Fox News Special … Awesome Megyn Kelly takedown of Wade Rathke and Acorn

Island Turtle ^ | October 3, 2009 | Corky Boyd

[Corky Boyd]

...It was a Megyn Kelly interviewing Wade Rathke, founder and former and chief organizer of ACORN. My initial impression was this was a very fair and objective interview by Kelly. She took him through his formative years of the radical 60s to the present. As the show went on Kelly, with the help of Stanley Kurtz and others, proceeded to eviscerate Rathke to the point he boiled over. It was devastating....

But the revelations were only half the story. The special was powerful because it relied heavily, very heavily, on the subtle audio and visual effects pioneered by CBS’s “60 Minutes.” So much so I thought I was listening to Leslie Stahl, not Megyn Kelly....

Watch and listen to the whole show here. (Link to video included).

[devane617]

I saw this last night an it is awesome to watch. Maybe I’ve been under a rock, but I had no idea Fox/Meygan was doing this special. I saw no pro-mos on Fox about this at all. But, if you get a chance, watch it!

[cripplecreek]

Kinda funny that she got him caught up in promoting a living wage but denying it to ACORN employees. She said that opponents of the living wage would cut jobs which he denied and then she nailed him with giving that exact excuse for not paying it to ACORN employees.

She also snagged him over supporting unions but getting in trouble for strongarm tactics to prevent the unionization of ACORN employees.

[oh8eleven]

I watched for about 12-15 minutes, but the smarmy scumbag Rathke made me so mad I had to turn it off.

[cripplecreek]

Megyn was feeding him rope in the early minutes of the show. He seriously hung himself with it later.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

I watched it!

Megyn gutted Rathke like the great litigator she is! She's a killer!

[jq2]

During the interview Wade was decitful while smiling and attempting to be charming. She should have brought up the Acorn support in getting Franken elected too - how ACORN changed the congress majority.

[cubreporter]

Megan has it together and always has. She’s a real beauty, fun but SERIOUS INTERVIEWER and doesn’t allow her guest to overspeak her. She’s awesome and now a new mommy to boot. :)

[turfmann]

Mr. Rathke must have been living under a rock of late. The very last person I would want coming after me (ok, except for Liz Cheney) is Megyn Kelley. She absolutely evicerates her opponents. Don’t let the blonde hair and pretty smile fool you - she is a smart lady and an excellent interviewer.

One of my favorites to be sure.

[Red_Devil 232]

Fox News had been doing plenty of pro-mos.

That Rathke is a smooth talker and denies any wrong doing or knowledge of wrong doing. He defends his brother's 1 million embezzlement by saying his brother was transfered and ACORN took care of it internally!

Megyn did a good job. Now she is off for awhile with her new born.

[Gator113]

I watched it yesterday.

Megyn did an outstanding job and I’d like to see her do more of these.

[Swede Girl]

Megyn is not just a pretty face. She was great in this interview.

[Kay]

save for later

[CodeToad]

Excellent program.

[ETL]

From Obama's official website:

When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November, he reminded them of his history with ACORN and his beginnings in Illinois as a Project Vote organizer, a nonprofit focused on voter rights and education. Senator Obama said, "I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.”

http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
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Obama, ACORN, the (Marxist) New Party (Obama was a member of the New Party!) and the Working Familes Party (an Acorn front group)
numerous sources

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 11:08:18 AM EDT by ETL:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337249/posts

[Mach9]

She was incisive, as usual. My only complaint is that the issue of “voter-fraud” was treated almost in passing. ACORN argues, and most of the media seem to agree, that registering individuals (who may or may not exist) doesn’t constitute actual voter-fraud. And while such “registrations,” part of Alinsky’s system-overwhelming, may be something shy of illegal, when are we going to hear about investigations of voter registry books? Is Nevada, e.g., comparing ACORN-solicited registrations to the sign-in sheets at polling sites? How do states differ in their voter-identification requirements? Were “easy” states targeted for heavy ACORN activity? How do “voter-suppression” suits match up to ACORN-targeted states? And so much more.

Sure, ACORN’s in trouble; but how are we keeping other nuts out of the system?

[GOPJ]

I saw it - They spent a little money and invested time and effort. Before the show stated I assumed it would be the FOX “usual” - two people sitting at a desk talking. I was pleasantly surprised. FOX NEWS has grown up - they’ve made it to the big time.

[spectre]

Last week, the beautiful and intelligent Megan worked up and until the morning she gave birth to a new baby boy.

Course, I miss her in the mornings..but she'll be back. Congrats, Megan!

sw

[cripplecreek]

What is most amazing to me is how intellectually inferior or political opponents seem to be. I can’t help but wonder how people like Rathke gained so much power. I’m a high school drop out and could have destroyed Rathke.

At the end of the show I would have replayed Rathke’s statement that We’re lucky to have poor people and suggest that the viewer think about what that means.

[Fido969]

Fox has a lot of lawyers in the lineup. That's why their stuff is so good.

The other stations, (and networks, especially,) generally rely on blown-dried airheads and personalities, that's why their content s#cks as bad as it does.