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.
There is still that anchor desk at MSNBC.
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The CFO asked me if I was gonna watch her real Fox special. I told her no as this was her attempt to become the next BW and I wouldn’t be helping her out with ratings. Made sure all TV’s went to CNN as soon as her special started. Then went beachside for beers. Wouldn’t give her the sweat off my brow.
She will play an alien dyke in Spielberg’s next film.
Bring back the hair extensions?
When will they bring back Andrea Tantaros???
I couldn’t find it either. Which is just as well because we can’t stand Kelly.
We watched most of her special. It wasn’t very special.
LOL
Yep.
Maybe Vivid Video will offer her $1 million to do a porn video.
If you're hired to be the rhythm guitar player, then be the rhythm guitar.
If you're hired to be the singer, then make it all about the song and not about you and your style.
If you're the interviewer, then make it all about the interviewee and NOT all about YOU! Most of the time, the audience should forget the interviewer is even there.
Megyn Kelly had a great part in this play and ultimately her purpose was to make the play successful.
Had she simply played her part, the play most likely would have been a success and then the play would have taken care of her.
Unfortunately, her inner stardom ignored her part, overruled her ultimate purpose and became more important than the play itself.
Silly girl. No wonder it failed.
That looks like the Zapruder film! Back and to the left!
“Hasn’t she had a few kids? Porn is out of the question, no one want to see that................”
Then explain the Octomom and Teen Mom porn videos.
Pack up all your cares and woe
Off you go, singin' low
Bye, bye, Megyn
Donald Trump's in wait for thee
Sugar's sweet.....but NOT so he
Bye, bye Megyn
Folks love Trump, and yes, we understand him
Too bad you always try to underhand him
Leave your perch, go off to fly
Too-da-loo, bye, bye, bye, bye
Bye, bye, Megyn
You like to think that Trump's a clown and racist
But he just gets right back into your face-ist
Hah, hah, hah, hah
Now every night from nine to ten
We'll flip our click to CNN
Farewell, adios, bye, bye, adieu
Including Hume, the Kraut...and Stirewalt, too
So long, Megyn !
Leni/MinuteGal
Yup Fox then the number one cable news channel by far, under orders from Murdock when to war with Donald Trump and Trump won. CNN is now the number one new channel on cable. Because of Kelly, Bret and Chris I no longer watch Fox. Erin Burnett at CNN better take note, she has been rather anti-Trump on Twitter lately.
Robot sex slave for Bernie
Ditto on Andrea Tantaros.
Her being MIA speaks volumes of FAUX News.
Like so many others, I personcotted (boycotted sounds so gender-tilted) Megyn's interview. Trump got into her head many months ago, and she just couldn't let it go. Now, the consequences.
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