Let's Not Get Carried Away With The Megyn Kelly Lovefest

[RandySF]

Even better was the question Kelly asked Walker about his abortion policies. You might expect Fox News moderators to allow Republican candidates to sidestep their least popular views on the subject. To her credit, Kelly asked Walker to defend his position that bans on abortion should not even contain exemptions for the life of the mother—making the laws even more restrictive than they were in most states before Roe v. Wade—observing that Walker’s position was opposed by 83 percent of the public.

Given that the abortion debate is so often conducted on terrain Republicans would prefer, and not just on Fox News, this question was a welcome surprise and yielded important information about one of the Republican frontrunners, who confirmed his radical views.

But before we get carried away praising Kelly and the other moderators, we should keep a couple of things in mind. First of all, even if Kelly is a good journalist and asked some good questions last night, she has some views that are nutty enough that Trump would sign for them. In particular, she has expressed consistently bizarre and retrograde views on race: obsessing over the utterly irrelevant New Black Panthers as if Richard Nixon was still in the White House, defending the racist emails sent by police officers in Ferguson as normal, and insisting that the fictional Santa Claus “just is” white. Not to mention her willfully misleading attacks on Black Lives Matter.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/megyn-kelly-moderators-fox-news-debate

[Skittles]

1. I.....er.....who the fuck thinks she is a good journalist?

why would a good journalist work for a propaganda organization?

[JI7]

2. you know what's fucked up ? if it was only rosie o'donnell he had said those disgusting things to

people would be just ok with it and compliment on his humor.

[BlueMTexpat]

6. I have seen posters elsewhere

mention this and concur with you all.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Regardless of her current questions, she will line up in lockstep with the rest of FOX "News"

behind the eventual Republican nominee.

Thanks for the thread, RandySF.

[murielm99]

5. I don't think she came up with those questions

on her own. Everything had to be approved by Fox News beforehand.

It was probably considered normal by TBTB at Fox for the woman to be the one to ask about abortion.

[pinboy3niner]

4. I will give her props as a bright and talented woman

And as a good lawyer. And for her independence in sometimes going against Fox views,

[Katashi_itto]

7. She's a Fox Creature.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. I was very surprised about her tone on that abortion question. It was full of sarcasm

Almost like she was mocking anyone who believed in no life of mother exemption. Think she said 81 or 81% of the people are for the exemption. Then Walker says something like "a lot of people think the way I do." which was totally crazy after she just quoted the stats.

Whether it was Kelly or Fox - I was surprised at the lack of softball questions. It was almost like they did such a good job - they hurt their own (?) party,

[Bettie]

9. To Walker "a lot of people"

are the Kochs. They are the only people that matter in his world.

[niyad]

10. she works for faux snooze, therefore, by definition, she is not a journalist, but a propogandist.

[Beaverhausen]

11. To me, it's not so much about Kelly, it's about Trump's treatment of and language about women

You will note he didn't call Chris Wallace or Bret Baier any names and those two asked the 'will you run third party' and 'prove that the mexican government is sending rapists and murders' questions, which were just as inflamatory.

You don't see Trump going after them do you?

[hfojvt]

12. well my timing just sucks

[Rex]

13. Trump talked to her like she was one of his interns and the audience loved it.

Women need to remember that they (according to every republican 'God fearing' white man) are STILL second class people even on Foxnews and even if they are the star of the entire circus. That didn't change at the debate and won't change since it is a core part of the GOP.

I was surprised at some of the questions asked, I figured it would just be Softball Central.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. I don't necessarily see it as a Megyn Kelly lovefest.

Having no real love for Kelly herself.

Rather, it's about the extent of Trump's bizarre behavior and egomania.

In a very shallow and superficial manner, he goes after a high profile personality on a news network that has given him considerable air time to spew his views. All because she dared to ask him a question that--love Kelly or hate her--was actually a valid one (an astonishing accomplishment for Fox News): Why are you so rude and nasty to people you feel have crossed you, especially women?

And what we got from Trump in his bleeding comments perfectly illustrated the basis in which that question ought to have been asked. It also revealed the underlying twisted psychology of the man: Rather than brush off the question as not a big deal, he went on a Twitter diatribe against Kelly and then insinuated she was on her period. And only after that, he then demands that people ask him questions about the issues and not his personality conflicts.

Even more bizarre is the reaction from his supporters, many of them who were avid fans of Fox News and Kelly but literally overnight were viciously attacking the network and Kelly. Clearly the supporters he does have, he has considerable sway over them.

In every progressively atrocious example of Trump's bad behavior, I keep on expecting a Gorgan moment* from his supporters and a falling out. That still has yet to occur.

*See http://en.memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Gorgan

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

15. To paraphrase Jon Stewart: When a weasel and a mongoose go against each other. Who do you

root for? Needless to say, Captain hairdo did go full sexist on her. And for that he needs to be called out. But not by the same sexist assholes who even made his joke of a campaign possible. I mean they can, but it makes them look like the hypocrites they are.