ONE OF FOX NEWS'S BIGGEST STARS IS NO LONGER WITH FOX
NEWS, THAT IS MEGYN KELLY, WHOSE LAST APPEARANCE IS SET FOR THIS
FRIDAY.
IT WAS ANNOUNCED EARLIER TODAY THAT SHE WILL BE MOVING TO
NBC NEWS, SHE HAD A CONTRACT THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO RUN INTO
THE SUMMER, THE QUESTION WAS HOW LONG WILL SHE STAY?
NOT VERY
LONG.
SHE IS GONE VERY SOON.
IT DOESN'T MEAN SHE WILL BE ON NBC
NEWS IMMEDIATELY, THEY MIGHT KEEP HER UNDER CONTRACT BUT NOT
LET HER ON THE AIR ON FOX, BUT SHE IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST FACES
ON FOX NEWS, ALTHOUGH WE WILL ATTEMPT TO FLESH OUT WHAT SHE
ACTUALLY REPRESENTS AND WHY NBC NEWS PERHAPS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A
LITTLE MORE HESITANT TO ASSOCIATE THEMSELVES WITH HER,
BUT WE WILL SEE --
I FIND THAT LAST PART TO BE
COMPLETELY UNSURPRISING, AND
PERHAPS THE LEAST OFFENSIVE PART, BUT TO GIVE YOU THE IDEA
OF THE BATTLE OVER MEGYN KELLY --
JESUS.
SHE WAS ALREADY COLLECTING $15 MILLION A YEAR, MANY TIMES I'M
SURE THE OPERATING BUDGET OF OUR ENTIRE NETWORK.
SO NBC WAS ALLEGEDLY CLEAR WITH HER ABOUT HOW THEY COULDN'T
AFFORD TO PAY HER MORE THAN $20,000 --
I'M SORRY, $20 MILLION A YEAR, IT'S HARD TO EVEN SAY IT.
SHE IS BELOW THE FEDERAL POVERTY LEVEL.
IT'S SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY.
BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT
THEY ARE PAYING HER, EVERYONE IS TIGHTLIPPED ABOUT IT, BUT SHE
SAYS SHE OPTED FOR THIS MOVE AND THIS TRANSITION BECAUSE IT WOULD
GRANT HER SOME MORE TIME WITH HER THREE SMALL KIDS, WHICH
IS IN UNDERSTANDABLE REASON TO WANT TO DO IT.
DOING THREE ROLES AT THE SAME TIME SEEMS TO POTENTIALLY UNDERCUT
THAT, BUT I'M SURE SHE WANTS TO SPEND TIME WITH HER FAMILY.
SPECIAL EVENTS DON'T HAPPEN THAT OFTEN, IT IS NOT A REGULAR
THING.
I THINK THE DAYTIME TALK SHOW WILL PROBABLY TAKE UP MOST
OF THE TIME.
IT IS PROBABLY BETTER THAN DOING A SHOW AT 9 PM WHERE YOU
CAN'T SEE YOUR KIDS.
EXACTLY, BUT WHAT I THINK IS INTERESTING IS THIS PARADIGM
SHIFT WE ARE SEEING WITH MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
AT A TIME WHEN
I THINK THE ELECTORATE'S TRUST IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS AT AN
ALL-TIME LOW I THINK IT'S AN INTERESTING MOVE TO HIRE PEOPLE
LIKE GRETA VAN SUSTEREN AT MSNBC OR MEGYN KELLY AT NBC, AND
THINGS ARE CHANGING SO QUICKLY.
I REMEMBER 10 YEARS AGO, FOR
INSTANCE, IT WAS THOUGHT THAT IF YOU WERE ON FOX NEWS AS A
POLITICAL PUNDIT OR A HOST WHO SHARED OPINION, YOU WEREN'T
GOING TO GET HIRED ANYWHERE ELSE.
THERE WAS NO WAY ANYONE
WOULD HIRE YOU.
AND NOW YOU ARE A HOT COMMODITY IF YOU ARE
COMING OUT OF FOX NEWS, ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE SOMEONE
LIKE MEGYN KELLY OR POSSIBLY BILL O'REILLY, ALTHOUGH HE SEEMS
VERY LOYAL TO FOX.
THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE CNN AND NBC DON'T KNOW WHAT THE
FUCK THEY ARE DOING.
THEY ARE STUPID AND THEY ARE LEARNING ALL
THE WRONG LESSONS FROM THIS ELECTION.
I UNDERSTAND, DONALD
TRUMP WON SO THEN NETWORKS ARE LIKE, WE HAVE TO GET TRUMP
FRIENDLY JOURNALISTS AND ALL THAT.
DUDE, HALF THE COUNTRY
VOTED IN THE ELECTION, LESS THAN HALF OF THOSE VOTED FOR DONALD
TRUMP.
THAT MEANS THAT ON A GREAT DAY, ONE FOURTH OF THE
COUNTRY CARED ENOUGH ABOUT THIS GUY TO ACTUALLY CAST A VOTE IN
HIS FAVOR.
IT AIN'T THAT BIG OF A MARKET AND I DON'T THINK THEY
WILL BE WATCHING MSNBC JUST BECAUSE YOU BRING OVER A COUPLE
PEOPLE WHO THEORETICALLY LIKE HIM.
BUT THE REASON I WANTED TO
TALK ABOUT THIS IS BECAUSE MEGYN KELLY -- I HATE THE LACK OF
NUANCE I'M SEEING IN A LOT OF THE MEDIA RECENTLY, MEGYN KELLY
IS NOT THE ABSOLUTE DEVIL, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO THINK SOME
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE THINGS ABOUT A PERSON, AND MEGYN KELLY
IS NOT SEAN HANNITY, SHE IS NOT BILL O'REILLY, BUT UNFORTUNATELY
SOME PEOPLE TAKE THAT TOO FAR AND THINK BECAUSE SHE IS NOT AS
BATSHIT CRAZY AS OTHER PEOPLE AT FOX SHE IS A REPUTABLE
JOURNALIST LIKE ANY OTHER.
SHE IS MORE LIKE THOSE JOURNALISTS BUT SHE IS NOT
THE SAME, THANKFULLY WE HAD PRODUCER JAYAR JACKSON PUT
TOGETHER A MONTAGE OF JUST SOME OF THE THINGS SHE HAS SAID
THAT PERHAPS YOU SHOULD BEAR IN MIND WHEN EVALUATING HOW
MAINSTREAM SHE REALLY SHOULD BE.
FIRST OF ALL, PEPPER SPRAY.
THAT JUST BURNS YOUR EYES,
RIGHT?
IT'S A DERIVATIVE OF ACTUAL PEPPER, IT'S A FOOD PRODUCT
ESSENTIALLY, BUT A LOT OF EXPERTS ARE LOOKING AT THAT AND
SAYING IS THAT THE REAL DEAL?
HAS IT BEEN DILUTED?
THEY SHOULD HAVE MORE OF A REACTION.
HE CERTAINLY DID NOT HAVE CONTROL OF HER, IT LOOKED KIND
OF BAD THE WAY HE WAS ATTEMPTING TO GET HER ON THE GROUND.
AND I'M SURE HE DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS 14
AT THE TIME, MAYBE HE DID.
BUT THE GIRL WAS NO SAINT EITHER, HE TOLD HER TO
LEAVE AND SHE CONTINUED TO LINGER.
JUST BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU FEEL ACCOUNTABLE DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS
TO CHANGE.
JESUS WAS A WHITE MAN TOO, BUT IT'S LIKE -- HE WAS A
HISTORICAL FIGURE, WHICH IS A VERIFIABLE FACT, AS IS SANTA, I
WANT KIDS WATCHING TO KNOW THAT -- BUT HOW DO YOU REVISE IT IN
THE MIDDLE OF THE LEGACY OF THE STORY AND CHANGE SANTA FROM
WHITE TO BLACK?
HAS ANYONE EVER HURT YOU EMOTIONALLY?
FOR A LONG TIME IN THIS COUNTRY IT WAS ASSUMED THAT YOU
WOULDN'T DEVOTE YOUR LIFE TO PROTECTING A COMMUNITY AND PUT
YOUR LIFE ON THE LINE EVERY DAY IF YOU WEREN'T INTENDING TO
PROTECT, AND YET FOLKS HAVE TAKEN A FEW INCIDENTS, MANY
OF WHICH HAVE TURNED OUT TO BE COMPLETELY FALSELY
PRESENTED, AND RUN WITH THE NARRATIVE WE JUST HEARD.
YOU'VE BEEN DIVORCED TWICE.
YES.
DID YOU LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS, ABOUT LOVE, ABOUT
YOURSELF?
THE QUESTION IS WHETHER THOSE COMMENTS DO REAL DAMAGE NOT JUST
TO MORALE AMONG CHRISTIANS ABOUT WHAT THEIR OWN PRESIDENT THINKS
OF THEM, BUT TO THE ENEMY.
IT'S A MODERN-DAY FORM OF FIGHTING BACK, IT REALLY IS.
ARE YOU GOING TO STOP THAT AS PRESIDENT?
I'M GOING TO STOP IT ABOUT YOU NOW BECAUSE I THINK I LIKE
OUR RELATIONSHIP RIGHT NOW, SO I'M CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO
DO IT WITH YOU.
NOW YOU HAVE MY CELL PHONE NUMBER, THAT IS MUCH MORE
EFFICIENT.
SOMETIMES IN THE MORNING WHEN I MAKE MY SCRAMBLED EGGS I LIKE
TO TAKE A LITTLE PEPPER SPRAY, IT'S A FOOD PRODUCT, ON MY
OMELETTE.
I FORGOT ABOUT THE INTERVIEW SHE DID WITH DONALD TRUMP.
SHE
FEUDED WITH HIM, WHICH WAS TO HER CREDIT, AND SHE LARGELY
ROLLED OVER WHEN SHE HAD THE CHANCE TO STICK IT TO HIM.
AND
THIS IS JUST A LITTLE SAMPLING -- THE SANTA STUFF IS FUNNY AND
WE LAUGH ABOUT IT, BUT YOU SAW THE STUFF ABOUT POLICE
BRUTALITY.
WE GOT QUOTE AFTER QUOTE AFTER QUOTE WHERE SHE
SHOWS A DEFERENCE TO AUTHORITY THAT SHOULD BE HORRIFYING FOR
ANY TRUE JOURNALIST, WHERE SHE JUST ASSUMES THAT EVERY COP IS
TELLING THE TRUTH, COPS ALL WANT TO DO THE RIGHT THING, NONE OF
THEM HAVE EVER BEEN DRIVEN BY RACIAL ANIMUS, AND HER VIEWS ON
RACE SHOW THAT SHE EVALUATES THE VALUE OF A POLITICAL PROTEST
BASED ON THE COLOR OF THE SKIN OF THE PEOPLE DOING IT.
SHE
EVALUATES HOW MUCH EVIDENCE IS REQUIRED TO BELIEVE WHAT
SOMEONE'S ACCOUNT OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE POLICE IS
BASED LARGELY ON THE COLOR OF THE SKIN OF THE PEOPLE.
I'M NOT
SAYING SHE'S IN THE KKK BUT SHE CLEARLY SEES PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT
RACIAL GROUPS DIFFERENTLY AND IT COMES THROUGH IN HER REPORTING,
SHE IS RACIALLY INFLAMMATORY AND OPENLY QUESTIONS PEOPLE BASED ON
THEIR RACE WHEN THEY SAY THEY'VE BEEN VICTIMIZED BY THE POLICE
AND IN OTHER INCIDENTS.
THERE IS I GUESS AN UPSIDE TO HER MOVING TO NBC AND SWITCHING
WHAT HER ROLE IS AS A BROADCAST PERSONALITY, BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T
LIKE THE DAY-TO-DAY POLITICAL COMBAT THAT YOU DEAL WITH WHEN
YOU ARE ON CABLE NEWS.
SO WITH A DAYTIME TALK SHOW IT'S GOING TO
BE DIFFERENT.
THE TYPE OF CONTENT SHE COVERS WILL BE DIFFERENT.
SO
I GUESS THAT IS GOOD -- I'M NOT GOING TO SAY THAT SHE'S JUST
GOING TO COVER FLUFF, BUT I'M SURE THERE'S GOING TO BE
MORE FLUFF INFUSED IN WHATEVER RUNDOWN THEY CREATE.
YOU KNOW FLUFF IS A FOOD PRODUCT.
MARSHMALLOW FLUFF, I'VE HAD THAT.
DELICIOUS.
BUT IT WILL BE
DIFFERENT, I GUESS THAT IS AN UPSIDE.
DAYTIME TELEVISION USED
TO BE A BIG MONEYMAKER, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS STILL THE CASE.
IN ANY EVENT, WE ARE FOCUSING ON THIS BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
UNDERSTAND ALL THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF A PERSON.
DOESN'T MEAN
SHE IS THE WORST PERSON IN MEDIA, BUT IT IS SCARY TO SEE,
AS PERHAPS A RESULT OF THE DONALD TRUMP WINNING THING, THAT
PEOPLE ARE REALLY QUESTIONABLE ON WHAT SHOULD BE THE MOST
IMPORTANT TOPICS TO JOURNALISTS, THE RECORD CAN BE WHITEWASHED
BECAUSE THEY DON'T LOOK AS CRAZY AS SOME OTHER PEOPLE.