Megyn Kelly Made a Really, Really Bad Choice

The American Thinker ^ | Jan 4 2007 | By Jay Valentine

[ArcadeQuarters]

Everyone wins except NBC.

[Jay Thomas]

Funny. What I see is he let’s his victims ramble on before launching the ass beating. It seems like talking over the guest because the guests are always trying to avoid the shlonging by filibustering.

[Mr.Unique]

Tucker was almost unknown nationally. Now Greta will be. The slot made her...

Was this guy born in 2014?

[Gargantua]

Enjoy! I got a million of 'em.

Good night, Mrs. Calabash... wherever you are!

;^)

[newfreep]

Take it easy on Shep.

He’s got the best eye make-up of all the FOX hosts...and that’s gotta count for something.

[miserare]

Megyn’s gravest error was mocking Donald Trump. She is now chopped liver.

[nathanbedford]

It was the "precise moment" when Megan Kelly committed an act of real journalism by quoting Donald Trump's own words to him in the first debate which caused Trump supporters here to assert she was "launching a vendetta". Worse for these people who believe that the job of the debate moderators was to advance the campaign of their champion, she declined to be bullied by him in that debate and corrected him when he misspoke, which he had to acknowledge in real time.

As to the subject matter, it could not have been more prescient in terms of the later direction of the campaign in which Trump's live mic speech about grabbing pussy nearly cost him the election. In effect, no journalist in any debate provided a greater service to the electorate than Megan Kelly who anticipated this important part of the campaign, the women's vote. It alerted Republican voters who were to choose their candidate where Trump stood on this issue, a vulnerability which the Democrats were sure to exploit, as they did, and which the Republicans had a right to be made aware of when choosing their candidate.

Thereafter, Kelly was scrupulous in her coverage of Trump and his campaign, sometimes supporting and even defending him and sometimes presenting facts inconvenient to the campaign. Relative to other journalists, she was fair to Trump.

The assertions that Kelly:

During the entire Trump campaign, Megyn continuously presented the most slanted anti-Trump propaganda that could possibly be imagined. There wasn't the slightest veneer of fairness or balance in a single show that involved Trump. It was a mockery of anything even remotely resembling journalism.

Our simply a departure from reality. The facts are to the contrary.

Kelly is now leaving a cable channel for terrestrial television with large audiences, reportedly for more money and more convenient hours, hardly a step down.

It is time to cease these felonies against history and stop blackgarding people like Mark Levin and, yes, Megan Kelly.

[bankwalker]

Well, I guess that’s one way of looking at it.

[Arthur McGowan]

At NBC, the audience is 90% over 75, and Megyn will be selling denture creams and diapers.

[Shortstop7]

I don’t see that at all. Tucker lets the people speak....while he usually has an incredulous look on his face. It’s hilarious.

[bankwalker]

Well, that depends.

[sargon]

It was the "precise moment" when Megan Kelly committed an act of real journalism by quoting Donald Trump's own words to him in the first debate which caused Trump supporters here to assert she was "launching a vendetta".

Dude, I don't know what koolaid you're still drinking, but Megyn Kelly provided some of the most slanted anti-Trump coverage of all the "journalists" on all the networks, bar none.

At no time after that first debate did Kelly ever do anything which could be even remotely mistaken for "fair and balanced" journalism with respect to Donald Trump.

Thereafter, Kelly was scrupulous in her coverage of Trump and his campaign, sometimes supporting and even defending him and sometimes presenting facts inconvenient to the campaign. Relative to other journalists, she was fair to Trump.

Sometimes you simply don't know when to leave well enough alone, NB, because that paragraph of yours is as full of sh!t as the day is long. It's assertion is utterly ridiculous and simply not supported by objective reality (the video records of her shows).

Once again, your irrational hatred of Trump displays itself in brilliant contrast.

To assert that Megyn Kelly was "fair to Trump" is patently false. I honestly have no idea why you'd try to make such a ludicrous claim. I think you'll find that there is a widespread consensus in this community that Megyn Kelly was anything but fair to Donald Trump, and it's not because we're all a bunch of Trump fanboys (we are, for the most part). The reason for that consensus is due to an objective review of the content of her staunchly #NeverTrump shows— day after day, week after week.

I have no idea why you'd want to challenge anyone on this issue. The only reason I can imagine is that you have some kind of obsessive/compulsive need to issue an inflammatory response to an utterly uncontroversial assertion that I made.

To reiterate, I can count the times that Megyn Kelly defended Donald Trump on one hand— a hand with several amputated fingers.

When you are able to overcome your visceral hatred of Trump, you often have valid points to make. But trying to argue that Megyn Kelly did anything other than conduct a relentless, hate-filled vendetta against Donald Trump is the veritable height of ignorance, IMHO. Either that, or else you're just being totally disingenuous for the sake of trolling me.

Please, let it go, because the evidence that Megyn Kelly was in any way fair to Trump is extremely flimsy at best. We were all right here during the entire vendetta. We all saw Megyn Kelly's tireless anti-Trump smears on a daily basis on her nightly show. She predominantly presented these smears without even the affording the opportunity of a rebuttal from defenders of Donald Trump.

I'm afraid you're all alone on this particular issue, and deservedly so. BTW, I was a fan of Megyn Kelly before she succumbed to the same malady from which you suffer: incorrigible and irrational Trump hatred...

[Flaming Conservative]

Greta will be fine. Brit Hume, who puts on an affable front, is an anti-Trumper. And he showed his true colors when he got caught on tape trying to get rid of a pro-Trump guest. At least Greta was fair and balanced. I wish the conservative and fair members of the network would all move to a start-up network. Brett and Shepard can stay and grind away at Trump to their heart’s content. As for Megyn, she thinks a little too highly of herself. I couldn’t care less if she makes it at NBC or not. She has made her show all about her. She’s NOT the news, she’s supposed to be reporting the news.

[Flaming Conservative]

His interviews do just what they’re supposed to do —expose phonies and liberal pinheads. As I’ve said before, they’re lined up, hoping to beat him at his own game. So far? NADA.

[rdb3]

Laurie Dhue!

I sure hope she has sobered up.

Jesus Christ: You can't impeach Him and He ain't gonna resign.

[anton]

Brit Hume is a useless turd. Unwatchable. Pretentious. Condescending. All at once. He needs a job as a network suit. Sell ad time, meeting with the bank. Keep himself off the stage.

[nathanbedford]

Once again in an exchange with you I am compelled to remind the reader of two simple propositions:

1. It ain't about me.

2. Merely repeating your conclusions does not prove them. Would you like to examine the transcript of the first debate to determine whether that was a "precise moment" of "launching a vendetta?"

I think not.

Your assertions, no matter how many times repeated, that the coverage was unfair is simply unfair to history.

[Taxman]

I did not watch the overpaid and over lauded Ms. Kelly when she was on Fox, and since I NEVER watch NBC, I sureasHell will not watch her there!

[Churchillspirit]

Greta became know because of the OJ trial. She was with CNN then.

Mr & Mrs Greta are friends of the Clintons.

[sargon]

Your assertions, no matter how many times repeated, that the coverage was unfair is simply unfair to history.

Those assertions were not made in a vacuum. They were the result of personal observation, are voluminously backed by both hard and anecdotal evidence, and, indeed, they represent an overwhelming consensus of the membership of this community. So you're the one who has walked himself out on a limb by making such an objectively false claim.

Essentially, you're saying that everyone else in this community just shouldn't believe their lying eyes, and should take your word that Megyn Kelly was the epitome of fair reporting regarding Donald Trump.

It is to laugh.

And it is your objectively inaccurate assertion which will never be embraced here, no matter how many times repeated.

To reiterate: the consensus of many thoughtful conservatives is that your ludicrous claim that Megyn Kelly was fair to Donald Trump is what is actually "simply unfair to history".

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Your claim that Megyn Kelly was fair to Trump easily meets the criteria of an "extraordinary claim", at least in this conservative community. I'm sure you'd find more broad support for such a notion over at a place like Democratic Underground.

I'm not the one making the outlandish claim ("Megyn Kelly was fair to Donald Trump") in the face of broad consensus to the contrary. You are.

Of course, it doesn't surprise me that you'd make such a claim, given your inherent bias against, and indeed barely veiled hatred for, Donald Trump. Doubtless, according to your warped perception, Megyn Kelly's slanted journalism with respect to Donald Trump was eminently fair.

I can assure you with a high degree of confidence that your whimsical claim has been given due consideration, and has been decisively rejected on this forum.

I'm just informing you of my humble (and, parenthetically, widely held) opinion that you're distinctly and profoundly mistaken in this case, and I can safely say that there is a compellingly broad consensus in this community which agrees.

Therefore, I'm not going to waste any more time emphasizing the folly of your fallacious claim, and I doubt many more members of this community will either. It's simply so ridiculous on its face that it doesn't merit much more debate.

Thus, I hope you'll give it a rest before embarrassing yourself further...