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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMegyn Kelly is losing her show on NBC!
It is about time! She is the face of Fox News and will always a snob who thinks she is better than everyone around her!
nolabear
(41,991 posts)She gave me the epizootic. Couldnt happen to a bigger fool.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Whomp, whomp.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)..
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)ismnotwasm
(42,008 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)Ohiya
(2,239 posts)Get down tonight!
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)imanamerican63
(13,812 posts)Separation
(1,975 posts)At least that's the way the networks are saying anyway, in this time and age the Networks arent very shy about why a person is leaving and that they have known about this for 3 months or so, and she wants to move out of the morning puff pieces that morning network people are apt to do. She stated she wants to do more political stories at a later time in the day (evening).
Sure, she may be the former face of Fox News. She also has the full wrath of Donald Trump (any enemy of my enemy) helped in taking down Roger Ailes and spread the truth how sick it was to actually have to work there as a female. I can't say I know her any more than that to be honest. I never watched her on FOX and I don't wake up in time to watch her in the morning. So there could be things about her I don't know.
You go up there wide-eyed at the possibility of what your life might be thanks to your hard work, she said. Youre in there and by nature, you want to try and charm your boss. That is true of all of us male or female, and then theres a moment in the meeting where it turned.
Before you know it this person is talking to you in a way that is very familiar to you but shouldnt be in the office setting, she continued. Hes lecturing you about how your very favorite anchor in the television industry slept her way to the top. She was smart, he says. Hopefully, youll be smart too, he says. Every instinct inside of you first says no, no, no this isnt happening. Maybe I misinterpreted it. Maybe Ive heard him wrong. Maybe its a joke and I could just laugh it off and pretend it never happened.
Im not privy to her past sins in life (or if they are forgivable). But I wouldnt mind giving her another chance in a more political commentary spotlight to actually see where she is, or how bad she has drunk the kool-aid.
Squinch
(51,004 posts)ignorant racist. The last thing I would watch would be her spewing political commentary.
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)knowingly pushing intensely dishonest, filthy, irresponsible, even murderous themes. She is what one would expect a person who would do that to be.
Btw, by murderous I'm thinking of her trolling for assassins, along with most the rest of the Fox News creeps and other right-wing media, during a period of Obama's first term.
For those who don't remember, until it was called out for what it was nationally, this is the kind of stuff the Fox blondes were emoting in pretend distressed outrage after reporting on the WH: "How long can people put up with this before they snap?! Before someone grabs a gun and just...does something?!"
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)your ass on the way out MAGAyn! Buh bye.
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)my schadenfreude at her show going away is rather tempered by the fact she's already been amply rewarded for her awfulness.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)And I'm right there with her . . .
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)Takket
(21,625 posts)Link to tweet
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So that is an $18 million dollar bath NBC will take because this bozo signed a Fox News reporter no one wanted and now hes releasing her. People like this guy are why we cant have nice journalism.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)But considering how Andy Lack Ass Treated Tam, it's doubtful she would come back if he begged her too.
smooth64
(58 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I just watched a few tidbits of her show. It wasn't a popular show, so I guess this is no surprise.
I wonder what she'll do now.
I do remember that she stood up to Trump, when few others would.
I think some have been too harsh on her. Like her apology for the blackface thing. I thought the apology was good. It seemed sincere (I heard her give it on tv). When you talk on tv a lot, any person is bound to say something controversial.
She's clearly establishment Republican. That doesn't make me hate her. So she worked for Fox. She's in tv trying to earn a living. Not many would turn down a plumb job at a major network. She probably applied to several.
Still...she's not a great host. She just didn't fit that show or format or something. She was interviewing Jane Fonda and Redford about their upcoming movie a while back, and she asked Fonda if she'd had cosmetic surgery or something! Very inappropriate, and Fonda being Fonda...she said as much. "I'm here to discuss a movie, and you ask me THAT?" Not a great moment.
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)She has done a great deal to normalize fascism in this country and that is FAR from ok.
We had to go all the way to Germany to kill fascism last time. At least this time we wont have to go so far.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)She took a job at Fox. Big deal. She's not Hannity. You would have taken a job there, too, if you'd gotten an offer from a big network, and you wanted a career in tv.
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)on everything. Or not.
But however you want to approach things, this person is okay, IMO. My opinion is not BS. Unless you can list some ways she was fascist.
I'm not a close follower of hers, but she's fine. She's establishment Republican. I don't hate establishment Republicans that didn't become Trumpers.
She stood up to Trump. Not many people have.
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)Or sit down and shut the fuck up while the rest of us do.
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)But... well, I'll stop there for now.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Straight Up F That Racist POS Named Megyn Kelly.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)We're supposed to forget that because she stepped away from the reich-wing bubble?!
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)And proffesional racism defender....a woman who "stood up to trump" most earnestly when it was personal....who has enabled by her presence and 'opposition' the likes of O'Reilly, hannity, beck....is "ok"?
Me thinks you look through a rose glass at those that would 'kindly' unmake our country.
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)That's why I hate her. HATE. HER.
Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)Yeah, she's OK
BaronChocula
(1,586 posts)musicblind
(4,484 posts)An amount so ridiculous no news personality could ever live up to it.
How does NBC News Chair Andy Lack still have a job?
musicblind
(4,484 posts)but she has said some stupid things in her career. Really stupid things. I'm not surprised by this decision.
However... What was NBC management thinking to begin with? Some of this was there fault. (Not her racist comments but her overnight ratings.)
I'll never know why they put her on the Today show, something anathema to her style.
Nobody asked for that.
Nobody wanted that.
They should have doubled down on her newsmagazine program but instead jumped the gun and canceled it very early on. A newsmagazine like that takes time to build an audience and NBC's scheduling conflicts made things worse. The ratings for her newsmagazine show was at least 50% NBC's fault. People tend to tune into shows with a consistent schedule
And putting her on a morning show was just ridiculous!
She's an establishment center-right reporter. NOTHING about her screams "Friendly face I want giving me cookie recipes first thing in the morning!"
When you see Megyn Kelly's face you expect news commentary. You don't expect dating advice with the Kardashians.
It's incongruent to her brand.
For example, when I see Madonna's face I expect pop music. If she gave me opera, I'd want a refund.
ZZenith
(4,126 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)Oh, I believe the old male fart who hired her was thinking shes hot. I dont think the reasoning went any further than that, anymore than I believe that John McCain picking Palin as his running mate went beyond him getting a boner when he met her.
Old male farts. Dont look for depth in their relationships with young women who look and dress a certain way.
Cha
(297,655 posts)they thinking?!
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)
and costly decision that was... she takes away multi-millions and her celebrity; these will make her very happy and comfortable. I'll always remember her for insisting Santa Claus was White, and "standing up" to Trump in the debate; she was more assertive on the former.
JHB
(37,161 posts)But nope, she had a "name", and the MSNBC execs disregarded what that name really was and why she had it.
Bigredhunk
(1,351 posts)Dollars to donuts she ends up back at faux. I remember faux fans talking like she was a pariah, wasn't really one of them, they were glad she was gone. She'll end up back there and they'll greet her with open arms.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)Oh - I see her show is "expected to end": https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142185994
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Ok that's a lie
obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)Auditioning so Fox will hire her back.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)that they hired a bigoted, faux noose mouthpiece in the first place..