>> MSNBC has dropped the Tiffany Cross weekend show after a nearly two year
run and under circumstances that are at the very least interesting.
They chose not to renew her contract.
And for now, we'll be filling her time slot with a series of rotating hosts.
Her staff was informed of the decision on Friday morning, but
they will apparently remain in place.
Now previous to this show, she had been the DC Bureau chief for BTS Networks and
Cross has not as far as we've seen yet spoken to media about this.
But there has been speculation about why exactly this show which is a apparently,
quite popular was doing very well in the ratings.
Apparently, let's see, has average is the second most African American
viewers of any weekend cable news show, 4.6 million viewers per month.
And by the way, the show's audience skews 55% female.
So all things that the network is saying that they're looking for and
appear to have gotten and yet, she's now out.
So there are a couple of different potential explanations about why exactly
this happened.
Some are saying that her relationship with the network was becoming frayed in part,
because executives were growing concerned about her 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.
And so let's jump to the first of that.
So there's two different instances of this that we can point to,
perhaps there are others.
After Megyn Kelly attacked her earlier this month and called her the most racist
person on television, Cross called Kelly, the blackface expert referencing past
commentary by Megyn Kelly about blackface costumes and that sort of thing.
She later apologized Megyn Kelly in that particular case.
There was also an incident that you might remember from just a week or
two ago with Tucker Carlson where Tucker Carlson accused her and
MSNBC of trying to incite a race war against white people.
And in particular, threatening white women who are, in his words,
of course, the key to reproducing the white race.
Yes, that is a quote that an anchor said on a show, Tucker Carlson there.
He said that she's trying to foment white genocide.
She's trying to replay Rwanda's 1990 for ethnic cleansing.
But in this case, it would be white people who were wiped out.
And so because Megyn Kelly called her a racist and
she responded and Tucker Carlson said she's trying to get hundreds of mill
ions of white people to be killed, she's gotta go, I suppose.
Now in the last 24 hours,
she did also have some commentary about Rhonda Santis in Florida.
That is interesting.
I can't actually say some of these words, but it referenced Florida as being the,
I'm gonna say penis of America and that it should be castrated.
And so that's controversial.
Now, she means it as a metaphor.
She doesn't actually want to cut off Ala bugs bunny Florida, so
that it like drifts off into the ocean or anything, but
those might be some of the reasons that she was fired.
>> Yeah, okay, we're hiring just so you know.
So we'll be talking to Tiffany soon if she's interested.
Because look, I don't know that we're gonna particularly higher.
We'll have a conversation about it, but I'm interested in aggressive hosts.
I'm not MSNBC who thinks she should be a doormat for Fox News and
allows Tucker Carlson to fire your hosts.
What a loser network tucker Carlson attacked her.
She said something back and you fired her.
That's a surrender to racist, fascist Tucker Carlson.
I mean, what a pathetic, pathetic thing to do.
Now look, guys,
the news came out this morning that they had severed the relationship.
I said, I don't know, man.
People are saying crazy things these days.
Maybe she said something crazy behind the scenes that I don't know about.
So I said, look, barring something that she said that I don't know,
it seems like this was a terrible move, right?
But I was worried.
But no, that's gone now.
So let me explain why.
So someone who's got really good ratings on MSNBC, but
all of a sudden have MSNBC executives leak about them and then several relationship,
gee, I don't know who else might have been in that situation.
So for those of you who don't know, that was exactly what happened to me.
I was the 6 o'clock host for MSNBC.
I had the best ratings they had ever gotten at 6 o'clock.
I literally in the conversation with the head of MSNBC said,
ratings are not an issue, right?
Obviously, cuz we all see the ratings and
we all see that it was the best they've ever gotten at that time slot.
And he's like, no, no, no, ratings are not an issue.
Okay, so then what's the issue?
Okay, and when I was at MSNBC, the very first interview I
said that I said I was gonna kick Fox News ass and make them cry, okay?
They called me in.
NBC officials, PR people called me in and said, don't, don't do it.
I'm like, wait, I thought they were a competition.
Aren't we trying to get pressed and beat them?
They're like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You don't know how scary there.
I swear to God, this is a real conversation.
They said they have our anchors and our executives followed.
I was like should you report that your NBC News, shouldn't you report that
the other guys are lunatics that are having you followed some?
I don't know and I didn't get followed as far as I know.
What you're telling me to be a coward.
And that if I'm not a coward, I'll have trouble and here she is.
She was the most aggressive host on MSNBC by a long shot.
Many assigns a great host, okay?
And so many watch yourself, okay?
I don't wanna put any ideas.
But when I saw Tiffany Cross say these things that were true and aggressive
on air, I was like, they're letting her say that maybe MSNBC has changed, right?
Cuz there's new leadership, etc.
They haven't changed at all and look at this leak.
Now, it's for sure that she didn't say anything outrageous off air that
we don't know about.
The executives leaked to variety and told them.
Yeah, she dared to fight back against Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly.
That's not what NBC News does.
NBC News lays down like a God damn doormat and lets the fascist walk all over them.
And remember, Tiffany, you're not to do the news.
You're not to be honest, you're to do corporate media.
You don't see corruption.
You don't see racism.
You don't see any problem with the Republicans.
Our job is to kiss their ass, we're MSNBC.
The left wing station, hilarious joke.
Thank you.
Thank you for proving what a joke you are.
Like I said, Tiffany call me.
>> Well, on this one, I think you have to yield to Cenk.
He knows MS, their culture and what they'll accept it there so mainstream.
But as Cenk was speaking, I was thinking, well,
in a way they're a reflection of the Democrats and some of the points we've
made this hour which is that there's sort of a politeness and
a attained quality to democratic messaging and it's only lost elections.
And in your face quality that you need,
especially now to cut through the media noise,
that is in short supply in the mainstream media in with certainly opinion hosts.
And so I think as I say, when it comes to the actual specific culture at MS,
Cenkin is pretty much the ranking officer on deck, but
it would seem as though they're all about the politeness.
>> So I want to say one last thing about this, cuz guys think about the contrast,
cuz it's not that MSNBC can't be tough.
If you remember in 2020 when Bernie Sanders won the first three primaries,
Chuck Todd called his followers brownshirts.
His family died in the holocaust and he called his followers Nazis,
that's as tough as it gets, right?
Chris Matthews said that if Bernie Sanders wins,
there might be executions in central park.
Okay, so they know how to be super tough, but only towards the left wing.
I mean, look at corporate media, it's just a hall of mirrors.
Everything is an illusion.
They set up a left wing channel that only attacks the left wing.
And if you attack the right wing, they fire you.
Isn't that amazing?
And then all of corporate media goes, yeah, MSNBC's left wing.
MSNBC is the left wing, they know that the Republicans are right and
the progressives are wrong.
They are the left weight.
And unfortunately, they brainwash people like Fox News does and they brainwash them
into voting for corporate democrats, voting against their interests.
Give you one last step.
In Mississippi, 65% of Democratic primary voters wanted Medicare for all.
But the press told him, Bernie cannot win.
Bernie cannot win.
Are you hypnotized yet?
Bernie cannot win. Progressives cannot win, you must vote for
the corporate Democrat.
You must vote for the corporate Democrat.
And so you know what they did?
Bernie who wants Medicare for all, they said, no.
Joe Biden says, I'm never gonna do Medicare for all.
They voted 78% for Joe Biden, why?
They were hypnotized by MSNBC telling you, no, progressives can never win.
You should only elect Democrats who lie down like floor mats for
the Republicans and let Tucker Carlson walk all over them, okay?
By the way, that's the same exact thing they said about Hillary Clinton and
Hillary Clinton lost to Donald trump.
Did they learn anything from it?
No, Joe Biden, by the way, won by 43,000 votes in 3 swing states.
Otherwise, Trump would have won reelection.
He was this close to losing.
Yet, the next election, I guarantee, I'll tell you ahead of time and
you will see it, write it down in stone.
There is 0% chance that I'm wrong.
MSNBC will go out there and you got to vote for the corporate Democrat.
You gotta vote for the conservative Democrat.
They're the only ones who can win.
The progressive, don't vote for the progressive, they're never gonna win.
Hypnotized, hypnotized, hypnotized, hypnotized.
And remember, Tucker Carlson's great.
Don't criticize Tucker Carlson.
Don't criticize Megyn Kelly.
No, no, no, we're the left wing station.
Were the left wing station.
Okay, and the rest of the media.
Yeah, left wing, left wing.
Yeah, the left wing says Republicans are right.
Vote for Republicans and conservative Democrats.
Yeah, okay, that's media for you and that's MSNBC.