Posted on 04/15/2016 2:45:06 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Gabriel Sherman writes that Megyn Kelly may have “gone rogue” by meeting privately with Donald Trump — without Roger Ailes’ blessing.
Fox executives, caught off guard by Kelly’s clandestine outreach, released a statement suggesting this was all according to plan: Ailes had spoken to Trump “a few times over the past three months,” it noted, implying that he had helped her get the meeting. Later that night, Kelly confirmed on her show that she and Trump discussed the possibility of an interview. She made no mention of Ailes. “The meeting was at my request,” Kelly said.
If Kelly did indeed go rogue on the Trump meeting, it says a lot about her relationship with her employer — and about her employer’s relationship with the GOP front-runner. Ever since she tangled with Trump in front of the 24 million viewers watching the debut GOP debate last summer — a performance that transformed her in the eyes of many into a fearless interviewer and feminist symbol — Kelly has become Ailes’s biggest star, and biggest management headache. Meanwhile, Trump’s attacks on Fox have badly damaged its credibility with its core right-wing audience. (A February poll reported that Fox’s standing with Republicans had plummeted by 50 percent since the beginning of the year.)
Trump has engaged in an on-again-off-again feud with the network since September, refusing to appear one-on-one with Kelly for eight months, so a Kelly-Trump interview would undoubtedly draw big ratings. Presumably, Kelly went off on her own because she wants to claim credit for the booking. “She did it to prove she doesn’t need Ailes to make things happen for her,” a high-level source said. Or perhaps she is taking a page from Trump himself and operating as if her own brand were bigger than Fox’s.
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Varney,Payne and judge jeanine are the only ones I watch except for Hannity once in awhile,not tonight though. I used to have Fox on all day and night,now rarely.
No problem, I have seen that happen before on FR often enough to figure out what happened. At work I have a problem with not attaching the attachment before pressing send. Thankfully, the email software has a recall function!
Am I too late to be third?
Fox Business Channel instead of Fox News Channel here, most of the time.
I have never seen MEgyn’s show.
Megyn taking a beating on the ratings.
How sad....;-)
What is crazy is that an original VJ on MTV came to have her own show on Fox Business Network.
Is this a great country or what?
Gah! You Philistine!
The original VJs on MTV were Nina Blackwood, Martha Quinn, J.J. Jackson, Mark Goodman, and Alan Hunter.
That's the problem with this country...none of these kids know the classics ;o)
Oh, and get off my lawn!
Thanks—I have never been called a Philistine before!
I just remember her from the early times on MTV, and was surprised as heck to see her surface on Fox Business—even wondered at first if it was the same person.
Oh, and your lawn needs water. ;)
I forgive and forget everything.
Women hold offenses to them (many of which usually they cause themselves) against men, like little pearls that come off a string for a rehash of nonsense.
Posted this story this morning and it disappeared. Couldn’t find where anyone else had posted it, so here’s the link. Kelly’s “interview” special with Trump was a ratings flop.
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