No matter what Megyn Kelly does, it seems someone has to take a shot at it. She's had various trips in her professional career and from that many seem to want to hound her until she dies. Add a lovely metaphor of a shark feeding frenzy if you like.
Don't add any political fervor to the wonder at her mistreatment since it's not here at the Rockhouse and she has said specifically in her new gig at NBC that she wants to get away from the politics. Why not after that's been an ugly business and the Rockhouse hasn't been shy about throwing some shots her way during her highly-political Fox tenure that didn't make for a lifetime contract to be an asshole toward her.
She's trying to shake her feet, find a new beat, and get her professional life moving in a different and more personal direction. In most cases, people will cheer the courage it takes to do that but you have seen that's not how it went down with Megyn Kelly.
Here's a write-up from Fox which is reasonably good. (FoxNews: Megyn Kelly on 'Today': Why the caustic critics keep harping on Fox)
For a somewhat more melodramatic reaction to Megyn Kelly's new gig on the "Today" show, of course we go to CNN: Jane Fonda really didn't want to talk about plastic surgery with Megyn Kelly
Here in the Rockhouse School of Journalism, we view that situation as a flub and not a crime against Nature. Kelly was trying to bring her idea of personalism rather than politics to the show and she must not have read it right Fonda who really wanted to talk about her new movie.
Fair enough that she made a mistake but that ain't no capital crime and it's not at all worthy of a Big Deal in the News.
As a life-long Progressive, it seems to me Progressives will be most respecting of her desire to change, evolve, push into new things since Progressives put our lives toward that. I have seen the background justifications for why various subsets of the People are prone to attacking her but none of those have had any particular merit in my view.
Zen Yogi: it may be she approaches or has already passed the Too Rich to Be Cool level so that gains her some enmity
It's possible, Yogi, but it still doesn't much satisfy as an answer to the why of the continuing haughty-to-savage assaults on her.
Zen Yogi: why do you feel defensive for her, mate?
She's been determinedly pushing into new directions and that willingness to put a stable if controversial past behind to move into a new but unstable future is immensely respected by the Rockhouse. That's the fundamental behind just about any good thing happening in anything. That she's not willing to continue doing things in the same old way as she always did is exciting.
Zen Yogi: you are dressed when you watch her, right?
Yes, Yogi, and I don't clean my guns either. That rot from Ted Nugent did her no credit at all despite his thinking those appalling attempts would praise her. She handled that gracefully even though that kind of thing likely is the last comment any female journalist would want to hear from anyone.
Zen Yogi: and you're not trying to paint a kinder, gentler Silas because of your circumstance?
No, Yogi. The defense of Megyn Kelly didn't start with the escalation in my own travails but rather sometime at or before she did the Putin interview with NBC. She was slashed from all slides for doing that one but I thought she did a professional job of it and I was impressed.
Zen Yogi: so what's the pitch?
Here's the pitch, mate, since I'm wondering if it would ruin the beautiful day for people to cut her some fuckin' slack. There are many talking heads out there for whom I wouldn't be particularly generous but Megyn Kelly is a bright woman and we need to be supporting her rather than beating her down.
Don't add any political fervor to the wonder at her mistreatment since it's not here at the Rockhouse and she has said specifically in her new gig at NBC that she wants to get away from the politics. Why not after that's been an ugly business and the Rockhouse hasn't been shy about throwing some shots her way during her highly-political Fox tenure that didn't make for a lifetime contract to be an asshole toward her.
She's trying to shake her feet, find a new beat, and get her professional life moving in a different and more personal direction. In most cases, people will cheer the courage it takes to do that but you have seen that's not how it went down with Megyn Kelly.
Here's a write-up from Fox which is reasonably good. (FoxNews: Megyn Kelly on 'Today': Why the caustic critics keep harping on Fox)
For a somewhat more melodramatic reaction to Megyn Kelly's new gig on the "Today" show, of course we go to CNN: Jane Fonda really didn't want to talk about plastic surgery with Megyn Kelly
Here in the Rockhouse School of Journalism, we view that situation as a flub and not a crime against Nature. Kelly was trying to bring her idea of personalism rather than politics to the show and she must not have read it right Fonda who really wanted to talk about her new movie.
Fair enough that she made a mistake but that ain't no capital crime and it's not at all worthy of a Big Deal in the News.
As a life-long Progressive, it seems to me Progressives will be most respecting of her desire to change, evolve, push into new things since Progressives put our lives toward that. I have seen the background justifications for why various subsets of the People are prone to attacking her but none of those have had any particular merit in my view.
Zen Yogi: it may be she approaches or has already passed the Too Rich to Be Cool level so that gains her some enmity
It's possible, Yogi, but it still doesn't much satisfy as an answer to the why of the continuing haughty-to-savage assaults on her.
Zen Yogi: why do you feel defensive for her, mate?
She's been determinedly pushing into new directions and that willingness to put a stable if controversial past behind to move into a new but unstable future is immensely respected by the Rockhouse. That's the fundamental behind just about any good thing happening in anything. That she's not willing to continue doing things in the same old way as she always did is exciting.
Zen Yogi: you are dressed when you watch her, right?
Yes, Yogi, and I don't clean my guns either. That rot from Ted Nugent did her no credit at all despite his thinking those appalling attempts would praise her. She handled that gracefully even though that kind of thing likely is the last comment any female journalist would want to hear from anyone.
Zen Yogi: and you're not trying to paint a kinder, gentler Silas because of your circumstance?
No, Yogi. The defense of Megyn Kelly didn't start with the escalation in my own travails but rather sometime at or before she did the Putin interview with NBC. She was slashed from all slides for doing that one but I thought she did a professional job of it and I was impressed.
Zen Yogi: so what's the pitch?
Here's the pitch, mate, since I'm wondering if it would ruin the beautiful day for people to cut her some fuckin' slack. There are many talking heads out there for whom I wouldn't be particularly generous but Megyn Kelly is a bright woman and we need to be supporting her rather than beating her down.
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