Fox offered Kelly $100 million to stay

[TheOldSchool]

It seems even the most shameless partisan shills have a line they won't cross. Kelly turned down way more money from Fox than NBC offered her. The total humiliation her bosses and her fans put her through during Trump's clown campaign must have left an impression.

You should've taken the money Kelly. You had it so easy, but now you have to actually practice journalism. I'm not sure you'll last that long.

Exclusive: Fox News Actually Offered Megyn Kelly $100 Million Package to Stay

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Daytime talk and Sunday news is where careers go to die.

 

[Grandma]

Does that mean Greta VanSustern wants her career to die too?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Does that mean Greta VanSustern wants her career to die too?

Pretty sure she's been wanting it to for years now.

 

[TheOldSchool]

If NBC waits too long to cancel Kelly's bitchass, I'll be disappointed in them. She has never been a journalist, and she shouldn't be rewarded for the hackery she's spent her career committing.

 

[PurpleOwl]

It seems even the most shameless partisan shills have a line they won't cross. Kelly turned down way more money from Fox than NBC offered her. The total humiliation her bosses and her fans put her through during Trump's clown campaign must have left an impression.

You should've taken the money Kelly. You had it so easy, but now you have to actually practice journalism. I'm not sure you'll last that long.

Exclusive: Fox News Actually Offered Megyn Kelly $100 Million Package to Stay

What the hell kind of sunday show is she getting? 60 minutes around a burning cross? FOX news should be quarantined it shouldnt be allowed to leak into the real world. Why are they pretending Megyn Kelly is a real person? Is it just because Trump called her names and roger ailes raped her?

More than any other, the subject of race is where Kelly has consistently displayed views that should disturb anyone remotely left of center. Viewers with a keen memory might remember Kelly’s 2010 headfirst dive into right-wing conspiracizing when she joined the Fox News pile-on on the “New Black Panther Party,” a small, fringe, racist and separatist group that has no connection to the original Black Panthers.

The NBPP’s claim to fame rested on a video that surfaced in November 2008 of two of the group’s nightstick-wielding members patrolling outside a Philadelphia polling station in military-style gear (and eventually being made to leave by the police), prompting full-blown conservative hyperventilation about widespread voter intimidation. Despite the fact that no similar incident was ever reported anywhere else, Fox News spent months magnifying the story, with Kelly one of the chief culprits.

Over one two-week period, Kelly devoted 45 segments adding up to more than three and a half hours to the subject, according to figures from Media Matters. It’s worth noting that Kelly did this while she was still part of the theoretically “fair and balanced” news section of Fox News, rather than its opinion wing.

Kelly’s race-baiting has not tamped down more recently. In 2015, she directed her righteous outrage at the Obama administration over its plan to diversify neighborhoods, citing nameless experts to call it “the most radical, politically explosive change President Obama has attempted” and “social engineering of the worst kind.”

She waved away the racist emails found in the notoriously racist Ferguson police department on the basis that “very few companies” in America have no racist emails. (Perhaps she was just extrapolating from her experience at Fox.)

These are mere drops in an ocean of dubious, racist statements by Kelly, which have included her insistence to children watching her show that “Santa just is white” (which she later tried to claim was a joke), that “Jesus was a white man too” (he wasn’t), and her calling a Michelle Obama speech about the First Lady’s experience with racism an example of America turning into a “Cupcake Nation.”

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