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Megyn Kelly: I overestimated Trump's anger management skills
fortune ^ | OCTOBER 13, 2015 | Tory Newmyer

Posted on 10/13/2015 7:22:00 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Looking back on her feud with Donald Trump, Fox News host Megyn Kelly said she’s learned that “we may have overestimated his anger management skills.” The primetime cable news anchor ended up on the receiving end of Trump’s ire after the first Republican presidential debate back in August. At the start of that event, Kelly a moderator, quoted some of the GOP frontrunner’s most disparaging comments about women and asked if those remarks would cripple him in the general election. After the debate, Trump launched a series of personal attacks at Kelly, while she, for the most part, declined to engage. Speaking at Fortune‘s Most Powerful Women summit in Washington, D.C., Kelly explained both her question and how she responded to the fallout. “The reason I asked that was not a comment on Megyn Kelly,” she said. “It was a comment on his electability, and what he’s likely to hear from Hillary Clinton should he be the nominee, and you’re already hearing that from Hillary Clinton. That’s what I get paid to do: anticipate the candidate’s weaknesses and poke ‘em. That’s our job, and it does require a certain amount of fearlessness … But it’s not like I was looking to make an example out of Donald Trump.” Kelly said the first round of questions that the Fox News moderators posed to the candidates during the debate all followed the same electability theme behind the question to Trump. “No one was given a pass,” she said. And as Trump turned to Twitter and interviews with other outlets to attack Kelly, she decided it was “better to take the high road.” “It did not behoove any of us to get engaged in a war with a presidential candidate,” Kelly said.

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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

So, in other words, their evil plan to knock him out failed.

So much for “Fair and Balanced”.


21 posted on 10/13/2015 7:32:54 PM PDT by dragonblustar (Philippians 2:10)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

This is the high water mark of her career. She’s starting to remind me of the Smothers Brothers who dined out for 50 years on their anti-war activity.


22 posted on 10/13/2015 7:33:06 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

what a bitchy little girl.


23 posted on 10/13/2015 7:33:17 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Yep.


24 posted on 10/13/2015 7:33:21 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

when you mess with the Bull you get the Horn...

Bernies house of Pain...

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2E6z6slgPg


25 posted on 10/13/2015 7:33:46 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
"What an ass."

Yes she is.

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26 posted on 10/13/2015 7:34:53 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Just another catty biatch who poses behind her intellect....a bought and paid for media whore.


27 posted on 10/13/2015 7:34:58 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: dragonblustar

Their plan did fail.

Go Trump!


28 posted on 10/13/2015 7:35:41 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: dragonblustar

Why the hell can’t the Repubbies field THEIR OWN moderators and have charge of their own “debates”—or whatever you call them.

We hear far, far too much leftist garbage as it is 23:59/7/365!


29 posted on 10/13/2015 7:37:13 PM PDT by Flintlock (Our soapbox is gone, the ballot box stolen--we're left with the bullet box now.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
After the debate, Trump launched a series of personal attacks at Kelly, while she, for the most part, declined to engage.

This author has it backwards. Should read:

During the debate, Kelly launched a series of personal attacks at Trump, while he, for the most part, declined to engage.

Truth is for anyone who watched the debate, Kelly dredged up one-sided comments from the past where Trump was responding to one woman's attacks against him. Trump fights fire with fire. Don't throw rocks at him, and he won't hit back. Kelly is a b*tch.

30 posted on 10/13/2015 7:40:10 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Will88

Wallace was gleefully patting his black notebook and saying, “I’ve got some doozies in there.”


31 posted on 10/13/2015 7:41:30 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

How dense can a person be? It is amazing that people such as this are able to climb to a position in the public eye and not have the scruples to see what is appropriate.

Kelly had every opportunity to ask Donald Trump questions of the national interest but opted instead to convey a load of politically correct crap with gotcha designs. It was awful, so awful that it was followed by hundreds of thousands of angry posts to her facebook page describing in every detail what was wrong with her approach.

And yet she still doesn’t get it or is too proud to admit it.

She would do well to come clean and do a special report on what she learned and what went wrong.

Everybody likes a person of humility that can admit to having led people down the wrong path and who shows through an articulate apology that both informs the error is understood and educates people that err similarly.


32 posted on 10/13/2015 7:44:17 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Tucker39

He was waiting for Trump.


33 posted on 10/13/2015 7:46:24 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: Red Badger

Best line of the night. I needed the laugh!


34 posted on 10/13/2015 7:46:57 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Hey, there’s a Megyn special on Fox at 11:00 eastern and there will even be a Frank Luntz focus group.

Heads up since I know no one will want to miss that.


35 posted on 10/13/2015 7:47:09 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Jim from C-Town

Yep. Her job is not to ‘provoke’ the candidates either.


36 posted on 10/13/2015 7:47:42 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

You are just a stupid girl in a world that’s turned too dark for your kind. Shut up and sit down. Men are trying to keep you safe you foolish child.


37 posted on 10/13/2015 7:51:06 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
She took the high road???

I guess that's what ya call it when ya talk about Trumps ba@@s being cut-off.

I've have not watched Kelly file or much of Fix news since the debate.

38 posted on 10/13/2015 7:56:25 PM PDT by topfile
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Meanwhile the rest of us have learned that we underestimated how vindictive Megyn Kelly is.


39 posted on 10/13/2015 7:58:14 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Sequoyah101

That is why her third quarter ratings were the best she has had in her career.


40 posted on 10/13/2015 8:01:37 PM PDT by glabbe
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