Greenwald: Megyn Kelly's Views Are 'Viscerally Repellent,' But She's Better Than Most On Cable

[DonViejo]

By TOM KLUDT Published AUGUST 5, 2014, 10:29 AM EDT

Glenn Greenwald's feelings on Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly are, well, mixed.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who's been a passionate source of both reportage on the surveillance state and fierce media criticism, offered his thoughts on Kelly for a profile published Tuesday by Politico's Hadas Gold.

Greenwald said although he finds Kelly's views to be "viscerally repellent," he believes she "distinguishes" herself from her Fox colleagues and other cable news hosts.

“She has a lower tolerance for being fed incoherent tripe from her own side than the average cable news TV host,” Greenwald said in an email. “Most Fox and MSNBC hosts treat even the most blatant idiocy with respect if it advances their party’s political agenda for the vapid cable news partisan controversy of the day. Kelly, by contrast, seems to be often contemptuous of incoherent blather even from her own side, sometimes openly so, and that further distinguishes her.”

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[Mike Daniels]

1. IOW, for a FOX talking-head she's got the IQ to acknowledge that Obama was born in the US

even though everything else that spews out of her mouth is 99.95% standard boiler-plate GOP claptrap.

[OKNancy]

2. Is he on drugs or something? n/t

[DonViejo]

4. I wonder who pays him to watch all these cable stations

in order to make profound comparisons about which one is good, bad, or indifferent to Greenwald's high standards.

[snooper2]

3. greeny wants more attention!

[moondust]

5. Stain on the Pulitzer.

[Enrique]

6. she has her moments

most recently defending Obama against Ben Shapiro's accusation that Obama is "anti-Israel".

[Enrique]

8. except Greenwald is gay

[MohRokTah]

9. GG must not be getting the amount of attention he's grown acustomed to. eom

[whatchamacallit]

11. As your post is at best gratuitous, the same could be said about you n/t

[MohRokTah]

13. .

[frazzled]

10. The Rio sun tends to affect peoples' brains

Why is what Glenn Greenwald says about tv news entertainers of any interest to anyone in the first place? Why is Talking Points Memo even reporting this?

In the words of the immortal James Stockdale, "Who am I, why am I here?" And who cares what Glenn Greenwald thinks about American tv from his tropical perch?

And why do we waste our time on this crap?

[Kingofalldems]

12. 'For all you kids out there, Santa Claus IS white...'