… I’m not gonna put my child’s life at risk because you want to change a law. She also caused tension again in June 2016 when she made a disparaging reference to Caitlyn Jenner during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. She called the fight for transgender bathroom rights “tyranny by the minority” and there should be no black history month because there isn’t a white history month. In December 2015, she was temporarily suspended from the network after she said during an on-air tirade that then President Barack Obama didn’t “give a s–t” about terrorism, Us Weekly said. She made her Fox News debut in May 2014 and was primarily seen on the afternoon news discussion program, “Outnumbered.”
The decision to not renew Dash’s contract was actually made last fall, according to a report by Us Weekly.ĭash hasn’t responded to the news but was back on Twitter Monday morning, sharing links to commentary she had written on the Patheos website, decrying the Women’s March on Washington and a “Saturday Night Live” writer who tweeted an insulting comment about 10-year-old Barron Trump.ĭash hasn’t appeared on air since September. So, on Monday, Fox News announced that it wasn’t renewing her contract, according to various reports.įox News also announced it wasn’t renewing contracts for other lightning rod pundits, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist George Will, who regularly feuded with top-rated Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and who famously parted ways with the Republican Party over its support of Donald Trump’s presidency, according to The Hill.īlack Twitter and everybody else: /uaEZsFVbn2 Stacey Dash, Fox News commentator, thinks the backlash over Oscar diversity is 'ludicrous,' and says Black History Month and the BET channel should go away. She’s the controversial “Clueless” actress-turned conservative Fox News pundit whose views on race relations, Black History month, women’s rights and the so-called bathroom bill for transgender people have drawn the ire of viewers and even alienated her from family members.įox News, never shy to feature pundits who espouse controversial views, decided that Dash, 50, was too outrageous even for them.
Who knew that a has-been actress from a 1990s teen comedy could generate so much heat on Twitter and crash her own website when news came Monday that her contract with a TV network hadn’t been renewed?īut wait, we’re talking about Stacey Dash. Salman Rushdie, badly wounded, is off ventilator and starting to recover