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Bye bye Megyn, bye bye

Published by digby on October 26, 2018

Bye bye Megyn, bye bye

by digby

Megyn Kelly’s ill-fated turn to mainstream media is finally over. It was never a good idea. Shes an ideologue and she can’t hide it:

January 3, 2017 Megyn Kelly leaves Fox News for NBC. The beginning of the end.

January 27, 2017 NBC gives Kelly her own ‘Today’ hour. This one didn’t go over well with fans of Tamron Hall and Al Roker.

June 4, 2017 Kelly interviews Vladimir Putin for the ‘Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly’ premiere. Not a great debut.

June 12, 2017 Kelly faces criticism for interviewing InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Obviously, she defended herself.

June 13, 2017 Alex Jones asks Kelly not to air his interview. Even Alex Jones wants to distance himself from this dumpster fire.

June 18, 2017 NBC airs Kelly’s interview with Alex Jones. You saw that one coming.

July 18, 2017 Megyn Kelly loses to re-runs of ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’ in the ratings. You know it’s bad when you’re losing to AFHV.

August 30, 2017 NBC is in a “total panic” that people won’t watch ‘Megyn Kelly Today’. Hm, Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly didn’t convince America of Kelly’s greatness?

September 22, 2017 Kelly says her ‘Today’ hour will unify America. Mission accomplished, I guess?

September 26, 2017 Kelly dodges a question about the National Anthem protests. For once, Kelly didn’t share her opinion on a topic.

September 27, 2017 ‘Will & Grace’ star Debra Messing distances herself from Kelly. Don’t expect Kelly to make a cameo on Will & Grace any time soon.

September 27, 2017 Kelly harasses Jane Fonda about her plastic surgery. Welcome to Megyn Kelly versus Jane Fonda Part 1.

September 28, 2017 ‘Megyn Kelly Today’s horrible first week gets worse when a cameraman steps into the frame and says, “Oh shit”. *Chef’s kiss*

October 3, 2017 Megyn Kelly harshly cuts off Tom Brokaw during a gun control debate: “Gotta leave it at that, Tom”. There’s one rule in TV news: do NOT cut off Tom Brokaw.

October 11, 2017 ‘Megyn Kelly Today’s signal cuts out mid-interview. Does anyone on that set know what they’re doing?

October 13, 2017 Celebrity publicists say they don’t want their clients appearing on ‘Megyn Kelly Today’. *Gestures above wildly* Can you really blame them?

October 20, 2017 Kelly and Hoda Kotb do an uncomfortable dance to “Bodak Yellow”. Shield your eyes from this awful content.

October 30, 2017 Matt Lauer says that he “gets” why ‘Megyn Kelly Today’ is “a big problem” for celebrities. Uh, no shit dude.

October 31, 2017 Kelly awkwardly hugs Shania Twain dressed as Shania Twain. That didn’t impress viewers much.

November 13, 2017 Kelly’s interview with Joe Biden gets tense after she brings up Hillary Clinton. We all know Clinton didn’t go to Wisconsin, Megyn. You don’t have to yell about it.

November 15, 2017 Kelly Confuses Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott — and calls Dermot “Dylan” to his face. Classic mix up (but actually, that’s confusing).

January 22, 2018 Kelly escalates her feud with “Hanoi Jane” Fonda: “She has no business lecturing anyone on what qualifies as offensive”. Welcome to Megyn Kelly versus Jane Fonda Part 2.

January 23, 2018 Kelly is mysteriously absent from her ‘Today’ hour following her attack on Jane Fonda. The saga continues.

January 24, 2018 Kelly completely avoids the topic of Jane Fonda after her absence. Can’t we just move on?

April 25, 2018 The Wall Street Journal says Megyn Kelly is dragging down the rest of ‘Today’. The award for Least Surprising Statement goes to…

June 7, 2018 Kelly takes issue with Samantha Bee’s apology: “Being a comedian doesn’t excuse everyone’s comments”. Should we excuse the comments of TV personalities?

June 25, 2018 Kelly rips Seth Rogen for refusing to pose for a picture with Paul Ryan. I just don’t have the energy any more.

October 23, 2018 Kelly defends blackface: “When I was a kid, that was okay”. We’re approaching the end, folks.

October 24, 2018 Al Roker slams Kelly for her blackface comments: “She said something indefensible”. Even Kelly’s NBC colleagues aren’t coming to her defense.

October 24, 2018 Kelly tearfully apologizes on ‘Megyn Kelly Today’. Was her apology real, or was she just reading from a carefully-worded message created by her lawyers?

October 25, 2018 Network execs call Kelly “toxic”: “We wouldn’t hire her in a million years”. Welp, there go your job prospects, Megyn.

October 25, 2018 Megyn Kelly officially out at NBC. 21 months later, we’ve come full circle.

Honestly, I think they wanted her to be a big star because she’s so beautiful and had a fiesty personality. But she’s a true blue wingnut and it turns out that such a person, especially among women who are non-wingnut by well over 60%, is not a mainstream personality. In fact, she’s abrasive and insensitive, in exactly the same way all the Fox News personalities are.

She confronted Trump, true. But recall that it was in the early part of the campaign before the whole party dropped to their knees for him. At that point she became a hot media commodity and she cashed out. But it never made any sense to put her on morning TV and there just isn’t a place for her outside of Fox. She’s just too right wing and frankly, too boorish to be anything but a rightwing personality.

Maybe Fox will forgive and forget but they don’t really need her back. I don’t know where she’ll end up.

My the way, she was making almost 30 million dollars a year. And her payout is rumored to be twice that.

That is just sick.

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