"Megyn Kelly Today" is not off to such a wonderful start

I don't understand how Kelly or anyone at NBC figured she could become a Barbara Walters or Diane Sawyer given her extremely limited reporting experience in the field.
And now we're supposed to buy her as Mike Wallace at night and Joan Lunden in the morning?

 

I must have missed the "blaccent." That clip was no better or worse than any other daytime fluff, certainly not deserving of the scorn I've been reading. That's literally the first thing I've ever watched of her on NBC (other than that awful SNF promo in which she karate kicked toward the camera for some reason), but I hope the rest of her "gaffes" are worse than that, otherwise I don't see what the hubbub is about.

She's a morning show personality. If she fails, WGAF?

 

Poor Giambi. He hated NYC so much he stayed there for seven years and collected $100 mil.

 

Ed Whitson.

 

Worse, he stuck it out for $120 million.

 

NBC is notorious for this. Kelly, Josh Elliott, Sam Champion. They'll bring in people who are threats at other networks to their programs. Pay them to get them to NBC. Then sit them where, three years later, they aren't a threat anymore.

 

Slight tangent... remember the ESPN 3Play? One night, I got Dennis Miller on MNF as one of my three. He made certain wisecracks that got me hundreds of points. Carry on.

 

Weirdest Willie Nelson song ever, right there.

 

Week 2 isn't starting much better. If you're going to cut off anyone, do not cut off the man who has been the face of NBC News for decades:
Megyn Kelly awkwardly cuts off Tom Brokaw in the latest gaffe on her new NBC show

 

Has she had Hillary on yet? I think that could be a turning point for both of them.

M-"Welcome, a lot of people - you among them - don't feel you've been treated fairly by the press."
H- "Well, yeah - I'm sure you have a better understanding of where I'm coming from now with some of the stuff written about this show."
M- "I KNOW!!! Right?????!!! I kind of feel like people are just waiting for any slight flub or mistake and just jump on me because it will get clicks."
H- "I KNOW!!!! Right?????!!!!

 

And now, for the gleeful anonymous trashing from co-workers.

Keep Out, Kelly! Matt & Savannah Snub 'Toxic' Megyn: 'No One Wants To Be Around Her'

The on-set insider warns, “Don’t expect to see Matt and Megyn at lunch anytime soon — She has become so toxic everyone wants to stay away from the bad smell.”

. . .

Snitches spilled Hoda, 53, and Gifford, 64, are down 8% since Kelly became the lead-in for NBC‘s third hour with Megyn Kelly Today. “The ladies are furious,” said the informant.

Gifford is “livid” Kelly’s ratings disaster is negatively effecting her prized position at the network, the insider said, adding that she has a message for the execs in charge of hiring her: “I told you so!”

 

NBC should flip the shows, have HKL do the 9, have Kelly do a show that has a little harder edge than the Ripa show (authors, issues, business and political leaders).