Vincent J. Curtis
7 Jan 2017
Surfing the internet today, I ran across an ad which
featured Megyn Kelly. Yes, formerly of
Fox News and now to be the star of NBC News, Megyn Kelly. The ad was for a diet supplement; a means of
losing weight. The ad claimed that Megyn
Kelly at one time weighed 185 pounds, and was told by her bosses at Fox News to
lose the weight or lose the job.
Allegedly, Kelly was thrown into a frenzy of dieting that
didn’t work, and she was near to losing her marriage as well. Then she found this diet product, and off
came 65 pounds quickly. That slender
beauty we saw on the Kelly File was the product of this wonder diet supplement,
apparently.
Let’s assume that the ad is largely true, that Kelly did
once weigh a lot, and lost a lot under pressure from her bosses. No doubt she put herself under a lot of
stress.
So, what influence did this experience have in her coverage
of the 2016 election campaign? Megyn
Kelly, at the first Republican debate, asked the first question – of Donald
Trump, whom Kelly insinuated a misogynistic attitude towards women because he
once accused some of being “fat….”as well as stupid and ugly.
“Only Rosie O’Donnell!” was Trump’s famous reply. However, Kelly relentlessly bore in, trying
to get Trump labelled as a secret misogynist.
Later in the campaign came revelations about Trump’s
interactions with Miss Universe, 1996, a.k.a. “Miss Piggy.” This was another occasion in which the host of
the Kelly File gave lots of bad publicity to Trump for being so cruel to a
woman for becoming fat on the job, and demanding that she lose the weight or
lose the crown. A woman can relate.
A real question is therefore raised, how much did Kelly’s
travails over weight with Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch influence her
reportage of Donald Trump?
Near the end of the campaign the pressures at Fox News began
to grow. Roger Ailes was ousted from his
job as boss at Fox, in part because Kelly supported a lawsuit by Gretchen
Carlson against Ailes alleging that he sexually harassed certain female on-air
talent. Kelly’s anti-Trump slant in
reportage sank her ratings, while pro-Trump Sean Hannity’s ratings made him the
star of week-night cable news. Then
Kelly asked for a raise in pay to a reported $25 million from a reported $15
million for her to agree to a renewed contract.
Kelly, at the instigation of Roger Ailes, was at the very
top of her game in 2016, which is a good time to sell. Fox did sell, and NBC News will now have Kelly,
aged 47, for the declining years of her beauty.
Kelly’s personal experience with men pressuring her to lose
weight may have influenced her perspective of the eventual Republican nominee,
Donald Trump, and slanted her reportage adversely. CNN, the Clinton News Network, also slanted
its coverage of the campaign by reason of the fact that practically everyone at
the network is a sold-out, card-carrying Democrat progressive. But for better or for worse, the influence
CNN and Kelly exerted on the election is deemed more or less legitimate.
What is not deemed legitimate is outside influence,
specifically Russian influence. It is
alleged, in the aftermath of the election, that the Russians undertook a
campaign of influence in the campaign to disfavor Hillary Clinton. The aim was either to boost Donald Trump’s
chances, or (when it became clear that Hillary was going to win) to create
problems for her presidency. As if
Hillary hadn’t given House and Senate Republicans enough cause to create
problems for her.
Nobody, except the most last-ditch, die-hard Democrats are
alleging that the outcome of the election was changed as a result of the
alleged Russian interference. What has
been done is that Barack Obama expelled thirty-five Russian diplomats and
closed two Russian consulates as punishment for – harassment of American
diplomats in Moscow over the last four years.
In what did this Russian interference consist? If true in all respects, Russian interference
for the most part consisted in leaking to WikiLeaks the emails of the
Democratic National Committee and the gmail account of John Podesta. Expert testimony before Congress this week
affirmed that Podesta’s emails were genuine.
Since the DNC emails were also all genuine, Russian interference consisted
in informing the American electorate in detail of the corruption in the
Democrat party and especially in the circle around Hillary Clinton. Something that the Main Stream Media could be
counted on to cover up.
The DNC emails proved that the powers that be in the party
were in the tank for Hillary, and were rigging the system to disfavor Bernie
Sanders. The revelations caused the
resignation of DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. Later, as a result of the Podesta emails, her
successor, Donna Brazile was also forced to resign and she was fired by
CNN. Russian interference, though
formally illegitimate, actually served a legitimate function that should have
been performed by the MSM. It informed
the American public of facts it needed to know, though the public already had a
grasp the reality of the situation without Russian help.
To add insult to injury, today the Russian Senator Alexey
Pushkov spoke correctly about Obama’s own conduct during the campaign, saying
it was Obama who undermined American democracy, “The U.S.
democratic process was undermined not by Russia, but by the Obama
administration and mass media, which supported [Hillary] Clinton over
[President-elect Donald] Trump," Pushkov tweeted.
"The danger to democracy is
within U.S. itself," he added, arguing that Obama is responsible for
Republicans' growing trust of Putin.”
Pushkov is right. It
was said here and elsewhere that Obama’s engaging himself so deeply in the
campaign made the United States to look like a banana republic.
Undoubtedly, the Russians have Hillary’s 33,000 deleted “personal”
emails as well, showing her corrupt actions as Secretary of State for the
benefit of the Clinton Foundation. This
would have served to have her impeached, or at least blackmailed, should she have
been elected.
Megyn’s being told to lose weight may have slanted her
coverage of Trump, CNN was always in the tank, Obama threw aside all pretence
of dignity of the office he holds, the Russians exposed the truth about the DNC
and about Hillary Clinton’s circle, and over all the noise the American people
made their decision. The guy everybody
despised had to have something going for him, so they chose him.
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