‘Today’ Show Staffers Are Furious With Megyn Kelly

Megyn Kelly didn’t wait to pounce. She made a statement the same day we found out Matt Lauer’s fate. She delivered a mini monologue during her show, “Megyn Kelly Today.”

“This one does hit close to home,” Kelly said. “I, too, have known Matt for a long time and he has been a friend and kind and supportive to me in my transition to NBC News, and I see the anguish on my colleagues faces.”

“What we don’t see is the pain on the faces of those who found the courage to come forward, and it is a terrifying thing to do,” Kelly continued. “We don’t see the career opportunities women lose because of sexual harassment or the intense stress it causes a woman dealing with it when she comes to work each day. I am thinking of those women this morning and hoping they are okay. The days to come will not be easy.”

“We start this morning with this news: Matt Lauer has been terminated from NBC News.” pic.twitter.com/9g5Ou9r2K6

— Megyn Kelly TODAY (@MegynTODAY) November 29, 2017

Critics were quick to accuse Kelly of making the story all about her. And anyone with half a brain knows she’d kill for Lauer’s former job. She wants his place at that desk.

All I can say is, “Good luck with that.” It sounds like a bunch of “Today” show staffers loathe Kelly, and her little monologue only managed to tick them off even more.

Insiders at the show told DailyMail.com that if she had a public comment to make she should have focused on the accuser and the Today team who are devastated by by the allegation surrounding Lauer and his firing, which came late Tuesday night.

Instead they– like the critics– say Kelly made it about herself.

‘We work in an industry of egos but this is the most opportunistic thing we’ve ever seen,’ said one staffer.

‘We now have the highest paid person at NBC News hosting one of the lowest rating shows, and rather than being humble, she takes the first opportunity to take the spotlight and make it all about her and what she knew.

‘Our team is hurting and the newest member of the team who is yet to prove herself is out and about making public comments that she truly has no knowledge of.’
All day members of the Today show were crying and distraught, staffers told DailyMail.com.

‘But rather than sticking around and spending time with the staff, Megyn made sure she was the center of attention.

‘No one wanted Megyn here, she was forced upon us and today reinforced why she will never be a member of the Today family.’

In other words…

Staffers said other anchors handled the Lauer news with grace and class. The same can’t be said of Kelly.

“Megyn on the other hand saw this as an opportunity to mark her territory within NBC News. Yet she failed and she’s now lost the support of everyone,” one staffer said, according to Daily Mail. “And here’s something we’d like to say about her – she’s terrible on morning television, her show is terrible, her staff think she is terrible, in fact her show should be call Terrible with Megyn Kelly.”

“They were right over at Fox News, she deserves the nickname ‘Me-Again’ – as it is all about her even though she fails to see that the viewers don’t like her,” the staffer added.

Yowza.

Maybe she won’t make it to the “Today” show desk after all. Jello shots it is!

h/t Daily Mail