The repair starts with us. Unless and until we hold our own accountable, clean our own house,

[Ninga]

stand up vs by stand….

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/countdown-with-keith-olbermann/id1633301179?i=1000585278464

A-Block (1:45) On the Friday before an election crucial to democracy, MSNBC fired its most outspoken host because Fox News complained about her. Where is the protest by Lawrence O'Donnell? By Chris Hayes? By Alex Wagner? Where is the threat to walk out, to boycott, to stand on principle, by Rachel Maddow? (3:10) NBC had to retract a fabricated Today Show story that reignited the fascists' homophobic conspiracy theory about Paul Pelosi. The correspondent was not fired. The Today Show executive was not fired. The head of news was not fired. Tiffany Cross? She was fired. (7:33) Cross joked about "castrating Florida," rightly savaged Alyssa Farah, Megyn Kelly, and Clarence Thomas - and her ratings were growing. But when Tucker Carlson devoted a segment to actually suggesting she was fomenting a Rwanda-style genocide of white Americans, NBC and MSNBC went crazy. (10:10) Joy Reid said something, more personal than professional (10:30) O'Donnell said nothing; then again when he filled in for me while my father was dying in 2010 he tried to replace me as Countdown host and then stole a group of producers from me for his new show (11:36) Chris Hayes, silent now, once stood up and refused to substitute for me when I had been improperly suspended (13:30) And Maddow, who in 2009 stood up and told the president of NBC News and all the executives and talent at MSNBC that if anybody interfered with the content of her show, she would walk out because "I cannot have the audience wondering what else I have not told them" (18:41) But now Maddow is making $30 million a year and the courage to walk out when it could cost you that much, is lacking. Rachel? Will you pretend the firing of Tiffany Cross is not your problem? Or will you stand up for what is right? You know - like you used to.

[CrispyQ]

1. I hadn't heard why Cross was let go.

If this is true, then wow. It seems extreme. Why not just a warning? It's sort of like when so many of our dems demanded Al Franken step down before even getting more information, or thinking things through. Glad I don't watch cable news anymore.

[Demsrule86]

2. I thought she was let go for calling Florida the dick of the US on Charlemange.

[Ninga]

5. She did call it a Phallus, and referred to Clarance Thomas as the pubic hair on the coke can

Justice.

[Demsrule86]

10. Well I can't disagree with that...but considering what Fox does on a daily basis...I pretty much

hate MSNBC. she is right about everything.

[jimfields33]

7. She wasn't really fired. A contract wasn't renewed.

MSNBC fulfilled her contract obligations and decided not to renew it. I guess it could be considered fired but it’s just really a finished contract.

[sop]

3. This sort of truth-telling is why Keith Olbermann was fired.

Phil Donohue, Dylan Rattigan, Melissa Harris-Perry, Ed Schultz, Martin Bashir and others as well.

[CrispyQ]

4. And Rachel gets $30 million to NOT discuss the Cross situation.

Jesus. $30 million dollars. This country is fucked up.

[asiliveandbreathe]

6. KO untethered ..no one is better..heads up folk's..fascism is on our shores..

and until and unless we stop it, we will be Hungary..they did not invite Orban for nothing..

This whole story as told by Ruth Ben Ghiat is like an earthquake that we should all be feeling..

If you see something, say something..

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=781109

[Ninga]

9. Voices like yours are needed! I need to dig deep

and unplug from so called journalist. Maybe 20 years ago the Tiffany Cross firing wouldn’t upset me as much as it had. But in 2022 it show how the GOP is in corporate control silencing voices.

[Initech]

8. Stop watching Fox!! It's a locust - it's destroying everything it touches!