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Hillary Clinton Gets a Pass, Megyn Kelly Gets the Axe
Frontpagemagazine ^ | October 31, 2018 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 10/31/2018 5:41:28 AM PDT by SJackson

The Left's morbid world of selective indignation.

On Monday night, interviewer Kara Swisher asked Hillary Clinton what she thought of Cory Booker’s statement that with Republicans, “we kick them in the shins.” The former First Lady replied that it was Eric Holder who said that, not Cory Booker. Swisher apologized but then the former Secretary of State said “yeah, I know, they all look alike.”

As one report noted, this “appeared to be a racist comment,” but the interview quickly moved on. On social media some contended Clinton had only been joking and nobody in the establishment media contended that she should drop out of the 2020 presidential race. Contrast the treatment of Megyn Kelly for recent comments about Halloween costumes.

“What is racist?” she asked a panel on her talk show. “You do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface for Halloween, or a black person who puts on whiteface for Halloween. Back when I was a kid, that was okay just as long as you were dressing in character.”

Later in the discussion, Kelly recalled Luann de Lesseps dressing up like Diana Ross. “She wants to look like Diana Ross for one day,” Kelly said. “I don’t know how, like, that got racist on Halloween.” Social media trolls targeted Kelly as a racist and on CNN Don Lemon said she lived  in an “echo chamber,” and needed to educate herself about that “privilege you haven’t been aware of for 47 years.”

Lemon also charged that “Megyn has taken over for what used to be an African-American woman and a black man who had that slot, who actually did better than her in the ratings, who in this situation would have said it is never to do blackface.” In USA Today, Kirsten Powers charged, “the original sin was that Kelly was hired by NBC at all.”

Kelly “had a long track record of racial demagoguery at Fox News,” Powers wrote. “It would be different if she had come to terms with her own racial animus and worked to overcome it and make amends with the communities she had harmed. But NBC hired an unrepentant Kelly, who spoke with pride of all her work at Fox News.”

While with Fox, Kelly contended the New Black Panthers were a threat, agreed with Mark Fuhrman about “anti-cop biases” and decried the “culture of victimization.” At NBC, “Kelly said blackface was fine on Halloween” and was “apologizing for racist comments.” For Powers, “her meteoric rise could not have happened without the complicity of a system that is far too comfortable with racism, especially when it comes in a pretty white package.” For some of her readers, this might have sounded strange.

In The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, Powers contended that for the left “facts don’t matter, only ideology does, and vilifying your opponents.” They are “at war with the freedom of speech and of legal due process that allows us to find the truth.” Rather than answer an argument, leftists cite “privilege,” which amounts to “a moving target that seems to apply to whomever the illiberal left is up to demonizing that day.”



TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; doublestandards; ericholder; karaswisher; mediawingofthednc; nonplayercharacter; nonplayercharacters; npc; npcs; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; racecard; smearmachine
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Unlike her alleged Jew bast*rd comment, she said this publicly. No outrage, no denial, no apology.
1 posted on 10/31/2018 5:41:28 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

When you are sufficiently wed to Satan you are immune to criticism from the left.


2 posted on 10/31/2018 5:44:45 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: SJackson

Two bitches...but one, people are afraid of. Guess which one?


3 posted on 10/31/2018 5:45:41 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: SJackson

Still no outrage from the subversives in the MSM?


4 posted on 10/31/2018 5:46:28 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: SJackson

The women who took on Trump include Hillary, Megan and stormy. Others?


5 posted on 10/31/2018 5:47:13 AM PDT by Raycpa
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Kirsten Powers is a guilt-plagued, hand-wringing, self-deprecating liberal. Any woman that dated Anthony Weiner has got to have more than one screw loose.


6 posted on 10/31/2018 5:50:38 AM PDT by donozark (There are no flamingos in Venezuela.)
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Hitlery666 gets a pass on EVERYTHING. Have you ever, ever, seen her held accountable for ANYTHING in the past 30 years if you even were alive that long? She could stab to death someone on live HD TV broadcast to the entire planet and they would blame someone else.


7 posted on 10/31/2018 5:53:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”)
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Never mind her actual comments that “all blacks look alike”...Didn’t Hillary ACTUALLY dress in blackface for a costume party?

Am I mistaken on that?


8 posted on 10/31/2018 5:55:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: SJackson

Business as usual.


9 posted on 10/31/2018 5:55:21 AM PDT by daler
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Kelly is demanding to be paid the full $65 M of her NBC contract and will only agree to sign an NDA for another $10M.

Kelly wrote a book, “Settle for More,”


10 posted on 10/31/2018 5:56:45 AM PDT by sickoflibs ('Equal protection' only applies to illegals not you!)
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To: SJackson

The answer to this problem is obvious.

We need to ban women.


11 posted on 10/31/2018 5:57:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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As much as I cannot stand sHrillary, I am not outraged at this specific remark.

It was said sarcastically in response to the interviewer's gaffe of mistaking Corey Booker for Eric Holder.

Video here: https://youtu.be/_6U1Wmq-Ems?t=65

12 posted on 10/31/2018 6:07:11 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Obviously their civility holds them back../s


13 posted on 10/31/2018 6:09:38 AM PDT by Leep (?)
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To: SJackson

The powers at NBC wanted to get rid of Megan Kelly for some reason. It wasn’t the blackface talk. That was only the excuse.

Likewise, Matt Lauer may have never been exposed for his antics if someone higher up had him in a bullseye for firing.


14 posted on 10/31/2018 6:20:42 AM PDT by poconopundit
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I’m trying to feel sorry for MeAgain...

Nope, not working.

(Although, I do hope she reams NBC into complete annihilation...and walks away with the $65+ mil.)


15 posted on 10/31/2018 6:26:41 AM PDT by moovova
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To: SJackson

Hillary passed?


16 posted on 10/31/2018 6:27:27 AM PDT by Leep (?)
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dim’s figure no one takes the shrill seriously with her well known constant state of inebriation.


17 posted on 10/31/2018 6:30:50 AM PDT by chief lee runamok (mongrel at large)
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Megyn needs to get ahold of a lot of FBI files before she can make such comments.


18 posted on 10/31/2018 6:31:06 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: SJackson

Hillaryous Rotten Criminal was axed by Americans.

HOORAY Americans!

Vote clintons, criminals, commies, conmen, deceivers, dirtbags, liars, looters, losers, morons, marxists, socialists, scumbags, tyrants and totalitarians from the body politic.

live - free - republic


19 posted on 10/31/2018 6:31:14 AM PDT by PGalt
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Hillary Clinton Gets a Pass, Megyn Kelly Gets the Axe

NBC knew she was a snake when they hired her - that was her main qualification.

20 posted on 10/31/2018 6:32:07 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Charter Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy - and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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