Megyn Kelly rips 'dumbass' MSNBC host for calling Tua Tagovailoa black
'The most racist person in television'
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Megyn Kelly is renewing her feud with Tiffany Cross after the MSNBC host referred to Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa as being black.
Kelly, who earlier this week gleefully tore into Kim Kardashian after the reality star was mercilessly booed at an NFL game, took aim at Cross following her comments about injuries suffered by Tagovailoa during a game against the Cincinnati Bengals last month.
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Megyn Kelly rips 'dumbass' MSNBC host for calling Tua Tagovailoa black Back to video
Tagovailoa, who had sustained an apparent concussion earlier that same week, had to be stretchered off the field and the incident prompted calls from the NFL Players Association to the league’s concussion protocol.
“To see all these black men crashing into each other with a bunch of white owners, white coaches, and the complete disregard for black bodies and black life. I mean, it just represents a larger issue,” said Cross, per Mediaite.
Tagovailoa, whose parents are from Samoa in the South Pacific, was born in Hawaii.
“He’s not black. Hello? You dumbass, Tiffany Cross,” the former Fox and NBC host said on an episode of The Megyn Kelly Show this week, per The New York Post.
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Kelly, who called Cross’ remark “stunningly racist,” also noted that Tagovailoa’s coach, Mike McDaniel, who was roundly criticized for letting the QB play in the Bengals game, is not white.
“Oh, and by the way, his coach isn’t white either,” Kelly said dubbing Cross “the most racist person in television.”
This isn’t first time the two have traded barbs in the media.
Last summer, Cross took aim at Kelly accusing her of unfairly criticizing Naomi Osaka after she said she was stepping back from speaking to the press because of anxiety.
“The 50-year-old bully is trying to bulldoze her way back into relevance that only comes to women like her for being a provocateur, not for offering any type of intellectual input,” Cross said during a segment of The Cross Connection.
She continued her attack on Kelly, who slammed Osaka for shunning media interviews. “The blackface connoisseur who had to apologize for ridiculously asking why it was racist for white people to wear blackface for Halloween, is now going after someone who’s less than half her age, but has twice her intelligence,” Cross said.
“It’s no coincidence that Snow White and the seven dumb takes she’s had recently overwhelmingly target black women. The amazing luminary Nicole Hannah-Jones, whom Kelly went after over the 1619 Project. The Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, who Kelly said should stop whining about the treatment of baby Archie. Olympic Hammer thrower Gwen Berry, who Kelly suggested be removed from the Olympics due to her protest,” she said.
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“Stop punching above your weight,” Cross concluded. “You keep asking for this smoke that you really don’t want. You want to act like a high school mean girl, then you’ll get treated that way. Sit down, be humble, while our left stroke keeps going viral. Let the grown women speak. You’re not invited to this table. You don’t have the range.”
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