After word came on Friday that Tiffany Cross’ contract had not been renewed and she had been terminated unceremoniously by MSNBC, Megyn Kelly did not hold back in her condemnation of the former colleague.
Cross was reportedly let go because “bosses at the network were worried about the anchor’s readiness to address assertions made by cable-news hosts on other networks and participating in commentary executives believed did not fit the standards of MSNBC or NBC News,” as reported by Variety.
Cross and Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson had a contentious relationship, with Carlson repeatedly calling Cross out for making racist remarks against white people.
During an appearance on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly referred to Cross as the “most racist person in all of television” and called her a “dumba**” for her comments about the way the Miami Dolphins handled the injury sustained by Tua Tagovailoa, saying it was racism for playing him before he had fully recovered, even though race played no role in the incident.
The day following [Kyle] Rittenhouse’s acquittal by a Wisconsin jury, she denounced Republican members of Congress as white supremacists. Okay, so now all Republican lawmakers are white racists. She referred to Rittenhouse as “a tiny murdering white supremacist,” Kelly said.
Dana Loesch, a guest on Cross’s show, claimed she had to think about who Cross was because the host’s program amounted to little more than a racist thread on YouTube.
That’s just one long rant on the YouTube comments. She does it for the whole performance, according to Loesch.
Many progressives were outraged by Cross’ dismissal because they regarded her as an advocate for more transparency on the United States’ racial power dynamics.