MSNBC guest: Republicans love 'negroes' like Herschel Walker who 'do what they're told'



On Saturday, the Nation contributor Elie Mystal asserted on MSNBC’s "The Cross Connection" with Tiffany Cross that Georgia's Republican candidate for Senate Herschel Walker was “unintelligent” and bereft of “independent thoughts.” The self-professed justice correspondent then proceeded to accuse Republicans of backing Walker because he “is going to do what he’s told ... That’s what Republicans want from their negroes: to do what they’re told.”

Elie Mystal has repeatedly and publicly denigrated Herschel Walker’s intelligence and made wild racially-charged accusations as a means to support Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock's bid to stay in power.

Some have taken to Twitter to point out the apparent double-standard when it comes to racially-charged language on the left and the absence of consequence for Democrat-adjacent racial hatred.

\u201cIf a Republican pundit had said on Fox what was said of @HerschelWalker on Fox, major news outlets would be shoving microphones in Raphael Warnock's face demanding he denounce it.\u201d
— Erick Erickson (@Erick Erickson) 1659380055

Radio show host Erick Erickson suggested that comparable language uttered by a Republican would have prompted calls for denunciation.

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds called out Mystal, saying: "If you are a Black Republican, they will...question your Blackness, and insult your intelligence."

\u201cIf you are a Black Republican, they will call you a coon, sell out, question your Blackness, and insult your intelligence.\n\nIt's easy for people like @ElieNYC to talk "tough" without any push back from one of the "Republicans' negros." @TiffanyDCross invite me on, let's talk.\u201d
— Byron Donalds (@Byron Donalds) 1659367327

Javon A. Price regards Mystal's comments on MSNBC as more evidence of the racist mindset possessed by the left.

\u201cCalling Black men \u201cnegroes\u201d is apparently okay if you\u2019re speaking about Black conservatives. \n\nFrom Herschel Walker to Justice Thomas, the Left\u2019s bigotry & racism seems to always reveal itself when Black folks start to question/challenge the Democrat\u2019s narrative\u201d
— Javon A. Price \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Javon A. Price \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1659368091

Race, a leftist obsession

Seizing upon the resultant uproar, Mystal doubled down on Twitter, suggesting Walker's only qualification is his race. Walker's race is, for the Nation contributor, something of an obsession.

In April, the Nation published an article written by Mystal entitled “The Herschel Walker Senate Campaign is an Insult to Black People,” wherein Mystal called Walker “an animated caricature of a Black person drawn by white conservatives.” He suggested that his campaign was a “political minstrel show.” In the same piece, he simultaneously argued that Georgia Republicans don’t support black candidates yet excitedly support Herschel. He concluded by demanding that black Americans vote as a racial bloc against Walker. Failing to do so, says Mystal, would render them "clapping seals."

Herschel hits back with kindness and prayer

Herschel took to Twitter on August 1 to hit back. In a video response, he said, “Shame on MSNBC and shame on him...I’m going to pray for both of them, because they need Jesus.”

\u201cMy response to @MSNBC and the man who called me the N word. \n\n@ReverendWarnock and the left wing crazies believe America is a fundamentally bad country full of racist people. But you and I know this is a great country, full of good people. #gasen\u201d
— Herschel Walker (@Herschel Walker) 1659377897

Walker noted further that Mystal's screed reminded him of the stark differences between the "leftwing crazies" in the Warnock camp and himself. The former "want to divide us, turn us against each other."

Notwithstanding the MSNBC guest's racial framing, Walker underlined how America is a "good country full of good people."

MSNBC host says liberals need to 'pick up a weapon' and fight valiantly in a war for democracy and the survival of the US



MSNBC host Tiffany Cross on Saturday said that liberals need to "pick up a weapon" and fight against Republicans in a war for democracy.

Cross made the remarks during a panel discussion on "The Cross Connection" about purported Trump election interference.

What are the details?

Ahead of the comments, Cross asked guest Democratic Texas state Rep. Jasmine Crockett about how Crockett believes the country should preserve democracy during elections.

"How do we as a country protect this democracy when these folks don’t like the outcome of the next election?" Cross asked. "And Jasmine, you’re running for Congress in Texas where this is a problem, where they have partisan poll watchers, an open carry state, it is a very fragile situation that we’re in right now. What’s your message to the people that you’re running to represent? And what’s your message to our viewers today?"

Crockett responded by pointing out that she simply doesn't "plan to give up."

"I know that I wouldn’t be here but for those that fought before me, and so I’m going to continue this fight,” Crockett added. “We can’t let up. If we say we’ve been defeated, then they have won. But this is a war. This isn’t a battle, and we absolutely will win this war.”

Cross added that there absolutely is a war on democracy, and liberals and progressives need to suit up and pick a weapon for the forthcoming fight.

“It is a war,” Cross insisted. “It is indeed a war, and I have to say they have won some battles, Jasmine, but we have to keep our eye on the war and everybody needs to pick up a weapon and get involved because this is for the safety and lasting of the country.”

Cross in November made headlines after saying that some Republican members of Congress were "white supremacists."

And last May, she declared it was "time to burn it all down" when it came to fighting police brutality and the criminal justice system.

"It is a war. AND EVERYBODY NEEDS TO PICK UP A WEAPON." -- MSNBC host @TiffanyDCross \n\nWait: aren't liberals constantly accusing conservatives of encouraging violence with their rhetoric? \n\n\n\n#tcot @CrossConnection #January6pic.twitter.com/qPRE28eMQe
— Mark Finkelstein (@Mark Finkelstein) 1642871100

(H/T: The Daily Wire)

MSNBC host calls Tim Scott 'token,' 'tap dancer,' and 'clown,' says he's 'thirsty for white approval'



MSNBC host Tiffany Cross recommenced the racist diatribe against Republican Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.) over the weekend, calling the black senator "token," "tap dancer," and "clown" among a litany of other racially charged insults in response to his rebuttal of President Joe Biden's first address to a joint session of Congress.

Scott had once again become the subject of racist attacks from the left last week after declaring in the GOP response to Biden's speech that "America is not a racist country." As if trying to prove Scott wrong by openly displaying their racism, liberal critics on social media piled on with insults for the senator, at one point causing "Uncle Tim" to trend on Twitter.

That apparently wasn't enough for Cross, however, who took the opportunity on Saturday to launch some attacks of her own on network television.

"Name a political, social, or economic institution in America where widespread disparities and discrimination does not exist," the Root's Michael Harriot said, to which Cross responded, "The hollow institution that resides inside Republican Sen. Tim Scott's head. No racism there, and apparently no sense either."

Tim Scott is a "stone fool," Cross charged before adding that he "does not represent any constituency other than the small number of sleepy slow-witted sufferers of Stockholm Syndrome who get elevated to prominence for repeating a false narrative about this country that makes conservative white people feel comfortable," as images of the other prominent black conservatives flashed on the screen.

Tiffany Cross Rebuts Senator Tim Scott's Comments On Race in America | MSNBC www.youtube.com

During the segment, Cross slandered Scott as a "token," a "clown," and a "tap dancer" for Republican Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.). Yet she failed to refute a single policy proposal from Scott's speech, saying only that she wouldn't "argue with people Harriet Tubman would have left behind."

"There are two sides to every token. So thirsty for white approval, this dude actually stood on the national stage to defend the voter suppression law in Georgia," she said, repeating lies about Georgia's voting law — which actually expands early voting hours.

"Please, senator, say more about how un-racist the country is, while you trot out that tired line about going from 'cotton to Congress' to clown," she continued, echoing an egregious probe of Scott's family heritage recently put on by Washington Post fact-checkers.

"Perhaps, this was merely Sen. Scott's audition to be Sam Jackson's understudy in the film 'DJango,'" Cross added before calling herself a "daily survivor of institutional racism." In the film Cross referred to, "DJango Unchained," Jackson played a head slave in 1800s America who looks down upon other slaves and is known for loyalty to his master.

Unsurprisingly, Cross's racist tirade against Scott earned applause from fellow progressive MSNBC host Joy Reid.

Oh Miss @TiffanyDCross is giving Tim Scott the business right now...

— Joy-Ann 😷Reid (@JoyAnnReid) 1619883240.0

MSNBC host demands FBI HQ be renamed after Stacey Abrams to scrub legacy of 'racist tyrant' J. Edgar Hoover



MSNBC host Tiffany Cross suggested Saturday the time has come for the building housing the FBI's headquarters in Washington, D.C., to undergo a name change.

Instead of honoring J. Edgar Hoover, the first FBI director for whom the FBI's headquarters is named, Cross said the FBI should honor a real American hero: Stacey Abrams.

What did Cross say?

Speaking on her show "The Cross Connection" Saturday, Cross said Hoover's namesake should be removed from the FBI building because of his gross abuses of power, most of which surfaced after Hoover's death in 1972.

"Changing the name of our premier law enforcement agency so that it doesn't honor a racist tyrant who trampled civil liberties, I don't know, seems like a pretty logical step to me," Cross said.

"Now if you don't know about J. Edgar Hoover, he lorded over the FBI as its first director for nearly 50 years, and he spent much of the 1950s and 60s obsessively trying to derail the civil rights movement, using tactics like illegal wiretaps, warrantless searches, and other dirty tricks to spy on movement leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover's FBI even sent Dr. King an anonymous letter, attempting to blackmail him into committing suicide," Cross explained.

MSNBC’s @TiffanyDCross proposes renaming the FBI’s headquarters “The Stacey Abrams Building.”:"If one woman could… https://t.co/1DYgIrPfWX
— Washington Examiner (@Washington Examiner)1615735571.0

Cross suggested that America "step into 2021 and rededicate the building to someone deserving."

The person most deserving, according to Cross, is Abrams, the failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate who is credited for flipping the Peach State blue in the 2020 presidential election.

Activists also credit Abrams for laying the electoral infrastructure in black communities that allowed Democrats to win both Georgia Senate runoff elections in January.

"How about: the Stacey Abrams Building. If one woman could square off against a whole system that tried to suppress, oppress, and depress the descendants of the people who built this country, for free, and who again managed to save the country from itself, then surely, we can dedicate the building representing equal protection under law after a real political warrior," Cross said.

Anything else?

Democratic Rep. Gerry Connolly (Va.) introduced legislation last month to rename the FBI building and "remove any reference to J. Edgar Hoover."

Connolly's bill establishes a bipartisan commission that would determine, using specialized criteria, who should be honored on the FBI building.

"It's long past time to rename the FBI Headquarters. J. Edgar Hoover was a racist, a bigot, and a homophobe. He abused his power and trampled the civil liberties of Dr. King, anti-war protesters, his political rivals, and too many others. He is no role model for any time, and certainly not this one," Connolly said.

"Congress must right this wrong and rename this building," the Virginia Democrat added.

What did the FBI say?

The FBI told Cross it would not comment on the push to rename the FBI's headquarters because of Connolly's pending legislation.

"The FBI is very much committed to all the communities we serve. We are bound by an oath to serve all citizens with equal compassion, professionalism, dignity, and respect," the agency said.