Bring Megyn Back to Fox News
I believe Megyn Kelly should return to the fair and balanced sanctuary of Fox News as soon as she finalizes her severance agreement with NBC. Did anyone believe her center-right feminism would fit into the NBC/MSNBC culture? Sure enough, current events prove she jumped from the frying pan into the fire. Let's hope Kelly seizes the moment to return to Fox News and become the voice of center-right feminism, because she is living proof the American Left dislikes #MeToo survivors that are non-liberals.
On the record, NBC News chairman Andy Lack had “talks about [Megyn Kelly’s] imminent departure” after condemning her “racist” comments at the news division’s town-hall meeting on Wednesday. According to Lack, Kelly’s on-air comments offended the PC police: “But what is racist? Because you get in trouble if you’re a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on white face for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was OK – as long as you were dressed like a character.” While many of her viewers accepted Kelly’s tearful apology on Wednesday, her employer did not.
Watch the video clip to see for yourself if Andy Lack is over-reacting. Is Kelly allowed to ask a real question about a subject that is part of today’s political debate (race and law enforcement, immigration and voting laws). After confirming cross-racial costumes are now taboo in America and contrasting today with her childhood in the seventies, did she come off as a racist? I don't think so.
I am calling BS on NBC, because they paid Ms. Kelly $69 million to leave Fox News inspite of her conservative resume. Two years ago, NBC overlooked her comments that Santa Claus and Jesus were actually white and did not care that she coined the term “cupcakes” for the self-proclaimed victims of identity repression and political incorrectness. If Andy Lack were a good boss, he would stand by his new hire: perhaps opting for an intervention instead of a termination. Throwing Megyn Kelly under the bus now makes him look weak and incompetent.
I suspect the network’s cries of “racism” are window dressing. NBC News cannot be happy the high-priced Kelly was not the draw on NBC mornings that she was on Fox evenings (“Megyn Kelly Today” delivered 375,000 fewer viewers than the 9:00 segment of the “Today Show” she was supposed to revitalize). She also embarrassed NBC leaders by taking the #MeToo battle to NBC’s male talent (Matt Lauer and Tom Brokaw). Apparently, it was fine for Kelly to champion the #MeToo movement at Fox but not OK to throw punches at NBC’s male employees (insisting on-air the network hire an independent law firm to investigate the NBC culture).
More than likely, Megyn Kelly was just viewed as a “bad apple” at NBC. Craig Melvin (MSNBC anchor) called Kelly “racist and ignorant” and Al Roker claimed Kelly “owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country.” Why am I not surprised these black NBC co-workers rejected Kelly’s apology: could it be because her annual salary dwarfs a male celebrity anchor's take-home pay?
Megyn Kelly is an open and honest journalist, whose harshest critics (not surprisingly) come from the Left. Sure, they supported her when she went after Donald Trump and Bill Riley - only to hate her for challenging the realism of identity-driven political correctness and questioning the effectiveness of some progressive attempts at social re-engineering.
What was so heinous when Kelly urged Black Lives Matter to “comply and complain later, even if you know the cop is in the wrong” rather than resist and risk forcible subjugation. This is the same advice my (white) father gave his son (me), and his logic was simple: what is going through the mind of an armed police officer when you don’t respect his badge or fear his weapon? Liberals immediately called Kelly an unsympathetic racist...as if they could read her mind.
In another example, Kelly questioned how effective an Obama policy would be in bringing diversity to predominantly white neighborhoods. She simply observed, “They [the Obama administration] don’t want ‘unequal neighborhoods’ that are too white, too privileged...with too many big McMansions...whether the communities want it or not.” Liberals immediately called Kelly anti-diversity...when she was actually asking what constitutes an “unequal neighborhood?”
In the spirit of full disclosure, I like Megyn Kelly’s brand of center-right journalism. Whereas Ann Coulter is an acid-tongued extremist, Kelly is civil to her guests – even when asking pointed questions. Unlike Laura Ingraham, Kelly calls Trump out for his sexism and right-wing rabble rousing. By the way, Tucker Carlson’s intellectual food fights and Sean Hannity’s propaganda don’t measure up to Kelly’s Fox News prime time show.
Megyn Kelly should return to Fox News (with a restraining order on all of those lusty male employees). After all, it was Fox News that kept Juan Williams gainfully employed after the black journalist was fired by the PC police at NPR. Megyn Kelly should let bygones be bygones and return to Fox News. After being sexually harassed by Roger Ailes and politically muzzled by Andy Lack, she can emerge as the most powerful center-right female voice in America. She is totally the modern conservative American woman.
If she returns to Fox News, it must be on her own terms: allowed to question policies and apologize when she errs, and allowed to go after President Trump because Fox viewers deserve better than the Hannity-Trump lovefest. American center-right politics need a voice: Megyn Kelly could be the most powerful woman in broadcast journalism. I think I am right about this.