MEGYN finally gets her TODAY SHOW debut. Bottom line? She's Ego-Zilla
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(Edited from Kurtz/FOX) ---- So Megyn Kelly has debuted on the TODAY show. How did that go? Not so good. And the problem is because the main thing Megyn is into... is Megyn.
The Washington Post review:
"The debut was like watching a network try to assemble its own Bride of Frankenstein, using parts of Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Ripa and whatever else it can find. The resultant lovely creature, dressed in a mauve, pussy-bow blouse and skintight pants, moved stiffly and waved her arms around in broad gestures in a bizarre attempt to generate excitement from an audience that was already standing and cheering as duly instructed. She interviewed people nervously and so awkwardly that they were cowed into giving monosyllabic answers. She also never missed an opportunity to talk about herself.
"Most of the episode devolved into an intentionally meta hall of mirrors, inviting the audience to admire Kelly as much as Kelly admires Kelly."
The Slate review:
"This woman, this goofy dancer, this celebrity interviewer, this cozy companion is who Megyn Kelly tried to introduce Monday morning."
As for Kelly's "coy psych-out" that she's had it with politics because "it's gotten so dark":
"That Kelly spent years working at a network that made an unparalleled contribution to that is, well- look, she's here now, and she would like to share a mimosa with you!" Megyn was, in this telling, "not your typical Foxbot" because she "showed occasional flashes of independent thinking."
Amazing!
The New Yorker took its own shot:
"Kelly's inaugural hour of 'Today' was awkward and without purpose. The show offered no answer as to what distinguished it, and its star, from the packed slate of live morning broadcasts. It was painful to watch Kelly, who is charismatic as a firebrand, regress to an arm-waving neophyte, having been swallowed by the shiny expanse of a talk-show set."
And Time went there as well: "The problem is that Kelly, for all her forced bonhomie, is more chilly than chill. Kelly's work on Fox News, aggressively questioning perceived agents of division in a manner that was itself cleverly divisive, made her a star. Now, there was little left but self."
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