The RINO-ing of Megyn Kelly: Has Trump made it okay for all candidates to blow her off?

Salon ^ | Aug 27, 2015 | Jim Newell

[ObamahatesPACoal]

So now Megyn Kelly is a RINO squish intent on doing the liberal media’s dirty work.

(SNIP)

That Trump has been trashing her for so long, and the best her coworkers and boss can do is tweet a few cowardly lines asking him to pwease, pwease stop, Mr. Trump, pwease, suggests that Fox’s audience has sided with Trump on this one and has lost a certain amount of faith in Megyn Kelly.

What Trump’s campaign has done, then, is give other candidates an excuse to blow off questions from Megyn Kelly. Considere this exchange between Kelly and Ted Cruz last night.

[montag813]

GOOD. She has risen far too far, too fast for her meager talent and lack of wisdom. Her ambition needed to be checked, and The Donald did so. She may well look back later and thank him.

[montag813]

GOOD. She has risen far too far, too fast for her meager talent and lack of wisdom. Her ambition needed to be checked, and The Donald did so. She may well look back later and thank him.

[Georgia Girl 2]

No she’s always been RINO squish. :-)

[Georgia Girl 2]

Good idea. Truth in advertising. :-)

[V K Lee]

One hopes that MeKel has learned a lesson which is exactly how far she can push the envelope. Perhaps a few others in that area should heed the lesson learned. And Trump, happy to see his baking away from the continued harassment. He’s a bigger man than that. JAO

[x]

So everybody's on the same side as Salon on this?

And Salon is on Trump's side?

And everybody's fine with the writer's "pwease, pwease stop, Mr. Trump, pwease" stuff, which sounds pretty misogynistic or bullying?

If you cut your acceptable media down to people you agree with 100%, it makes it that much easier for the rest of the country to ignore points of view which are closer to yours than other, more liberal outlets, even if they aren't 100% yours.

[austinaero]

I’m FoxFree too and I don’t feel like I’m missing anything.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

But I wish they would just stay away from her, people watch to see Cruz...Kelly gets the ratings. They should keep her in a vacuum interviewing the likes of Lindsey Graham. You could probably get fairer questions from CNN and work on NEW voters anyway.

[RitaOK]

What? What? Tell me more. What Enquirer story?

[papertyger]

And everybody's fine with the writer's "pwease, pwease stop, Mr. Trump, pwease" stuff, which sounds pretty misogynistic or bullying?

It's called "mockery." It's legitimate. And attempts to redefine it are exactly what political correctness is all about.

Better to remember where this one came from the next time they try to play that card.

[RitaOK]

Oh, please.

Being overrun by conservative interviewers is a problem we don’t have, so why all the defensiveness? Excusing rampant slandering of our candidates in every debate and interview is really not a virtue.

As for this article, FOX has competition out there. The competition are all envious of the FOX ratings.

THAT is what makes Salon happy to defend Trump against FOX.

Blowing off Me-again Kelly is not a term anyone would use to describe Cruz response to Kelly. He called her out for her questioning. He openly aligned her with using the motivations of a “liberal journalist”. He was correct.

And, he exposed her.

[Enterprise]

As I, you, and others have pointed out, this was an important debate. Kelly was in a position to ask of Trump, and others, questions that we would ask because we are alarmed at the actions of this Administration and the consequences of those actions to our Nation. We wanted to know what the candidates would do differently. Kelly, instead of coming up with a question William F Buckley Jr might ask, instead came up with the intellectual equivalent of "boxers or briefs?" She lacked the wisdom and maturity to comprehend the gravity of this debate. As a moderator and as a privileged media representative ostensibly representing intelligent voters, her responsibility was ask insightful questions, and she failed miserably.

And to their disgrace, Wallace, Baier, and Kurtz all supported her, 100%.

[stephenjohnbanker]

You nailed it shut!

[Enterprise]

Thank you!