Megyn Kelly's Colleagues Publicly Blast Her Comments

Megyn Kelly apologized to her colleagues on Tuesday for the comments she made about blackface during a Megyn Kelly Today segment on Halloween costumes. On Wednesday, she apologized to everybody else. She opened her show with the following (video here): "I want to begin with two words, I'm sorry. ... I defended the idea [of blackface], saying as long as it was respectful and part of a Halloween costume, it seemed OK. Well, I was wrong, and I am sorry. ... I learned that given the history of blackface being used in awful ways by racists in this country, it is not OK for that to be part of any costume, Halloween or otherwise. I have never been a PC kind of person, but I do understand the value in being sensitive to our history, particularly on race and ethnicity."

Time notes that colleagues like Al Roker didn't seemed satisfied by Kelly's Tuesday email. "She owes a bigger apology to folks of color around the country because this is a history, going back to the 1830s, minstrel shows, to demean and denigrate a race," he said prior to her show. CNN characterizes Roker and other Today show personalities as having a "remarkably candid conversation" about what Kelly said during the show's 7am hour, with Craig Melvin diving in as well to call Kelly's comments "stupid" and "indefensible." Read Kelly's original remarks on the topic here. (More Megyn Kelly stories.)