Tiffany Cross announced Friday that MSNBC canceled her Saturday morning news program after a less than two-year run. The move came after Cross had become a target of attacks from Fox News and pundit Tucker Carlson, Huffington Post reported.
In late October, Carlson aired a segment about Cross that swiftly received criticism from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Fox host told his audience that Cross was fomenting a “race war” against white people. Carlson likened “The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross” and MSNBC to the Rwandan media outlet Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines, which stoked the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Interestingly, MSNBC would bow to the vitriolic slander of a putrid race-baiting demagogue who has spent his entire career spreading lies and fomenting white resentment and grievance. MSNBC President Rashida Jones was “deeply involved” in the call to cut ties with Cross, according to The Washington Post, which said the network allowed the host’s contract to lapse. A rotating cast of hosts will fill Cross’ time slot until a more permanent solution is found, the Post reported.
Tiffany cross’ firing was immediate and swift after she told a gathering that the state of Florida was the dick of the country. Cross, whose show aired on weekends, had been with the network for two years but, in recent weeks, had reportedly clashed with management over segments on her show.
Ratings performance — the most common cause of death for television shows — was not a factor in MSNBC’s decision to pull the plug on The Cross Connection, which aired Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. ET.
Appearing on Comedy Central’s Hell of a Week with Charlemagne, Cross was asked which state Democrats could afford to lose in the upcoming mid-term elections. “Florida literally looks like the d — k of the country, so let’s get rid of Florida,” Cross said. “Let’s castrate Florida.” In the same appearance, Cross said that it was impossible to separate the Republican Party from “right-wing extremists,” saying they had “merged right now”:
Huh.… where is the lie? The Republican party is a white supremacist, Insurrectionist fascist movement. Florida is a state filled with old retired and new up-and-coming racists, so what did she say that was a lie?
As they say in street vernacular, ‘it be your own people’. It appears Rashida Jones was more concerned about protecting her own job than standing up for Tiffany Cross when she needed to.
Ms. Cross tweeted the following after her abrupt firing»>