross.” “We are deeply disappointed in the abrupt cancellation of...

A 2024 joint ticket consisting of Republican Liz Cheney and Democrat Stacey Abrams — who both failed to win seats in the recent midterm elections — is an “exciting” idea, according to an MSNBC panelist who suggested there is a strong “appetite” for such a movement. During an MSNBC segment Thursday night discussing the next moves for losing candidates, including a potential future presidential run by defeated Democrat Tim Ryan, MSNBC contributor and Voto Latino CEO Maria Teresa Kumar appeared to float her idea of a “good ticket” for the 2024 presidential election.

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Ex-MSNBC host Tiffany Cross learned that she was getting pushed out days ahead of her exit — and threatened to “go out in a blaze” and “take down” the cable-TV network and its boss Rashida Jones, The Post has learned. The controversial anchor — whose weekend show “The Cross Connection” was abruptly canceled earlier this month as MSNBC elected not to renew her contract, according to sources — began frantically calling other journalists, media executives and social activists a week before her ouster in a bid to rally support, a source with knowledge said. “She made calls saying: ‘I’m going...

Things are not looking good for far-left hosts at MSNBC. According to a new report morale “is in the toilet” after host Tiffany Cross was let go by the network. Far-left hosts are worried that network executives won’t have their backs. One insider said that MSNBC is “trying to go straight down the middle.”Morale at the left-leaning network “is in the toilet” and its liberal hosts are now worried about network execs not having their backs because of how Cross was allegedly treated. “People are scared. The consensus is that [MSNBC president Rashida Jones] is trying to unmake MSNBC and...

Wishcasting, liberal-media style . . . Far-left Tiffany Cross is gone from MSNBC. But liberal bias lives on in her vacated 10 am hour on Saturdays. Yasmin Vossoughian hosted the hour Saturday. And her villain of the day—aside from the former president whose name shall not be mentioned—was Elon Musk. And when it came to Musk, Vossoughian's expressed the wish was that Twitter would die. As Vossoughian put it: "I can't help but keep thinking, this is kind of the beginning of the end of Twitter."If Vossoughian were honest about it, she would have substituted "hoping" for "thinking." Get the...

Megyn Kelly did not hold back in her criticisms against now-former MSNBC Tiffany Cross after news broke on Friday her contract was not renewed and she had been abruptly let go by the network. According to Variety, Cross was fired from the network because "executives at the network growing concerned about the anchor’s willingness to address statements made by cable-news hosts on other networks and indulging in commentary executives felt did not meet the standards of MSNBC or NBC News." Cross frequently sparred with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who would often call her out for racially charged statements against...

Tiffany Cross didn’t want to leave MSNBC, and feels she has more to do. The outspoken weekend anchor, whose show was cancelled earlier Friday by the NBCUniversal-owned cable outlet, said in a statement Friday night that her freewheeling, outspoken style was on the mark for a disruptive era in politics, and indicated she would continue her work elsewhere. “I am disheartened to learn of MSNBC’s decision to cancel my show, ‘The Cross Connection,’ at such a crucial time - four days before the midterm elections,” Cross said, while spotlighting the program’s ratings. “And we were intentional about centering marginalized voices...

MSNBC has abruptly cut ties with weekend host Tiffany Cross, opting not to renew her contract after almost two years and severing ties, Mediaite has learned. Cross, whose Saturday show The Cross Connection was a source of controversy for the network, has not commented publicly on the cancellation. Her production team was told of the decision on Friday. They will remain at the network, a source familiar with the matter told Mediaite, as they currently work on MSNBC’s Sunday show in the same slot. A source familiar with the decision told Mediaite that comments and coverage from Cross did not...

Tucker Carlson devoted a segment of his Fox News show this week to exposing what he described as the anti-white racism of Tiffany Cross and her panelists, such as Elie Mystal claiming that "white people turn violent when they don't politically get their way," as we wrote about here. So you knew that Cross would clap back at Carlson on her MSNBC show on Saturday. And sure enough . . . Cross began by playing a clip of Carlson defending Kanye West against charges that he is mentally ill. Cross suggested that the reason Carlson doesn't find Kanye crazy is...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez, a Latina Democrat, recently referred to a councilman’s Black son as a “monkey”-- and also said in reference to liberal Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon, “he’s with the Blacks.” This prompted MSNBC host Tiffany Cross to ask Fordham University law professor Tanya Hernández if making racist comments made a Latino white or just a racist racial minority. Hernández, a self-proclaimed “race law expert” with an interest in Critical Race Theory, replied: “Well, I actually think that there is another layer to this. Some people within...

For the second time in a week, an MSNBC segment that was meant to condemn racism ended up with the segment’s participants spewing hateful and racist comments towards others. This time, the incident occurred on Saturday’s The Cross Connection as host Tiffany Cross and Prof. Tanya Hernandez reacted to the Los Angeles City Council racism scandal by lamenting that some Latinos try to be and are “white.” Cross declared that, “I’ve grown up in communities where the Latino community was very adjacent, and, you know, a lot of shared experiences. And, it does tend to, the common ground here is...

Did you hear a boom 'round about 11 am on Saturday morning? That was the sound of the Georgia senatorial debate between Herschel Walker and Ralphael Warnock blowing up on Tiffany Cross during her MSNBC show. Prior to last night's debate, Cross was surely salivating, anticipating a weak performance by Herschel Walker. It seemed a sure thing that Cross would lead this morning's show with a segment on the debate. But when she announced that it wouldn't be discussed until the second hour, it was obvious that the debate hadn't gone according to Cross's plan. When the segment finally did...

On Tiffany Cross' MSNBC show on Saturday, Cross and MSNBC legal analyst Glenn Kirschner trashed Ginni Thomas as a shill, flack, liar . . . and criminal! Kirschner bizarrely claimed that Thomas telling the committee that she continued to believe that the 2020 election had been stolen constituted not just a lie, but a prosecutable crime! Kirschner: "I'll go on record as saying, Ginni Thomas lied when she said the election was stolen. That is not a fact-based position that anybody can take. That's a lie. And when you tell Congress, or congressional investigators, lies, whether or not they're under...

On Tiffany Cross's show MSNBC show on Saturday, resident provocateur Elie Mystal of The Nation made an invidious generalization about white people that would be condemned as racist if made in respect of people of another race. Commenting on Donald Trump's statement that there would be "big problems" in the country if he is indicted, and the possibility of violence, Mystal said: The cause of the problem, of course, is Trump himself and his MAGA acolytes themselves, and the people who are willing to do the violence in Trump's name. Again, I'm not, I guess I want to say that...

New "The View" co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Monday she hopes to represent former President Trump's voters in the ABC show's Republican seat, although she has become one of his staunchest critics and hopes he never returns to the White House. "I'm a millennial and I worked in the Trump administration," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America" in a segment previewing the show's upcoming season. "I've also since criticized the former president, but I still want to be a voice for the 74 million Americans who voted for him, and kind of tell them, from my experience, here's why...

Those horrible, violence-provoking, Republicans! Calling Democrats "evil." Describing them as "the enemy." Declaring, "we are at war" with Democrats! Even urging Republicans to "keep hitting, keep pounding." What a terrible threat to our democracy, those Republicans! Using such bellicose, violent rhetoric toward Democrats! Wait: what, you say? It wasn't a Republican saying that about Democrats? It was a Democrat, saying that about Republicans? On MSNBC? Get the rest of the story and view the video here.