Megyn Kelly Is Getting Played. And America Is the Big Loser.
Her sit-down interviews with contemptible trolls Vladimir Putin and Alex Jones are ratings grabs, pure and simple—grieving Sandy Hook parents be damned.
Which just goes to show that you can take the 'fox' out of Fox News, but you can't take the Fox News out of the fox. LOL!
Her sit-down interviews with contemptible trolls Vladimir Putin and Alex Jones are ratings grabs, pure and simple—grieving Sandy Hook parents be damned.
Which just goes to show that you can take the 'fox' out of Fox News, but you can't take the Fox News out of the fox. LOL!
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/megyn-kelly-is-g...-big-loser
On the heels of her Putin exclusive, Kelly has chosen to air a Fathers Day chat with Alex Jones. Jones, who operates the website Infowars, is a right-wing conspiracy theorist who believes that the U.S. government was behind the 9/11 terror attacks, is spreading chemicals to help turn Americans gay, and that Hillary Clinton is a space alien.
Need some help here, righty conspiracy theorists.
Is it the 'contrails' that are supposed to change sexual orientation? Or do they change the admixture from flight to flight, to make some gay, some more stupid, or some both gay and more stupid?
Also, don't you need altitude for maximum dispersal? So 'fly-over' country, Red State 'Murica, now has both more 'fashionistas AND more dummies?
Don't see you favorite conspiracy theory listed? Hey, I'm pretty sure we've got the top three. But chime in with your suggestion(s)!
The radio host was recently forced to apologize after promoting the Pizzagate hoax (that John Podesta and Hillary Clinton were tied to a sex-trafficking ring run out of a pizza parlor in Washington, D.C.), and after Chobani sued him for running fake reports claiming that refugees hired by the company were linked to a child rape.
Jones’ most despicable theory is that the Sandy Hook massacre—which left 20 young children and six adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, dead—was staged.
“Sandy Hook is a synthetic, completely fake with actors, in my view, manufactured,” said Jones on his radio show. “I couldn’t believe it at first. I knew they had actors there, clearly, but I thought they killed some real kids.
And it just shows how bold they are, that they clearly used actors.” (There is no evidence to support this reprehensible claim.)
The family members of those slain in Sandy Hook have been subjected to an endless array of harassment, in no small part because of Jones’ conspiracy-shilling. Just last week, a Florida woman was sentenced to five months in prison for sending a series of death threats to a Sandy Hook victim’s father.
To make matters worse, Jones not only advised Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, but Trump even appeared on his program, telling Jones, “Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down.”
“The Republican presidential nominee of the United States is being advised by a delusional sociopath. It speaks for itself,” Mark Barden, who lost his 7-year-old son, Daniel, in the Sandy Hook attack, told me in October. “What else can you say about that? It’s disgusting.”
In a preview clip released online, Kelly allows Jones to spread his Sandy Hook conspiracies to her millions of viewers. The footage understandably drew the ire of a number of Sandy Hook parents, including Nelba Marquez-Greene, who lost her 6-year-old daughter, Ana Grace, in the tragedy. Marquez-Greene tweeted several times at Kelly, expressing her anger and disappointment in allowing an odious man like Jones this prime-time platform:
Meanwhile Christina Hassinger, the daughter of Dawn Hochsprung—the Sandy Hook principal who gave her life after attempting to charge the shooter—expressed her sentiments to The New York Times.
“We have been harassed repeatedly by people who we call hoaxers that think this hasn’t happened. When there is going to be such a widely available interview with attention given to one of the hoaxer ringleaders, it is going to unleash the trolls on us tenfold all over again.”
Kelly defended her choice of interviewee, tweeting, “POTUS’s been on & praises @RealAlexJones’ show. He’s giving Infowars a WH press credential. Many don’t know him; our job is 2 shine a light.”
That President Trump has a penchant for fake news should not compel proper news outlets to offer the purveyors of it splashy sit-down interviews, thereby exposing them to a whole new audience.
It is not the mainstream media’s job to conform to the president’s insatiable thirst for trolls, but to challenge it, and a natter with Megyn Kelly just isn’t going to cut it.
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