It is so satisfying to watch an unprincipaled ratings monger like Megyn Kelly fall right on her ass. The ratings are out for last Sunday's Alex Jones interview on “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly” and it was the least rated show in its time slot, particularly amongst the coveted 18 to 49 year olds, who preferred to watch a re-run of "America's Funniest Home Videos" instead, who can blame them? The Hill has details from Nielson:
Megyn Kelly's controversial interview with Alex Jones on NBC ended up a distant third in the network ratings race during its first half hour on Sunday night.
According to Nielsen Media Research, "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly" brought in an average of 3.5 million viewers, marking the fewest viewers the show has drawn since debuting on June 4.
Kelly's news magazine trailed both a repeat episode of CBS's "60 Minutes," which delivered 5.3 million viewers, and U.S. Open golf coverage on Fox, which was the highest-rated program in the 7:00 p.m. ET timeslot.
Among the key 18 to 49-year-old demographic that advertisers covet most, a re-run of ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos" beat Kelly and "60 Minutes" by almost 40 percent.
Kelly's program has been declining week-over-week from a rating perspective since launching three weeks ago with an episode featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin that registered an average of 6.2 million viewers.
The group conscience of moral Americans prevailed over the clearly evil intent of Megyn Kelly, whose lack of simple human decency is inverse to and exceeded by her obsession with ratings gimmicks, no matter what the cost. When Kelly booked conspiracy theorist and wingnut Alex Jones, families of the Sandy Hook victims rose in protest. Jones has had the audacity to describe Sandy Hook as an anti-gun hoax perpetrated by the Obama administration. Despite the fact that relatives of the Sandy Hook victims were begging Kelly to not glorify Jones and his insanity with more publicity, and even sponsors, notably J.P. Morgan Chase, began pulling ads, Kelly proceeded. Now she’s got egg all over her face and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving schill.
Time to pull the plug, NBC.
Tuesday, Jun 20, 2017 · 10:16:25 PM +00:00
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Amy Davidson of the New Yorker writes this about the Jones interview Sunday night:
“Where Kelly went very wrong on Sandy Hook, though, was in avoiding the topic of Jones’s claims about the motive of the shooting’s stagers. This is also where the story returns to Trump, or should have. In Jones’s world, the purpose of Sandy Hook was to allow liberal-aligned forces within and outside the government to push through gun-control legislation. Sandy Hook did demonstrate the need for sensible gun laws.
For a small number of the people who don’t accept that need, there is an impulse to deny the facts of the case. Jones, whose Sandy Hook conspiracy theory is a species of gun-rights wish fulfillment,represents an extreme version of that impulse.
Trump has not taken this approach, although Kelly noted that he has not responded to requests from Sandy Hook parents that he disavow Jones’s lies about their children. He tends, instead, to talk, after mass shootings, about how much better it would have been if everyone in the room had had a gun,and he spent a good part of the campaign warning “Second Amendment people” that there were nefarious plans afoot to ravage the Constitution and take away their guns.”
Alex Jones is the man that Donald Trump says is “amazing.”