Mississippi news anchor Barbie Basset fired for saying “Fo Shizzle My Nizzle” live on air when discussing Snoop Dog new wine collection. She has been a news anchor at the company for over 20 years. 👀😳
pic.twitter.com/zWBAOlvHyk— Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) March 25, 2023
Wait, “nizzle” means “nigger”?
How am I just hearing this now, after years of using hilarious black slang?
A Mississippi morning news anchor appears to be out of a job after saying a popular Snoop Dogg phrase on air earlier this month.
Barbie Bassett has not returned to the anchor desk at NBC affiliate WLBT since the March 8 broadcast and is no longer listed as a member of the news team on the station’s website, the Clarion Ledger reports.
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“As I am sure you can understand, WLBT is unable to comment on personnel matters,” Ted Fortenberry, the station’s regional vice president and general manager, told The Post in an emailed statement Saturday.
No one can understand that, Ted. Also, it is not normal to write like that in response to a media inquiry, which it seems like you would know, Ted, because you work in media.
The gaffe was made during a discussion about Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.
Bassett said, “Fo shizzle, my nizzle,” when the idea of a Snoop collaboration with a newsroom journalist was raised.
“Nizzle” is slang for the N-word. Bassett, who is white, also tweeted the phrase in 2011.
This is not the first time Bassett, who boasts being the first chief meteorologist in WLBT’s history, has landed in hot water for her comments.
Ugh.
This is like some straight-up 2020 type shit.
Maybe small towns in Mississippi are stuck in the past (2020 BLM riots and lunatic social engineering), or maybe this is a sign that all of that stuff about “worshiping the nizzles” is coming back again for another round.
Pretty much, everyone I see is sick of the nizzles at this point. We’ve all spent the last year watching nonstop videos of nizzle on shizzle crime. We’ve seen the nizzles whine and destroy everything they’ve been offered in the spirit of friendship between our two peoples.
It’s very unlikely that another round of “bow down and worship the nizzles” would get any traction. People are too cowardly to actually oppose it, but you’re not going to see any energy behind it.