Posted on 05/20/2016 9:24:07 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Megyn Kelly’s much-publicized broadcast special with Donald Trump was supposed to launch the Fox News star into the stratosphere of television anchordom. Instead, the widely panned show seems to have achieved the opposite result: It exposed the extent of her limited mainstream appeal. Kelly drew just 4.8 million viewers on Tuesday night, a number television executives say is a disappointment by any measure. Three senior executives I spoke with say an audience of 9 million would have been a success. "Not good for her at all," was how one insider put it.
In the days since, Kelly has been working to contain the fallout. She took aim at critics on her cable show Wednesday night by deploying an age-old Fox News tactic: claiming the backlash was a result of liberal media bias. But behind the scenes, she is said to be worried about the response. “She’s very upset with the show reaction, and in hindsight with how it was produced,” one Fox veteran told me.
The stakes for Kelly are high. As the Times recently reported, she’s in the final year of her contract and has been on a media blitz campaigning for a bigger job at Fox or another network. In recent interviews, she’s said her ambition is to be a combination of Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Barbara Walters. The special was essentially a public interview for her next job. But Kelly's chummy treatment of Trump may have damaged her brand as tough and fair-minded (this being Fox, the bar was pretty low). Worse, she cozied up to Trump at the very moment Rupert Murdoch decided Fox News will support the GOP front-runner. By lobbing softballs — or, as Times TV critic James Poniewozik described her questions, "airballs" — at Trump, Kelly came across like any other GOP cheerleader at the right-wing network.
The question for Kelly and her agents at CAA is where to go from here. Before the special, she had maneuvered herself into a position of significant leverage over her boss Roger Ailes and seemed poised to land either a new deal from Fox with a salary in the $25 million range or a plum job at another network. Industry sources said Ailes couldn’t afford to lose Kelly. Now her advantage looks smaller — a turn of events that surely pleases Ailes. According to one Fox insider, Ailes was heard “snickering” in a meeting yesterday when the topic of Kelly’s special came up in conversation. (Ailes's spokesperson Irena Briganti did not respond to a request for comment.)
For their part, Kelly's team doesn't seem eager to talk about the program. When I called her CAA agent Matt DelPiano to ask him about the special, he hung up.
—”I don’t think young men would be interested; she looked “worn”.—
I have no specific information, only my impression that Kelly was going for the look used by actress Robin Wright in the Netflix original series, “House of Cards,” which is extremely popular with millenials of both sexes. A search of images of the two women leaves me no doubt.
She may be trying to associate herself with the dead serious influence which that character earns over the course of the series.
Because he has earned his self-confidence justly, and she is still an arrogant wannabe. So he can flick people like her off like lint on his pants leg.
“They need to bring Hannity back to the prime who was good as neutral Republican.”
I agree. The Trump interview by Hannity was much, much better than the one by Megyn.
It’s like a switch went off and she morphed into a liberal slogan bimbo.
I hate to see anyone fall from such heights, but Megyn did this to herself. And when she fell, she got her shovel and just dug herself in deeper.
I always thought she was doing the heavy leftist transformation to shop herself to the networks because she wanted to leave Fox or get more money via leverage. Since she was such a failure face in her special, I doubt that is in the cards for her. She needs to go now.
LOL!
Yeah, if you look at the post above that one, that’s the joke I was trying to make. Forgetting to post the picture then was a major fail.
Possibly; I never watched her show to start with so I don’t really know much about her. When someone does a hatchet-job on their hair like that it probably means they’ve started taking themselves (too) seriously...
What saved her was that the watermelon immediately broke apart as soon as it struck her face. Had she done that with a bowling ball, she'd be dead.
Kardashians? Who are they?
I was going to record it for later watching, but then realized that would count us as part of the audience, so cancelled that thought. We have been boycotters of her show since the first debate, as so many others on this forum have been.
The Kardashians are a family of Hollywood shock media “oars”, taking all oxygen out of the city for their brassy antics, in the camera lights and off stage, with stunning personal dramas and plenty of outrageous selfies as their calling card.
Robert Kardasian, the father of the Kardashian girls, is deceased and best known of OJ Simpson fame, as not only one of OJ’s attorneys but a very best friend.
Megyn put an interview with a transsexual “entertainer” after Trump.
No wonder the show bombed!!!!
PHOOEY!!!!
You think it’s funny that nearly every subsaharan African nation or nearly every South American and Central American nation is Socialist/Communist? Again, as almost every African nation separated from its European colonial rulers they nearly all returned to a primative state then adopted Communism, the most famous example was when Nelson Mandela and the ANC dragged South Africa back to the stone age. For years Venezuela was a functioning first world nation now after its people thought they wanted all the goodies that Marxism promised they too are a disfunctional Communist hellhole. You may find it funny but history proves my statement that negros and latinos, when given the chance to change, will usually choose Communism/Socialism.
Disregard this post. This was a reply to a post about Latinos and Blacks gravitating to communism in other parts of the world. How this reply got to this post I do not know.
LOL! I’m wondering if they really messed up.... or if someone was messing with Kelly? food for thought anyway. My guess is that she has walked on a bunch of people.
LOL! Our thoughts exactly!
For the many of you who did not watch Megan’s interview with Donald Trump on Fox on May 17 (like me, perhaps, to avoid hyping the ratings), you can now watch it on U-Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NEHiNKjn_c
It is worth the watch. About 21 minutes...
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