Posted on 09/25/2017 11:06:58 AM PDT by abb
"Megyn Kelly Today" is meant to be the final, dazzling piece of Kelly's multimillion-dollar transmogrification from steely Fox News host to a mushy, hugs-for-everybody, midmorning TV host. It premiered Monday on NBC in the 9 a.m. hour of the "Today" show, proving only that the experiment is far from successful.
The debut was like watching a network try to assemble its own Bride of Frankenstein, using parts of Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Ripa and whatever else it can find. The resultant lovely creature, dressed in a mauve, pussy-bow blouse and skintight pants, moved stiffly and waved her arms around in broad gestures in a bizarre attempt to generate excitement from an audience that was already standing and cheering as duly instructed. She interviewed people nervously and so awkwardly that they were cowed into giving monosyllabic answers. She also never missed an opportunity to talk about herself.
Most of the episode devolved into an intentionally meta hall of mirrors, inviting the audience to admire Kelly as much as Kelly admires Kelly — a morning TV show about the birth of a morning TV show. There was lots of talk about what "Megyn Kelly Today" will be, mostly by way of what it won't be. (That's always a bad sign.)
"We'll be dissecting the latest tweet from President Trump," she said, sarcastically, before insisting that politics will never be welcome in this safe space of an hour. Instead, her show will encourage viewers to escape from the awful world, "to laugh with us" (not one genuinely funny thing happened in this first episode), to which Kelly added her wish that viewers will enjoy "a smile, sometimes a tear, and maybe some hope to start your day."
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We have a television in our local YMCA's women's locker room.
I always put Fox News on, much to the chagrin of most women here in The People's Republik of Connecticut.
One one particular day, there was much reaction on FNC to one of the many recent Islamo-Nazi terrorist attacks somewhere in the world.
A woman came into the room and actually said: "Ugh. "They should only be allowed to broadcast GOOD news on these networks!"
Appalling, huh? She probably votes, too.
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