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Megyn Kelly: Mika, Joe Making Up With Trump To Remain Relevant

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SiriusXM podcaster Megyn Kelly offered her opinion of MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski trekking to Mar-a-Lago to meet with President-elect Donald Trump last week following his landslide and historic victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

During a show segment on Monday, Kelly lambasted the lefty co-hosts and said that, after years of trashing Trump on their program, they are attempting to make peace with him in order to remain relevant, though she doesn’t think the new goodwill effort will last.

“I have a little prediction for you, this won’t last. I’ve been through this before. The ratings always tank for the cable channel that was most behind the losing candidate,” Kelly began. “Fox News in 2012 was a bloodbath after Romney went down. Our ratings went off a cliff.

“I remember being in the meetings. Even [then-CEo] Roger [Ailes] was in a panic at that moment. They came back to heights we had never seen before. And the way that that happened was Barack Obama started actually governing in his second term and doing a bunch of controversial things, and then Fox got chugging again and wound up figuring out that it’s actually better for their ratings to be in the opposition,” she added.

“They’re not going to get the same returns by being fair and balanced about Trump, even though they desperately want access to power. I believe this is why they went there. For two reasons,” Kelly continued. “They desperately want access to power. That’s why they licked Joe Biden’s boots, then quickly licked Kamala.

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“Now they’re licking Trump’s because they can’t stand a world in which they’re as irrelevant as they are. Don’t believe me, look at their ratings and the voters who ignored their claims of Hitler,” she said. “So that’s one of the reasons why they did it. But once they start chugging again, their court viewership is very left. That’s who watches that show. That’s why you’ve seen Joe Scarborough migrate out of the Republican Party.”

“And the machine will do what it does, which is force them to continue to go to the left. This thing veers to the left. All media veers to the left, especially MSNBC. All their cocktail parties, all their friends, will veer them back to the left, they will get absolutely no points for saying anything nice or fair about Trump, and they will do what they’ve been doing for nine years, which is back on the bashing train,” she predicted.

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The married co-hosts awkwardly joked on Wednesday morning that they were forced to address several reports that the network could be sold.

A recent Wall Street Journal report said that Comcast was planning to spin off its suite of NBC Universal-owned cable channels, including the very network that employs them.

“Comcast is expected to announce Wednesday that it is moving forward with a plan to spin off its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, according to people familiar with the situation, acknowledging that it will be better off without a business that was once its crown jewel. The company, which last month said it was studying the idea, will separate off entertainment and news channels including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, Syfy and Golf Channel. Those assets generated about $7 billion in revenue in the 12 months ended Sept. 30,” WSJ’s Amol Sharma reported.

After Brzezinski reported the news straight, Scarborough attempted to joke about the situation by mentioning his wife having a penthouse.

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“I will say really quickly on this, you know, Drudge at the top said, like ‘News melts down!’ all this other stuff,” Scarborough said, referring to the news aggregate website the Drudge Report.

“I mean, I could be completely wrong: we could all be fired a year from now. When this happens, you never know what’s going to happen,” Scarborough said.

Brzezinski quickly added, “Or tomorrow,” with what seemed to be a slightly forced laugh as she was clearly not thrilled with the idea of the network being sold off.

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