Professor-turned-host Melissa Harris-Perry is unlikely to return to her show on MSNBC following a dispute with network officials, reports say.
(UPDATE: Melissa Harris-Perry Is Officially OUT At MSNBC)
The host walked off her self-titled show on Friday after the program was preempted for weeks due to election coverage, according to emails obtained by the New York Times.
“Here is the reality: Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season,” she said in an email to coworkers. “After four years of building an audience, developing a brand and developing trust with our viewers, we were effectively and utterly silenced.”
Sources told CNN that it’s “highly unlikely” Harris-Perry will return to the show.
Given the slim chance that America’s favorite tampon earring-wearing cable news talk show host will ever again grace the networks on Saturday mornings, here are several of MHP’s more idiotic musings:
The time she said legal guns should be confiscated so men don’t shoot their wives:
When she freaked out over that evil “black guy” (Darth Vader) in Star Wars:
The time she mocked Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandchild:
When she said it’s racist when Republicans say the phrase “hard worker”:
The time she worried American tourists would plague the paradise of Cuba:
When she likened deporting illegal immigrants to the fugitive slave laws:
When she equated the term “Obamacare” to the N-word:
The time she downplayed the relevance of the Boston bombers’ Islamic faith: