Is This the Megyn Kelly Reckoning We've All Been Waiting For?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Megyn Kelly’s future at NBC is uncertain following controversy around a statement she made on the air on Tuesday. The network aired a rerun of Kelly’s 9 a.m. hour of the Today show on Thursday, and it’s unclear when — or if — she’ll be back. “Given the circumstances, Megyn Kelly Today will be on tape the rest of the week,” an NBC News spokesperson told Rolling Stone.

On Tuesday, during a discussion on Today, Kelly claimed that blackface was acceptable in the context of Halloween costumes, saying it was “OK when I was a kid as long as you were dressing like a character.”


The backlash was swift, both on the Internet and at Kelly’s own network.
Writer and New York Times Opinion Editor Jenée Desmond-Harris tweeted a piece she wrote for Vox in 2014 explaining the racist history of blackface and why it’s still offensive today, commenting, “The latest news on the topic just goes to show that you can explain all you want and people who are committed not understanding anything and defending racism won’t ever learn, because they don’t want to.”

Al Roker said during an on-air discussion on Kelly’s comments, “While she apologized to the staff, she owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is a history going back to the 1830s.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/megyn-kelly-blackface-fired-reckoned-747038/

[Hekate]

1. Megyn simply does not want to learn. Talk about harmful willful ignorance. Bye, Megyn. Go away. nt

[Cha]

2. KR

[Cha]

3. She's advocated for body shaming and declared that Santa is definitely white -- but her comments

about blackface could be the deal-breaker for NBC

[grantcart]

7. I would say that Santa wasn't happy and the brother took his last Xmas gift back

[MadDAsHell]

4. If by reckoning you mean getting tens of millions for not working anymore, then yeah I guess.

That’s the most classic thing about these situations where folks are forced out of their jobs for being offensive. They’re essentially still going to make all or nearly all of the money they would have, but now they don’t even have to perform any work to earn it. Same thing with these conservative pukes who get their college campus appearances cancelled; the taxpayers still pay those speaking fees, and the speaker doesn’t even have to show up to get it.

Nice “work” if you can get it, I guess.

[allgood33]

5. When I think they let Tamaron go for Megan...I scream!

Just can't wrap my head around that move.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. As I am sure you heard, but for the record...

They canned her ass, but had to pay her the entire value of her contract, $69 MILLION.

[kimbutgar]

8. She's got enough fu money to be comfortable the rest of her life

Feeling no sympathy for her racist insensitive comments having consequences.