{"id":288385,"date":"2017-01-03T22:38:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nbc-hires-megyn-kelly-racist-attitudes-and-all\/"},"modified":"2017-01-03T22:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T21:41:37","slug":"nbc-hires-megyn-kelly-racist-attitudes-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nbc-hires-megyn-kelly-racist-attitudes-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Hires Megyn Kelly, Racist Attitudes and All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- iCopyright Horizontal Tag --><\/p>\n<div class=\"icopyright-article-tools-horizontal icopyright-article-tools-right\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">Kelly might have done some battle with Trump and Ailes, but her views on race are thoroughly Fox newsy.<\/div>\n<p><!-- All divs have been put onto one line because of whitespace issues when rendered inline in browsers --><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-story-image field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/files\/styles\/story_image\/public\/story_images\/megynkelly.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- BODY --><br \/>\n<!--smart_paging_autop_filter--><\/p>\n<p>Megyn Kelly, the Fox News stalwart who once reported that both Jesus and Santa are <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DBn2wIQWoB8\">verifiably white<\/a>, is leaving the network for a new role at NBC, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/03\/business\/media\/megyn-kelly-nbc-fox-news.html?smid=tw-share&amp;_r=2\">New York Times<\/a>. Kelly has become one of Fox News\u2019s two most popular, and highest paid, personalities\u2014 the other is Bill O\u2019Reilly\u2014since she landed at the right-wing outlet 12 years ago. The Times reports that Kelly will be multitasking in her new position at NBC, which will include \u201ca triple role in which she will host her own daytime news and discussion program, anchor an in-depth Sunday night news show and take regular part in the network\u2019s special political programming and other big-event coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly\u2019s departure was not unexpected. In a book released earlier this year, the Fox News host <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/t\/0\/0\/alternet\/~www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2016\/11\/megyn-kelly-claims-roger-ailes-made-repeated-sexual-advances\">wrote<\/a> that ex-Fox News head honcho Roger Ailes had, on numerous occasions, offered to help her career in \u201cexchange for sexual favors.\u201d Those allegations came after Gretchen Carlson, another high-profile Fox News star, filed a lawsuit against&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/252770650\/0\/alternet\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly might have done some battle with Trump and Ailes, but her views on race are thoroughly Fox newsy. Megyn Kelly, the Fox News stalwart who once reported that both Jesus and Santa are verifiably white, is leaving the network for a new role at NBC, according to the New York Times. Kelly has become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-288385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}