Megyn Kelly Fails to Connect With the Audience During Her Today Debut

If there was one message that Megyn Kelly sought to impart in the first installment of her new NBC talk show, Megyn Kelly Today, it was this: The old Megyn can’t come to the phone right now. The host — a law school alum whose best-known skill has long been her prosecutorial zeal — served as her own defense attorney throughout the hour, pushing the case that she’s not the person you remember from her years of political coverage. “The truth is, I’m kind of done with politics for now,” Kelly said in a lengthy opening monologue that told her entire life story from childhood to TV stardom. “It’s everywhere, everywhere, and I’m just like, it’s over.” It’s not just the sentiment that makes Kelly’s case; it’s the bearing. Kelly, a precise, crystalline wordsmith when in takedown mode, awkwardly sprinkled slang into her speech. She talked with her hands as though someone had said it was humanizing. When the cast of Today walked out with mimosas, Kelly declared, “O.M.G.!” A person who until as recently as last summer, during her Sunday-night newsmagazine show, sought to represent herself as deeply engaged in issues of the public interest now just thought it was over. Have a mimosa! 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 d...
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