The blowback from Megyn Kelly’s ratings-chasing interview with vile conspiracy-pusher Alex Jones continues to gain steam. The first advertiser pulled the plug on the new show. Kristin Lemkau, Chief Marketing Officer of JP Morgan Chase took to Twitter to personally scold Megyn Kelly.
They wasted no time pulling their ads from the NBC show:
JP Morgan Chase & Co. has asked for its local TV ads and digital ads to be removed from Ms. Kelly’s show and from all NBC news programming until after the show airs, according to a person familiar with the matter. The company doesn’t want any of its ads to appear adjacent to any promotions for the interview, the person added.
Parents of Sandy Hook murder victims used Twitter to publicly denounce her giving one single minute of air time to the man who called their deaths a hoax:
Megyn Kelly was scheduled to host a benefit gala for the Sandy Hook Promise on June 14. The organization has pulled the plug on her hosting duties:
Sandy Hook Promise, a leading gun violence prevention organization, and NBC host Megyn Kelly have agreed that Kelly will no longer host the organization's annual Promise Champions Gala on Wednesday, June 14th, in Washington DC. This decision was spurred by NBC's planned broadcast of Kelly's interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who believes the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, was a hoax.
"Sandy Hook Promise cannot support the decision by Megyn or NBC to give any form of voice or platform to Alex Jones and have asked Megyn Kelly to step down as our Promise Champion Gala host," said Nicole Hockley, co-Founder and Managing Director. "It is our hope that Megyn and NBC reconsider and not broadcast this interview."
In promo clips on the interview, Jones did not even bother to retreat from his vile conspiracy that the mass shooting was a hoax:
“Sandy Hook,” she says.
“Well Sandy Hook’s complex because I have had debates where, we devil’s advocates have said the whole story is true, and then I have had debates where I have said, that none of it is true.”
Ms. Kelly then asked him: “When you say parents faked their children’s death, people get very angry.”
“Well I know, but they don’t get angry about the half million dead Iraqis from the sanctions, or they don’t get angry about … ” Mr. Jones said, before he is interrupted by Ms. Kelly, who says, “That’s a dodge.”
“No it’s not a dodge,” he continued. He said he “looked at all the angles of Newtown, and I made my statements long before the media even picked up on it. We didn’t get any of the real important stuff.”
Vile. Let’s hope NBC reconsiders giving this man a national platform for his hateful conspiracies and rhetoric.