Megyn Kelly dropped as host for Sandy Hook groups gala over Alex Jones interview

[riversedge]

Source: washpost




By Travis M. Andrews June 13 at 6:50 AM

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Kelly will no longer host the Promise Champions Gala, an annual event for the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation, a nonprofit gun violence prevention group founded by family members of some of the Sandy Hook shooting victims, the organization announced late Tuesday. The event is scheduled to be held Wednesday in Washington, D.C.

“Sandy Hook Promise cannot support the decision by Megyn or NBC to give any form of voice or platform to Alex Jones and have asked Megyn Kelly to step down as our Promise Champion Gala host,” Nicole Hockley, co-Founder and Managing Director of the organization said in a statement. “It is our hope that Megyn and NBC reconsider and not broadcast this interview.”

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Even Jones himself publicly questioned the interview.

“I’m calling for @megynkelly to cancel the airing of our interview for misrepresenting my views on Sandy Hook,” he tweeted Monday afternoon, along with a 41-minute YouTube video.

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“My listeners questioned it. … I played devil’s advocate by saying maybe none of it happened and it was all fake,” Jones said in the video. “The other side of me believes those parents I’ve seen on TV, and real mass shootings happen, so it probably did happen.”........................

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Kelly actually used Trumps praise of Jones as justification for her interview.!

Link to tweet

[joshdawg]

1. Kelly would be better off

being a sidekick to limbaugh or hannity. She is totally worthless as a reporter or anything else for that matter.
Nothing more than a RWNJ!

[FakeNoose]

42. I don't get it

If her plan is to become the next "younger, prettier Anne Coulter" then why does MSNBC want that?

My God, get her off the network permanently. Or put her on CNBC, at least some of the people who watch that are conservatives.

[joshdawg]

75. "get her off the network permanently" has my vote.

[LSFL]

2. "probably did happen?"

Did he give an exaggerated sly wink when he said this? Total piece of shit and anyone who gives him a platform is also a total piece of shit.

[catbyte]

18. +1000 & welcome to DU!

[calimary]

40. Welcome to DU, LSFL!

Yeah, how 'bout that. "Probably didn't happen." Weasel words if ever there were any. Yeah, ask those still-grieving parents who'll NEVER get over this, about the "probably" part.

He is lower than low. And giving him a platform on a mainstream network is damn near criminal. There are some people I really don't think we need to hear from. Don't need to hear their "explanations" or "justifications" or "excuses" for this shit. Alex Jones almost got people killed spreading shit about that Washington DC pizza joint being the back-room ground-zero for a child molestation ring supposedly run by Hillary Clinton. Some jerk from farther south drove up to "investigate it for himself," WITH his trusty assault rifle in hand, and could have shot people there - ALL of them totally innocent and probably oblivious to the garbage Alex Jones loves to spread.

He IS human garbage. He doesn't deserve a mainstream media pulpit. Even with the First Amendment to hide behind. Just as you're not supposed to yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, even though the First Amendment supposedly allows for it, what he does takes that WAY overboard. In my opinion anyway.

[dalton99a]

79. Yep.

[DetlefK]

3. His statement makes no sense:

First he says that he played devil's advocate... which means that he doesn't believe that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged.

"The other side of him" believes the parents... which means the same.

That statement doesn't make sense: "One part of me believes that it was real, but the other part of me believes it was real."

[csziggy]

46. The voices in his head are arguing - he can't decide which voice to believe! nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. What on earth was she thinking?

She is wiping herself out before she even gets started.

Her Putin interview was a total bust.

[Grins]

13. What was NBC thinking????

Vlad? Then Alex Jones????? WTF is wrong with that network? No one saw this coming?

NBC trying to snare the over-65-and-white set....?

[txwhitedove]

17. Kindly rethink that last line. I am over 65 and sort of white...

[demigoddess]

49. I'm over 65 and white. The people you are thinking of are over 65 and senile

demented, and illiterate.

[forgotmylogin]

21. I'm guessing they misjudged her actual reporting ability.

"She's been on Fox, she must know what she's doing. I mean, look at her."

[chelsea0011]

43. They are trying to snare her Faux viewers. I was having trouble

understanding Alex Jones being given any voice on a major network, and then it just occurred to me how simple the answer was. They want her Faux fake news viewers.

[northoftheborder]

45. Please do not lump everyone over 65 and white as deplorable who admire Alex Jones.

There are PLENTY of people in that group who hate his very name and would NEVER WATCh HIM.

[Hekate]

76. 'Scuse me. Don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of us at DU are older, having joined in 2001...

...when we were much younger than 65. Very very liberal we are, too, and many are white.

Broad brush and all that.

Apparently someone at NBC has decided to steal FOX viewers -- who incidentally trend upwards in years and are melanin-deficient. I'm not sure why they think this is a good idea.

I'm sticking with MSNBC for Rachel Maddow and several others who bring in good guests, but am not interested in any FOX escapees unless they've had a real change of heart. Shenanigans like bringing Alex Jones in for a chat are an unspeakably bad idea.

[calimary]

27. And her second show this past Sunday did worse.

This show's ratings were even worse than last Sunday's "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly" premiere. "60 Minutes had an even better Sunday than it did last week.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029195414

[leftyladyfrommo]

38. I wouldn't watch her.

I just don't think she is very appealing. I am tired of all the blond Barbie dolls that are everywhere right now.

[kimbutgar]

47. And this week she wasn't even competing against the NBA finals!

I hope NBC wakes up and realize they wasted a lot of money hiring her. She is tainted by fox slime.

Would never never watch her. I still remember her "Santa Claus is white " comment. She is an evil person.

[brush]

51. And her "she's no angel" remark about the AA, bikini-clad teenager body slammed by that...

out of control robo cop at the pool party in Texas.

NBC you fu_ked up hiring her — and you lost Tamron Hall because of it.

[kimbutgar]

59. Tamron was 1000% better

I really miss her.

[ProfessorPlum]

5. Gee, for once actions have consequences

for the beautiful, white Megyn Kelly.

Here's hoping that her shilling years and years of right wing propaganda prove equally karmic for her.

[whathehell]

10. Please..

Actions have always had consequences for females -- "white

and beautiful" as they may or may not be.

Those now escaping responsibility for more serious

violations, are overwhelmingly white and MALE.

[ProfessorPlum]

16. my post really had nothing to do with her gender

as female as she is, however, I would note that she seems to have suffered no consequences from her lies at Faux.

[whathehell]

28. Of course it did..

Who else gets the adjective "beautiful, white"?

Maybe it wasn't done consciously, but you boys need to become aware of your own gender biases.

[ProfessorPlum]

31. Brad Pitt

[BBG]

34. Yum

I would come out for Brad Pitt. I know it, the wife knows it, we just need to let Brad know it.

[Leghorn21]

50. Oh, BBG, you GO, my friend!! Yours is one the best posts EVER made here in beautiful

downtown DU! Kudos!

(Wish I knew Brad personally, I'd hook you up!)

[BBG]

62. So do I ...

Wish you could do the honors.

[whathehell]

56. Sure

[irisblue]

6. Good

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Alex stokes controversy on both sides and then retreats to the middle

It's an old journalism tactic, he just does it with such an edge at the farthest
extremes

Funny though that mainstream America is not buying Alex or Megyn and the two
principals don't seem to understand why that is happening

[Augiedog]

8. Could she be more tone deaf, or just flat out stupid? Who in their right mind would want to

interview that asshat Alex Jones ? Next I suppose a pizza chain will make him their spokesidiot.

[not fooled]

12. Well. we have to cut Megyn some slack

After enough Muricans voted for PResident Asshat to get the WH within stealing distance, she probably figured Alex Jones was the logical next step in legitimizing RW nutjobbery. After all, we now have a president who's openly espoused birtherism and other craziness.

although this is literally how the country gets pushed to the right: give credibility to the formerly unimaginable by having the crackpottery get into the "mainstream" corporate media. America has deliberately and cynically been desensitized to the illogical.

Oh, and Megyn is a blonde, cynically exploitative tool.

[whathehell]

25. "Oh, and Megyn is a blonde...."

She's blonde!!? Oh, well,, THAT does it! How much more evil could she be?

There's no crime greater, no sin more pernicious, it seems, than being blonde, at least on DU.

P.S. The 'blonde libel" applies to females only, of course. What a surprise.

[brush]

65. That's not what the poster is getting at. Haven't you noticed the preponderance of eye-candy on...

on FOX with their knee-level leg cams? Most of them are blonde which Fox apparently thinks pulls in deplorable, male viewers.

The poster is making a reference to that, Fox's blatant and not-at-all-subtle visual come on, not a slight at women, blonde or otherwise.

[whathehell]

71. I guess I don't see it enough to perceive a pattern.

but you may well be right. That being said, I still can't criticize a woman for her hair color...You don't think that's what the poster was saying, and again, you may be right, but it did seem like it.

[brush]

73. IMO he's making a comment on the intelligence, or lack there of of the commentators on Fox...

blonde or otherwise and woman or otherwise.

To go along with the crap they spew at Fox you certainly aren't the sharpest knife in the kitchen drawer.

[whathehell]

80. Most of the talking heads on Fox, Kelly included,

are probably not at all dumb...The "dumb" are more likely the consumers, not the creators.

[brush]

81. Maybe. They could be just going alone to get a big check. IMO though if you don't believe the...

crap but still spew it — that tells me all I need to know about them.

[brush]

64. I think she thinks her interview choices are provacative and controversial ... Putin and Jones

I'll give her the Putin interview, although it was pedestrian at best and ratings were nothing to shout about, but the Jones choice is both tone deaf and stupid.

Maybe she doesn't get she's not on faux noise anymore.

Hell, they didn't even have Alex Jones on.

She's the "Peter Principle" in action, way above her pay grade of just being talking points spewing eye-candy for middle-aged and older male wingers and other deplorables.

And they lost Tamron Hall for someone who thinks it's a good idea to interview a nut job like Jones.

And she defends it by saying "it's my job as a journalist to shine light on it". Where the hell did she drag up that amateur hour cliche from, the high school yearbook committee?

Actual journalists know it's irresponsible to give a national platform for nut job conspiracy pushers.

[joeybee12]

9. She's garbage

Why they even considered her as host is a mystery

[whathehell]

15. Oh for fuck's sake..

I don't like her, but she's not THAT bad. You need to save that bile for the truly deserving.

[joeybee12]

24. Yeah she is

A Repuke hack who apparently has duped even you. Ffd

[whathehell]

26. Lol..

Of course...And she's Blonde!..That proves it!

I'm just waiting for a good ole fashioned Stake Burning, myself.

[BBG]

35. Will there be Smores?

I'll bring the marshmallows.

[whathehell]

55. "Duped even you", lol?

Honey, I don't give her five minutes thought...My attention goes to the real players, like Trump, Ryan and the rest of the GOP leadership.

[tblue37]

32. She IS that bad. She is the racist who said both that Santa is white and that Jesus

Jesus was white.

She also justified cop Eric Casebolt's violent assault on Dejerria Becton by saying the 15-year-old girl was "no angel."

She has a long history of saying such things on air.

[whathehell]

54. Really? I heard some dumb teacher said the Santa thing,

but I honestly never heard either of those statements attributed to her...Do you have any links?

[tblue37]

58. Her statement to "all you kids watching out there"Santa just is white" is 17 seconds into this clip:

[tblue37]

60. At 4:11 in this clip is her statement that Jesus was white:

This is what researchers believe Jesus would have looked like:




Yes, technically Middle Easterners are "Caucasian," but I guarantee that neither Meghan nor her FOX fans would view that as an image of a man they would classify as "white."

[whathehell]

72. Yeah, it's a silly assed statement,

especially with Sants being fictitious, and all.

People want their 'heroes' to look like themselves, I guess, but it's stupid and insensitive to be dogmatic about it.

[tblue37]

61. I made a mistake--she said Michael Brown was "no angel." She said Dejerria Becton was "no saint."

Her intention in both cases, though, was to justify the violence inflicted on them by racist cops:


http://www.salon.com/2015/06/09/megyn_kelly_mckinney_teen_wrestled_to_the_ground_by_cop_was_no_saint_either/

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SNIP

Kelly later interviewed former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman — a man who knows a thing or two about racism and community policing — about how suspended Corporal Eric Casebolt treated Dajerria Becton, including whether he should have pulled his gun on her.

Fuhrman, surprisingly, said that Cpl. Casebolt handled the situation poorly, and that there was no cause for him to have pulled his gun. Fuhrman explained that he had probably panicked because he had run out of handcuffs, but that he shouldn’t have been handcuffing the teens in the first place.

Kelly leapt to Cpl. Casebolt’s defense, saying that Becton “was no saint either,” and noting that she had been told to walk away and hadn’t. “I’m sure [Cpl. Casebolt] didn’t know she was 14 at the time,” Kelly said, suggesting that if he had, he would’ve treated her differently.

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[whathehell]

70. Okay, I get it..

I still don't know if I'd go so far as to call her 'garbage", but you're right, she does sound bigoted, if not rabidly racist.

[brush]

66. Oh, she said them all right. Pls google. She's not worth defending. She's the "Peter Principle" ...

in action.

[whathehell]

69. I did Google it, and you're right, she did say it. n/t

[Grins]

11. "I played devils advocate..."

Translation: I made it all up just to fuck with those grieving over the unimaginable.

[Wounded Bear]

41. Actual translation from Jonesspeak: "I made it up for ratings"...nt

[justgamma]

14. 2 questions.

Was she going to show the world what a crackpot Jones is and make a point that this is who 45 believes?

Being on Faux snooze, has she ever advocated for gun control? I can't figure out why she was invited in the first place.

[heaven05]

19. friend of the current potus

Jones is a low class P.O.D(ung) just like Kelly.....I hope she never achieves any stature as a so-called news person.....EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hatrack]

20. WTF would a foundation like this have Kelly as a host?

And WTF would she even consider having a bag of shit like Alex Jones on her show if she held that position?

Seriously, what the hell was she thinking - to say nothing of NBC??

[bullwinkle428]

22. "Playing Devil's Advocate?" What the fucking fuck??

I hope you roast in the hottest fires of hell, motherfucker!

[NRaleighLiberal]

23. It. I$. All. About. $$$$$$$. Period. Media has no $hame.

[Kleveland]

30. I think that is spot on.

FAUX news seems to be falling apart, and the dipshit Flake is probably trying to attract the market that the demon named Roger Ailes created, as they are looking elsewhere for reinforcement of their hateful views of reality.

Flake smells ca$h flow there, and we will become superfluous if we do not protest.

Really pretty appalling to see so many FAUX alum showing up at was once a pretty even keeled network.

Who's next, O'Really?

[tblue37]

29. Sensationalism for ratings, pure and simple. nt

[Shrike47]

33. Her job is to get ratings, not "2 shine a light." She interview ANYBODY for them.

She has neither standards or ethics.

[Tanuki]

36. "Many don't know him." Why should they? Don't give him a platform and attention

and with any luck he'll slither back under the rock from whence he came. National exposure only validates him and the White House's decision to give him temporary press credentials.

[yellowcanine]

37. "The other side of me believes those parents I've seen on TV,..." Go eff yourself, Alex.

[jalan48]

39. Megan's simply the vehicle to spread disinformation.

She's a product, like laundry detergent, designed and packaged to be consumed until a newer, fresher product comes along.

[not fooled]

48. Yep

why was Murdoch willing to lose hundreds of millions on faux to keep it afloat for years, until it became profitable? Because these RW outlets exist for not only making money but--even more importantly--to promulgate an agenda. That agenda of course boils down to cutting taxes and deregulating business. The window dressing is: preventing your money from going to the undeserving, and regulations hurt freedom.

And it's worked, unfortunately, on too many Muricans. And Megyn's blondeness is a factor--it's relevant because it's part of the commodity of pretty, blonde female that appeals to the predominantly older, white audience and hence is used to catapult the propaganda.

[brush]

67. Bingo! Straight to the heart of the matter.

[Aristus]

44. That wasn't even a slap on the wrist.

That was a light tap on the wrist followed by an 'I'm sorry' kiss.

[underpants]

52. 10 days ago I said hiring her wasn't a good idea for either party

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=9153734


26. I'll make a prediction - this wasn't a good move for either of the parties
I'm no TV executive (they never make mistakes) but...

For her
We all know she was in a toxic situation, of her own choosing - she had other offers when she decided to go into broadcasting, so she had to get out. NBC is archenemy #1 for Fox viewers so expect almost no carry over audience. Trying to position herself as one of the top echelon of newscasters is a stretch but you have to take that leap I guess. It's a leap.

For NBC
Head to head against 60 Minutes? With basically a summer time launch? That's a big leap.
If you are watching TV and that stopwatch starts clicking you are staying in to see the teasers. 60 Minutes is still the Cadillac of TV news magazines. Different reporters, different stories. 60 pioneered the immediate intro long before Seinfeld did for sitcoms which is now the norm.

I think NBC is under appreciating the carryover from the flagship O'Reilly show. If you'd sit and listen to Hannity, you'd listen to anything.

The camera loves her and she is bright. Getting Putin - who is like a baby pigeon to America, we know he exists but we never actually see him - is a huge scoop. I may watch or watch video simply to observe him. She may have a big first night or two or three and her show will make money but I don't think this is what NBC hopes it will be.

Time will tell. tick tick tick tick

[MFM008]

53. Who thought

Interviews with this toad was a good idea??
Let's raise his profile??

[enid602]

57. Sandy Hook Gala

There's something disturbing yet distinctively American about a 'Sandy Hook Gala.'

[Phentex]

63. So it wasn't just me...

I understand what it's for but it struck me odd as well.

[jpak]

68. Lay down with dogs

etc.

[orleans]

74. let's see... how can i put this politely?

um.....

fuck them both. and nbc if they air the shit.

[Hekate]

77. That's an appropriate consequence for an extremely bad decision on her and NBC's part. nt

[Justice]

78. She is too cruel. Did she get idea to

Interview him when she agreed to host gala?

Is hosting gala supposed to make things equal?