So funny. If this is a prelude to the future, I’m going to love seeing the Obama folks smack Fox in the nose. Megyn Kelly: cute but crazy.
Reader S.M. caught this one.
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So funny. If this is a prelude to the future, I’m going to love seeing the Obama folks smack Fox in the nose. Megyn Kelly: cute but crazy.
Reader S.M. caught this one.
Oddly enough, the clip you chose cuts out the Obama audio that is at the core of this controversy…
Here’s a YouTube clip of the entire piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ9gXD0wSRo
She raises some valid points, though: just like the “Joe The Plumber” incident, the only reason this is a story at all is not because of what someone asked Obama, but what Obama himself said. And the standard tactic is to “shoot the messengers” and hope that the message goes out: Do Not Ask Obama Substantive Questions. Because if you do, and he answers in a way that he later regrets, you WILL be punished for it.
J.
“Megyn Kelly: cute but crazy.” – Agreed. She’s a loon, but, damn, she’s gorgeous. I’ll give the Republican party/Fox News that: they seem to dig up lots of hot, crazy ladies.
The only reason this is a story is because you guys are losing and Matt Drudge needs… something.
Somebody call a waahhh-mbulance!
I can’t find any Pew Poll where it shows that Fox News isn’t bias.
I found one that shows it has a more diverse audience… but that’s it.
@Jay Tea, I don’t know how you can say that; Obama isn’t the one who brought up Joe 8490650268207 times during debate 3, thus bringing him REPEATEDLY to the attention of the press…
It’s also suspected in many corners that Joe either deliberately wanted to put Obama on the spot or may have even been a McCain plant (though I doubt the latter, the former sounds more than plausible).
But really, I feel for Joe, but he has no one to blame but McCain. If McCain hadn’t invoked him so many times, Joe would never have been more than a boring sound bite.
It will be great to see Obama take up 30 minutes of Fox programming without the pundits trying to shout over his message. I love that Fox will go right to the World Series right after Obama is done. Nothing like the World Series to draw people away from Fox news when the pundits want the viewers. I hope the Series goes another game just to take viewers away after Obama is done.
I still don’t understand what the heck Faux News and gang are talking about with the Joe the Plumber thing.
If you watch the entire incident, where Obama takes extra time to explain carefully to Joe why specifically he would be helped, not hurt, but Obama’s proposals, Obama looks nothing like a socialist, and the “spread the wealth” comment is one phrase McCain has taken wildly out of context.
There is no “there” there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFC9jv9jfoA
Nothing attractive about her. She’s a hack, she auto-defends FOX without thinking. She filibusters on her own show. She’s an unthinking slogan machine. She has looks sure, but it’s near impossible to notice them when she opens her mouth and spews GOP talking points while posing as a news anchor.
The Dems standard practice is to shy away from any craziness that Faux News has to say and not challenge these guys. It’s good to see the push-back. This ‘Socialist’ spin that Faux and the Rethugs are trying to stick on the O-man is just not going anywhere. Please give it up.
The Joe the Plumber bit was cute for one or two mentions in the debate and maybe 1 day after, but to build an entire 11th hour campaign around Joe the Plumber/he’s a socialist is just stupid and most people are seeing that (note the poll numbers since the last Pres debate). Just like Ayers, foreign birth certificats, and lack of experience…Can we say ‘beating a dead horse’??
I think what the O campaign is doing is spending time pushing back on some of the garbage that’s out there. This is not a “Substantive Question” … this is smoke. This question has been asked and answered ad nausea and it’s time to move on. Bill Burton handled this Bill’O-wanna-be good enough. It’s not like she was actually looking for an answer or rational discussion on the week-old topic.
I hope more people handle Faux News like this in the future.
I cannot believe that anyone on the planet believes Fox News is fair and balanced. It is what it is, the mouthpiece of the republican party.
What concerns me is the calculated successful effort on the part of Rove and Co. to get people to believe that the “mainstream media” is always against them and is therefore lying, and they have to believe everything Fox says. People actually believe that nonsense and it drives me crazy.
C’mon guys. Obama says–on tape–that the Warren court wasn’t “radical”.
What could be more damning than that in the eyes of conservatives?
“Because if you do, and he answers in a way that he later regrets, you WILL be punished for it.”
What are you even talking about? Punished? How in the hell was “Joe the Plumber” punished?
You would have to be a complete moron to believe that Faux News is “fair and balanced”.
I tried googling the poll Kelly referenced but cannot. Burton did a great job.
the only reason this is a story at all is not because of what someone asked Obama, but what Obama himself said.
Right. Kind of like when McCain said negative ads represent a lack of ideas or that excessive spending by candidates for personal reasons is wrong? Or how he voted with Bush 90% of the time?
You mean like that?
Seriously? There are still people who think FAUXNews is a “fair and balanced” media organization? Come on!
I rarely infect myself by actually watching FAUX but do enjoy these little clips of moral outrage! by the trolls who actually try to pawn this network off as credible.
Per her ranting, the reason John McCain is treated negatively in the media is – ta da! – because he’s done nothing but BE negative. If you aren’t trying to push your ideas into the conversation and instead dedicate yourself to months of character assassination, don’t be surprised when people think ill of you.
It truly is that simple.
It’s interesting that she continuously interrupted him, then chastised him for talking over her when he was just continuing his reply. Fox News has single-handedly managed to change forever the definition of journalism. It’s too bad, really.
Megyn Kelly clearly is warm for the form of Bill Burton. She wants him, sooo bad.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/26/mcclellan-fox-talking-points/
Enough said about Fox News.
the only reason this is a story at all is not because of what someone asked Obama, but what Obama himself said.”
This is actually too priceless coming from Jay Tea. One of the things that has the Right up in arms is Drudge’s headline which claimed that Obama wants to use the courts to redistribute wealth. Of course, Obama actually said the opposite of this. He doesn’t think economic justice can be achieved through the courts and he thinks its a failing of the civil rights movement that it became so focussed on winning court cases.
My question for you, Jay Tea, is whether or not you can tell us in your own words why Obama thinks that the courts are a bad way to go about achieving economic justice. Can you?
I find Fox News is alot easier to watch if you turn the sound off and just watch them shake their pretty little heads from side to side in impotent and scripted anger.
Megyn (super annoying spelling gets two extra points) Kelly is rather hot but she’s also a parrot yapping what she’s told to yap. Burton crushed her with calm responses in the face of her increasingly aggravated attitude.
Has anyone been able to find that poll? Did she just completely lie about it? It’s really frustrating me and if it’s bull I want them called on it.
It’s not punching anyone in the nose — its smashing them in the mouth, as in “smashmouth” — bullying into silence the folks trying to point out that Barry Hussein is no more than a Hugo Chavez wannabe.
Burton crushed her with calm responses
Oh please. Now I know the Kool Aid is loaded with Obama-bot juice. Burton did nothing…..nothing…again…NOTHING…but repeat ad nauseum campaign talking points. That’s it. That’s all he did the entire time.
Of course, he also trots out “Fox News is mean to us” blather we routinely hear from Obama camp. The most hilarious thing said in this campaign was Barack Obama bitching that he’d be 2-3 points higher in the polls if not for Fox News. Hilarious, because if he thinks the media (in particular Fox) has that kind of influence, he has to thank CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NY Times, Washington Post, and the LA Times for the lead he enjoys. If not for them, he’d be down around 25 points.
Burton was bitch slapped by Kelly. That’s not saying much considering Burton has a wealth of stupidity to his credit, but still.
Ummmm guys, get a grip….
She’s not that cute, I see dozens of more attractive women walking around the streets of Denver every day. Add in the fact that she is bats**t crazy….
One can’t help but wonder what percentage of regular Fox News viewers still think Saddam Hussein was incontrovertibly linked to 9-11. Besides Dick Cheney, I mean.
“News for mouth-breathers” is how the great tbogg tagged Fox. Perfect.
Burton did nothing…..nothing…again…NOTHING…but repeat ad nauseum campaign talking points.
Unlike that breath of fresh air to the political discourse that is Sarah Palin who never speaks in talking points and is always available to take tough questions from the press.
Once again, Jay, thanks for dazzling us your legendary consistency and integrity.
Thanks for this. I needed a good laugh today. He drank her milkshake!!
I agree with the comment that she (heart)’s him. You can just see the sexual tension when she doesn’t get her way. You can bet she’s gonna find her way onto the Washington press corps so she can get all up in his face during press briefings.
Whenever you see them together start humming “I hate myself for loving you” as the soundtrack…it fits.
Just watch those three morons on Fox and Friends weekday mornings and tell me Fox is unbiased.
Now, now. Fox needed something to detract from the fact that a McCain spokesperson was talking up the bogus attack on a McCain campaign worker in Pittsburgh – before the local police even had a chance to investigate. So, take a talk about how courts are ineffective at addressing some social issues, something which conservative usually say, and hope that the “Obama is a Muslim” crowd gets the message. Brit Hume did not just get a mistress when he hired Megyn Kelly, he got a very pretty talking head.
I absolutely love her cutting him off then yelling at him to stop interrupting.
Enjoyed the punch back by the Obama rep, but, at least in this snippet, he didn’t actually address the problem with Faux’s misrepresenation of what Obama was saying, which was the exact opposite of the Faux/Drudge claim. Would have liked him to have stated that directly.
Wait a minute. What am I saying? Faux doesn’t care about what Obama actually said and wouldn’t understand what he said even if they did.
And did Fauxy Megyn just whine about the top 25% paying too much mutherfuckin’ income taxes? Jesus fucking Christ.
Burton should have just ‘blah blah blah blah’ed over her. Or ‘nice speech, Megyn, which district are you running in?’ Just treat those spokesbots with the disdain they deserve. Silly Megyn: repeating ‘Fair and Balanced’ as your corporate slogan doesn’t make it descriptive.
TJ Haxx, of course, is not a reader. Or even a listener.
Bill Burton is a weasel just like Oblahma. Look, it is a FACT that you can look up for yourself that income taxes became MORE progressive under Bush. Millions of people went off of income taxes entirely.
You cannot give a tax cut to 95% of Americans because 95% of Americans do not pay income taxes.
Obama can’t even decide whether he is for or against income redistribution. Just a few days ago he was asked if he stood by his comments to Joe the plumber and he said he did. So, fine. Why then this effort to try and pretend that his comments in 2001 meant something other than what they obviously meant? Obama supports wealth redistribution. That’s his right to hold that view. Why not be honest and consistent about the position he holds?
Barack Obama’s economic policies are nothing new. They are the same old liberal class warfare clap trap that the Democrats trot out every single year. This is a new direction for the country? This is the change we need? Please.
Not that cute? Compared to what other talking head?
Megyn Kelly or Rachel Maddow? I know who I’d vote for…..
By the way – the msm backlash on Obama will begin soon enough…looks like the guilt has already set in on some….
What’s hilarious is that every time she opens her mouth, she demonstrates how unfair and unbalanced Fox News is.
Billo tutors the younger Fox anchors on balanceism
You cannot give a tax cut to 95% of Americans because 95% of Americans do not pay income taxes.
That’s true! Because income tax is the only kind of tax that anyone pays.
One of the most unprofessional interviews. What was the point of ‘interviewing’ Burton when Kelly just screamed, interrupted and talked all over him?
Other than those who watch fox news for a good laugh, I can’t quite understand how the rest of the people take them seriously. In a country full of corporate media, every major news channel is biased in someway, but fox news is way out there.
My my, they are getting testy at Faux with McCain’s polls in the basement. I have really enjoyed watching Faux getting called out of late and I hope others keep it up. Does Megan Kelly think it’s just a coincidence that so many people accuse them of bias? I don’t recall ever hearing anyone accuse CNN or the networks of liberal bias on the air…only Faux accuses them of it.
Man, I hope Obama celebrants in New York City confront EVERY ONE of these whiny Faux News employees as they leave work Election Night, crying their eyes out over McCain’s landslide loss, give them pure HELL and post it on YouTube!
Obviously Keith “Congrats President Bush, we have voted you Worst Person of the Week for a record 20th week in a row” Olbermann and Chrissy “Senator Obama just sent another tingle up my leg” Matthews are the true representatives of fair and balanced journalism in this country.
I don’t watch cable news at all, but every now and then I’ll take a look at a clip someone posts where I’m told some Democrat has stuck it to Fox News. This is the first one I’ve seen that lived up to its billing. He used a lot of Obama style — staying calm, not going on the attack, but being cool and reasonable while sticking to his points. There are a couple of great moments in this, both about five minutes in. When the two of them are talking at once — her loud and high, him lower in tone and volume but clear — and the one phrase that gets through her signal jamming is “middle class.” He knew his argument, he stuck with it, and he got it through.
The other great moment is the infinitesimal smile he allows himself when she tells him she doesn’t appreciate his sarcasm, and he says, “I know you hate it.”
You’re talking about the same Keith Olbermann who gave Barack Obama a Worst Person’s “honor” for (gasp!) misspeaking about the number of years he has been married to Michelle, and the same “Chrissy” Matthews who attacked Obama for (horror!) ordering orange juice at a diner instead of coffer, had to apologize for making a sexist comment about Hilary Clinton and has gushed over Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson? Yeah, Olbermann and Matthews never stray from the liberal Democratic plantation; on the other hand, the Fox folks are always willing and ready to go after conservative Republicans (massive rolling of eyes).
Very enjoyable clip. Love watching someone get angrier and angrier while the othe stays calm and collected.
Here is the supposed Pew Poll link.
http://people-press.org/report/348/internet-news-audience-highly-critical-of-news-organizations
Of course she leaves out ALOT of what it said in the report.
“Politics plays a large part in these assessments – Republicans outnumber Democrats by two-to-one (43% to 21%) among the core Fox News Channel audience, while there are far more Democrats than Republicans among CNN’s viewers (43% Democrat, 22% Republican) and network news viewers (41% Democrat, 24% Republican).
Not surprisingly, the Fox News Channel audience is far more likely to say that news organizations have been unfair in their coverage of George W. Bush (49%) than those who cite CNN (19%) or network news (22%) as their main news source.
Further analysis of the data shows that being a Republican and a Fox viewer are related to negative opinions of the mainstream media. The overlapping impact of these two factors can most clearly be seen in the favorability ratings of network TV news, major national newspapers, and the daily newspapers that respondents are most familiar with. For all three, Republicans who count Fox as their main news source are considerably more critical than Republicans who rely on other sources. For example, fully 71% of Fox News Republicans hold an unfavorable opinion of major national newspapers, compared with 52% of Republicans who use other sources, and 33% of those who are not Republicans.”
I think that shows a very clear bias on the part of Fox News. Perhaps poeple would actually start taking Fox News seriously if they just admit they have a Republican bias instead of using decpetion and self-delusion that they are “fair and balanced.” Of course then they would be relegated to the backwoods that is the Drudge Report.
On a side note. The IT guy that used to work at my company added the “Drudge Report” to the favorites list of all the computers there. Was funny because he was the only person with a McCain sticker on his car.
Burton schooled Kelly before the interview even began.
She spent most of the segment defending Fox News in response to Burton’s press release rather than pressing Burton on the 2001 interview which was the ostensible subject of the interview which became almost afterthought.
And every time Kelly remembered to return to the interview, all Burton had to do was calmly say something about Fox’s agenda and Kelly, taking the bait, was off an running in the opposite direction again.
I’m sure Kelly thought she was being really tough on Burton citing all those polls about press bias but grilling Burton over media objectivity was off message and isn’t going to win McCain the election, if anything can now.
More Dems like Burton please.
Don’t forget this other epic smackdown of Faux Newsman Sean Hannity by Robert Gibbs. I’m beginning to see a trend here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3pacQMspc
“Burton was bitch slapped by Kelly.”
Only in your opinion, and your opinion doesn’t matter, because you are stupid.
How you can accuse Burton of “spewing talking points” when Megyn Kelly was demonstrably doing precisely that herself without shorting out your own brain from cognitive dissonance is beyond me.
Burton did nothing…..nothing…again…NOTHING…but repeat ad nauseum campaign talking points. That’s it. That’s all he did the entire time.
Yeah, how dare he talk about the issues that affect Americans.
But I see what you mean, it’s only okay if it’s a Republican.
Interestingly both this clip and the crazy Orlando newcaster clip are posted all over right wing sites as examples of the media finally taking it to the Obama campaign.
Fox News viewers, inundated by reports of Obama’s questionable relationships with Ayerswrightrezkokhalidodinga, and insurmountable evidence of his Marxist leanings may well be left with the uncomfortable thought that America is cool with an Afroislamocommunist direction for the country.
What I wish Burton would have said is “Fortunately for us only a small minority of Americans pay any attention to Fox News at all.” Megan Kelly probably would have gone full O’Reilly after that
To the folks who think Fox was correct on this issue: did you actually listen to/read the statement by Obama in the interview, fully and in context, and read what Fox/Drudge put as their headlines about the “story”?
I listened to it … Obama talks about the civil rights movement and the Warren Court and, quite to the opposite of what Fox/Drudge claimed, said that the “tragedy” of the civil rights movement was that it focused to heavily on pursuit of social change through the court system, and not through political/legislative movement. In fact, his take on the Warren Court’s interpretation of the Constitution as describing “negative rights” — that is, what the states cannot do to us as citizens — is right in line with “conservative” jurisprudence.
THAT is what the false controversy is here. Not that Obama didn’t give the interview in 2001, but that he didn’t say what Fox/Drudge/McCain accuse him of saying.
This whole problem of taking words out of context, supplying misinformation in the form of “journalism”, and trying to play a tit-for-tat blame game — a la Olberman and O’Reiley — doesn’t do anybody any good. It doesn’t solve any problems, and in each case where statements are misconstrued – whether by the Left or the Right – but really most egregiously these days by the Right — just undermines the credibility of those spreading the misinformation. Cripes. Call me naive, but I really hope we can someday rise above this kind of nonsense.
About those cute blonded fox bimbos.
My brother is dating one, and please pray on my behalf that they don’t get married.
She is so bubbly-annoying, screechy attenition getting laughs, a histrionic in recovery with many past and future spotlight whore relapses under her ever-expanding belt.
I’m really looking forward to when Obama wins, so when she starts taking shit at the thanksgiving table, i can spout off one of the bs phrases her type have used ‘liberally’ over the course of the past 8 years:
“love it or leave it”
It’s unpatriotic to question the current commander or soon to be in chief”
Please, all, supply me with more obnoxious and smug zany zingers
GF reminds me of a drag queen. Not a good one like RuPaul but a drag queen.
Sarah Palin “spread the wealth around” to Alaskans. Didn’t you all see Megyn Kelly’s exclusive broadcast? No? Me neither.
Wasn’t this the main reason for her popularity in Alaska?
Sarah Palin explains the windfall profits tax that she imposed on the oil industry in Alaska as a mechanism for ensuring that Alaskans “share in the wealth” generated by oil companies:
“And Alaska—we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.”
Did she really say,”collectively”? Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.
but that he didn’t say what Fox/Drudge/McCain accuse him of saying.
He never does. It really is astounding how he can keep not saying what they keep saying he says. Almost like they are not listening at all. Like when you’re talking to the dog.
Did she really say,”collectively”? Somewhere, Karl Marx is smiling.
Yes, I love that Alaska is this big Socialist experiment that no one ever talks about.
Was Megyn trying to prove that Fox News isn’t in the tank for the Republican Party and that they give Democrats a fair hearing?
If so, she sure did a shitty job of it.
“GF reminds me of a drag queen”.
Who’s GF?
During this whole cycle I have seen the Democrats subjected to questioning exactly twice. I thought Biden was going to have another stroke over it. Fox has both sides. Everyone else has only one and you guys can’t stand it.
Goodness me… you really have some crazy television over in the US.
Things are a tad more relaxed out here in Australia, thankfully.
Fox News. Yeah …… snd MSNBC us sooooooo fair and balanced! Right!
Huh. Funny she didn’t mention this Pew Research survey…
CNN ‘Most Believable’ News Organization: Pew Research Survey
Network Tops MSNBC, FNC In Biennial Survey
CNN was ranked the most trusted news organization in the U.S. by respondents to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Seventy percent of those surveyed gave CNN the highest rankings for believability, the most for any broadcast or cable news network, according to the Pew Research Center, followed by MSNBC at 63% and Fox News Channel with 59%.
CNN also ranked highest in credibility with 30% of respondents giving it a top rating compared to 24% and 23% for MSNBC and FNC, respectively
http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6588747.html
Her tirade carries a bit of bizarro world rhetoric, where she thinks the mention of joe the plumber provides actual gravitas to the argument. Fox is only an echo chamber for wingnuts. When reality comes crashing down on this bleach-blonde roboRepublitard on 4 November it could be interesting to see how she tries to explain it all away — perhaps because McCain wasn’t conservative enough to win.
All you who are attacking Fox are nuts. I am a lifelong democrat and will be supporting McCain for a few reasons.
1. The last president to raise taxes during a recession was Herbert Hoover. As I am sure that many of you do not know who he is, he was President during the start of the Great depression. After said president reased the taxes, this nation slipped into the Great Depression.
2. During John F. Kennedy’s speech to the New York economic club in 1962, he stated that to grow the economy you do not raise corporate and payroll taxes. You lower them so the companies can invest the money back into themselves. You CLOSE the loopholes that the Clinton administration created with NAFTA allowing U.S. based companies to use cheap chinese and mexican labor and import those goods into the U.S. without paying tarriffs that would have made it cheaper to keep the jobs here.
3. Sen. Obama has accomplished a gread deal. However, he has yet to actually field a “real” question. As soon as he does and falters, as with Joe. His cronies attack the person who asked the original question. This is typical of the left wingers. Now, Obama’s running mate has lowered the threshold of middle class tax cuts to those making less than 150,000 gross per household. Next, it will be 100,000 etc..
William Jefferson Clinton also promised middle class tax cuts to those making less than 200,000 per year and within one month of taking office raised taxes on those same individuals. After attacking Bush 1 for something similar. In reality, Bush 1 vetoed it and Congress overrode his veto. Does anyone notice a pattern with the left?
Please wake up America before its too late.
And I am sorry he will not be the savior to african-americans and I am BLACK-AMERICAN as I was not born in Africa.
Megyn Kelly is the BEST. She went off on Sarah Palin this morning. No holds barred. She brings it to ALL candidates.
It is easy to launch a propaganda war against someone with adequate amount of money. Fox does it all day long. They are bashing minorities, muslims, liberals, gays every single hour. They give airtime (and lots of it) to people like ANN COULTER who are known to be extremely HATEFUL and BELLIGERENT. With a resume of hate and biasness like that, I am surprised that FOX with its pawn like Megan has the audacity to try to take on someone else expressing their distaste of Sarah Palin which is rightful in many ways. What is wrong in calling RED a red and blue a blue?? In other words, Sarah Palin does look like a porn actress trying to dress up. I am a guy and know tons of other guys, and we are NOT what you can call WHITE Trash, but we can see that. It is SOOOOOO Obvious. A Gun-Trotting mother of 5, puhhh-lease. Her supporters are probably watching too many porn movies with DOMINATRIX types of characters and associating her image with one of them (that is purely white-trashy). Also, her DAUGHTER, now was she the one who got pregnant at the age of 15???? And then, Ms. Palin comes out trying to get the young couple married so that their relation can be chastised. This is PURE BULL SHIT. The fact is that her own daughter DID IT at that tender age when she is preaching QUITE THE OPPOSITE to everyone else. Bottomline, FOX and the entire FAR RIGHT has gone crazy and are BURNING IN FEVER of this HATE. This HATE has is NOT good for the long term FUTURE of America. We have to learn how to get along with people of other Backgrounds and religions and colors, otherwise, we will instigate a 3rd world war in which we will also pay a very heavy price.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA. This is hilarious!
Typical LIBERALS hate being called out on
double standards.
facts are facts -