MSNBC's golden girls, Rachel Maddow and Joy Reid , are no longer speaking – and it all comes down to cold, hard cash, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

Reid got the axe from her show The ReidOut in February, an act that Maddow slammed as "indefensible." Article continues below advertisement

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But sources said behind the scenes, Maddow is choosing to protect her $30million-a-year empire instead of her so-called friend.

The bomb went off when Reid took a not-so-subtle shot at Maddow's rich paycheck. Reid didn't drop names, but everyone knew exactly who she meant when she lamented that she made just $3 million a year – "a tenth of what

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