Newsmax Host Greg Kelly Was Trending As A 'Male Karen,' And Twitter Was Lovin' It HuffPost Conservative Newsmax guest says Defense Secretary Lloyd … After majoring in political science at Fordham University, where he also worked at the school's FM radio station WFUV, Kelly followed his father's path into the Marine Corps. When he entered Saddam Hussein's palace with U.S. troops two days later, he described it, memorably, as "not the palace that Architectural Digest would feature. "He came from the morning show and that tends to be a cheery, happy talk, conversational-time program. A media narrative had already been established that Kelly was "the fratboy extraordinaire of local morning TV who grew up as Ray Kelly's kid"  Kamer, The Observer editor, told Insider. A New York Post report asserted the DA's office doubted the woman's account and branded her "Shady Lady" on its cover. Within hours, Newsmax's John Tabacco was on air reading a lengthy statement to "clarify" the network's reporting on the 2020 election results. It was very weird.". "I wanted to have the experience he had. Suddenly Kelly had an even larger audience in the city where his father was its second biggest newsmaker. Kelly met privately with political consultants while his father considered a 2013 mayoral run as a Republican but he once contemplated challenging Manhattan Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney in a Democratic primary, sources said. In the key 25- to 54-year-old demographic prized by advertisers, “Greg Kelly Reports” on Newsmax out-rated “The Story with Martha MacCallum” on Fox. And he was lucky Donald Trump liked him and promoted his show. After the 9/11 attack, he reported from the smoldering pit of the World Trade Center every day for weeks. Also, The Greg Kelly Podcast. "I do feel more comfortable expressing my opinions and feel they're more valuable now," he told the Long Island paper. What's Muck Rack? Now Kelly has re-emerged as the face of Newsmax, a fringe cable network that aims to compete with the Fox News empire for a growing pool of conservative viewers alienated by the mainstream media -- and increasingly supportive of violence against the state. Because Joe Biden got away with it.". "It surprised me he was more conservative than I thought.". Greg Kelly declined repeated requests to speak to Insider for this story.). No outlet mocked Kelly with more ferocity than E! Mediaite, "Newsmax’s Greg Kelly Demands Joe Biden’s Impeachment for ‘Election Fraud’ Based on Debunked Clip," Jan. 12, 2021 Crooked Media, Pod Save America, "We Got Joe!" The accusation against the police chief's son was immediately a huge news story. Contact information. He's a big fan of Donald's," Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide and a regular guest on Newsmax, told Insider. "He looks a little bit shrill repeating Trump's line. Newsmax declined to discuss Kelly's compensation.) By then, his father had served as police commissioner under Dinkins, New York City's first black mayor, and had just landed in the Clinton White House as U.S. Customs Service commissioner. During a fiery segment, Greg Kelly of Newsmax fired back at CNN for a segment where a guest suggested Newsmax should be de-platformed by major cable networks. (Newsmax won't say how much he gets paid but sources snarkily opined that he may only be earning $100,000, roughly the equivalent of a senior reporter for a wire service. "He's not a natural ideologue. Fox was trying to go in a different direction after Roger left.". I know it. What is he aspiring to?". Previously, he used to co-host Good Day New York on Fox 5 NY WNYW along with Rosanna Scotto from 2008 to 2017.Apart, he was also a co-host of Fox and Friends and White House correspondent for Fox News. I was hiring him on the force of his personality, his interest in news, his experience in analyzing news," Ruddy continued. "They can hit numbers and those carriers care about one thing — eyeballs and money. "Considering we don't even have our full program lineup and considering handicaps the new network has we're doing amazing stuff.". Newsmax TV brings you live 24/7 coverage of breaking updates in politics, world news, health, finance, and beyond. The following month, Kelly beat his competition at Fox in the 25 to 54 demographic with 229,000 viewers to Martha MacCallum's 203,000 viewers, CNN reported. I saw what it gave him or I saw what it made him, and I wanted to do it too.". "I want these guys to win," he told Newsday. Greg Kelly, the on-air face of NewsmaxTV, is now encouraging New Yorkers to email RCN and request that the provider add the channel. Instead, he sent Kelly back to New York and gave him an anchor slot on Fox 5's Good Day New York. I still don’t know what “the Kraken” is—could be from some Movie that I missed. "There was a bit of a transition from him," Ruddy said. Greg Kelly Reports is a simple show on a simple network that exists to fulfill two simple premises: The media is wrong and Donald Trump is great. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images), "I thought he was good on television," Ruddy told Insider. After nine years, he was ready for something new but unsure of what that might be. Subscriber "The crew down there preferred the people they trained.". He/Him/The Big Buy) Is this you? Newsmax presenter Greg Kelly has refused to follow the network in calling Joe Biden President-Elect, saying the election is "not over." Newsmax averaged 182,000 viewers per day during the week of the election but the following Monday ratings nearly doubled to 347,000 viewers and soared to 437,000 viewers on Tuesday, CNN reported. Greg Kelly has reinvented himself from a lively local morning show host to a firebrand far-right pundit defending Donald Trump's most fact-challenged theories. He has also been incredibly lucky. On one night in December, Kelly's show nipped his competition on the mighty Fox News Channel by 26,000 viewers in the key demographic of 25- to 54-year-olds. Television's The Soup. The win, fueled by conservative viewers who are disappointed by the election results, happened Monday evening. As the election grew nearer Trump officials began appearing regularly on Kelly's show and Kelly scored a friendly interview with Trump on October 14 where Trump railed the election was "very rigged" because of mail-in ballots and he was prepared to fight the results.