For much of Tuesday afternoon and evening, Megyn Kelly was trending on Twitter. The news was that Megyn is leaving Fox News for the NBC News division, which… comes as no surprise. If you were paying attention to Megyn’s trajectory over the past year, she was obviously really unhappy at Fox News and other networks were actively courting her. The only real surprise is that she’s going to NBC out of all of the offers she allegedly got. Megyn posted this on Facebook yesterday:
Over a dozen years ago I started at Fox News in a job that would change my life. Now, I have decided to end my time at FNC, incredibly enriched for the experiences I’ve had. I have agreed to join NBC News, where I will be launching a new daytime show Monday through Friday, along with a Sunday evening news magazine program. I will also participate in NBC’s breaking news coverage and its political and special events coverage.
While I will greatly miss my colleagues at Fox, I am delighted to be joining the NBC News family and taking on a new challenge. I remain deeply grateful to Fox News, to Rupert, Lachlan and James Murdoch, and especially to all of the FNC viewers, who have taught me so much about what really matters. More to come soon. Happy New Year, and God bless.
I don’t hate this? Does that make me crazy? Like, I’m tired of pretending that Megyn is one of the few sane people on Fox News. She’s not – she says offensive and ridiculous things, just like the other Fox News anchors. I think she’s well-suited for a daytime talk show and a magazine show. She’s not an anchor – she’s a faux-news personality.
New York Magazine had some analysis of just what Megyn’s departure means for Fox News and for her career. Sources tell NY Mag that Megyn was very unhappy at Fox News and she’s eager for the challenge of building a new audience for her talk show. Sources also say that the Murdochs are going to replace her time slot (9 pm on weekdays) with a woman, and that the woman will absolutely be a “pro-Trump conservative.” Sources say the Murdochs are going all-in with Trump now and there won’t be any major on-air personality questioning President Baby Fists. Awesome.
Thank you for watching. With love… pic.twitter.com/0MjyVl6vAe
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) January 4, 2017
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I will never watch this woman and she has absolutely no credibility to me. She straddled the fence and didn’t discuss important issues about Trump threats until after the election when she wanted to sell her book.
Amen. I started to give her a break thinking possibly she was on to the bs of the people she once admired. But now I realize she was taking trump’s hits on her personally as opposed to professionally. That book could have reached a lot of his disciples, but she didn’t have the balls to release until after the election. She’s a fox girl forever and always, take the money and run.
Same! #NoCountryOREyeballs for this Piece of work
She is just as bad as Trump. She built her career on stoking hatred and racism, then calls feminism as soon as she wants out? She can burn, for all I care.
Ditto, there’s a reason she lasted so long on FOX.
I won’t either. It’s amazing that people forget all the racist crap she’s said because she “stood up” to trump. Yea no miss me with that
Agree! She’s a poisonous faux-feminist who actually does damage. Her beauty can’t obscure the fact that she is a racist a$$. (The dollar signs seemed especially appropriate.)
slow clap for robyn!!
megyn kelly is an opportunist and a racist and her years flip flopping upon convenience sets successful women back. and now on top of it – she’s a sell out. she’ll do well on daytime b/c her content is substantive as hoda and kathie lee – only devoid of humor or warmth.
Agree 100%. She sucks. And this is just a lateral movie.
Kitten: Where you been?!! She sucks…lol
HNY Nancy!
I’ve been on vaca with the boyfriend. Basically been eating and drinking nonstop for the past ten days. Sigh. But now that I’m back in the office I can get back to gossip lol. Yay!
I agree @robyn! Anyone who spent 12+ years at Fox does not deserve to be on a mainstream news network. I hear she’s also going to do “news” for them, as much as NBC does news. I think there has to be some consequences for people like Kelly who are part of the reason our country is now in the hands of a vile creature. Right wing talk radio, Fox “News,” and right wing blogs have ruined this country. And Kelly was a big part of it. She may not have liked Trump. So what. She promoted the lies that Fox shovels to their viewers and I won’t be watching her or NBC News again. I used to watch MSNBC but we rarely do at this point because I feel that they helped give us Cheeto Boy. It was Trump 24/7 on the so-called liberal network. BBC News and Al Jazeera online are my sources now.
Nay. This woman sycks. Racist as all of Fox.
http://bust.com/entertainment/15364-megyn-kelly-s-top-five-most-racist-moments-in-honor-of-vanity-fair-cover.html
Ugh this woman. This is a good reminder. Every once in awhile I forget what Megyn is. Megyn is the most dangerous type of talking head. She doesn’t care. She isn’t a feminist, she isn’t an ally, she’s an opportunist.
Smart and wellspoken bigots are the most dangerous, especially ones with an audience. The big words make the less erudite feel justified with their foot stomping over lost privilege.
Ahhh, I have missed you and your political commentary!! Happy New Year detritus!!
Hi darling! I hope your holidays were lovely and family and love filled.
That was post pretty curmudgeonly lol. I just annoyed I forgot how much Megyn sucks. She’s just so close to being excellent. Just the pesky racism and internalized misogyny. Which then makes her the WORST.
Thank you, LD. Just shared on social media for liberal friends with short memories.
And I’ve missed you, you little kitten!!! Happy new year hon!!
Yeah, Megyn is just awful. AWFUL. And it is sad, because like detritus says, she’s not a bad journalist and I saw a little fighting spirit come out with the Pussy grabbing, but then I remembered that nope, she’s still a privliged, entilted, racist whitesplainer.
I actively avoid news about her, but the “Santa is white” one made it through. So repellent. St. Nicholas may have been white; Santie Claus is an invented character. I’m white and totally, as far as I understand the word, un-woke, but good lord. Let children have Santa in whichever color they choose.
And let’s have Mrs. Class sometimes, too, ‘kay?
Talk show seems right for her. She’s no Rachel Maddow.
For a replacement, they wouldn’t use Elizabeth Hasselback, would they? She’s dumb as dirt.
For Fox? I doubt it. She left to “spend more time with her family”. Translation, Roger Alies hit on her, she turned him down and she was let go with hush-hush money. It’s amazing how quickly she went off the radar.
Just my 2 cents.
OMG – you are so right – it feels wrong! i love it.
Once the Gretchen Carlson thing exploded, that was my thought about Hasselbeck too.
I wonder if Ailes hit on Palin, and that’s why she’s no longer a FOX contributor?
To me it’s more of Fox infiltrating once respectable news organizations. AND of course it would be NBC, home of Matt Lauer, home to the Apprentice.
NBC’s going all in on Trump as well. I wonder how long the SNL skits continue.
They’ll start turning on the opposition except…what opposition is there to spoof?
Yeah this was what I was thinking: the Trump connection.
We all know that Megyn had a friendly get-together with Trump after he was elected during which time they made amends and hugged it out.
Sorry if this hurts a little, but this sppof is actually HILARIOUS that I saw last night. I didn’t know Barbara Streisand had it in her to dis Trump. How I wish I saw this back before the election, because maybe it wouldn’t sting as much!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv1np1f8xlc
NBC hasn’t been a respectable news organization since sometime in the last millennium.
I hope they have a black Santa Claus to greet her on her first day.
Bwahaha!
Hehehe
Oh, was Darth Barbie upset over at Fox???? Bye. And no thank you to anything she does on NBC or any other channel.
I’m so glad there is so far not a single comment in support of this awful person.
NBC keeps it up and I won’t watch anything on the channel.
Will she still be a fascist cow at NBC and get away with it?
About 10 yrs ago when travelling in Europe the main English channels were CNN and BBC, when I went a few years later Fox had replaced CNN. This woman was ranting on about something in her opinionated and bigoted way and I couldn’t stand her.
Daytime, not the important news time. Entertainment, not news. No, I won’t be watching.
Matt Lauer is licking his chops, so to speak. See: Natalie Morales
Wait, where’d Natalie go? Oh
This is a smart move by Megyn KKKelly. She’s getting upwards of $15m to have a daily one-hour show and a weekly evening show. And she gets to see her kids more. No brainer.
Now what will the Fox say?
K. K. K. Kkkk. K. K. K. Kkkk.
Thank God I don’t watch news or visit their sites anymore. Watch lame stream media populate their screens with racist talking heads
As much as I hate to say it I don’t think Megyn will be struggling for viewers. NBC is supposed to be one of the more “moderate” news channels, but they definitely skew traditional at times. A lot of people who actually watch the news/have time for talk shows are the same way. Megyn is also helped by the fact that outside of the extremely crazy things she’s said/Trump debacle no one (who doesn’t watch Fox News avidly) REALLY knows who she is or what she stands for. We have an idea since she worked with Fox for so long, but the public has short memories and she’s been on a rebranding spree for the better part of the last year. In short, she’ll be fine.
I agree, because the fact is if you didn’t watch fox (me) or the daily show etc you wouldn’t really know much about her except Trump attacked her for asking a valid and fair question and unlike everyone else at Fox she didn’t start carrying his water (compare her to hannity) and we know this by him attacking her through out. NOW to the more causal but non conservative bubble tv viewer she is leaving and is it because of how the network won’t be hard or honest about Trump?
She looks good here if you don’t know who she is and what she’s said. I think there are people who don’t.
I will say this though something tells me it’s bye bye Days.
She’s very beautiful but she’s also very poisonous as well.
Very average looking imo. Not that its a defect but yeah, heavy makeup, big hair and still very average.
She is the worst! As Jon Stewart used to point out, she only has an open mind about policy when it affects her directly—she was very vocal about paid maternity leave when she had her kids.
Also, she only added the chapter about Roger Ailes and his sexual harassment to her book AFTER Gretchen Carlson went public with her lawsuit. And speaking of her book, she waited to release it until after the election even though it conatained inform about Trump bribing her for better coverage.
Not to mention, her Interview with Trump after he said all those horrible things was pathetic!! She did not hold his feet to the fire– after the way he spoke about her (in public and behind the scenes) she should have raked him over the coals. Instead it was a sniveling puff piece. I have zero respect for her!!!
I can’t stand that kind of selfishness – blast everyone else until it comes to you and what matters to you, and then expect everyone to agree.
Let’s hope they don’t give the slot to Tomi Lahren…
You know I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they did. I hope the production team isn’t reading comments for ideas lol
Well theres now a vacancy for a skinny blonde dumbass…..so Tomi Lahren.
Oh sweetie. They will, Toni Lauren was waiting to be a coat tails of Faux News. She will be sexually harassed as well by those old pathetic white losers who owned Faux News who doesn’t know a vagina when they seen one. So why not have a dumb blond racist name Toni Lauren, who doesn’t know the difference from her head to her ass.
Yes girl go in hard. Lahren is horrendous and so are her enablers like Trevor Noah.
Either her or Kayleigh McEneny.
I have little reaction to this one way or the other. I find myself heading to NPR / PBS for news more and more. Network news ….isn’t. It has all turned into opinion pieces tinged with reality show drama for ratings. Reporters and anchormen want to be the news and celebrities.
There isn’t a single one I feel good about.
Yeah agree with NPR.
I will not be watching her on NBC. She thinks she’s God’s gift to journalism and comes across as smug, entitled, and narcissistic. I always hear that her ratings are the best in her time slot (which she regularly reminds her audience) but who knows? I think going after Trump in the debate hurt her with a lot of the Fox die-hards but failed to endear her to Hillary supporters. Conservative sites almost universally say “Good Riddance.”
I guess this means Days of Our Lives will be cancelled for her new show? The Today Show is already on for three hours
Daytime talk shows are a tough sell and Megyn Kelly is more cold and prickly than warm and fuzzy. I don’t think she’ll succeed.
Kelly’s not a journalist, just like almost every person in the MSM today. But I wonder where her talk show will fit in. NBC’s daytime lineup is already full, so unless she replaces the awful Rachael Ray, there really isn’t much of a slot for her show. I bet she ends up on MSNBC, where no one will watch her. And if she can’t be on-air until her Fox contract is up next summer, will anyone care about her new shows?
This type of deal didn’t work out well for ABC with their Katie Couric mega-deal with the unconventional daytime talk show model and prime time specials/coverage. NBC is kinda foolish to believe it’ll be any different with Kelly.
It’s a careful statement. She talks about how the experience made her better, how she’s grateful for that, but she doesn’t praise Fox. Even her praise of the management and viewers could be interpreted as “Thanks for showing me what my limits are and why I have to leave this place.”
Maybe I’m just a mercenary here with no moral compass, but if this means an anti-Trump voice that conservative women will actually listen to, then great. Yes, she is awful. She doesn’t care about anything until it directly affects her. But part of the problem is that Fox News adheres so closely to their party line, and most conservatives won’t even look twice at another source. Gotta start somewhere?
She’s just one of those people who will always be self-serving. She managed to even turn sexual harassment concerning multiple colleagues into “Me me me ME, and by the way, I’m not a feminist”.
I’m done with her.
I honestly don’t know anyone on the left or right who likes this woman. Except maybe Trump. Nice mutual beneficiary contract they had there. That said, I’m sure she’ll be happy at NBC.
I’ve seen a few of the comments on the conservative “news sites” forwarded on FB. The way Trump supporters talk about her is insane! They were horrified that she didn’t kiss Trump’s ass on a constant basis. They were like, “Who do you think you are, little lady? Your real dumb and not even that purty! I stopped watching that witch when she cut her hair like a man.”
I think she’s awful, personally. The hatred spewed by the right wingers is nuts, though. I think that her show will be called “Mostly Deplorable with Megyn WhiteSanta Kelly.”