Megyn Kelly Asks If It's 'Appropriate' For Chicago Protester To Stare At Cop

[kpete]

"This guy is having a silent protest with this police officer," he said.

"He gets right in his face and stares him down? This cop hasn't done anything wrong," Kelly replied.

"You think that's fine? You have no problem with this?" Kelly later asked Fowler after he maintained that the protester had a right to stare down the officer.

"This is his first amendment right. This biggest problem here is..." Fowler said in response.

"It's not a question of what his constitutional rights are. It's a question of what's appropriate,"

Kelly hit back.




http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/megyn-kelly-appropriate-chicago-protest

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. I think it's even less appropriate for fascist puppets to play "journalists" on TV. nt

[Ed Suspicious]

2. yes.

[Hortensis]

3. +1000. And propaganda networks whose viewers

have tested as MORE ignorant than people who watch no news at all. Literally.

[PotatoChip]

24. Yup. (nt)

[katsy]

32. +1

[Grassy Knoll]

4. That's How Ef'd Up Fox News Is

After this terrible shooting, Fox Had to find a black man doing
something, anything, to justify this crime.
Fox News should be Pay Per View, like fake wrestling.

[gollygee]

5. What, does she think he should be arrested for "inappropriate looking?"

Or maybe she thinks he should be shot, because she appears to be fine with police shooting people over anything.

[onecaliberal]

17. She wants him shot for breathing while black.

[lunasun]

6. At least you now know that his constitutional rights are second to her opinion . Freedumb !

[cwydro]

7. Wonder how long the "stare-down" lasted.

Curious.

[yuiyoshida]

23. I saw it on line...

I was thinking, wtf are you doing? I was afraid for him, but yeah it was a long time before he disengaged. I thought any moment now he is going to find a billy club across his face...

[merrily]

8. "This cop hasn't done anything wrong." How does she know? And neither has the protestor.

What's her concern, anyway? That the protestor may make the cop blink first?

"It's not a question of what his constitutional rights are. It's a question of what's appropriate,"

Actually, no. It is a matter of what his constitutional rights are. However, he is doing nothing inappropriate, anyway.

Why are these people even allowed to use air time? smh

[Hortensis]

9. Agree. Cops are taught to handle stares in Control 101,

anyway. If they can't routinely project authority and defuse without even thinking about it, much less resorting to violence, they're in the wrong line of work.

[FlatBaroque]

12. They are given air time

because it is their job to deceive us.

[merrily]

13. Someone, at some point, decided that US public airwaves should be sold off for relative peanuts

to private companies for private profit. Sow. Reap.

Then again, if the alternative is the government directly controlling all of them......

Talk about between Scylla and Charybdis!

[FlatBaroque]

15. Tough situation for sure

but things like the Fairness Doctrine, the laws against propaganda which have now been eliminated, the absence of any requirement for news orgs to tell the truth...these are all things that could help keep the situation in check.

[merrily]

18. The government, which never had any trouble propagandizing us anyway, passed a law

expressly authorizing itself to propagandize us. One can only shudder to think what that means. You can be lied to at your own expense.

Reading the wiki of the Fairness Doctrine is instructive. How Democrats in Congress opposed Reagan's attempts to end it, then went into radio silence (no pun intended) thereafter. How the Obama administration put the final nail in its coffin. (Previously, it would have taken only administrative action to revive it. Now it will take an Act of Congress.)

It is yet another sad example of how partisan our legislation is.

Worst example ever of that, IMO? Ted Kennedy, who touted himself as having health care as "the cause of my life" --and did in fact do many good things in that field--deliberately killed Nixon's initiative because, according to Kennedy, he didn't want it to happen during the Administration of a Republican President. Kennedy claimed that he regretted it and attempted to revive it, but he was too late because Watergate was by then consuming Nixon. However, Carter, obviously a Democratic President, claims that Kennedy killed his bill, too, so maybe Kennedy's motives were even worse than Kennedy admitted. Kennedy said killing Nixon's initiative was the biggest regret of his career, but sheesh!

[spanone]

10. the greater question meg, is it appropriate for a policeman to shoot a 17 yr old 16 times?

in cold blood?

i'm sure rupert wouldn't approve of such a question.

[underpants]

11. Fox must have been pissed things didn't flair up last night

[Person 2713]

16. +1

[LadyHawkAZ]

14. If the cop hasn't done anything wrong

then he has nothing to worry about, right??

Right????

(that's what they keep telling us, anyway)

[A Simple Game]

27. My vote for post of the day. n/t

[damnedifIknow]

19. News flash Megyn

He wouldn't be staring at the cop if one of his fellow officers hadn't shot a member of his community sixteen times while that member was walking away. Damn, these people at Fox are twits.

[Johonny]

20. Everyone can't look at police officers in general, or just black people?

It's just black people, right Megyn?

Seriously FOX news destroys your brain.

[closeupready]

21. Kelly is Lara Logan league, lol.

[yuiyoshida]

22. I saw that stare down on line, and my thought was...

That guy is far braver than I would be doing that...

[Scuba]

25. Yeah, constitutional rights should come after what Fox decides is "appropriate."

[reflection]

26. It's only appropriate if it's not dehumanizing.

Because we all know that black people have the ability to strip white officers of their humanity with a single, magical glare.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/30/tremaine-mcmillian-14-year-old-miami-dade-police_n_3362340.html

for the sarcasm impaired

[TeamPooka]

28. Fox News questioning what's appropriate? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[951-Riverside]

29. White bacon boy was scared LMAO

Not so brave when there's cameras around

[Mendocino]

30. After she dared

to ask trump a hardball question, this is her just trying to get her hard right "cred" back. Go back to kissing the butt of your corporate masters, some of the lemmings will believe you. The rest of us just laugh.

[ryan_cats]

31. Avert

Avert your eyes commoner, we're better than you.

Didn't someone recently get harassed because they had the audacity to make eye contact with a cop?