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| Megyn Kelly (L) and Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) |
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly had a slip of the tongue Monday night as she introduced former Arkanasa governor Mike Huckabee:
“Joining me now, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who is the host of Fucka– ah, Huckabee right here on the Fox News channel…”
Not sure if she was thinking “Fox” and “Huckabee” at the same time or what. But it sure got the inter webs going… 🙂
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council, a hate group that claims gay men are more likely to be pedophiles than straight men.
From Media Matters:
Tony Perkins is the president of the Family Research Council (FRC), an organization that was labeled an anti-gay “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2010. He has called pedophilia “a homosexual problem,” claimed that gay men “recruit” children into homosexuality, and endorsed a Uganda law that would have imposed the death penalty for homosexuality. His organization regularly produces anti-gay propaganda depicting gay people as abnormal, unnatural, and destined for “eternal damnation.”
He’s also one of Fox News host Megyn Kelly’s favorite guests. She has had Perkins on her show more than any other Fox News show combined.
Why does she welcome the spokesman for a certified hate group to her show?
Former Vice-President Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney went on FOX News with Megyn Kelly to try to promote their new nonprofit organization, Alliance for a Strong America.
But Kelly wasn’t having any of it. After introducing Cheney “the man who helped lead us into Iraq in the first place,” she quoted his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed where he blamed President Obama for all things Iraq. “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,” they wrote.
And then she said, “Time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir.”
Watch the exchange below.
Annette Bosworth, a candidate in the South Dakota GOP’s Senate primary, learned she’d lost to Governor Mike Rounds when Fox News host Megyn Kelly informed her on air Tuesday evening.
Kelly began the interview by asking for Bosworth’s reaction to the loss. “Well, that’s news to me,” Bosworth said. “I didn’t know that. I found out on national television.”
She then made it part way through an answer about supporting the winning candidate before saying, “That’s disappointing to me.”
“Sorry to break the news to you,” Kelly said.
Just so you can see what passes for “fair and balanced” over at Faux News.
Summation of Megyn Kelly here – ‘Really Reprehensible!’ ‘Word Police!’
From Mediaite:
After showing a statement from Robertson regarding his homophobic remarks, Kelly turned to the panel, and right off the bad Bernard Whitman condemned Robertson’s “disgusting,” “really reprehensible” remarks and said he should get the boot.
Arthur Aidala and Monica Crowley vehemently disagreed, and all three got in a heated back-and-forth about the free speech issues here. Aidala cried, “There’s something called the First Amendment!” Crowley called it a “classic example of the word police, political correctness.”
Whitman shot back that Robertson has every right to say hateful things at “hate speech conventions” but remarks like that have no place in the public square. He said, “Our country’s not founded on hate.” Aidala shot back, “No, it’s founded on free speech!”
A&E is a private company that clearly doesn’t believe in homophobia, so they suspended an employee for making homophobic remarks. It’s got nothing to do with freedom of speech or the First Amendment because this is not government censorship.
Hmm… Now what do all those female Fox News personalities have in common?
I can’t quite put my finger on it…
America’s Favorite Dragapella® Beautyshop Quartet* responds to FOX News’ Megyn Kelly and Santa’s race.
Based on “White Christmas” by Irving Berlin – Parody by Ben Schatz
I’m dreaming of a white Santa
Like Megyn Kelly seems to know
While FOX News is dissin’
A made-up war on Christians
To boost ratings on their showsI’m dreaming of a white Santa
With dark-skinned elves kept out of sight
May your news be skewed to the right
And may Santas like FOX anchors all be white!
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While I’m not normally a fan of much that happens involving Megyn Kelly at FOX News, this is a great moment for her and a rough and tough rumble for Erick Erickson and Lou Dobbs.
Earlier this week Erickson made news while discussing a recent Pew Research Report on Lou Dobbs show. The survey showed that 40% of households with children under 18 have women who are the primary or sole “breadwinners” in the home. Erickson responsed by saying that ‘science’ says that men should dominate women.
In a follow-up blog post, Erickson bungled again by posting that “feminists and emo lefties have their panties in a wad.” I should point out here that it’s never a good idea to EVER begin addressing women by including a comment about their “panties.”
So Erickson and Dobbs (who seemed to agree with Erickson during the initial discussion) joined Kelly today where she ripped into both about their positions.
“What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist in chief?” said Kelly to Erick Erickson.
At one point she hands out these facts: “In this country in the ’50s and ’60s there were huge numbers of people that believed that the children of interracial marriages were biologically inferior and that is why it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in some states in the country up until 1967. And they said it was science and fact if you were the child of a black father and white mother or vice versa you were inferior and not set up for success. Tell that to Barack Obama.”
When it came his chance to speak, Dobbs addressed Megyn as “oh, dominant one” with a mocking tone.
What upset people about Erickson’s comments had less to do with single mothers and the decline of marriage rates than about gender roles. It was his notion that women should always stay at home and tend to the kids and that men should always be the breadwinners and dominate women — because that’s only ‘natural.’ Erickson later doubled-down with this tweet:
p.s. I think Erickson meant “complementary” not “complimentary”…
Erickson has a history of public comments demeaning women. Last year, Erickson referred to an all-female line up of speakers at the Democratic National Convention as “The Vagina Monologues.”
Watch the clip above as Kelly rightfully points out that numerous studies show working mothers, single working mothers and gay/lesbian couples provide just as good a home and nurturing for children as heterosexual couples.
Bravo Megyn Kelly!
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Last night, Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly attempted to defend a UC Davis police officer’s use of pepper spray against nonviolent protesters.
“I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police,” O’Reilly said, “particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.” He didn’t explain why the abuse of violent force might be more necessary or justified against liberal students.
Kelly went even further in dismissing the suffering of students attacked by the pepper spray, speculating that it’s not that harmful because “it’s like a derivative of actual pepper. It’s a food product, essentially.”
That statement has created a new viral phrase all of the Twitter world. Here are a few of the best ones:
“Mustard gas: it’s a hot dog condiment, essentially!”
“Unemployment: it’s free vacation, essentially.”
“Prison: it’s free room and board, essentially!”
“Stonings: They’re microdermabrasion, basically.”
“Waterboarding: It’s a really high-powered shower, essentially!”
“Beheadings: They’re really close haircuts, essentially!”
“Yellow cake uranium is a dessert, essentially”
“Rape, it’s just surprise sex, essentially.”