Fox Ratings Crater Post-Tucker, and Lia Thomas Slams Women, with Allie Beth Stuckey, Melissa Francis, and Tatiana Siegel | Ep. 538

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by Melissa Francis, former Fox News anchor, to talk about Fox News teaming up with the New York Times to try to take down Tucker Carlson, the truth about why Tucker was fired, reading between the lines in the media leaks, Fox News' plummeting ratings since Tucker is gone, the toxic media business, and more. Then Allie Beth Stuckey, host of BlazeTV's "Relatable," joins to discuss Lia Thomas slamming women as "transphobic" if they don't support trans athletes in women sports, Bud Light sales plummeting, Dylan Mulvaney's quest for fame, disturbing trans TikTok influencer calling for violence, the truth about the trans Montana lawmaker getting attention in the media, and more. Then Tatiana Siegel, executive editor at Variety, joins to discuss Don Lemon speaking out now after his firing and the revelations about his history of misogyny, NBCU CEO Jeff Shell's firing over sexual harassment in the workplace and an inappropriate relationship, and more. Stuckey: https://alliebethstuckey.com Siegel: https://variety.com/author/tatiana-siegel/

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show and happy Thursday.
0:16.0	Tucker Carlson returns in epic, Tucker fashion, trolling Fox News last night with a video
0:21.7	posted right at 8 p.m. during his old time slot and gaining millions and millions of views
0:28.9	in a matter of hours.
0:29.9	He blew doors on the numbers he would have gotten had he been on the Fox News channel.
0:33.9	Meanwhile, his old network is shedding viewers by the second will give you the numbers
0:39.2	and they are stunning.
0:41.2	It truly is one of those Bud Light, you know, Fox News saying hold my beer.
0:46.1	I mean, it's they've pulled a Bud Light.
0:48.6	If you look at what's happening in the eight o'clock hour right now, the viewers are angry
0:53.0	as they should be and as Fox continues to not just, you know, having fired Tucker, um,
1:01.0	embarrass him, but absolutely ruin him.
1:03.1	That's clearly their goal.
1:04.5	They want to ruin the rest of his grip.
1:06.6	Why?
1:07.8	What did he do?
1:08.8	What is what was so horrible that you had to take a guy who loyally served you for all
1:13.1	those years, including getting you through the post Trump era at Fox and keeping you
1:17.0	number one, that he now has to be destroyed because that's what they're absolutely doing.
1:21.8	Trust me.
1:23.3	This comes as the New York Times reports on a quote, startling, startling discovery,
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