Megyn Kelly is joined by Emily Jashinsky, host, “After Party” to discuss the CBS Evening News ratings continuing to fall, Tony “Toprah” Dokupil’s bizarre emotional behavior and rants, and more. “I figured it out. Bari is an out lesbian, and she’s in a marriage to another woman, and they have kids, and so on. This is a lesbian’s idea of what women want,” Kelly said of Tony Dokoupil. “I’m sorry, but Bari has zero television experience, ZERO,” Kelly said. “It’s called broadcast news for a reason. The broadcast piece of it matters, and she doesn’t know what she’s doing. It shows. The New York Times just did an in depth piece on her that reports her mission is, and I quote, ‘We need to be the news.'”

MEGYN KELLY: CBS Evening News is officially launched with its new anchor, Toprah Dokoupil. That’s what I call him, because he’s crying and constantly trying to therapize us through the news… I figured it out. Bari is an out lesbian, and she’s in a marriage to another woman, and they have kids, and so on. This is a lesbian’s idea of what women want. Like, he’s sweet, he’s soft, this is what this is going to sell. No, no, no, no, no, no. We want someone with balls, with a spine, someone who will protect us, somebody who, when the burglar comes, will be the first out the door. They won’t be hiding behind us like that, as we call it in my family, first defender. Whenever Doug and I go on the road, whether it’s like a hotel or like a rental, he knows he has to be first defender, and he’s perfectly fine in that role, like Tony Toprah Dokoupil is not first defender. It’s very clear, and already it’s failing… Oh my God, the patronization he’s giving Stuart Smalley vibes. We’re good enough. We’re smart enough. And gosh darn it, people like us – I cannot get over how he continues to patronize the audience like, Oh, you know what? You may not agree with us on everything, but that’s okay, you don’t have to. We’re gonna make sure you have the – just fucking deliver the news. You have 19 minutes of content. Get up and down on the news and stop trying to handhold your audience like there are a bunch of babies who need you to stroke them through every update and the summary at the end of all the big stories that he’s handling… He got a stand up passing interview with Donald Trump, which literally everybody in news gets every day who is on Air Force One; he’s trying to spin it as some big get, and this is why the ratings are down since he took over. Year over year, they are down 23% from the same time last year in both the overall number and in the key advertising demo… So they have lost one quarter of their audience since launching with topra, and he’s also down from the debut of the previous hosts, John Dickerson and Maurice Dubois, who averaged much higher numbers than he did. So it’s not going well over at CBS, and if they were smart, they would listen to yours truly and other critics about the many, many things they’re doing wrong. But I’m kind of also not rooting for them to listen because it’s fun to watch… Hell no will not work on CBS, which is where, like the most serious, somber news consumers go for their news. They do not want Toprah. He’s got a man up and stop doing this. I’m sorry, but Bari has zero television experience, ZERO. It’s called broadcast news for a reason. The broadcast piece of it matters, and she doesn’t know what she’s doing. It shows. The New York Times just did an in depth piece on her that reports her mission is, and I quote, We need to be the news. That’s her new mandate over at CBS. That’s every reporter’s worst nightmare. That’s that. Now it makes sense why Toprah is tweeting out pictures of himself or videos crying uncontrollably over the fact that he didn’t get to grow up in Miami. He wanted to be the news that’s every reporter’s worst nightmare for you to turn into the news story. The news is the news. Be respectful of the audience at home and stop with the damn navel gazing. Me, me, me, me, me, me is sad about Miami. Me is exhausted from all the news I’ve had to deliver. Me will hold your hand… Stop!… It’s egocentric.

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