No one likes a smart ass and now that we know that is exactly how Kelly get her kicks, with that deliberate way of waiting in a hidden place to kick people below the belt, that she disagrees with. And she does not look very good to me either.
So Megyn Kelly is just another thrill freak TV personality, and not the classy kind of company the American public really respect. Yes Megyn Kelly has truly lost the respect of the American public, but now that we know her better, I don't think that she cares all that much do you? Because she is what she is, and simply too dirty for me too.
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Megyn Kelly: The First Casualty in Donald Trump’s ‘Asymmetric’ War on Fox News
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Megyn Kelly: The First Casualty in Donald Trump's 'Asymmetric' War on Fox News - Breitbart
2016 GOP frontrunner and billionaire Donald Trump already won his war with the Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly.
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Chris Hanson
3:32 AM
I am not a Trump supporter and have always liked Megan Kelly, but this is a really interesting article.
Kelly fired first. It wasn’t at the debate where Kelly fired her first cheap shot at Trump, either. On July 27, as The Daily Beast’s Tim Mak and Brandy Zadrozny published a subsequently quickly-proven-false hit piece alleging that Trump raped his ex-wife Ivana Trump—with whom he had three children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald, Jr.—Kelly rushed it onto her show and into the political narrative. The story was posted online at 8:35 p.m. that evening on The Daily Beast’s website, too late for Kelly to have vetted it herself before going on air to read it—which she did gleefully that night, just leaning on the normally reliable Daily Beast to be able to use it on her show.
“We got to get to this because this is just breaking on the Daily Beast—the headline is: ‘Ex-Wife: Donald Trump Made Me Feel ‘Violated’ During Sex,’” Kelly said on air. “The next line is: ‘Ivana Trump once accused the real estate tycoon of “rape,” although she later clarified: not in the “criminal sense.””
As a photo of Ivana appeared on the right side of the screen and Stirewalt split the left with Kelly, Kelly continued: “And the essence of this piece, I’m just reading this literally as we are on the air, is that during their divorce proceeding—which was ugly—she accused him of a ‘violent assault,’ pulling back her arms, pulling out fistfuls of her hair, and then ‘raping’ her in a vicious manner.”
“Donald Trump has previously—this is back in 1989 this allegedly happened—he has denied it previously, years ago, saying it is obviously false and going after the guy who wrote it as a vindictive and jealous man,” Kelly said before eventually turning to Stirewalt. “Somebody who speaks for Donald Trump has come out and denied it as well and added that legally, he says, you cannot rape your spouse—although I’m not sure about that as a legal matter, we’ll leave that for another day—but what does this tell us now? What does this tell us? It’s getting ugly for one thing.”
“It’s getting ugly, for one thing,” Stirewalt replied, echoing Kelly before providing his analysis on the spot about the piece. “Number two, it’s old.”
“Very,” Kelly interjected.
“But in the case of Donald Trump, you have decades—reaching back to the 1980s—of a public life, and a colorful one at that,” Stirewalt continued before Kelly jumped in to talk over him and seemingly back the odd logic behind the Daily Beast publishing this old piece.
“But this is how you get around that, Chris—they start the article, all right, they start the article by saying, ‘Donald Trump introduced his presidential campaign to the world with a slur against Mexican immigrants, accusing them of being “rapists” and bringing crime into the country.’ And then they say this is ‘unfortunate turn of phrase for’ him and then they get into the matter from 1989 in a divorce proceeding—where the audience needs to understand, often both sides say very ugly things that may or may not be true,” Kelly said.
At the end of the segment, Kelly seemingly warned Trump about what she planned to do to him at the upcoming debate: “We see this happen, we see this happen a lot, you run for president, man, they will go after everything.”
The next morning, Trump and his team turned the tables on the Daily Beast hit piece—albeit in an unlikely manner. His ex-wife Ivana–unprompted, he later told Breitbart News–issued a statement to CNN backing him up.
“I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald,” Ivana said. “The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president.”
By midday, Trump and his campaign—although truly a bit shaken for the first time this cycle at how low some folks in media like the Daily Beast and Kelly would go—were back on offense targeting the political establishment and growing their lead in the polls.
That night, in what appeared to be an effort to distance herself from the piece she previously rushed on air the night before, Kelly completely changed her tune as she badgered the Daily Beast’s Mak on her show. “Tim, you are under fire for writing a piece about a man’s divorce—allegations made in it—from three decades ago,” Kelly asked Mak. “Why did you think this was relevant?”
From there, however, with the first debate in Cleveland looming a fortnight away, Kelly was out of the closet in her desire to see Trump’s head on a platter rather than his name as the GOP nominee on a ballot against whoever wins the Democratic nomination. Trump smelled Kelly’s plan a mile away and backed out of a pre-scheduled interview with her before the debate.
But the two were destined to clash on the debate stage. Like clockwork, on it, Kelly aimed to stump Trump. But Trump was ready for her.
“Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don’t use a politician’s filter,” Kelly asked him on the Quicken Loans Arena stage in Cleveland with 24 million people watching back home. “However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women. You’ve called women you don’t like ‘fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.’”
As the audience laughed, Kelly attempted to continue: “Your Twitter account…”
“Only Rosie O’Donnell,” Trump joked, disarming Kelly.
The audience roared in laughter.
“No, it wasn’t,” Kelly tried to correct Trump. “Your Twitter account…”
The audience erupted in applause for Trump.
“Thank you,” Trump thanked them.
“For the record, it was well beyond Rosie O’Donnell,” Kelly interjected.
“Yes, I’m sure it was,” Trump replied.
“Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks,” Kelly continued her question. “You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who was likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?”
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct,” Trump answered, earning resounding applause from the audience.
“I’ve been challenged by so many people, and I don’t frankly have time for total political correctness,” Trump continued. “And to be honest with you, this country doesn’t have time either. This country is in big trouble. We don’t win anymore. We lose to China. We lose to Mexico both in trade and at the border. We lose to everybody. And frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it’s fun, it’s kidding. We have a good time. What I say is what I say. And honestly Megyn, if you don’t like it, I’m sorry. I’ve been very nice to you, although I could probably maybe not be, based on the way you have treated me. But I wouldn’t do that.”
The crowd roared again.
“But you know what, we — we need strength, we need energy, we need quickness and we need brain in this country to turn it around,” Trump finished his answer. “That, I can tell you right now.”
After the debate, Trump told CNN’s Don Lemon that he was very displeased with Kelly.
“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” Trump said in the Lemon interview.
Many–including Fox News Contributor Erick Erickson of RedState, who disinvited Trump to his annual gathering of candidates and activists outside Atlanta–took that Trump comment to be a reference to Kelly menstruating. None of them, of course, even listened to the full interview—each of them took it out context—since Trump also referred to Chris Wallace, one of the other moderators from the Fox News Channel and a male, having blood coming out of his eyes. Trump noted that in a later interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union.
Kelly, on her first post-debate show and the first show since all of this, addressed the controversy for the first time. “Apparently Mr. Trump thought the question I asked was unfair and felt I was attacking him, I felt he was asked a tough but fair question,” she said. “We agree to disagree.”
After that, she somewhat praised Trump in an effort to bury the hatchet.
“Mr. Trump is an interesting man who has captured the attention of the electorate,” Kelly said. “That’s why he’s leading in the polls. Trump, who is the front-runner, will not apologize, and I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism. So I’ll continue doing my job without fear or favor, and Mr. Trump, I expect, will continue with what has been a successful campaign thus far. This is a tough business and it’s time now to move forward, and now let’s get back to the news.”
Fox News Channel president Roger Ailes called Trump to work out a truce. A Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, appeared on Hannity, then Ailes worked it out with Trump to appear on his network on other shows throughout the week. Publicly, it appeared the truce would work.
The whole episode has left Kelly exposed—she probably didn’t intend to expose herself like this—which means Trump has inadvertently won the war with her. What remains on the horizon, however, is a bigger war that’s brewing between Fox News—and the network’s backers, including Rupert Murdoch and his sons—and Trump.
Murdoch’s ideology is one directly opposed to what Trump believes, especially when it comes to the issues of trade and immigration. As the 2016 election cycle progresses, with one of its best players in Kelly on intellectual battlefield sidelines—she’ll keep hosting her program and getting high ratings, but she’s forever lost the claim to impartiality thanks to Trump—the Fox News Channel is likely going to escalate, on behalf of the Murdochs’ worldview on immigration and trade, the war with Trump. It’s worth noting, though, that Ailes and Trump are friends and mutual admirers so this seemingly inevitable war may yet be averted. There are also many other personalities at Fox friendly with Trump, so it may not escalate further. What happens next remains to be seen.
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