The future of Melissa Harris-Perry’s MSNBC talk show is in doubt after the host declared she would not appear this weekend in response to several weeks of its pre-emption by the network.
Harris-Perry, who is black, focuses on race, gender and politics on the discussion show, which she has hosted since 2012. She is also an author and a professor of political science at Wake Forest University.
The show, “Melissa Harris-Perry,” is regularly scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon EST on Saturdays and Sundays. It did not air in February.
“Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season,” Harris-Perry said in an email to her staff that was obtained by The New York Times on Friday and later posted on her Twitter page. She noted “a growing chorus of questions from our viewers about my notable absence from MSNBC coverage.”
MSNBC said the pre-emptions were the result of the network’s heavy coverage of the presidential election campaign, which has heated up with the onset of the primaries. MSNBC had no comment on the future status of the show. A network spokeswoman said Harris-Perry had been scheduled to appear this weekend.
“In this exciting and unpredictable presidential primary season, many of our daytime programs have been temporarily upended by breaking political coverage, including MHP,” the network said in a statement, which characterized Perry’s response to her pre-emptions as “really surprising, confusing and disappointing.”
Harris-Perry did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
I am so glad to see this lisping ugly radical removed. She made me sick
Then why did you watch, you racist nazi?
You didn’t have to watch her show to be abused by her ugly radical rhetoric. It was so outrageous that it was reported by many news outlets.
Godwin’s Law applies – and in the first response. You already lost the argument.
OW THAT IS NOT RIGHT YOU DONT EVEN KNOW THE PERSON. HE MAYBE THE VERY PERSON TO SAVE YOUR LIFE ONEDAY. WHEN SOILDERS GO TO WAR THEY ARE WHITE BROWN BLACK WHAT EVER AND I THAK THEM ALL FOR THEIR UNSELFISH SERVICE. STOP IT WITH YOUR MEAN SPEECH. I AGREE THAT YOU SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SPEAK BUT CANT IT BE WITH A GOOD AGRUEMENT WITH SUPPORT. JUST CALLING SOMEONE NAMES DOES RESOLVE THE ISSUE. THIS WOMAN FRUSTRATED MANY OF ALL COLORS AND RACES.
Why they even give these shitbirds a spot on a tv show to spout her crap is beyond reasoning…when msnbc fires you–you can’t get any more worthless. Pitiful really.
I thought MSNBC was on their way out anyway good riddance the sooner the better , they have a few more to go. sooner the better they have a collection of shitbirds to go.
Me 2 as her and her Al Sharpton heroes can take a fracking hike OUTTA HERE!
I FEELSAME WAY BUT I WOULD LIKE TO ADD FRNAKLY I WOULD NOT CARE IF SHE WAS WHITE GREEN BLUE OR FROM MARS HER ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOR WAS SITTING ON THE EDGE OR ON EDGE OF HATE AND CRAZY STATEMENTS THAT SHE MOST LIKELY THINKS OF ALL DAY AND NIGHT ON HOW TO RATTLE PEOPLE. SHE IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF LIBERAL P BRINGING. SAY OR DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. INSTEAD OF TEACHING MANNERS AND GOOD BEHAVIOR AND WAYS TO REVEL OR ASK QUESTIONS IN AMANNER THAT IS NOT SHOCKING AND RIDICULUS.PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED. WOMAN GO OFF AND LEARN ON TO BE A BRIGHT NO OFFENSIVE WOMAN WHO CARRYS HERSELF WITH DIGNITY AND RESPECT. COMPARED TO A DRESSED UP GANG MEMBER OF ANY RACIAL GANG. JUST DISGRACEFUL. THANK YOU MSNBC.
Good riddance!
Glad to see her go. She added nothing to the network. And her hatred of white Americans was obvious.
See comment above to m french
I’m disappointed to learn that this woman, whose agitated voice and hand gesturing is almost as annoying as her ideology, is a university professor. God help her students.
What would you expect. She couldn’t make it in the REAL working world.
Why do blacks think only whites can be racists? The worst offenders are: Obeyme and his wife Michael, Rev. Al Sharptongue, Jesse Jackson, and all the black “elected” officials in NY. Can’t wait for President Trump to tell them all, “You’re Fired!” Many will quit because they “want to spend more time with their families” knowing their days are numbered. Maybe Trump can make NY great again?! Start with getting rid of Cuomo. Useless POS.
When speaking of NY–do not forget about Big Bird DeBlasio and his former lesbian wife.
It’s all in how they are raised. As a Chicago Policeman for 35 years I saw it all. The best one was when I was called into a tavern on a disturbance. I met the most foul mouthed black woman that I had ever seen. She was calling a few white customer all kinds of racial slurs. I said to her. Boy you sure are a beget. She looked at me with a bewildered look and said ” I can’t be a beget I’m black.” That about says it all.
THE NEGRO EXPERIANCE IS A SAD ONE. AFTER BEING FREE FROM SALVERY YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD THANK GOD AND THE WHITE PEOPLE WHO FREED THEM. NO THEY HATE WHITE PEOPLE WHO SAVED THEM FROM LIVING IN AFRICA AS NATIVES. lIFE IN AMERICA HAS TO BE SO MUCH BETER THAN IN AFRICA. THEY CAN ALL RETURN NOW AS NO ONE IS HOLDING THEM BACK. THEY WOULD BE THE SMART ONE AND BECOME CHIEFS AND LIVE THE GOOD NATIVE LIFE.
Her hate for white Americans is countered by my HATE White for black Americams like her. She is the true difinision of the N-Word
Ditto. Good riddance. Was she upset about the Oscars as well?
I am so sick and tired of the Woe is me nonsense. If they don’t like living among white people here perhaps they should go back to Africa and see how they will be treated there. It’s either that or shut the hell up.
You want to know hatetrid? Read about the “trail of tears”. The American Indian story. Millions died!!!
ICHAEL YES THAT WAS A HORRIBLE TIME IN HISTORY BUT THIS KIND OF STUFF HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR EONS. LOOK WHAT THE EGYPTIONS DID TO THE ISRALIES AND WHAT GERMANY DID TO NOT ONLY THE JEWS BUT GYPTIES POLISH AND SICK MENTAL CHALLENGED ALSO GAY PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE A RELIGION CALLED JOHOVAHS WITTNESS. SO YEAH HATE AND MURDER HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS. THE AMERICAN INDIANS MURDERED AND SCALPED IF NOT HUNDRED MILLIONS OF SETTLERS. IT JUST THE WORLD EXPANDING AND PEOPLE CROSING INTO EACH OTHER CLAIMED AREAS. ANOTHER EXAMPLE THE BLACKS TRUELY BELIEVE THEY WERE AND ARE THE FIRST SLAVES IN AMERICA AND IT IS FACTUALLY NOT TRUE. THE IRISH WERE AMERICAS FIRST SLAVES NOT INDENTURED CRIMINALS ALTHOUGH THEY WERE SOME. BUT THE MASTERS IF A JOB WAS NEEDED TO DONE THAT WAS DANGEROUS OR DIFFICULT THE IRSISH SLAVE WOULD BE TASKED TO DO THAT JOB NOT THE BLACK SLAVES AS THE MASTER HAD MONEY INVOLVED IN THE BLACK SLAVE AND TO PUT A BLACK SLAVE IN DANGER WS TOO MUCH RISK SO MANY IRISH DIED DOING DANGEROUS HARD WORK. I READ REENTLY A PROFESSOR IN PHILLY STATED HE FELT REPARATIONS SHOULD BE GIVEN TO BALCK AMERICANS WO CAN PROVE THAT THEIR FAMILY WERE SLAVES, I BEG TO DIFF, THE IRISH DESEDENTS COME FIRST. IF EVERY FAMILY THAT CAN PROVE THAT THEIR FAMILY MEMBER WAS A IRISH SLAVE OR INDENTURED SERVANT , THOSE SHOULD BE PAID FIRST. I STRONGLY FEEL ANY IRISH RGANIATION SHOULD GET ON THIS RIGHT AWAY. I HAVE SENT EMAILS TO NATIONALS IRISH ORGANIATIONS TO DEMAND REPARATIONS. SO TO WHOM POSTED THIS POST THERE ARE MANY TRAILS OF TEARS ENOUGH TO GO AROUND.
I usually don’t watch MSNBC so why was she fired?
Maybe it was the shirt she wore to work that said ….I HATE WHITEY-THEY OWE ME.
Getting fired is what’s supposed to happen when you say negative comments.
Once again good riddance to another race baiter. Like Sharpton Jackson Darrel’s and the rest of them, they go nothing but push black achievement and progress to the back burner. Too bad the guy with the knife back in New York missed rabble rousing Al’s heart by an inch. Since they are such big believers in abortion rights, too bad their mothers didn’t believe in abortion too!
Fat Al’s motto—-If you give me some money–you won’t be a racist any more.
Where are you people from? Alabama or Appalachia? Blacks are not free despite the 13th amendment after the Civil War. Have any of you uneducated fools heard of Jim Crow or lynching? Maybe you think we should all feel sorry for the plantation owners of the old south! We whites have never given Blacks anything. Lincoln had to fight a congress made up generally of people like you, only somewhat educated. They had to be fearful of the KKK and then couldn’t get good jobs because of poor education. But Blacks are not looking for words from people like me. They want equal opportunity, like you mindless fools. Oh, I had better stop; this is probably long past your attention ability.
Speak with some sort of intelligence of possible–that story got real old real fast…and my black friends say the same–so save the feel sorry for me crap–its done. No one alive had anything to do with 50-100 year old stories.
SIR GO BACK N HISTORY AND YOU WILL DISCVER THAT THE FIRST SLAVES IN AMERICA WERE THE IRISH AND THE MASTERS USED THESE SLAVES TO DO WORK THAT VALUBLE BLACK SLAVES WERE AT RISK TO DO DANGEROUS AND DIFFICULT JOBS SO THE IRSH COME FIRST SIR LIKE I SARED WITH ANOTHER POSTER THERE IS ENOUGH SORROW TO GO AROUND FOR EVEYONE STARTIG WAY BACK IN ROMAN TIMES.
Good bye and good riddance! From the one time I ever watched MSNBS, it was a joke anyway. I mean, come on Rachel Maddow? Intelligence of a Sack of Hammers! Typical DEM-wit man hater.