Kelly, when Brit Hume was groaning in pleasure as you serviced him, did he actually compliment your intelligence? Cause I don’t think that is what he was meaning. Stick to what you’re better at.
Rather amazing; amid all the furor about sexual harassment at Fox News, the affair between Hume and Kelly barely registered a ripple. Meanwhile, the network paid Gretchen Carlson $20 million after she claimed that Roger Ailes said he “wished” they’d had an affair, and O’Reilly’s shenanigans rose only to the level of phone sex and lewd comments—but Fox still wrote seven-figure checks.
From Megyn’s perspective, I guess it wasn’t harassment when Hume was helping her climb the ladder, only when Ailes hugged her “inappropriately.” And I guess the next question is what dirt does Hume have on the Murdochs?
And FWIW, I’ll go out on a very short limb and predict that Megyn’s NBC career will be very short-lived. That interview with Vlad was a disaster, and remember: It Was Edited. If Putin played her like a drum in the exchanges they decided to use, you can imagine how bad she looked in the outtakes.
A broadcast network news division is very different than cable. Only so much air time, and lots of colossal egos competing for a shot. It’s been reported that Kelly has already riled many of her co-workers at NBC, and they won’t do anything to help her. Two years from now, her shows will be history and she’ll be a full-time mommy or back in cable news.