What a total canard! The Donald does not hate women. The Donald pays them the ultimate tribute of regarding them as equal to men. Especially if they are attacking him. Then, the gender issue just melts away altogether: An enemy is an enemy, regardless of their sex.
Megyn Kelly should have known better than to try to lay a "gotcha" trap on Donald Trump. Obviously, she didn't. She placed her bets, in the very first debate question, on being able to achieve one of two outcomes: (1) isolating Trump as the only candidate who would state his support of the eventual GOP nominee was not guaranteed (implying he would consider mounting a third-party effort "if he were not treated well" by the GOP); or (2), putting The Donald into the position of limiting his future options to statements made today, which are binding on him. A hard-core negotiator like Donald Trump does not want to give away his negotiating leverage in the future, just to give Megyn Kelly a "big score" — and make himself look like a fool in the process.
And in this process, Megan Kelly broke the first rule that they try to drill into you at journalism school: Do not ever, ever, ever allow yourself to become "the story." But then, Ms. Kelly is not the product of j-school, but of law school (where I imagine she was a brilliant student).
Anyhoot, Ms. Kelly seriously miscalculated and underestimated the man. I gather she may have felt that some kind of "female privilege" would be her best defense, if things went wrong.
That didn't happen. She was criticized for her behavior. And then — mirabile dictu!!! — comes Roger Ailes, charging in on his big white steed, like the second coming of Sir Galahad, to rescue the "damosel in distress." And takes further opportunity to remind us that Fox News is ever "fair and balanced."
Sure. And that explains how Fox News increasing appears to be an unofficial mouthpiece of the RNC?
I almost choked from laughter at these claims.
If I were Megan Kelly, I'd be absolutely humiliated by this intervention. She wants to play with the big boys. But she can't prevent some big boy from barging in to rescue her when she falters? And yet IMHO, to accept such "help" is to prove one's self a wimp; or worse, a helpless, hapless female....
Ambitious woman really can't ask, or expect, to have it "both ways."
Or so it seems to me, FWIW.
Thank you ever so much, dear grey_whiskers, for your outstanding essay. Your summary of the Obama Administration's achievements is totally spot-on, and amazingly comprehensive. Thank you so very much for writing, and for pinging me to your article.
Do they really teach that in journalism school?
Jorge Ramos must have been absent that day.
A television journalist participating in a debate is necessarily part of the story.
If Megyn Kelly turned out to be a big part of the story, that has more to do with Donald Trump's response than with her question.
Bring America back to former financial glory..
AND make america's Socialist Givernment WORK...
THUS preparing his way to be Anti-Christ in WAITING..
If he does all that (that he brags) America in both partys WILL ENSHRINE HIM..
Follow him to HELL and BACK,,,
AND make ... Reagan merely an ancient historical figure....
AND Trump a wonder to the WORLD... amazing and lauded if not actually WORSHIPED..
Setting him up to " solve " other of the World's so -called problems..
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WOULD MAKE A KILLER NOVEL, MOVIE, or Documentary..
even IF what I propose is NOT actual.. i.e. I'm only partially kidding..