I have a good friend who used to work on Megyn Kelly’s show when she was on Fox and I asked him one time what she was really like. I’ve known lots of people who work in cable news, both on camera and behind the scenes, and there is usually a disconnect between the public image and the attitude when the cameras are off. I didn’t get quite that – the response from my friend was that she was “nice enough,” which is a relatively polite way of saying that if things were going well, she was nice to people. Otherwise, look out.
“She never says ‘thank you,’” my friend continued, “no matter what.” Everyone was beneath her – it was, after all, her show!
That’s not all that uncommon. When someone gets their name on a television show, the ego explodes. And, in all honesty, my friend had, for the most part, good things to say about Megyn. While the ego was in full effect, she wasn’t a raving lunatic throwing staplers or screaming at producers to detail her car or pick up her dry cleaning (or other stories I’ve heard about others), so there’s that.
What she’s like when the cameras are off now, I have no idea, but what she is when they’re on is bad enough.
I heard the great Rush Limbaugh say one time that he doesn’t talk about what happens or is said on other radio shows because when his show is on, it’s the only show on the radio. Of course, when necessary for his audience, he did acknowledge things that happened on other radio shows – you can’t control where news comes from – but other than those rare occasions, Rush stuck to the “only radio show in the world” rule.
It’s an idea I took to heart – I generally never mention anyone else on my show because I don’t listen to them, so I keep my perspective as mine, and you will alter what you say and how you say it if you’ve heard other people already cover the topic before your timeslot.
Megyn Kelly’s, as far as I can tell (in full disclosure, I have never watched one because she’s just not someone whose opinion I find interesting, entertaining or informed), from the clips her staff circulates on social media, spends so much time talking about her competitors that she’s morphed into “The Corner” from National Review.
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What do I mean by that? The Corner was great, back when it started. It was quick hits on the news from the staff of NRO, so they didn’t go stale waiting for the magazine to print. Then it became a non-stop internal chat where NRO writers would respond to other NRO writers, taking it from a place to get fresh information and takes on current happenings to an email thread you were involuntarily added to. If you didn’t go back and read 15 previous posts, you’d have no idea what the hell anyone was talking about.
The clips of Kelly’s gang, and those who are disgusted by her obsessive contempt for everyone with a Jewish last name (and Lindsey Graham, tossed in as cover), circulated now oscillate wildly between “The Jews started a war with sweet, innocent Iran because they’re evil” and “Donald Trump is so stupid that he let those damn Jews manipulate him into a war there is no way we can win!” They’re usually accompanied by a list of Jewish people – Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, Benjamin Netanyahu – who she claims pull Trump’s strings and can make him dance.
She never directly calls Trump a puppet; she still wants his fans to watch her show, so she proxies the manipulation without directly saying it – she’s “just asking questions.” But for “idiots” to be getting their way with the President, it stands to reason she thinks the President is an even bigger idiot.
Megyn then, showing a lack of depth of knowledge or conviction in her statements, chooses personal insults – “micro-penis Levin” – over making a point. There’s a reason the grifters conning people into 3-card monte games never stop talking, and it’s not that they have a lot to say – they need the distraction to pull off the con.
I don’t care what Megyn Kelly thinks; she doesn’t have to support the military action against the greatest state sponsor of terrorism the world has ever known if she doesn’t want to. Plenty of people don’t. But why lie about it? Why lie and say we’re somehow losing to a nation that has zero control over its skies, only able to launch a dozen or so rockets in general directions toward random countries?
We could easily wipe out Iran, but people like Megyn would pearl-clutch and scream bloody murder like she screams about Israel’s defense of itself in Gaza. She replaces an argument with swearing – an f-bomb is a poor substitute for a point – and complaints about Jewish manipulation. It’s just gross.
Maybe she believes it, maybe she used to hide her contempt for Jews, Israel, the US military, President Trump, whatever, though I can’t imagine why. There will always be an audience for anything, so you don’t have to flip and come off as an opportunist, plus what you really believe is an easier story to remember. Most importantly, perhaps, you don’t have to be a complete A-hole in the process.
She routinely brags about how many views she gets on YouTube compared to others, so maybe that’s what it’s all about. I don’t know, but I also don’t care. She didn’t matter to me when she was sane; she doesn’t really matter to me now that she’s in line for a fellowship at Media Matters. I’m just asking questions.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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