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For Kelly, Even Seppuku Would Not Be Enough for the PC Horde
I feel sorry for Megyn Kelly. Beloved on Fox News, she drew criticism from then-candidate Trump for her debate questions (one of Trump’s worst moments – he was vulgar and petty) and then left Fox amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations that pushed out two powerful men, Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes, and forced Fox to pay an alleged $32 million to victims. She was at the peak of popularity on the Fox News network with her own prime-time show but left for NBC.
NBC, eager to cash in on their own Megyn Kelly franchise, underestimated their own liberal Puritanism and quickly realized that Ms. Kelly’s prosecutorial style and libertarian (if not outright conservative) nature were antithetical to their own progressive pieties and the “news-lite” venues she was assigned. The NBC News brass had hoped her sunny visage and blond locks would lend themselves to a vanilla “Today”-type host with a little edge.
They judged poorly.
I’m sure that from day one, Megyn was something of a pariah at 30 Rock. But this was whispered behind closed doors, in dark corners, and privately around the water cooler just out of earshot. The brass tried to tame her; they had their original decision to lure her away from Fox to justify, and then, there was all that money! But Ms. Kelly failed to understand that it is every progressive’s duty to form a wall of blind solidarity when the sword of hypocrisy comes for the neck of any fellow progressive of note. When she piled on regarding the alleged proclivities of Matt Lauer and dared speak of the rumors about Tom Brokaw, she proved herself to be un-redeemable; she was, after all, not one of them. So she really was, deep down, a deplorable conservative.
The echoes of “I told you so’s” had to be deafening.
It didn’t take much; an innocent reference to blackface when dressing up during Halloween in her childhood to justify taking her out behind the barn for a good whipping. Even Al Roker, whom I generally enjoy and who seems to have a generous heart, took her to task for her insensitivity. The fact that she grew up well after the minstrel-show era and likely knew nothing of stereotypical blackface caricature was never considered. No one, especially not Megyn Kelly, is exempt from the wrath of the omnipotent politically correct scolds. Poor thing, she tried in vain to apologize, but there is no excuse for being a conservative, a deplorable, an insensitive. Off with her head!
So Megyn is out at NBC. Frankly, I’m a little surprised. For a moment there, I thought that NBC could tolerate a talented, if perhaps a little right-of-center, talent like Megyn Kelly
I hope she is not too proud and goes back to Fox.
In welcome, I say, kill the fatted calf. Bring out the best wine. The prodigal daughter returns.
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True enough. He didn’t have to recant or confess.
Whoopi did, though. She initially defended him but then decided he was out of line, much like Yeezy has ‘realized that I was being used’.
She’ll probably end up on CNN, where she probably belongs. I hope she’d take over the “Larry King” spot and do long form interviews, its kind of her strength. However this kinda gig would come with a significant pay cut, she wanted to go after a high paying daytime show – to become the next Oprah, She’s just not cut out for that.
-or- she could follow the Sharyl Attkinsson route and go off on her own. She just got paid out $70 million, (or rather the balance of the contract) so its not like she doesnt have some capital she could invest in a camera, studio and some web hosting service. I could see her doing a “Dave Rubin” style interview podcast, she’s already fairly famous she could quite handily compete with the Joe Rogans of the world. Fit right in on the “Intellectual Dark Web”.
I think the hardest part of doing this kind of interview show, would be to get interesting people willing to sit for the interview, I think she’d have a leg up (pardon the expression) in this competition.
Doesnt she have to wait out the end of her contract, since NBC paid her out?
I’m not an expert on this, but I think Roker is a ruling class progressive and elitist and he thinks NBC is just perfect as a brainwashing platform. This whole thing as a Soviet feel to it.
She’s fighting the nondisclosure agreement. I saw a good article about it. I’ll Try to dig it up. NBC is a cesspool. I wish Trump would have the Air Force bomb it to smithereens.
John Nolte on Breitbart had a really good article saying the same thing.
John Nolte is a lot like David Horowitz: what is he wrong about? Not very much.
I read an article that said that NBC didn’t think through how to use her “prosecutorial style” and that they should’ve just told her be as conservative or whatever it is she wanted so they could have some balance. Obviously her crazy salary turned the whole thing into far bigger of a risk than it needed to be.
She also really pissed off management buy what she said about all of the NBC sex scandals and the cover up.
Trump should just commandeer the whole operation for the good of the country.
Perhaps RT will hire her. ;-)
Her transfer reminds me of when they had Murphy Brown do the episode where she did the morning show, and Corky gave her a hard time about how hard it would be doing puff pieces.
I like the show, from when I was younger especially the earlier seasons. I have not watched the revival because much like Crossfire. Its a show from an era, and you cant replicate the time and place. You can just go back for nostalgia.
I think what was done to her was despicable. However, I’m not eager to see her back at Fox, just because I found her constant mugging so off-putting. There are enough people at Fox who are hard to watch, without bringing back another one.
Who could have guessed she would come out against sex scandals?
I thought this was good
Megyn Kelly’s Legal Battle Ensnares NBC News Chair Andy Lack https://jameshirsen.com/2018/10/28/megyn-kellys-legal-battle-ensnares-nbc-news-chair-andy-lack/ via @wordpressdotco
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Nolte: NBC Closes the Trap on Megyn Kelly | Breitbart http://bit.ly/2O5W5yR via @BreitbartNews
That is a good article (breitbart) I agree with it, right up to the point that they say Megyn betrayed her fan base by her fight with Trump. First of all, Trump picked this fight, not Megyn. Secondly I dont think an opinion journalist owes their fan base any influence over their thought process.
Your point about liberal pieties is well taken, but this seems a little overplayed. She’s an educated women in journalism, and essentially the performing arts, and you’re going to suggest she’s never heard of blackface?
It is obvious she had heard of it. If you watch the clip where she questions the PC “blackface is the devil” piety, she simply says that when she was a child, there was no such stigma. And that is probably true. “Blackface” has specifically to do with comedy routines that were common during set changes in travelling minstrel shows. Troupes would put on these shows in churches and town halls mixing local folks into their casts (free help). They share ticket receipts, usually with a local charity. The humor was silly, g-rated stuff, meant for the masses, and even the blackface routines were pretty tame. Yes, the depiction of back men was stylized (mimicking Vaudeville comedic stars, some actual black men in black face) but it was more stylized than it was stereotypical. It was not meant to be offensive. At worst, it was modestly offensive like much ethnic humor. Ethnic humor always walks that fine line between funny and offensive. In this case, the PC folks have exaggerated their case. When ASU celebrated its “blackout” night during a home football game (the Sun Devils wear black and gold), students were encouraged to wear all black to the game. Some blackened their faces, ignorant as they were of the whole “blackface” is an insult to Black Americans meme, and the controversy roared. This was silly. Intent does play a part in these things and the young people caught up in the PC blackface umbrage fest were innocent despite attempts to have them pilloried before the outrage scolds. Blackface intentionally used to insult black Americans is worthy of scorn, like, for example, wearing a white gown with pointy hood, but it is not the devil.
Scorn and contempt. Some people just have so much of both that they’re desperate to spend it on anything at all.