{"id":31333,"date":"2016-04-05T15:20:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T22:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31333"},"modified":"2016-04-06T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T17:29:41","slug":"note-to-hillary-clinton-megyn-kelly-is-not-a-superb-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=31333","title":{"rendered":"Note To Hillary Clinton: Megyn Kelly Is NOT A Superb Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

In recent weeks Megyn Kelly has received an abundance of media attention thanks to Donald Trump’s “sick obsession<\/a>“<\/em> with the Fox News host. Regardless of her strident biases and disregard for journalistic ethics, the personal attacks on her by Trump are unwarranted and offensive. They demonstrate Trump’s inbred misogyny and unfitness for any public office. Even though Kelly herself has exploited her sex appeal<\/a> to boost her ratings (and income), that is no excuse for Trump’s vile chauvinism.<\/p>\n

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This morning Hillary Clinton appeared on “The View”<\/em> (video below) and addressed this topic with some potent and well-deserved criticism of Trump. She astutely pointed out that throughout his campaign he has \u201cinsulted everybody\u201d<\/em> and \u201cdemeaned everybody,\u201d<\/em> and has generally engaged in behavior that is divisive and rife with “hateful rhetoric.”<\/em> She said in part…<\/p>\n

“You know, he started, on his very first day, saying that all Mexican immigrants were rapists and criminals, right? And then he moved on to attack people with disabilities. He attacked John McCain, who\u2019s a friend of mine, and said he wasn\u2019t really a war hero. And then, of course, going after American Muslims and really drawing these lines.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s a pretty good summary of Trump’s stump speech bigotry so far. Although she left out some significant moments like his embrace of the white supremacists<\/a> who endorsed him, his acknowledgment that he isn’t bothered by being compared to Hitler<\/a>, and his more recent position that women should be punished for having abortions. But Clinton should have left it at that. Unfortunately, she went on to say…<\/p>\n

“And his attitude about, and what he has said about, so many women – the way he treated Megyn Kelly, who is a suburb journalist, right?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, that’s not right. Not by a long shot. Megyn Kelly is one of the most dangerous propagandists on a network that is crawling with them. She is brazenly partisan and shamelessly prejudiced. She is a more visually compelling version of conspiratorialist Glenn Beck. The stories she features are a collection of partisan tripe and manufactured outrages that have little basis in fact. From her near-obsession<\/a> with the irrelevant New Black Panther Party, to her defense<\/a> of an anti-Islam filmmaker as a “patsy”<\/em> of the Obama administration, Kelly has been a non-stop, gushing flow of disinformation and gossip.<\/p>\n

Kelly has, in fact, been especially vicious in her coverage of Clinton. She has spent countless hours asserting, without foundation, that Clinton lied about Benghazi<\/a>. She aired numerous fact-free segments alleging that Clinton’s emails would land her in jail<\/a>. She even went after Clinton on trivial pop culture matters like her interview<\/a> with Lena Dunham. For more examples:<\/p>\n