Charles Barkley Lights Up ‘Full of Sh*t’ CNN Executives: ‘This Is How Boneheaded These People Are’
The Mike Missanelli Podcast
Charles Barkley slammed CNN after it was reported the network canceled his show with Gayle King. The NBA Hall of Famer insisted he only planned to co-host King Charles for a limited run.
The New York Post reported in April that CNN was pulling the cord on the show six months after it debuted.
When asked about the report, the outspoken Round Mound of Rebound did not hold back during an appearance on Thursday’s edition of The Mike Missanelli Podcast.
“You know the type of boneheads I work with?” Barkley said. “First of all, it wasn’t canceled. I talk to Gayle all the time. They haven’t told us we were canceled. That’s how stupid these people are. Like, I read the articles that we were canceled and I was like, ‘We weren’t canceled.’ I was always only gonna do that for a short period of time and then I was going to go back to the NBA. So, me and Gayle like– this is how boneheaded these people are [that] I work with.”
Barkley stated that at no point did CNN tell him the show was canceled.
Barkley is a longtime co-host of Inside the NBA on TNT, which like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
“I was gonna do a short little window and go back to the NBA,” he continued. “But that just shows you how full of shit the whole thing is with CNN. Like, we had new people take over and we in disarray. Like, yesterday they put an article out that CNN had its worst ratings ever since like 1992.”
Barkley has been on a tear against Warner Bros. Discovery networks he has worked with. Also on Thursday, he blasted TNT’s management for losing NBA broadcasting rights to Disney (ABC/ESPN), NBC, and Amazon.
“These people I work with, they screwed this thing up, clearly,” he said on The Dan Patrick Show. And we have zero idea what’s gonna happen. I don’t feel good, I’m not gonna lie — especially when they came out and said we bought college football. I was like, ‘Well damn, they could’ve used that money to buy the NBA [media rights].”
