Tiffany Cross

[Joedog]

Did not do a very good job interviewing Steve Scarramucci just now. Talked over him and never gave him a chance to explain his stance on how non radical republicans can be attracted away from Trump.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. I disagree. Her point was that everyone knew Trump was a piece of shit WAY before...

...2016, yet Scaramucci still held on as a supporter *and employee* well into 2017. She's 100% right.

[uponit7771]

14. +1, this OP sounds like another process before principle post where an overtly opportunistic person

... tries to value themselves based off the knowledge of those 74 million vs their knowledge of how to reach other 40 million democrats.

[bullwinkle428]

2. LOL..I think she eviscerated him! Did you see that "pout of butt-hurt" on his face when

she was wrapping up the interview segment?

[Joedog]

6. Scarramucci is a reasonable

Lincoln Project type republican who represents a large segment of the party that we need to keep Trump out. I disagree with the stance that if you started out supporting Trump and got out you are still a dumb ass for ever supporting him. We need to embrace those folks

[uponit7771]

20. "Scarramucci is a reasonable" this has not been proven, he's sounds like an oppurtunist especially

... with the "I didn't know ..." bullshit when it comes to Trumps overt racism etc.

No, he needs a better reason than "I didn't know..." cause like she said when she gave him a second chance to explain himself that ... EVERYONE ... knew he was a piece of crap during the 16 election.

Also,

We need to turn to the 40 million who don't vote more than the 74 million who saw Trumps bullshit and will continue to vote Republican.

There are more voters with the suppressed than with MAGA Minions no doubt

[bullwinkle428]

30. Scar is a complete egomaniac, totally apart from his political views. She's smart enough

to know that's a weak spot of his, and she zoned right in on that, just like Luke Skywalker's attack on the "Death Star"...LOL! He was genuinely pissed off by that deflation, but she knew that his love for attention will produce many more future opportunities for him to humiliate himself in front of the camera...

[StarfishSaver]

3. I thought she did an excellent job

He tried to talk over her, wouldn't let her get her questions out, tried to interrogate her, played victim, accused her of "high moral sanctimony," pretended that his fervent support for Trump was no big deal at the time.

She didn't let him get away with that. It was good to see a black woman show such confidence and control of her own show.

[uponit7771]

13. +1, it was Scar who was doing the "talking over" trying to bullshit his way through sanitization...

... with the "I didn't know" about Trump.

I think we'll see more of this "... don't be so hard on them ..." crap going forward, Cross did the right thing.

[StarfishSaver]

18. Some people are uncomfortable when women - especially black women - don't allow white people -

especially white men - to walk all over us. When we push back it is WE who are accused of being out of line.

[uponit7771]

22. +1, She suffer no fools !! ... She's showing the contrast on policing right now, I'm loving the

... fact she speaks truth to America more and more on her show.

The country needs her right now, we need a truth getter

[Democrats Ascendant]

4. A fun watch!

Thanks for posting this; I caught it and was thinking about how to bring it up here.

So, I think she's a terrible interviewer who usually overstates facts and wish Zerlina had gotten this spot instead, but I have got to give it Tiffany for pissing "The Mooch" off. He really does love a camera and is such a naked political opportunist, as she called him out on. Glad she wasn't letting him whitewash (double meanings intended) his past.

[demmiblue]

5. I like a little bit shade when deserved, but the interview developed into a petty mess all around.

[Joedog]

7. Zerlina is much more knowledgeable

and a far better interviewer.

[Joedog]

11. The greatest threat this country faces

are the Marjorie Taylor Greene's of the world and Trump. The Steve Scarramucci's of the world are much needed along with other non radical republicans to get this done.

[StarfishSaver]

26. Being "needed" doesn't mean being allowed to get away with revisionist BS

[tblue37]

49. His name is Anthony, not Steve.

[uponit7771]

27. The "mess" wasn't her doing, it was Scars knowing there's a delay and trying to sanitize his past by

... saying "he didn't know ... " about Trump and she gave him two chances to fix that bullshit and Scar went butt hurt.

He ... DID ... know that Red Don was a piece of shit before 16 or he should've known.

[Firestorm49]

8. Scarramucci is an ass. Who cares what he says.

He was a prick in his few weeks in office, yet is now a source for reference?

No thanks. I didn’t respect him before nor will I ever.

[Joedog]

16. He is a Wall Street republican not

a conspiracy theory embracing Quinol touting moron. There is a place in the Democratic Party for people like him.

[Joedog]

17. He is a Wall Street republican not

a conspiracy theory embracing Quinol touting moron. There is a place in the Democratic Party for people like him.

[StarfishSaver]

21. He would still be right up Trump's butt if he hadn't shot off his mouth and gotten himself fired.

I'm glad he's out here pushing the message against Trump. But he's not some kind of a hero for doing it. He had no other choice after Trump kicked him to the curb.

[mackdaddy]

9. She pointed out that he was a Trumper before he wasn't.

She asked how he was de-programed.

His answer was that he was never full MAGA, he just played one on TV, hoping Trump would get better.

The roaches don't like it when people shine a light on them.

[quickesst]

10. from what little I witnessed....

.... I pretty much saw it the way you did. But hey, that's the beauty of democracy. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[uponit7771]

12. BULL FUCKIN SHIT !!! She went in on him and wouldn't let him bullshit with "I didn't know" when it

... came to his knowledge of Red Don's horridness.

No, fuck that ... I saw that segment and couldn't care less about Scars need to sanitize himself with bullshit

[ariadne0614]

15. My feelings are mixed. Reason confronted my impulse to take no prisoners.

Yes, she "owned him," but how did her approach advance the cause of avoiding the next civil war? It might have been helpful to hear his thoughts on finding an off-ramp for whatever percentage of Republican voters might have second thoughts about sticking with the mindless mob. As much as I admire her intelligence and spunky fearlessness, I was uncomfortable with the way she handled this one.

[StarfishSaver]

24. It's not her job to "advance the cause of avoiding the next civil war"

She's a journalist who didn't let an interviewing get away with his BS.

He's been talking for a couple of years about this and hasn't come up with some magical plan for getting Republican voters to stop knowingly voting for racists. He always just explains away his own complicity and then says Democrats need to find ways to "reach out" to Trump supporters and offers nothing new beyond that.

I think that if instead of Tiffany, this had been Ali Velshi or Anderson Cooper doing the same thing, people would be raving about how great they were at not letting Scaramucci get away with his schtick.

[ariadne0614]

38. It wasn't my intention to imply she's responsible for advancing the cause.

I was directing the question to anyone who cares to consider the cost of goading/alienating potential allies in these perilous times. Maybe Scaramucci deserves nothing more than utter contempt, but we still need to find a way out of this mess. To repeat, my feelings are mixed.

[StarfishSaver]

39. I'm over worrying about alienating "potential allies"

I don't consider anyone who is still supporting Trump to be a potential ally. If at this point in time, after all they've seen and heard, they are still on the Trump/GOP train, there is nothing that we can say or do that's going to change their minds at this point - they need to just stay where they are and we need to stop wasting precious time and resources on them.

If, as we are focusing on people we want to attract and empower, those people, hear and see what we're saying and doing and change their minds and want to come with us, great. But we need to stop making them the center of our efforts and focus instead on people who aren't perfectly happy supporting insurrectionists who want to destroy us.

[ariadne0614]

42. Your line has been indelibly drawn. So noted.

Mine is on a close parallel with yours, with occasional brief pauses for further reflection.

[Joedog]

46. I'm just saying that hosts

From Joy Reid to Lawrence O'Donnell to Chris Cuomo were more gracious and better organized than Cross. People who turned against Trump and supported Biden deserved to be treated better.

[Joedog]

25. I have seen Scarramucci interviewed

by countless anchors and he is treated like a valuable ally which he is. Cross's clumsiness doesn't help a bit

[uponit7771]

28. He can be an ally and not bullshit people at the same time which is what he was doing by saying ...

... he didn't know about Trump, she gave him 2 times to fix that shit and he went butt hurt and talked over her.

Bullshit is not a healing element and Scar had tons of it this morning.

[StarfishSaver]

33. "Clumsiness"

No. Not even close.

[onecaliberal]

19. Anthony and republicans knew what Trump was.

Access Hollywood take was released before the election. He called Mexicans rapists before the election. He made fun of a disabled reporter before the election. Republicans want to rehabilitate their images. They need to be thrown out with the rest of the Republican trash. Tiffany called him on it. I applaud her greatly.

[uponit7771]

23. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 She gave Scar ... 2 opportunities ... to stop bullshitting with an ignorance ...

... excuse and he went butt hurt vs progressive.

Naw, this is why some people wont change ... they think they did little wrong.

[Joedog]

31. The important thing is

that these people abandoned Trump not why they abandoned him.

[onecaliberal]

32. They're making excuses for him and for themselves.

They should not get a pass.

[Joedog]

35. Scarramuci isn't. He rips Trump at

every opportunity and tries to rally people away from him.

[StarfishSaver]

37. He does that

But completely dismisses his own responsibility for helping to get Trump where he is.

It's nice that he rips Trump. But it's not like it's a particularly brave, Profile in Courage act on his part. What else was he going to do after Trump unceremoniously kicked him off the Trump train?

[onecaliberal]

54. Well he was basically trying to say no one could know how trump would be.

Come on now. We all knew. And I will add that even though I knew it would be really bad. It was exponentially worse than I could have ever imagined.

[Joedog]

29. Lots of people actually thought

that Trump might actually grow into the role. Once they saw that he was totally inept and hopelessly delusional they left him. I've heard Obama say he held out hope for that. We need to cut off support for Trump at every opportunity.

[StarfishSaver]

34. Lots of people thought that, but they didn't dive in headfirst and shill for him for money, fame and

power. Obama may have "held out hope" but he never once stopped warning us how dangerous this man was.

People like Scaramucci jumped on the Trump train and rode it for all they could until they got kicked off and then hitched a ride on another train. I don't mind him riding on our train, but that doesn't mean he gets to drive it and certainly doesn't mean we have to treat him with kid gloves.

And you can bet that the minute he finds a train he thinks will get him where he wants to go faster, he's going to hop right off and chase that one.

[bullwinkle428]

36. If that's the case, then why did 12 million additional voters see what he did

over 4 years in office, and said "I WANT 4 MORE YEARS OF THIS!!!"

[Joedog]

40. Sometimes you have to

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Swallow hard and accept the Anthony Scarramuccis in order to ward off the eventuality that we might get Trump for four more years.

[StarfishSaver]

45. Who's not "accepting" him? But acceptance doesn't mean a free ride or that we ignore his history

He has to own it and stop pretending his support of Trump was no big deal or an innocent mistake.

He likes to present himself as a savvy, keen-eyed operator/observer. But when it comes to his support for Trump, suddenly he wants everyone to believe he was just Boo Boo the Fool. He can't have it both ways. If he wants to be taken seriously as an analyst whom people should pay attention to, he can't pretend his support for Trump was an innocent mistake. He made a calculated choices to support Trump and it wasn't because he was stupid or had been fooled. He knew just what he was doing. And when it no longer worked to his advantage, he moved in a different direction.

[Joedog]

50. No he doesn't. Trump treated him like a piece of shit. That causes most people to turn away.

Now if he wants to come over and bring his friends with him that's all the better. But we can't expect those people to beat themselves up for supporting the wrong guy. People have been doing that in this country since the early 1800's

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

41. OK seriously, who the fuck is Steve Scaramucci? And why is he

is he bringing out all these strong feelings?

[Joedog]

43. Former communications director

for Trump who Trump fired at the urging of Chief of Staff Kelly. He now is totally anti Trump

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

44. Anthony Scaramucci? Oh yeah......fuck that guy! nt

[tblue37]

47. Anthony Scaramucci?

[highplainsdem]

48. Agree. I listened for only a minute and then switched channels.

[milestogo]

51. No, he was incredibly rude to her.

He was the one who wouldn't let her ask questions.

[Joedog]

52. He was trying to make

A really important point about the more reasonable faction of republicans moving away from Trump and she wouldn't let him.

[ecstatic]

53. She did a great job, IMO

First of all, I was laughing my ass off at the way she introduced him. A lot of interviewers have featured him on their show, but Tiffany is the first host to hold him accountable. Scaramucci is a smart, incredibly articulate guy, but it's obvious to me that he's an amoral opportunist / grifter.

That being said, I can acknowledge that he is a gifted communicator and I don't rule out the possibility that he might have some insight on how to communicate with some portion of the 74 million people who (supposedly) voted for trump.

But he's not someone we can place our trust in.

Just my opinion.

Video:

Link to tweet

[demmiblue]

55. His response to the interview:

Link to tweet

[msfiddlestix]

56. I didn't watch her this morning, but I've noticed her doing this with just about all of her guests

I watched her show last week, and it reminded me of Tweety Bird, constantly interrputing suggestion she's out of time, but yet keeps on repeating a previously stated point over and over again, using up the little time the guest has no time for.

Ari Melber does this quite often, and I find it very annoying. Rachel, Brian, Joy Reid and a few others are much more disciplined or just not inclined to be disruptive generally speaking. Rachel made a rare unnecessary disruption with a guest last night on top of an important point while answering a question. Again, she doesn't seem to conduct herself that way as a rule. But Tiffany Cross needs to be checked on this habit, and if she could be open to be made aware of it, and learn to check herself.. I will start listening to her show again.