Tiffany Cross BLASTS Ex-Employer MSNBC, Calls Joe Scarborough the Network’s ‘Favorite White Boy’ and Claims ‘They Planted Hit Pieces on Me’
Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross tore into her former network at large and Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough especially on Thursday, giving her side of the story on her MSNBC cancelation in 2022.
On her podcast Native Land Pod, Cross – whose show was canceled in November 2022 – claimed MSNBC executives decided on an “abrupt” cancelation of her show because they wanted other potential employers to see her as “so un-hireable that we could not trust her with a live mic.”
Cross also called Scarborough MSNBC’s “favorite White boy” and accused him of plotting against her career at the network.
“There’s an unspoken rule that you’re not supposed to disagree with Joe, and I didn’t get that memo,” said Cross, who added:
It was a battle to cover things that I wanted to talk about. The network’s philosophy was Trump, Trump, Trump. They wanted me to be part of the echo chamber… I wanted to cover things like inhumane treatment in prisons, that’s something that disproportionately impacts my community. Mental health among Black men, the erasure of Afro-Latinos in the Latino community, land battles of the indigenous, Native Americans trying to get their family artifacts back from museums right here in America. Black farmers, reaching Latino voters, things like that.
Cross claimed MSNBC executives would speak to her “in the most condescending ways” and tried to explain to her “how news works.”
She protested, “I had my intelligence questioned.”
The former MSNBC host claimed that her show was ultimately canceled after then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson called out her controversial segments on race and accused Cross of fomenting a race war.
“After this, the network did not issue a statement the way they had for some of my white colleagues who had also been targeted by MAGA extremists,” she said. “Instead, executives spoke to me and instructed me that I could not respond to Tucker Carlson at all, and then they began to scrutinize my show and every little thing I wrote.”
Cross claimed that following the scrutiny, “The network began attacking me.”
She alleged, “They planted hit pieces in the press. The president of the network began a bizarre, unhinged tour where she was on damage control; I don’t know what she was trying to do.”
Less than a month prior to the cancelation of Cross’ show, Megyn Kelly had described Cross as “the most racist person on television.”
When Cross’ show was canceled, an MSNBC source told the Daily Beast that Cross had “repeatedly crossed the line” with her rhetoric and had failed “to adhere to the network’s editorial standards.”
