Posted on 09/22/2017 9:33:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NBC's Megyn Kelly said in an interview that "there are so many reporters who are completely biased against Trump, it’s absurd," but also noted doesn’t change the fact that he puts them in a dangerous place by targeting them."
Kelly's interview with TVNewser.com published Friday comes as her new 9:00 a.m. ET program "Megyn Kelly Today" is set to launch on NBC as the third hour of "The Today Show" on Monday.
The 46-year-old former attorney also believes reporters are being roped into personal battles with President Trump instead of staying "on the sidelines where they belong."
"It’s not the way it used to be, being a journalist today," said Kelly, who jumped from Fox News to NBC in January after 13 years at the cable news network.
"He [President Trump] is effectively, and not just him, but his most ardent supporters, have made us players on the field instead of on the sidelines where we belong," she continued.
Kelly was routinely attacked on Twitter by candidate-Trump following the first GOP primary debate on Aug. 8, 2015 after she asked the president about his past derogatory comments about women.
A backlash quickly ensued from Trump, who said of Kelly at the time that during the debate, "blood was coming out of her eyes. Blood was coming out of her, whatever," during an interview with CNN's Don Lemon.
Kelly never hit back at Trump personally during the rest of the campaign on her Fox program or social media.
"That’s not to say there’s not media bias," she continued in her interview with TVNewser.com. "There are so many reporters who are completely biased against Trump, it’s absurd."
But while Kelly says the media by-and-large is "extremely biased" against the president, he also is putting the press in a "dangerous place by targeting them."
"He’s right that they’re biased against him. They’re extremely biased against him. And some play right into it," Kelly observes. "They do themselves no service with that tactic. But that doesn’t change the fact that he puts them in a dangerous place by targeting them."
Kelly laments that seemingly every event on TV has become political, including last Sunday's Emmy Awards that included a cameo by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
"Why can’t I watch the Emmys without seeing Sean Spicer? What was he doing there? Can’t I just watch the fabulous gowns? Can’t I have an escape? Must everything be political? Everything? Everything! I’m sick of it. And I’m not the only one."
"Megyn Kelly Today" will be shown before a live studio audience starting on Sept. 25.
Hypocrisy
Hi Megyn. How’s the view, sittin up there on a fence?
I’ll bet you can still see Fox News TV Studio from your dressing room windows.
“...the fact that he puts them in a dangerous place by targeting them.”
Uh...No!
The reporters discredit themselves by LYING!!
There is nothing “dangerous” about calling them out for their lies.
That is NOT “targeting”.
That is ACCOUNTABILITY!
Of course liberals being unfamiliar with the concept, label that “dangerous”.
“There are so many reporters who are completely biased against Trump, it’s absurd.”
Says the leader in the assault on Donald Trump early in the game, with her assertion, “You’ve called women you don’t like fat pigs, dogs, slobs and disgusting animals.”
Talk about hitting buttons. Did Megyn Kelly not know the button was to detonate a nuclear device?
I'd put a buck in her crotch cover.
You were first in the biased line Honey. You burned your bridges. Too late for you now Missy.
Yes Megyn, we think you’re absurd. You and the rest of your lame stream media.
This is great.
Now she’s pissed off the left which was the only audience that would watch her lame new show.
Yes, he really hurts them where it counts. Ratings.
Yup. MEgyn is obviously desperately trying to get her old Fox News audience back. Too late. Hope she crashes and burns on NBC or wherever she is.
“She’s actually half-right on that one- but HE did not do it, they did it to themselves - including her.”
True!
Candidate Trump said “if they are fair with me I will be fair with them “.
They started the crap storm, not him.
Not So Foxy Kelly was one of the first, if not THE first.
She obviously thinks we are stupid with the memory of a flatworm. I hope she is wrong.
“Why can’t I watch the Emmys without seeing Sean Spicer?”
“Can’t I just watch the fabulous gowns?”
“Can’t I have an escape?”
“I’m sick of it.”
“And I’m not the only one.”
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MeAgain
Nice try, Mega Smelly...no one believes your “repentance”.
And she never heard of Presidents being assassinated?
-PJ
Might be able to make it as an escort, though.
She may take Katie Couric’s place at Yahoo...LOL
“Too old to become a stripper.”
She is 10-15 years past her Use By date for stripperdom.
She might pull in an occasional fiver amongst the soiled and crumpled ones, but much too old to expect a 50 note much less a Benjamin.
And she didn’t just burst into flames of hypocrisy when she said this?
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