Megyn Kelly’s NBC future in doubt as Peacock Network airs rerun of troubled morning show
NBC News’ highest-paid star Megyn Kelly’s status with the Peacock Network is up in the air and she will miss the remainder of the week after a turbulent 48-hour span that essentially pitted her own network against her.
Multiple news organizations have reported that the future of “Megyn Kelly Today” is in doubt. Kelly — who reportedly makes $23 million per year — found herself in hot water with colleagues and NBC executives after making a comment about blackface Halloween costumes on Tuesday.
“Given the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week,” an NBC News spokesperson told Fox News.
Kelly’s comments were reported on both “NBC Nightly News” and “Today,” leading to much speculation that NBC News executives hoped to put a spotlight on the controversial rhetoric as a way to separate with the veteran journalist. NBC colleagues quickly became her biggest critics when Craig Melvin called her comments “racist and ignorant” and Al Roker said she “owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country.”
Kelly offered a heartfelt apology to open her show on Wednesday and received a standing ovation from the in-studio audience. But NBC News chairman Andy Lack condemned Kelly’s comments during a previously scheduled town hall event for his news division staff on Wednesday.
Everywhere she goes…controversy follows. She is the best example of an attention whore who will do anything to be noticed. I have to admit that I enjoy watching her career go down in flames. I wonder how much of that $25 million contract they will end up giving to her. I know a few parasites who call themselves lawyers that might help her burn through some cash.
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She can be the co-host of Gunga Dan’s internet toaster-fire that nobody watches…
A pretty girl that’s about as dumb as a stick….other than that? I could care less.
I could , too.
Now a days, no public figure can say or do anything that is not offensive to some one, some where for whatever reason. You’d of thought that idea would have sunk into their pea brains by now. Not a fan myself, and not condoning the Matt Lauer types either, but this whole #metoo thing has gotten out of hand too. Bless her heart, no idea how much of her $25 million a year pay check she managed to rat hole, but it probably won’t be enough. Them type yeller haired girls have always been very high maintenance. And yeah, the parasitic lawers are probably already swarming.
“Them type yeller haired girls have always been very high maintenance.”
At least she’s not a Ginger/Redhead.
Them will flat out eat your soul. Or so I’ve heard.
Fox News is better off with red head Trish Regan. She got her own prime time show on Fox Business. The studio set up looks as if she was given Megyn’s old Fox corner office w/ a great view.
ex # 2 was a brunette that was sucking the soul out. Had a $1.27 in my pocket, nothing left in the bank, no where to go, and no way to get there when I went over the wire; never looked back. It was tough but I survived. ex #3 was a lot like Kelly, with that high maintenance thing going on too. 3 nights and 4 days @ The LEO Hilton/Gray Bar Lounge on trumped up charges, 9 months to clear name and get out of that one. Finally got to thinking with the right head. For awhile, and still for the most part, the more I learned about most of them, the more I loved my dog!
Not a twitch.
^guffaw^, snort, and giggle, still laughing.
But a black man can play Hamilton….
only white folks is raciss, didn’t you know/realize that?
But Dwayne Johnson isn’t “black enough” to play John Henry…
Ask any bi-racial person. There’s black and then there’s black.
Kelly’s mistake was in not claiming first to be a 1/1024th “woman of color.” By not making such a prior claim, her blackface Halloween observation came off as racist for the easily offended, instead of likely being the ditzy comment it actually was.
The way people are carrying on you’d think that she was defending dressing up like a shuffling caricature from an old minstrel show.
It’s too bad that people can’t even dress up as a particular person of another race even if the intent is respectful, and not to ridicule, but that’s the world we live in. A college professor got in trouble for dressing up as a character from a book that she admired – https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/01/03/university-oregon-finds-professor-who-wore-blackface-party-violated-anti-harassment
I remember back in the late 70s/ early 80s there was a guitarist named Randy Hansen who did a great Jimi Hendrix tribute. He not only dressed like Jimi but also darkened his skin to look as much like Jimi as possible – and he took some grief for that even back then. I found some more recent pics of him and it looks like he’s toned down the makeup.
Isn’t nbc part of msnbc????
MSNBC is actually part of NBC.
that should be “PMSNBC”…
“But what is racist?” Kelly asked on her show. “Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.”
That’s it, the whole of it. I thought she was dressed up as Al Jolson and gave a rendition of Mammy or something. Speaking of which…
Those of you who are offended, just go to none other than NBC, where you can view Eddie Murphy’s SNL skit where he played a White man, with all of the crazy racial silly shit.
I actually read “Black Like Me”.
If “the they” don’t like you, it doesn’t matter what you say, they’ll find a reason to kick you. Working for NBC was definitely one of her dumbest mistakes.
No sympathies from me. She crowned herself Queen Bitch a while back. Foot in mouth disease followed.
$25 mil/yr, huh? I sure hope she saved some.
Moving on.
I was not looking for this but ran across it on another blog.
https://www.thecut.com/2018/10/megyn-kelly-out-nbc-blackface-contract-payout.html
Part of the problem is that she doesn’t seem to know or acknowledge what is and is not appropriate to say in a public outlet like television, where you can’t do the takesies-backsies thing on air unless you do it right away. She does tend to be crass about things, and is all wrapped up in her sense of importance.
However – and this is where self-importance can be deceiving – she could not generate the viewership count that occurred when she was on Fox, and I’m guessing that a large part of that count had to do with people wanting news, not giving a hoot who was the news reader.
So, yes, she will probably get the full $69 Big Ones on her contract but the article indicates that they haven’t dismissed her yet. She’s simply being sequestered – off the air.
Oh, SNAP!!!
Moving on.
I’d hit it, though.
Me-again’s show has officially been cancelled and her “lawers” are negotiating for a 69 million payout on her contract.
Fuck her. She already has enough to live a few lifetimes on.
Megyn Kelly? Meh, I’m all out of fucks to give for her.
Never really cared for her career bullshit but I gotta say she is one strappin woman.
When she was with Fox I never watched her show. I always heard Don Henley singing in my head:
“We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
in her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry”
Now she’s the dirty laundry at NBC. Karma’s a blonde bitch!
You can despise her. You can revel in her predicament. You can hope she is fired…BUT just look at what she said that caused the hubbub:
“But what is racist? Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.”
That’s it. Are you shittin’ me? Cripes.
Yeah, that’s part of the thing I couldn’t figure out, and some of the point to my earlier post. Gonna get to the point where you can’t refer to pavement as black top, or refer to correction fluid or blizzardly snow as white out. We really, really, really need to invest in a company that makes 55 gallon drums of butt hurt cream. The market is there.
You don’t think they will change the name White House to something else, do ya…🤔
Isn’t there a psychological term for a phobia about using words that define a color?
If there isn’t, then there should be one. And there is: chromophobia.
This opens up some ripe opportunities for ribald repartee. I will endeavor to persevere on this subject matter.
Al Jolson: Misunderstood Villian or Hero?
https://youtu.be/f5Tm7bMUhUw
What I really enjoyed is that Al “Token” Roker said Kelly hadn’t apologized enough. Like I’m sure he was really offended by her innocuous comment which merely related attitudes and behaviors of 30 years ago re Holloween costumes. You know, back in the pre-progtard days of yore.
He needs his house egged and toilet papered.
I’ll have mine deviled with a side of baked ham, or scrambled with cheese on wheat toast….#egglivesmatter
Al “Faker” Roker strikes again. The “weather forecaster” with a degree in communications who wouldn’t know it was raining during a hurricane. The most affirmative action hire in show business.
Amazing how when you look at a color wheel that neither white or black are on it? Who are the true “persons of color” Answer: All of us.
I do not prefer M. Kelly but sounds like she did nothing wrong here. She has a ton of other shit to atone for, but not his.
Also I will leave this here:
That was a great vid. Thanks for posting it.
And the mob eats another one….
Well, she does look delicious. The fact is that hairy, dirty women wearing pussy hats despise women such as the white bread MK. And the other women, the ones who are clean and rather normal don’t like her b/c she is a hottie. They like women who look like them. At least that’s the way I see it.
yeah, we may think we want to stand her on her head and eat her like an ice cream cone…remember to hold these truths to be self evident…male or female…”No matter how good they look, or how nice they seem to be, somebody, somewhere is tired of putting up with their sh!t.”
The poor woman. I don’t know how she’ll survive after being fired from her 23 mil a year job. How will she pay her mortgages?
High rent is high rent…
There is no limit to what that high rent can cost.
Looks like she walked with 69, fitting, million dollars.
I wonder what she looks like when….
Oh never mind….
Bad Thunder, bad Thunder…….
Now she can focus on her porn career.
She should be callin Avenatti; bet she can give Stormy a run for her money. The two of them mud wrasslin would be some serious pay-per-view TV.