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See you on TYT, Melissa!
If she leaves before her contract is up, hope she doesn’t plan on getting another job too quickly. Contracts usually have a non-competition clause.
The 1st Amendment court case will be fascinating. Not allowed to voice her opinon? Not allowed to work? Hmmm…
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breaking political coverage
Misnomer and, sadly, cliché…
But how do you capsulize hours of repetition interspersed with rare moments of originality or live action?
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A source told CNN that Harris-Perry wanted to cover Beyoncé’s new video “Formation” in February, but that network executives wanted her to cover the presidential race instead.
So she’s upset that they wanted her to have their kind of overhyped garbage instead of her kind?
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First Amendment rights belong to MSNBC.
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That is so unfair. Overhyped garbage?? Did you ever watch her show?
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I call bullsh*t on you Midnight Rambler. You are so full of shit your eyes are brown.
“But I’m also not looking to put myself at the center of some sort of civil rights narrative. I just wanted to be able to speak. I wanted to tell people what was going on.”
Well said Melissa
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From The NYT coverage:
“I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” she wrote. “I am not a token, mammy or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”
Ms. Harris-Perry is black, and Mr. Lack and Mr. Griffin are white. In the phone interview on Friday, Ms. Harris-Perry clarified her remarks and said she did not think race played a role in her recent absence from the air.
“I don’t know if there is a personal racial component,” she said. “I don’t think anyone is doing something mean to me because I’m a black person.”
If MHP didn’t think race played a role, then what the hell is up with the “little brown bobblehead” rhetoric?
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I wonder how much of this has to do with the recent assault that she suffered covering the campaign with her students. This could very well be a subconscious reaction to that event. Sabotaging her own show as to not have to remain in the public eye. Anyway, I will miss Nerdland
This stinks of Phil Griffin, and is yet another illustrative reason that I have not been an MSNBC viewer for more than a year, and do not plan on being one again in the remainder of my lifetime,
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delelted
No, I was referring specifically to the Beyonce video vs. the presidential shitshow.
If sidelining her is a breech she hasn’t a worry.
Not really a fan of mhp; but I definitely appreciate her commitment to providing another perspective. So of course the suits at msnbc would create a situation that resulted in her leaving… and then turn around and hire Rick tyler
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You mean Rick Tyler. I agree.
I apologize. I misread your comment. Mea Culpa
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Pre-empting and urging her to cover the election campaign wouldn’t exactly be “sidelining” her. She obviously didn’t have full editorial control or she wouldn’t have walked off.
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