Posted on 01/03/2017 9:37:29 AM PST by usafa92
Megyn Kelly, who arrived at Fox News 12 years ago as a television news neophyte but rose to become one of its two biggest stars, has decided to leave the network to take on a broad new role at NBC News for an undisclosed amount, people briefed on the negotiations said on Tuesday.
The NBC News chairman, Andrew Lack, wooed Ms. Kelly away from Fox News by offering her a triple role in which she will host her own daytime news and discussion program, anchor an in-depth Sunday night news show and take regular part in the network’s special political programming and other big-event coverage.
The move will herald a seismic shift in the cable news landscape, where Ms. Kelly had become the second-most watched host — after Bill O’Reilly of Fox News — and often helped define the national political debate, especially over the last year as Donald J. Trump regularly attacked her, at times in viciously personal terms.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
I found Kelly’s problem wasn’t that she was like a Rachel Maddow, but rather she had a difficult time maintaining a consistent presentation.
She’d do a news analysis segment where she’d be like a giggly flirt working the room at a Happy Hour.
Then a commercial break, and she’d do a very serious segment on Kate’s Law, for example. She’d be so different than she came across just six minutes ago, it was really jarring.
I quit on her show after the first GOP Primary debate in August 2015, though truthfully I usually switched off Fox News after the first 30 minutes of O’Reilly, as the second half hour has been useless for a long time - Jesse Watters as the unfunny parody of the white conservative smirking jerk, Bill flirts with a senior citizen like Lis Weihl and gets nowhere, or Dennis Miller visits and Bill tries to keep up with the comedy but comes across as an unfunny boor.
But at that point I made a deliberate decision to avoid Megyn Kelly’s show. Actually that entire debate was an obvious attempt to mug Mr Trump and actually tipped my favoir towards Trump, where it has remained.
YAY!
Take Shep with you.
If you're pulling from One America, it would be fun to see Tomi Lauren!
Finally!! I am so sick of hearing about her leaving-not leaving, where oh where is she going...yadda, yadda, yadda.
Who cares????
More winning!!
Is she holding a tire pressure gauge? Hmmm..
NBC is a fool for paying her that much
NBC, make sure you V-steam her first...
Gasp! Trump turned her from a beautiful woman into a praying mantis!
There could be a great one hour show with more than one female host. Judge Jeanine, Sharyl Atkinson, Monica Crowley, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and even Laura Ingraham, though Laura has a lot going already.
But a show with some news and some investigative reporting, ratings superstar.
Don’t care, I get my news from here.
I won’t ever trip over Megs again.
The thing is, as annoying and liberal as she is, she is not nearly the moonbat that the NBC and MSNBC crew are. Compared to them, she is a stalwart paragon of conservative virture.
This will help stem the leftward drift of FoxNews and might actually pull NBC/MSNBC a quarter inch toward sanity. Unless she decides to jump in and go full moonbat.
Now if only Shep could jump ship as well.
Does MEgyn really think her FNC viewers will follow her to another network? She’s dreaming and so is NBC.
Sorry but still not going back to Fox until they get rid of that old Windbag O’Reily who was very insulting to Trump during the primaries.
I enjoy watching Hannity and Tucker clips on youtube, but I wont be watching Fox until things change further!
She needs to go from Fox immediately. If she stays until the summer when her contract is up the atmosphere there is going to get toxic as hell!
Bye bitch! This is great news for Fox News. Next, Shepard Smith should leave FNC. I look forward to seeing who replaces Me-again.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.