Al Roker Tears Into Megan Kelly on Today: She Needs to Apologize to POC

How is the $10M return on investment coming along, NBC?

WHY IS THIS STUPID FUCKING NAZI CUNT STILL ON A MAJOR NETWORK.

She’s insensitive, clueless and ignorant. And she’s strident and pompous. Why is she still there?

She also took Al's hour of today for huge payout and lower ratings. I'm sure Al is relishing this.

It really was an unfortunate moment...

She's blonde. That's why she's still working.

Ho-Ho-Ho.....ho.

Whoopie said years ago that blackface was ok, what's the problem now ?

Something tells me he's actually not relishing the fact that a fucking racist was given his hour of television by a bunch of racist station owners hoping to court the white supremacist demographic.

[quote]She’s insensitive, clueless and ignorant. And she’s strident and pompous. Why is she still there?

That’s her problem. Clueless and ignorant works--in most cases--because at least it seems like there’s an opportunity to educate or inform. The chip on the shoulder and the overconfidence are off-putting. Republicans have THAT shit down pact.

[quote]Whoopie said years ago that blackface was ok, what's the problem now ?

Can you provide a link that includes context? That would be GREAT.

NBC is ridiculous trying to paint this as a wonderful thing. Our colleague, Megan Kelly, said something stupid - never mind that it’s like the 324th time - and we’d like to honor her by giving us this teaching moment.

No NBC - you fire the bitch. Enough is enough. We have seen her true colors and we hate her.

But Whoopi said it was OK years ago! Jesus some of you are fucking warped.

I wasn’t aware of some of the disgusting historical context about black face prior to watching this piece and now I understand fully why there is outrage about it.

Chris Rock appeared on the cover of VANITY FAIR. In BLACKFACE! How is that fair! How is that ok?

I hope her ignorant ass dosen't have kids...can you imagine the racist things she teaches them.SMH,Meghan's Ms.KKK of the yr routine is exactly why deplorables think they run the US.

She's way too old to have kids. She's in her late 40s.

Her vile racism just bleeds out from . . . wherever.

Her bullshit "apology" was exposed for the bullshit that it is by her own reference to political correctness. Racism has nothing to do with political correctness, but it is the key to understanding Megyn Kelly.

She really needs to be booted from NBC. Let her go to Breitbart. Or to Alex Jones. Where she belongs.

Seth Meyers and Amber Ruffin covered this last night-

Blackface is not okay only in the US. Rest of the world is fine with it.

This is the part that makes it a non-apology apology: "I've never been a 'pc' kind of person -- but I understand that we do need to be more sensitive in this day and age."

In other words, "sorry I said it out loud on national TV but I still believe what I said."

Perhaps blackface was ok in her childhood. Not that it was really ok, but it was accepted. Now it isn't. Simple as that. Things change. She could have even said the part about it being ok when she was a kid but not as a defense for people who do it today. Fuck her.

Additionally, there is the foolishness of her presumption that her subjective perceptions of her childhood experience should serve as the immutable bright line against which all other things can be measured.

Societies do not change. Cultures do not evolve. None of it involves anyone else. There is only narcissistic little Megyn Kelly's childhood perception of the world that matters. To Megyn Kelly, anyway.

Fuck her and her self-absorbed, tin-eared, nonsense. NBC... she has to GO!

I'm only three years younger than her. She's just being obtuse about its prevalence when we were kids. Yes, it was still happening but there was lots of discussion going on unless you were willfully ignoring it.

Al slapped her with his colostomy bag!

She's so cunty. I don't watch her very often, but it seems like every time I see her or hear about her she is regularly demeaning women, minorities, and gays with her witless comments. "Santa Claus is white" is about as dumb and racist as you can get. I'm surprised she is still on the air.

She is clueless but when it comes to blackface, I don't understand it. When Al Jolson was doing blackface, did he approve of lynchings also? And yes I scream about racism all the time but I don't get this. Of course I would never be in blackface but I still don't understand why it is a big deal.

Forgotten by Friday

Ladies and gentlemen, the new White House Press Secretary, replacing Blubberina!

R12 She dressed her then boyfriend Ted Danson up in blackface for an event.

I'm a few years younger than her and yes, there was a brief resurgence of blackface in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but it was only acceptable as edgy humor, like in Silver Streak. When the director insisted on a blackface scene in the 1980 the Jazz Singer, the scriptwriters quit the movie in protest. I remember it made the news at the time.

She can't say with a straight face that blackface was just fine when we were kids.

[quote]But Whoopi said it was OK years ago! Jesus some of you are fucking warped.

She did. But, I still shouldn't have listened to her.

My high school did blackface as late as 1982, and I'm ashamed to say I did blackface in college in 1985. (There are photos, and I will never be able to run for public office.) Those of us who are old enough can say "we were dumb kids who didn't know any better." But in 2018? Everybody knows better! Blackface is wrong and cannot be defended, Megyn Kelly. And it's not funny, even as "edgy humor."

She should at least lose the 'I want to speak with your manager' hairstyle if she wants to apologize.

I'm sorry....what?

I guess she didn’t watch Designing Women

R6, Actually she has a PUSSY, is the proper response.

Actually, this is a perfect example of political correctness. There is nothing inherently racist in dressing up as a black celebrity. We have deemed such costumes out of bounds because they offend many black people due to historical echoes of minstrel shows. It is out of respect for their feelings that we don’t use blackface. While people are saying the same standard would apply to a black person wearing “whiteface,” in fact it would not. There is no history of whiteface and anyone who claimed to be offended would be offended for different, less compelling reasons.

What about yellow face?

She's obviously in the same boat as Roseanne. They paid Kelly all the money upfront and they can't get rid of her now. They need to make the money back somehow. That's why the Conners was made. It was either make the spin-off or the other actors got paid for no work. These big wigs need to rethink their contracts.

Blackface was always this - rings around the mouth. It was very specific. Now it's become anyone with a tan. We've gotten away from what blackface originally was. SJWs who haven't experienced anything don't know its history.

Don't you remember when Kelly said that pepper spray was basically a condiment? She was defending the usage on protesters.

[quote]Blackface is not okay only in the US. Rest of the world is fine with it.

Paint your privileged entitled MAGA-loving white face black and walk down the street in most of Africa, R20. Please. Do it.

Well, I guess THAT explains THIS:

She was right about LuAnn, however.

I wish they’d tear into Bruce Jenner for the same thing but with “woman.”

He’s in womanface. He’s not a woman.

NBC's looking for any reason to shove her bony ass out the door and dump her $17 million annual salary. They're deliberately generating negative reactions.

r8, newsflash: What Whoopi said was stupid and she was rightly condemned for it, along with Ted Danson. A stupid statement on race is not rendered less stupid because a black person says it; it just makes that black celeb stupid. (And yes, Whoopi continues to show her idiocy on The View, as did Raven Symone when she was on).

As opposed to the white super-brains on The View r47?

How much longer does her contract last? I guess NBC keeps her on despite low ratings because it's probably cheaper than firing her and having to pay out the remainder of her contract. Could bringing Al Roker back boost ratings enough to justify an increase in ad time costs?

I'm black and I agree with r37. There is a difference between black face and dressing up as a black celebrity for Halloween. Good lord people. And I can't even stand Megyn Kelly. Wendy Williams dresses up as white celebrities every other Halloween and no one even cares.

Who is the dumb fucking cunt who thinks Whoopie fucking Goldberg made blackface okay 25 years ago???

R50 whiteface was never used as a means of ridiculing another race and making them seem less than human. It's not the same thing.

Poor Al Jolson could never play to this crowd.

I think her mistake was using the term blackface. There's a huge difference between Al Jolson blackface and dressing up as Diana Ross or the chick from OITNB. I wouldn't call dressing up as an actual character or a real person "blackface". Last year or the year before there was a similar controversy about the Moana costume.

I tried to watch her show again recently to see if it improved, but it's even worse now than when it started. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's unwatchable.

There's no way she'll still be on the air a year from now.

The worst crime of the show is that it is consistently boring and awkward with her alternating between rabmling and dead air and the audience has to be prompted to respond because they have no idea why the show exists or why they are there.

If a show ever in the history of television needed to be canceled, it’s this one.

Wendy Williams like to kick people while they are down. She is sadistic. Don’t get me started on that trash bag. I’ve seen YouTube shows with better production values and she can get canceled right along with this other mess.

STFU. Wendy's a friggin Goddess!

R49, almost 2 more years.

Just pull the plug already and cut the loses on the fourth hour. It was clearly a mistake bringing her on. She needs to take the money and move on to a new career. She was never a good journalist in any way shape or form.

She was Roger “Jabba the Hut” Ailes’ play thing that caught a break. Her stint at NBC has not even been mediocre and it’s time to close up shop.

Did this replace Hoda and Kathy Lee?

I’d rather listen to one of Kathy’s awful songs than watch this dreck.

She needs to go. Not now, yesterday. Damaged goods. People are fed up with the alt-right crap creeping into every crevice of our culture. Neo-Nazi Barbie can go fuck off into obscurity with her payout. Or go crawling back to Fox News with the rest of the racist vermin.

She should have been escorted out on the spot by security. Enough with all this racism. NBC should be ashamed and a boycott of the fourth hour is in order.

She didn’t learn with the “Santa is white” crap so clearly she can’t help her racist outbursts.

All three viewers should stop watching and yes that includes her friends and family.

Who the fuck takes the time to defend blackface? Like that's something that deprives white people of something. Because there are so few famous white people to dress as for Halloween.

Stupid hard faced helmet haired cunt.

[quote]Like that's something that deprives white people of something.

In her mind it does: “freedom,” aka “freedom to be racist as hell.”

This is the woman who blew a gasket over a black Santa Claus. Why are people surprised? She’s always been racist trash.

R50

That seems kind of silly. How would they ever be able to make an Al Jolson bio without a Blackface/Mammy scene?

R35, that Designing Women was about how blackface is wrong. Suzanne wanted to do it because they were lyp-syncing to a Supremes number, and Julia and the rest of the group schooled her on all the reasons why it was not acceptable. She did it anyway and made a complete ass of herself.

I had not seen Megwhine on TV in years until about two weeks ago. Her new, plasticized face reminded me of one of those deformed penis heads in which the exterior hole at what should be the tip points downward instead of forward.

Where the hell have you been, r67???

DL favorite hottie Jacob Soboroff was on the panel with her during her "episode." He apologized profusely on Twitter for not having spoken up enough during the segment.

Meant R30

She is so basic. How did this ever happen?

R68 It always bugged that that they didn't do a genuine Supremes song. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" is from Diana's first solo album.

R42 - R20 could try it in many parts of London and wouldn’t get too far without a beating. We tried to talk a dumb Swedish employee out of dressing like Samuel L Jackson and he wouldn’t listen. Came into work the following Monday with two impressive shiners and a split lip.

No one with any intelligence, awareness of history or just plain sensitivity would defend blackface.

I thought this controversy from years back at SNL about Nasim Pedrad using makeup to play Aziz Ansari was overblown a bit. Later on, Pedrad did another pre-tape sketch playing Ansari, but it was cut before air time.

Stepping away from the main point here for a moment: Regarding the OP's clip, why the hell do TV news shows continue to be broadcast from studios surrounded by glass walls, through which passersby on the street can stare and gawk? I find it so freaking distracting. But maybe that's why I never watch TV news.

Re: Al Roker - That was hardly tearing into her. She deserves a much stronger dressing down than that.

Somebody tweet NBC and tell them to cancel this disaster!

Bring back Hoda and Kathy Lee!

I agree, I was disappointed R78. Tame.

Or, call me crazy, CUT. THE FOURTH. HOUR.

Yet thetoday show had no problem dressing Matt Laurer as a woman almost every Halloween.

The Datalounge Soap Queens need to write them a new soap to fill that fourth hour. Nobody needs four hours of morning chat tv. Nobody even needs one hour but that's a discussion for another day.

Megyn Kelly was a dumb fucking cunt when she was on Fux and she's a dumb fucking cunt now. There was no reason to hire her and if they are looking for grounds to fire her I'll bet her contract fucks them. She probably wants them to fire her.

Just pay the bitch off. She is what she is, it's not going to get better and it may get worse.

R40 I saw a few hundred people on insta claim Ariana grande’s tan is a form of blackface. So the world has gotten a little nutty

The world went beyond nutty, r84, when Disney was forced to pull its Moana Halloween costumes for children...cause, you know, 7-year olds are racist.

Dressing up like Diana Ross is a crime against humanity?

I wonder how Diana Ross feels about that.

Who wants tea?

Did that really happen R85 ?

I never heard about it. Wow that’s stupid.

This kind of dumb shit is making me hate social media.

Yes, r88, it's true.

NBC deserves the lose the truckload of money they wasted on her. Learn your lesson, turds, don't hire Fox News trash.

Just looked it up R90 and of course the first google result I get is an article by a white woman calling the costume appropriation.

Where’s our cutie Tamron? We want her BACK

The push/pull in this debate is a waste of time. The real issue, in this day and age of resuscitated racism, is that for the more educated Black, Blackface is offensive because it makes a caricature of Blacks as is the N word, a supposed term of endearment, I promise you that kid, Emmet Till, heard the n word so many times as he was dragged away form his family and slowly tortured to beaten to death with foul, hateful white men participating and laughing….for the newer first generation college educated it's ok...And so it goes Whoopi was not considered desirable by most black men years ago, so she gravitated towards white men and whatever came along with them..so be It...just because she is/was ok with it doesn't give it credibility other than it is her opinion...and entertainer who for the most part supports fellow entertainers including Mel Gibson...

Who are you people talking about Al Jolson?? How old are you? Have you even glanced at a calendar in the last decade? Have you slid completely into dementia???

If your most personally relevant reference to a social debate is Al Jolson, you ***MIGHT*** just be insanely out of touch and at least 3 decades too fucking old to be taken seriously .

I know like totally, history is like OLD n’ stuff.

Like, old stuff’s for old people, lol 😂 like seriously nothing like ever happened before like insta and stuff, ya know?

Like really, let’s only talk about today stuff okay?

I agree with whomever it was upthread who just didn't get why this is a thing. Blackface = racist, everyone knows, it is not up for discussion. If this is the kind of shit Megyn Kelly is going to pull to get out of her contract, pay her. Get rid of her. Adios.

Watching her seriously argue in favor of blackface felt surreal for a reason. She needs to get the fuck off of television.

CNN reporting that Megyn’s show is on the verge of being canceled by NBC just weeks into the start of the lucrative fall season.

But what if Santa appeared in black face? Would that be racist, huh?

Remember when nbc paid this racist bitch $10M because they thought she was the next big thing? She’s only proven to be a headache for nbc with failed ratings, stupid comments and a canceled 60 Minutes wannabe show that lost to 60 Minutes reruns.

Was it worth it???

[quote] nbc paid this racist bitch $10M

Hollywood Reporter sez:

[quote] Kelly has been under tremendous scrutiny since jumping from Fox News to NBC in early 2017 for a salary reportedly worth close to $20 million annually.

[quote]Al Roker as Prince Harry, Han Solo, Uncle Fester

Just accept that it's not a "both sides" issue. It's not full equivalency because of the history behind blackface and the racism still existing today.

The racial power position in society - white - will have to accept giving up a few perks, and one such is blackface. But anytime whites have to give up a perk with a racist past, they whine to high heaven and cry racism or extreme PC.

Well, r102, this is what equality looks like or do you prefer the whole perpetual victim routine. At some point yoj need to move on.

Oh, and r102, funny how you had nothing to say about how Al Roker yuked it up with Lauer when he dressed as women for Halloween.

R103, people will move on when racism dies out. Until then, you just need to accept that not everything is full equivalency issue. This is what it means to live in a world where there are social majorities and minorities.

R104, the topic was black face. But I don't like straight dudes dressing as women either. So Al Roker and Matt Lauer don't get a pass on that one.

What is the end of the season?

She wants to do more news and political reporting? Good grief. I thought she was horrible covering the Kavanaugh appointment. She's so smug and she's not objective. Horrible lawyer.

R105 someone dressing as Diana Ross isn't racism, dressing as a Klansman is. And stamping your feet at trival shit like Diana Ross fuels racism. You want to end racism then stop playing the victim on inconsequential bullshit.

NBC kept Joy Reid, whose comments were much more hateful! Megyn’s comments were just dopey, because she’s a dope!!

[quote]I'm black and I agree with …

No, you're not R50. Please, go try that trick on another website.

Who are the freaks on this thread defending blackface? Shouldn't you all fuck back off to your Meghan Markle thread?

Everyone at NBC news needs to be fired, starting with Andy Lack.

[quote]The Datalounge Soap Queens need to write them a new soap to fill that fourth hour.

You take me away, r83.

Just saw a report that says her show will be winding up by the "end of the season," whatever that means. I hope sponsors start treating her like poison.