Megyn’s Obsession

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Oct 2016

No new beans are being spilt with this revelation, but Fox News’ Megyn Kelly has a hate on for Donald Trump.  She thinks Trump is a sexist pig and a lout.  She thinks Trump is disrespectful of women like her.  And for some reason she thinks this is disqualifying of Trump being president.  (And I hope my pointing this out doesn’t make her seem shallow and looks-obsessed.)

On debate night we had two more examples of this closet Hillary campaign worker in action, and of her obsession with a woman’s looks.  She tore after and scolded Trump communications director Jason Miller about Trump’s dismissing the allegations of unwanted sexual contact made against him the last ten days.  Kelly insisted that Trump’s sexist-pig attitude was evident when he dismissed the allegations on the basis of the women’s looks.

She ran a clip of Hillary making that very allegation during the debate and Trump denying it.  To confirm that Hillary was right, Kelly then ran several clips of Trump addressing and dismissing the allegations on the stump.  Did he or did he not disparage their looks, she asked?

When the clips were done I would have asked Kelly, “So where is your case, counsellor?  I didn’t hear Trump say what you said.  YOU ARE PUTTING WORDS INTO TRUMP’S MOUTH.  He is trying his best to make light of a bad situation, and you are trying to make it ugly.”

Unfortunately, Jason Miller was not so clever and Kelly’s interpretation of what Trump actually said – that he disparaged their looks and that this was wrong! - remained unrefuted.   Meanwhile the catastrophe of Aleppo, Syria, continues to unfold and Hillary’s ham-fisted diplomatic connection to it went undiscussed.  The nature of Trump’s jokes are more important.

Kelly was, however, refuted quite well by another guest, Bill Bennett.  Kelly was incensed that Trump had said of Hillary in the debate, “a nasty woman.”  Bennett replied, “Is Hillary nasty?  Is she a woman?  Yes and yes.”  Kelly rather stridently tried to affirm that Trump’s allegedly pushing himself on women was worse than Bill Clinton’s “affairs.”  Bennett replied that Bill’s was an actual, proven fact, while Trump’s are only allegations; and that it was an affair with an intern while he was president of the United States - calling into account the vast difference in age and power, which feminists, when it was convenient, regarded as unfair.

Kelly, embarrassed, then backed off, saying that she was not offering an excuse for Bill Clinton’s behavior, she was just “offering a distinction.”  The squid squirted ink in the water and she jetted away.  (I hope Kelly doesn’t think I disparaged her looks by comparing her to a squid – a particularly ugly fish.)

Kelly redeemed herself a little to the fair and balanced network when she tore Donna Brazile apart based upon new WikiLeaks revelations.  Brazile sent an email to John Podesta with a tough question Hillary was going to be asked at candidate’s town hall forum.  Brazile saw her media career evaporating before her eyes as she struggled to evade admitting to Megyn on national television that it was all true.  We got the Russian hack angle, that she was a Christian woman who would do no such thing, and other evasions.  It was ugly to watch.

Kelly had speared her fish and the fish flip-flopped desperately on the stick, vainly struggling to get away. (I hope Megyn is not offended by my comparing Donna Brazile to a flopping fish, or at the implication that Megyn herself would be so cruel as to engage in spearfishing.)

Brazile is Chair of the DNC, the second in four months.  She is not Hillary and is not closely connected to Hillary’s campaign.  The interview was a good demonstration of Kelly’s journalistic chops, but she emptied her gun in a safe direction so far as the Hillary campaign is concerned.  I hope Megyn is not offended by my suggestion that she fired a gun, and not at Hillary.

And no offence was intended if Megyn thinks that, at the beginning in my reference to beans, meant I was somehow likening her to a string bean.  Let me apologize in advance.

If I said, “Megyn Kelly?  Not my type, I much prefer Greta van Susteren” would she think I was disparaging her on the basis of her looks?

I’m a bad hombre.  Oops.

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