New York -Television anchor Megyn Kelly’s NBC morning show “Megyn Kelly Today” will not return to the air, NBC News said in an emailed statement on Friday.
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Earlier this week, Kelly sparked widespread criticism by defending the use of blackface as part of Halloween costumes during remarks on the show.
Kelly apologized for the comments on the air, but the network began airing taped episodes of her normally live show on Thursday.
Kelly remains an employee of NBC News and “discussions about next steps are continuing,” her attorney, Bryan Freedman, said in a statement on Friday.
NBC hired Kelly in January 2017 after she rose to fame on 21st Century Fox’s cable channel Fox News.
Next week, other Today show co-anchors will host during the 9 a.m. hour that had belonged to Kelly, NBC News said.
Another RACIST bites the dust. Good riddance. She’s more suited to Fox Faux ‘news’. FEH
How she would fit right in with the racists on CNN. Don Lemon could use a sidekick. They need more people on their station calling the president Hitler to get their point across.
Thirty or forty years ago doing black face was not meant to make fun. Dressing as an indian was not meant to be offensive but just a dress not be be mean. If blacks dress to be more white is this wrong too
The days of Al Jolson dressing in blackface, and singing “Mammy” are long gone. It wasn’t that long ago, that on Thanksgiving, in Philadelphia, during the Thanksgiving parade, that a group called “The Mummers” would dress up in blackface, and play banjos. They stopped doing that in the late 1970’s. Also, a prominent Borough Park Assemblyman (Dov Hikind) got into trouble a few years ago, when he dressed in blackface on Purim, and then tried to defend wearing that stupid costume.
Very much not a fan but after watching the segment a few times, I still see nothing wrong.
The leftist PC wacko police have gone nuts. Someone needs to stand up to them once and for all.