NBC Takes Megyn Kelly Off Air, Reportedly Ready to Cancel Show

NBC took Megyn Kelly off the air on Thursday, the day after she apologized for her blackface remarks, as the network is reportedly on the verge of canceling her morning show.

Megyn Kelly Today viewers on Thursday morning were shown a “previously recorded” episode in which Kelly greeted the 9 a.m. audience in the opening moments by saying, “Happy Friday.”

CNN reported on Thursday morning that “Kelly’s show will be ending” and she is “unlikely” to return because “negotiations about the end date and other details are still underway.” Variety reported that Kelly and NBC had been discussing other roles for her at the network.

Kelly’s blackface comments earlier in the week that even her co-workers publicly declared were “ignorant” and “indefensible” seem to have been the last straw.

On her Tuesday show, Kelly wondered “what is racist” about putting on blackface for Halloween.

“But what is racist?” Kelly asked. “Because you do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface on Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid that was OK, as long as you were dressing up as, like, a character.”

Kelly also wondered why some people were upset that Luann de Lesseps of The Real Housewives of New York “made her skin darker than it really is” to dress up as Diana Ross.

“There was a controversy on The Real Housewives of New York with Luann, and she dressed as Diana Ross, and she made her skin look darker than it really is and people said that that was racist,” Kelly said. “And I don’t know, I felt like who doesn’t love Diana Ross? She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day. I don’t know how, like, that got racist on Halloween.”

After being thrashed for her remarks and taken to the woodshed on social media, Kelly apologized to her colleagues in an email, saying she now realized that “the history of blackface in our culture is abhorrent, the wounds too deep.”

Kelly opened her Wednesday show by saying: “I want to begin with two words: I’m sorry.”

“One of the great parts of sitting in this chair each day is getting to discuss different points of view. Sometimes I talk and sometimes I listen. And yesterday I learned,” Kelly said. “I learned that given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country it is not okay for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise.”

But when she insisted that she has “never been a PC kind of person,” many felt that her apology was disingenuous and exposed her again as a phony.

As Breitbart News noted when NBC inexplicably hitched “Today’s star to Kelly’s wagon,” NBC looked “like the Houston Texans when they foolishly tried to build their franchise around former Denver Broncos quarterback Brock Osweiler.”

Just like Osweiler went from “the penthouse to the outhouse” when all of his deficiencies were exposed in Houston, one television executive, in an interview with CNN right after Kelly went to NBC, warned that if Kelly fails at NBC, she could end up “fading into obscurity.”

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