Fox News Throws Megyn Kelly Under the Bus and Surrenders to Donald Trump

Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 06:09 pm

Game on? Fox News determined to crush Donald Trump? Game over.

Fox News loses. Because you don’t, as Trump has repeatedly said, challenge Donald Trump. You just don’t.

Yes, that quickly, Roger Ailes has called Donald Trump to kiss and make up. Why? Because sources speaking to New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman said Ailes was worried Trump could damage the network. According to these sources, “Roger was not happy. Most of the Fox viewers were taking Trump’s side.”

As a result, what you saw last night on Donald Trump’s twitter feed was this:

In a statement, Ailes said, according to CNNMOney,

Donald Trump and I spoke today. We discussed our concerns, and I again expressed my confidence in Megyn Kelly. She is a brilliant journalist and I support her 100 percent.

I assured him that we will continue to cover this campaign with fairness & balance. We had a blunt but cordial conversation and the air has been cleared.

A Fox News spokesperson promised Kelly would address the controversy at 9 pm.

So Ailes threw Megyn Kelly under the bus but said he didn’t throw Megyn Kelly under the bus, except that he did, because he caved into Donald Trump, the guy who has spent days relentlessly heaping abuse on her.

What Kelly said when 9 pm rolled around was “I certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism.” Many thought Trump should apologize to her. Trump demanded she apologize to him. Mostly, conservatives appeared to agree with Trump.

Like Eve, Kelly was suddenly to blame for all the sin in the world. Not Baier, not Wallace. They’re men. It was a woman challenging him that so enraged Trump. In fact, shortly before the Ailes call, Trump tweeted his latest sexual-innuendo Kelly smear:

According to Newsmax, describing the Stern interview, Megyn Kelly openly discussing sexuality means its okay for men to abuse her. Here we go again with the blame the victim approach that so epitomizes Republican thinking.

And now we know who is more important to Fox News, Donald Trump or Megyn Kelly. Surprise, surprise, it is not the woman.

Trump, for his part, will be appearing on not only Hannity today, but Fox & Friends, where stupidity always reigns supreme, as a sign that he is setting aside his threats of boycotting the network.

Trump will no doubt enjoy Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who is unlikely to ask him any difficult questions, and not only because she can’t think of any, but because her boss has just come to the realization that her guest is the real reason for the 2016 campaigning season.

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Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.

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