I watch Kelly regularly and I don't think this essay applies to her in the way that it would to Candace or Tucker. Megyn's comments are being wildly exaggerated and taken out of context. She is broadly not a conspiracy theorist and she doesn't indulge in strange woo-woo stuff. She doesn't stoop to the lowest common denominator.
Her big crime seems to be refusing to denounce and condemn Candace and Tucker. She hasn't endorsed any of their kooky takes; she just doesn't want to play the condemnation game.
Megyn Kelly is the most dangerous kind of soulless media liar, precisely because she is so pathologically good at convincing you she is not willing to say whatever is needed to make a buck while she is saying whatever is needed to make a buck.
“I’m just being true to my principles” when everyone paying attention knows what her “principles” were last year, and they were not the ones she is claiming now.
Satan is rubbing his hands in anticipation of the moment she and Tucker Carlson descend to Hell.
I'll never understand you cynical types who think everyone is lying about things for $. You must have spent too long enmeshed in DC or some other power system. The idea that a person could have genuine human growth in their views as circumstances change or they learn or experience more seems such a common experience for most I've met in this life but is alien to a few like you. Not wanting to engage in mob behavior after seeing it's affects the past few years or actual open-mindedness are removed from your consideration why? The human creature can detect dishonesty pretty easily, even subconsciously. Its one reason Trump persists 12 years going. Please keep up your performative inflexibility going though, it labels you quite easily as someone to not listen to for those who still cling more to humanity and earnestness than bitterness. Your insults say far more about yourself than any of those you venomously attack.
Thanks, good article. But the inconvenient question is, Why are so many people (perhaps millions) eager to lap up this content? If these podcasters have extremely large audiences, that's also a worrying fact by itself.
Kelly was a Never Trump “conservative” libtard who got her start by being Roger Ailes’ cocktease, did Roger’s bidding by trying to knock out Trump in the primaries. When everyone thought Trump was going to lose, her and many of the other current day gatekeepers started doing the “I used to be conservative but saw the light” conversion. Trump won, and she tried going mainstream. Got rejected, came back and is now just another grifter doing the soap opera approach to politics.
I can't disagree with your analysis, but conservatives should not eat our own. Criticism of Kelly only started after she wouldn't 'denounce' Tucker Carlson. The MIGA mob then went into their lynching.
Well I admit it was a nice deflection from my point about the attacks on Candace, Kelly, Tucker, etc., coincidentally starting after criticizing the Gaza genocide. If they are all 'crazy,' haven't they always been crazy? Why the criticism now? BTW, were you paid for this attack piece? I understand Israel is paying for 'positive' coverage now because of their plummeting public support.
Yes, like many others (e.g., Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Mike Levin). The difference is, they 'support Israel' and therefore, don't have hit pieces written against them.
Great discussion. But, this probably at least somewhat understates the level of editorial control the influencer/podcaster class has with their audience.
If one compares to a John Oliver or Colbert, they can’t come out and suddenly be Trump supporters, for example, but they do still have meaningful control over what topics they cover and how they characterize and shade those topics.
Megyn Kelly or Tim Dillon or whoever have some editorial control. Maybe Megyn feels she can’t or doesn’t want to directly pick up the Candace/Charlie fight but she still gets to decide whether and how to much to talk about it and whether to endorse vs equivocate vs criticize. At least she equivocated vs endorsing, perhaps one could say.
Anyway - seems reasonable to continue to lobby for higher standards, particularly when it can be done in a way that isn’t completely non commercial, which it generally can.
The same revenue/economic constrains that apply to Megyn Kelly apply to John Stewart (also now a podcaster) or Preet Bharara or Scott himself for that matter. One doesn’t need to let these people off as powerless revenue maximizers. Megyn almost certainly does not even want to be a revenue maximizer - although she can’t ignore it either. So it takes some deftness to know what is reasonable and possible and then it makes sense to ask for and support it…
Kelly shows just how far you can go as a moderate who’s open to all side, which is not very far. Yes, she’s a mercenary who’s good at spotting talent, so she’ll usually reserve her kookier opinions to her guests.
I think she’s looking to keep the peace and remain neutral as Candace and Tucker do the bidding of their idiot audience and their Qatari patrons. Maybe she’s looking to cash in too? She’s more slippery and subtle than this article suggests—not to be confused with flexible, which she definitely is.
I suspect Candace, Tucker, and the other conspiracy pushers will slowly deflate. It’s not exactly a sustainable model and a scandal or lawsuit is always on the horizon for people who do this. Or at least they’ll occupy a different sphere of influence than news and commentary.
Kelly and Matt Walsh are gonna be the big leaders in the space left behind by Charlie Kirk. You can be sure both of them are being very careful what to report and say.
As newspapers discovered, the demand for mainstream news just isn’t that big. If people can choose to just get the sports and gossip fluff, they don’t really care about the real news.
The 3 big nightly news telecasts - ABC, NBC, CBS - combined have about 2.5 million viewers in the 25-54 y/o demographic. And even they devote a huge amount of time - at least 30%+ of the broadcast - to human interest stories and funny cat videos and sht like that.
Kelly gets 200-300k views on her youtube vids, spiking up sometimes on a juicy topic, and who knows how many podcast listens. That’s pretty good for one person talking into a camera.
And it’s not really germane to the topic but it must be said regardless: Good Lord is she a smokeshow these days.
Could the insane clown people be steered in a more productive direction? Maybe toward WW2 revisionism, and communist infiltration of the US government?
"At least there are standards in traditional media". Not really, they just peddle non factual lunacy which caters to a different demographic. The woketards and conspiratards deserve each other. And sadly, it looks as though even though the woketards days are numbered they will be replaced not with Jared Taylor who wants you to have safe white neighborhoods again, but anti porn nannies who lecture about sexual morality while going to bed with a homely grotesque Indian. If we were comparing the critical pedo theorists to the traditional media of Cronkite and Murrow, the point would have some more validity, but even they peddled nonsense about race/communism. They were race communists they just weren't gay. That's basically all that's changed when it comes to the mainstream.
the issue is that the media/world became too insane because of clownish leftists
in control of mainstream news,that conspiracy theories by conservatives turned out to be true
the great replacement? was just called a conspiracy theory at one point, had you told me 10 years ago the government would be pushing parents to castrate their boys in order to turn them into girls i would have called you crazy
everything Covid ,related to the vaccines ,the Epstein case,the World Economic forum/UN/WHO, foreign wars raised a bunch of questions about authority,truth and who really is in control and for what porpuses
it went too insane in such a short time
and you add AI to the mix, now i can't dismiss anything just because i think they sound ridiculous ,things that i would have thought absurd years ago happened,in reality
i still judge news/podcasts based on what i believe is honest and plausible and whats not, so Charlie being killed by a massive conspiracy involving the french government,israel,his own robot wife and tpusa friends ,likely didn't happened, and we must be careful to not get involved in the lies, its our personal responsibility, as well as call out the liars for the sake of reason and truth
but other crazy sounding news turned out to be real, i can't really blame people for believing this or the other,knowing a little more about the podcaster career(Megyn Kelly and Candance Owens in this case)
from reading this piece, helps a ton
i barely know Scott, just been following him a short time, my first impression is that he is smart and honest, if snarky at times, i hope im not mistaken 🤭because he writtes good history lessons
I watch Kelly regularly and I don't think this essay applies to her in the way that it would to Candace or Tucker. Megyn's comments are being wildly exaggerated and taken out of context. She is broadly not a conspiracy theorist and she doesn't indulge in strange woo-woo stuff. She doesn't stoop to the lowest common denominator.
Her big crime seems to be refusing to denounce and condemn Candace and Tucker. She hasn't endorsed any of their kooky takes; she just doesn't want to play the condemnation game.
Megyn Kelly is the most dangerous kind of soulless media liar, precisely because she is so pathologically good at convincing you she is not willing to say whatever is needed to make a buck while she is saying whatever is needed to make a buck.
“I’m just being true to my principles” when everyone paying attention knows what her “principles” were last year, and they were not the ones she is claiming now.
Satan is rubbing his hands in anticipation of the moment she and Tucker Carlson descend to Hell.
I'll never understand you cynical types who think everyone is lying about things for $. You must have spent too long enmeshed in DC or some other power system. The idea that a person could have genuine human growth in their views as circumstances change or they learn or experience more seems such a common experience for most I've met in this life but is alien to a few like you. Not wanting to engage in mob behavior after seeing it's affects the past few years or actual open-mindedness are removed from your consideration why? The human creature can detect dishonesty pretty easily, even subconsciously. Its one reason Trump persists 12 years going. Please keep up your performative inflexibility going though, it labels you quite easily as someone to not listen to for those who still cling more to humanity and earnestness than bitterness. Your insults say far more about yourself than any of those you venomously attack.
You would have done well to stop at "I'll never understand you."
Grow up.
Thanks, good article. But the inconvenient question is, Why are so many people (perhaps millions) eager to lap up this content? If these podcasters have extremely large audiences, that's also a worrying fact by itself.
Yawn. Just another MIGA hit piece on a commentator who says the wrong things about Israel.
Kelly was a Never Trump “conservative” libtard who got her start by being Roger Ailes’ cocktease, did Roger’s bidding by trying to knock out Trump in the primaries. When everyone thought Trump was going to lose, her and many of the other current day gatekeepers started doing the “I used to be conservative but saw the light” conversion. Trump won, and she tried going mainstream. Got rejected, came back and is now just another grifter doing the soap opera approach to politics.
I can't disagree with your analysis, but conservatives should not eat our own. Criticism of Kelly only started after she wouldn't 'denounce' Tucker Carlson. The MIGA mob then went into their lynching.
Yes we should actually rally to defend Candace Owens's assertions that Charlie Kirk was a time traveler killed by Sumerian demons. This is how we win.
Quote, please.
Here are the questions Megyn Kelly vigorously defends raising. I guess it's MIGA to find this insane https://x.com/TheMilkBarTV/status/2011589336349945957
Well I admit it was a nice deflection from my point about the attacks on Candace, Kelly, Tucker, etc., coincidentally starting after criticizing the Gaza genocide. If they are all 'crazy,' haven't they always been crazy? Why the criticism now? BTW, were you paid for this attack piece? I understand Israel is paying for 'positive' coverage now because of their plummeting public support.
Kelly is only “one of our own” when she profits. When the tide turns against Trump she’ll “evolve”
Yes, like many others (e.g., Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro, Mike Levin). The difference is, they 'support Israel' and therefore, don't have hit pieces written against them.
Apparently you don't know anything about Scott lol
Great discussion. But, this probably at least somewhat understates the level of editorial control the influencer/podcaster class has with their audience.
If one compares to a John Oliver or Colbert, they can’t come out and suddenly be Trump supporters, for example, but they do still have meaningful control over what topics they cover and how they characterize and shade those topics.
Megyn Kelly or Tim Dillon or whoever have some editorial control. Maybe Megyn feels she can’t or doesn’t want to directly pick up the Candace/Charlie fight but she still gets to decide whether and how to much to talk about it and whether to endorse vs equivocate vs criticize. At least she equivocated vs endorsing, perhaps one could say.
Anyway - seems reasonable to continue to lobby for higher standards, particularly when it can be done in a way that isn’t completely non commercial, which it generally can.
The same revenue/economic constrains that apply to Megyn Kelly apply to John Stewart (also now a podcaster) or Preet Bharara or Scott himself for that matter. One doesn’t need to let these people off as powerless revenue maximizers. Megyn almost certainly does not even want to be a revenue maximizer - although she can’t ignore it either. So it takes some deftness to know what is reasonable and possible and then it makes sense to ask for and support it…
Kelly shows just how far you can go as a moderate who’s open to all side, which is not very far. Yes, she’s a mercenary who’s good at spotting talent, so she’ll usually reserve her kookier opinions to her guests.
I think she’s looking to keep the peace and remain neutral as Candace and Tucker do the bidding of their idiot audience and their Qatari patrons. Maybe she’s looking to cash in too? She’s more slippery and subtle than this article suggests—not to be confused with flexible, which she definitely is.
I suspect Candace, Tucker, and the other conspiracy pushers will slowly deflate. It’s not exactly a sustainable model and a scandal or lawsuit is always on the horizon for people who do this. Or at least they’ll occupy a different sphere of influence than news and commentary.
Kelly and Matt Walsh are gonna be the big leaders in the space left behind by Charlie Kirk. You can be sure both of them are being very careful what to report and say.
ignore the charlatans? Ok done, charlatan.
As newspapers discovered, the demand for mainstream news just isn’t that big. If people can choose to just get the sports and gossip fluff, they don’t really care about the real news.
The 3 big nightly news telecasts - ABC, NBC, CBS - combined have about 2.5 million viewers in the 25-54 y/o demographic. And even they devote a huge amount of time - at least 30%+ of the broadcast - to human interest stories and funny cat videos and sht like that.
Kelly gets 200-300k views on her youtube vids, spiking up sometimes on a juicy topic, and who knows how many podcast listens. That’s pretty good for one person talking into a camera.
And it’s not really germane to the topic but it must be said regardless: Good Lord is she a smokeshow these days.
"Insane clown populism of the influencer sphere" is quite good.
Could the insane clown people be steered in a more productive direction? Maybe toward WW2 revisionism, and communist infiltration of the US government?
"At least there are standards in traditional media". Not really, they just peddle non factual lunacy which caters to a different demographic. The woketards and conspiratards deserve each other. And sadly, it looks as though even though the woketards days are numbered they will be replaced not with Jared Taylor who wants you to have safe white neighborhoods again, but anti porn nannies who lecture about sexual morality while going to bed with a homely grotesque Indian. If we were comparing the critical pedo theorists to the traditional media of Cronkite and Murrow, the point would have some more validity, but even they peddled nonsense about race/communism. They were race communists they just weren't gay. That's basically all that's changed when it comes to the mainstream.
the issue is that the media/world became too insane because of clownish leftists
in control of mainstream news,that conspiracy theories by conservatives turned out to be true
the great replacement? was just called a conspiracy theory at one point, had you told me 10 years ago the government would be pushing parents to castrate their boys in order to turn them into girls i would have called you crazy
everything Covid ,related to the vaccines ,the Epstein case,the World Economic forum/UN/WHO, foreign wars raised a bunch of questions about authority,truth and who really is in control and for what porpuses
it went too insane in such a short time
and you add AI to the mix, now i can't dismiss anything just because i think they sound ridiculous ,things that i would have thought absurd years ago happened,in reality
i still judge news/podcasts based on what i believe is honest and plausible and whats not, so Charlie being killed by a massive conspiracy involving the french government,israel,his own robot wife and tpusa friends ,likely didn't happened, and we must be careful to not get involved in the lies, its our personal responsibility, as well as call out the liars for the sake of reason and truth
but other crazy sounding news turned out to be real, i can't really blame people for believing this or the other,knowing a little more about the podcaster career(Megyn Kelly and Candance Owens in this case)
from reading this piece, helps a ton
i barely know Scott, just been following him a short time, my first impression is that he is smart and honest, if snarky at times, i hope im not mistaken 🤭because he writtes good history lessons
It’s called epistemic divorce/splintering. And is an inherent feature of Liberalism. Perhaps you are catching up now.