{"id":11053,"date":"2013-12-10T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T22:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11053"},"modified":"2013-12-18T05:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:44:50","slug":"megyn-kelly-lies-to-jay-leno-im-not-one-of-the-opinion-hosts-at-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11053","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly Lies To Jay Leno: “I’m Not One Of The Opinion Hosts At Fox News”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night the newest primetime attraction on the Fox News Channel ventured off the reservation to hype her program on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In the process Megyn Kelly delivered some of the most unintentionally funny perversions of reality you can imagine.<\/p>\n

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From the outset, the interview was a fluff piece designed to promote Kelly and her new role as a primetime anchor at Fox News. But the conversation devolved into the absurd when Leno started to ask a modestly interesting question, but swerved midway through and turned it into an open-ended (and false) compliment.<\/p>\n

Leno:<\/strong> People assume that if you’re on Fox News, just as they do if you’re on MSNBC, you have a certain bias. How do you deal with…you seem pretty straight down the line.<\/p>\n

Kelly:<\/strong> I am, thank you. I’m a straight news anchor. I’m not one of the opinion hosts at Fox. But I always laugh because I’ll have a conservative pull me aside and say “I love your conservative principles,” and I’ll say “You assume too much.” And then the liberals will pull me aside and say, “I know you\u2019re one of us,” and I\u2019ll say, “You assume too much.” But I always say that if you assume that I’m this conservative operative, ask Karl Rove if that’s true.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a pretty safe bet that, if challenged, Kelly could not produce a single liberal that ever claimed that she is one of them. It was just a line that Kelly used to feign balance. The same is true of her reference to Karl Rove. Kelly was likely harking back to the incident on election night November 2012, when Rove refused to concede defeat. But Kelly’s performance did nothing to refute Rove’s conservatism, just his obstinance in light of the polling results. Rove certainly regards Kelly as a reliable conservative and an ideological ally. She has made him a frequent guest despite his role as one of the most prolific fundraisers for the GOP, which she never bothers to disclose to her audience.<\/p>\n

\"MegynHowever, the real whopper of the evening was Kelly’s assertion that she’s a “straight news anchor”<\/em> and “not one of the opinion hosts on Fox”<\/em> Kelly has been a rabid right-winger for as long as she has had a perch at the painfully conservative network. She rudely lambastes Democratic guests and has pushed numerous fallacious stories aimed at discrediting liberals and progressive policy. In fact, her editorial bias generally produces little more than partisan tripe and manufactured outrages that have little basis in fact. For example, her near-obsession<\/a> with the irrelevant New Black Panther Party was a months long excursion into fantasy. She was also one Fox’s most virulent proponents of the phoney IRS\/Tea Party affair. And her stubborn attachment to a trumped up Benghazi scandal wasted hundreds of hours of valuable airtime. And then there were these crackpot diversions:<\/p>\n