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2018-10-26 Home Front: Culture Wars

As we toast Megyn Kelly on her departure from NBC and sip our Trump Schadenfreude (which tastes like Diet Coke with a slightly stronger New York accent) let us also enjoy watching NBC pay $69 million or so in exit fees to the 21st century's version of Pink Lady and Jeff.

Kelly was a lawyer who joined Fox News as a reporter and worked her way to an anchor post. They promoted her to prime-time. She was doing fine until the first Republican presidential debate in August 2015.

She picked a fight with Donald John Trump. He ate her up and spit her out like a wad of gum. The transcript shows she broke a rule. A lawyer never asks a question in court that she does not know the answer to.
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Posted by badanov 2018-10-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 let us also enjoy watching NBC pay $69 million or so in exit fees

My thoughts exactly.

Now Megyn can go collect unemployment until someone else is stupid enough to hire her.

Posted by gorb 2018-10-26 00:21|| 2018-10-26 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 It's probably a minority opinion, but walking away with $69 million makes me think she did this on purpose to get out of a job she clearly didn't like at all. That's serious retirement money, even if split amongst ten of us after taxes.

Posted by Raj 2018-10-26 00:35|| 2018-10-26 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 She was tanking and NBC wanted to dump her. She is a multimillionaire as the result. I used to watch her at Fox and then quit watching her about the time all the shenanigans began. Kelly struck me as a climber who would do about anything to get ahead.

I never quite understood why these self-important newsreaders got paid so much. So many just present talking points from an agenda which is given to them.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-10-26 00:38|| 2018-10-26 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 $69 million

Reward failure and punish success. Not usually a good strategy. However, why not? it's not like the company executives believe in fiduciary responsibility. It's other peoples' money not theirs. Same as their politics.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-26 07:10|| 2018-10-26 07:10|| Front Page Top

#5 Surber's Official Trump Schadenfreude list is interesting - 91-Item List

Posted by Bobby 2018-10-26 07:42|| 2018-10-26 07:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Raj, make that a minority of at least two. It was the first thing that occurred to me, but I am sometimes cynical.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2018-10-26 07:48|| 2018-10-26 07:48|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 Kelly struck me as a climber who would do about anything to get ahead.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Posted by jpal 2018-10-26 11:44|| 2018-10-26 11:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I read her nickname around Fox was "Me again Kelly."

Posted by Bugs Thud4877 2018-10-26 15:48|| 2018-10-26 15:48|| Front Page Top

#9 the 21st century's version of Pink Lady and Jeff.

"...Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long, long time.."

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-10-26 17:36|| 2018-10-26 17:36|| Front Page Top

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