Literally anybody without 1) their head up their ass, 2) an ulterior motive, or 3) both. That's who.

She could wear her high fashion outfits while showing off those stand-up toilet stalls.

I didn't warm to her when she was a local anchor out here. She was The Blonde who knew she was there because of the blonde and some very strong but photogenic jawline.

I saw her use that line umpteen times when "interviewing" opponents of the Iraq War and torture in general, and bush/cheney in particular. "But can't you at least concede that..." and usually followed by some mealy-mouthed RNC talking point like "he made us safer" or "we got Saddam" or some such blitheringly myopic idiocy. Used to DRIVE ME CRAZY!!!

"...But can't you at least concede that..."

She loved using that verb "concede" - because it has such thick notes of being A BIG FAT LOSER: "acknowledging you're wrong," "giving up," "admitting defeat," "surrendering," "confessing your grievous miscalculation or miserable and humiliating mistake."

Here it is, defined:

con·cede
kənˈsēd/Submit
verb
1.
admit that something is true or valid after first denying or resisting it.
"I had to concede that I'd overreacted"
synonyms: admit, acknowledge, accept, allow, grant, recognize, own, confess; agree
"I had to concede that I'd overreacted"
2.
surrender or yield (something that one possesses).
"to concede all the territory he'd won"
synonyms: surrender, yield, give up, relinquish, cede, hand over
"he conceded the Auvergne to the king"

Now she's languishing in some obscure pipsqueak cable offshoot channel where she produces and hosts cheesy "crime documentary" tabloid fodder, on something called the "Investigation Discovery" channel (the WHAT???).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Zahn

Probably where Megyn Kelly will eventually wind up, too - at some little never-heard-of-it cable channel up in the 100s or 200s where washed up former Fox people go to die (but still get to be on camera).

Really, what was the point of bringing people over from FOX anyway?

I periodically catch a bit of Greta's show, and she seems to be adapting somewhat. But given who Megyn has chosen to interview, I have no intention of ever tuning in. Ever.

Away from Fox Noise, people find intelligent content far more attractive than a Playboy Centerfold. Beauty is not frowned upon, but it is at best a supplement to content, not a substitute for it. Until she grasps that, she'll go nowhere.

Them and their catering to the Fascistrumps.

Things are different in the reality based universe. But like all rwers she'll eventually blame the liberals.

They can both go home to fox where they belong as far as I'm concerned.

They will fire Andy Lack and stop this shite.

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It's a rarity when somebody can move out from there into the big leagues and be okay. That is - be regarded with any credibility. Major Garrett actually seems to have made the switch to CBS, which is pretty surprising. But I've watched him at news conferences and he's actually NOT asking fawning, leading, slanted, I've-got-yer-back questions. Hmmm... well, maybe he's a legitimate journalist after all? MAYBE.

I'm still reserving judgment on that. But so far he's doing okay. But he still has the "mark of Fox" on him. Megyn Kelly might as well wear a fox costume all day every day. She's been there so long, and so far up front, literally their shiny object, right there starring in prime time Monday through Friday, and always the lead anchor on the big events. She might as well have "FOX NEWS!" tattooed on her forehead. I don't know that she can break away from that strong a branding. If she'd done just a couple of years there, or she was on camera fleetingly as some reporter is from the field, a lot of the time, the branding doesn't stick quite so permanently. That kind of "glue" can be peeled off, but when it's literally heat-laminated on, you're kinda stuck with it.

And because she's been SO strongly identified with Pox Noise for so many years, I really don't see how she breaks free of that. Particularly when she insists on bringing Pox Noise-type subject matter onto the air with her, a la Alex Jones. You don't think "60 Minutes" wouldn't already have done that, if they'd thought it was in ANY way a legitimate topic to investigate? I saw it in last week's supermarket pop-culture magazine "In Touch". The July 3rd edition. When I read that (and admittedly, I bought it to read that story which was headlined on the cover to see what their take was), I felt totally vindicated.

Here's the paragraph:

"And her NBC colleagues are disgusted. 'Matt (Lauer) thinks this interview gave a platform to an individual who peddles conspiracy theories about dead children. It's a stunt that Megyn would have gotten away with when she was at Fox News, but this is NBC,' a network insider tells 'In Touch'."

And that same paragraph goes on to say:
"Matt, 59, is afraid that the growing drama and lagging ratings plaguing Megyn's Sunday night show will soon negatively affect 'Today' when she joins in September. Matt is incensed that she is tarnishing the network's image."

YEP. Yep, yep, yep.

And btw, I think Matt Lauer is right. I think he's pegged this quite accurately. I think if the Megyn debacle is allowed to continue, she WILL have an adverse impact on the revered decades-long "Today" show institution. I think the quotes I've seen elsewhere about NBC misjudging the glitter and glitz of Megyn Kelly over on Pox Noise and mistaking it for superstar status are spot-on. At its most basic, she was a big fancy shiny blonde fish in a small pond. OF COURSE she got a lot of attention! But the #1 student in a sixth-grade universe of 30 kids is NOT automatically guaranteed to become an outstanding publicly-hailed celebrity-level Nobel Prize winner in the big bad outside world in which you actually have to prove your real mettle in the years after grad school.

No wonder she may not be back on this coming Sunday - as the title of this article suggests:

MEGYN KELLY RATINGS DIP FOR THIRD STRAIGHT WEEK HITTING NEW LOW OF 3.41M VIEWERS ON NBC AS HOST ANNOUNCES SHE WILL BE OFF THE AIR NEXT SUNDAY DURING LIMITED SUMMER RUN
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4640864/Megyn-Kelly-ratings-continue-fall-3-41M-viewers.html

... take the Fauxney news out of the "reporter." Did they seriously expect anyone who isn't a Fauxney-bot to watch her?