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NBC Cancels Megyn Kelly Today After Blackface Controversy, Sources Say
MSN ^ | 10-25-18 | Steve Helling

Posted on 10/25/2018 2:05:11 PM PDT by kingattax

Megyn Kelly’s 9 a.m. Today show hour has been canceled, multiple sources confirm to PEOPLE.

The news comes just 48 hours after she received immense backlash for her controversial remarks about blackface earlier this week.

“They’re contacting the staff and reassigning everyone today. Everyone’s being told that they still have a home here, but it won’t be on Megyn’s show,” one source says. “They haven’t made an official announcement about the show, but everyone knows what it means when they’re being moved somewhere else. The show is clearly over.”

Two additional sources insist that Kelly has not been fired from NBC completely (and she herself has not been told the network’s final decision), but her 9 a.m. show “is most likely over.”

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To: dfwgator; raygunfan; Gamecock; Larry Lucido; KC_Lion; FredZarguna; PROCON
You get on the phone to NBC and you tell them we want the good plane! The Ted Danson plane!

Hey, let's get something to eat while they're fixing the plane.....they can reach us on this pager.....
21 posted on 10/25/2018 2:19:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: kingattax

Bummer! Poor MeAgain! /s


22 posted on 10/25/2018 2:23:24 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Boycott The NFL! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper)
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To: dfwgator
Robert Downey Jr. wears "blackface," gets an Oscar nomination and gets hailed as having a career comeback.

Megyn Kelly says it's okay to wear "blackface," gets fired and has her career sent into freefall.

No matter what you think of Megyn, she isn't the story here. The story is the most incredible act of hypocrisy by the left I have ever seen.


23 posted on 10/25/2018 2:24:01 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

HER 3 year price tag (reportedly $69 million) is already “sunk costs”.... so if everyone else is being re-assigned within NBC then they are saving little or nothing, in fact the re-org is probably costing them money. I have no use for her, but to sideline her while they are still paying out her guaranteed contract seems like spite, not an act of business cost savings. I seriously doubt they will get any better ratings in that hour. This is simply Leftard NBC execs posturing and venting.


24 posted on 10/25/2018 2:24:29 PM PDT by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

One way to open a slot on the schedule is to dump that unwatchable bore Cucker.


25 posted on 10/25/2018 2:25:29 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: kingattax

Best Election EVAH!!!


26 posted on 10/25/2018 2:27:35 PM PDT by rhinohunter (Dear Mr. Trump: I'm still not tired of winning)
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To: kingattax

She should have never apologized! NBC is made up of a bunch of weenies.


27 posted on 10/25/2018 2:27:39 PM PDT by myerson
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To: kingattax

If only Megyn had thought to mail a fake bomb to herself, she might have been able to weather this storm.


28 posted on 10/25/2018 2:31:22 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: kingattax

“That’s a shame.” ~ Seinfeld


29 posted on 10/25/2018 2:32:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin ( "Why can't you be more like Lloyd Braun?")
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To: Galatians328

[Most gold diggers probably just wish they were this much of a failure]


She’s a failure from a ratings standpoint, but her show is probably competently done. The real problem is that people don’t watch liberal channels for conservative content. That’s what Fox News is for. And at NBC, Kelly was probably handcuffed by her employers with respect to how conservative she could be. It’s not an accident that conservatives hired by liberal media companies immediately become less conservative. Some credit a kind of liberal mind meld. I’m inclined to think its job preservation at work. And I’m not saying this to criticize them. In the media world, it’s feast or famine. An engineer can get a job anywhere. A media personality is either a star or unemployed.


30 posted on 10/25/2018 2:34:05 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (They can have my pitbull when they pry his cold dead jaws off my ass.)
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To: dfwgator
Whoopie? What about Ted?

He stars in a current NBC show called The Good Place. It is on TONIGHT.

31 posted on 10/25/2018 2:34:19 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: myerson

They’re not weenies, like typical leftists, they’re cutthroats. If you’re not a fellow kool-aid drinker, you’re evil and you will be persecuted on every flimsy pretext they can concoct. If you are one of them, then sexual harassment, adultery, humor aimed at protected groups, etc. aren’t actual sins anymore. Just like being a Christian in a Muslim country. You aren’t afforded the same human rights as the majority because you’re considered less than human.


32 posted on 10/25/2018 2:34:53 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: Trump_the_Evil_Left

I tend to agree with you. I am not a fan of Kelly, nor of NBC and its slanted agendas.

But I become more disturbed every day that the MSM and social media have decided it is their job to tell us what we are allowed to think.

I think Megyn was trying to have a legitimate conversation about “dressing up” and “costumes”, etc., and that she was shot down for even questioning the whole “cultural appropriation” theme.

But I also cannot understand, if she walks away with $50,000,000 or more, WHY work? Why not stay home and be with your kids and family? She really has nothing to prove any more, as far as her “career” goes, IMHO.


33 posted on 10/25/2018 2:38:22 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: JediJones

I despise Megyn, but those who are howling about a comment wondering whether blackface is racist should bark in Hell for eternity.


34 posted on 10/25/2018 2:38:38 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

Some employees have a lower threshold of termination than others. If she’d been getting big ratings, NBC would have let her apologize.


35 posted on 10/25/2018 2:48:02 PM PDT by TroutFishingInAmerica ("I remember, with particular amusement, men in three-cornered hats, fishing in the dawn")
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To: dsc

Actual blackface is one thing, but simply changing your skin color with makeup to resemble a character is not remotely the same thing as “blackface.” Ted Danson actually was doing blackface there.

Just hilarious how if you say a man SHOULDN’T dress up as a woman, you’re a bigot. But if you say a white person SHOULD dress up as a black person, you’re a bigot then too. There is zero intellectual consistency on the left. The idea that nothing but how they “feel” at any given moment matters is absolutely stomach-churning.


36 posted on 10/25/2018 2:51:19 PM PDT by JediJones (We must deport all liberals until we can figure out what the hell is going on.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Oh please God No!


37 posted on 10/25/2018 2:53:42 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Can’t see Anybody going near her...NBC has pinned her with the race card right or wrong nobody is rushing to help her.. Nasty little Viper...


38 posted on 10/25/2018 2:54:48 PM PDT by jacknyc
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To: kingattax

Double-edged sword, sweetie?


39 posted on 10/25/2018 2:55:30 PM PDT by Flintlock (The ballot box STOLEN, our soapbox taken away--the BULLET BOX is left to us.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather
Fox & Friends would be stupid to add smelly Kelly. It's the Donald's favorite show. I think she's done. Another one of the Donald's enemies is ruined.
40 posted on 10/25/2018 2:58:56 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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