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NBC Sources Suggest Real Reasons Network Wants Megyn Kelly Fired

John Bickley

With NBC News in negotiations with host Megyn Kelly’s lawyer over the terms of her dismissal, network sources are beginning to share more about the behind the scenes drama leading up to the public blowup — and it doesn’t have much to do with her questioning if it was necessarily “racist” for someone to change their skin tone for Halloween.

The Washington Post reports that after talking with a “half-dozen current and former NBC staffers” on the condition of anonymity, it appears that NBC throwing Kelly under the bus has been a long-time coming, proceeded by “a compounding list of problems: Inside the building, colleagues had grown envious of her large salary, exasperated by her on-air gaffes and disdainful of her low ratings.”

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