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The Megyn Kelly/Donald Trump Snoozefest
Snoozefest Schmoozefest: No Blood Flows on Big Fox Stage
Megyn Kelly fails to make good on the promise 'nothing is off-limits'—of course, it would have ruined Trump's mood
Judging by the gauzy, white background behind Megyn Kelly Tuesday night at the opening of Megyn Kelly Presents on the main Fox network, you might have wondered if the cable superstar had either traveled to heaven to interview God himself or was auditioning to replace “Flo” on those surreal commercials for Progressive Insurance.
But, lo and behold, no, Ms. Kelly was merely interviewing Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, a recorded session that felt stale and stilted and rather schmooze-y for a host who gets hyped as one of the few, real, hard-hitting “journalists” among the prime-time personalities on cable’s right-wing Fox News Channel.
Because the interview was taped and edited long before airtime, Ms. Kelly didn’t ask Mr. Trump about The New York Times piece on Page A-1 Sunday about his alleged history of misogyny and sexism.
She had no chance to ask him about the devastating Super PAC ad released this week that uses Mr. Trump’s own words about women against him as women repeat them in lip-sync.Instead, viewers got mostly soft-focus pablum, with Ms. Kelly sitting in Mr. Trump’s corner office, at a marble conference table, asking him tepid questions and rarely following up with tough ones.
(Joe Lapointe: Observer)
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Megyn Kelly Embraces Donald Trump in a Disgusting, Fawning Interview
"For all the disgusting insults Donald Trump has lobbed at Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly—from retweeting someone calling her a bimbo, to implying she was on her period while moderating a debate—even the most naïve observer of politics and media in the Age of Trump must have known that Tuesday night was inevitable.
And by “Tuesday night,” I don’t just mean a television special—this particular one on the Fox broadcast network, and moderated by Kelly with Trump as her star guest. Equally preordained was the fact that, at a time when Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes, and most of the Fox News Channel have made their peace with Trump, Kelly would eventually conduct a fawning, boring, and pointless interview with the presumptive Republican nominee."
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Didn't watch. 
I didn't want to give either of those two the time of day. One wonders if the whole thing was staged from the beginning.
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Megyn Kelly goes too easy on Donald Trump in her Fox infomercial, er, special
After the weeks of hype and the queasy hopes of an anxious nation, it all became clear:Megyn Kelly didn’t ask Donald Trump to headline her Fox special “Megyn Kelly Presents” so she could pin him down on foreign and domestic policy issues, or even confront him about the months-long troll attack he launched after she dared question him during the first Republican debate about his penchant for misogynistic language.
No, she invited him to costar in an hourlong infomercial for her new book.
So why did we watch “Megyn Kelly Presents”?
To see Trump announce that if he loses, his campaign will have been, in his mind, an utter waste of time and money?
No.
We watched because we wanted to see Kelly, tempered by the Trump’s bitter attack and buoyed by near-national support, hold his question-dodging feet to some sort of fire.Instead, we got a rehash of all that Kelly endured followed by a battle of the low-talkers in which Kelly, clearly prepped to avoid anything that might smack of hostility, searched for the source of Trump’s rage while she gently suggested that perhaps presidents should not be so mean, and Trump tried to appear as if he were answering her questions when indeed he was not.
(LA Times)
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zeke wrote:
Didn't watch.
I didn't watch either zeke. I knew it would be nothing but fluff or Trump would never have agreed to it.
I believe he even threatened Kelly that he could "turn on her" again at any given time if he felt she was treating him badly. Poor baby.
PS: I wounder if Donald's favorite gal pal (and hopefully running mate Sarah Palin) warned him to be prepared for "trick" questions like What's your favorite movie? What's your favorite book?
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I think it was a poor decision on Kelly's part to do the interview. She had garnered respect and recognition after that controversial debate. Now the whole thing seems very suspicious to me.
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I knew she would cave under the pressure....but then again...shes just like him...
I looked up all of the horrible things she has said....yep....just like him.
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I figured she agreed to go easy on him in exchange for an interview. Otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to it. She sold out to him and I think it reflects poorly on her as a journalist.
No matter how educated, talented, rich, or cool you think you are, how you treat people tells us all. Integrity is everything.
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I figured she agreed to go easy on him in exchange for an interview. Otherwise he wouldn't have agreed to it. She sold out to him and I think it reflects poorly on her as a journalist.
I agree with you need. Expected so much more from Megyn Kelly and was very disappointed. This interview with Trump spoke volumes about Kelly and she will have to suffer the consequences.
During the debate where Trump was so disrespectful to her, and others, she rose to the challenge and stood her ground as a serious journalist should. Reading that she requested to meet with Trump and he "graciously accepted" gave me pause, sadly rightfully so.
The Megyn Kelly as moderator debate with Trump put her at the top of her game however, this 'special' knocked her way down imo. Whatever happened to honesty and integrity we expect from journalists?
“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Trump insulted Megyn yet again and she just sat there and took it.
“Bimbo?” Kelly asked, referring to tweets that had appeared on Trump's Twitter timeline calling her a bimbo.
Trump: “Well that was a retweet, yeah. Did I say that?” Trump asked.
“Many times,” Kelly said.
“Oh, okay excuse me,” Trump said. “Not the most horrible thing … Over your life Megyn, you’ve been called a lot worse. Isn’t that right? Wouldn’t you say?”
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Megyn Kelly’s widely-panned interview with Donald Trump may have finally awakened the media to the Megyn Kelly we have long known.
Ever since she began sparring with Donald Trump, the mainstream media has been fawning over her as some kind of 21st century, feminist Edward R. Murrow. Vanity Fair titled its recent, glowing profile of her, “Blowhards, Beware: Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now.”And it was precisely that myth, which Kelly has carefully cultivated, that was part of her undoing.
As Gabriel Sherman noted today, Kelly clearly hoped her Fox Broadcast special would provide a springboard to something beyond the partisan shoutfests at Fox:
“As the Times recently reported, she’s in the final year of her contractand has been on a media blitz campaigning for a bigger job at Fox or another network. In recent interviews, she’s said her ambition is to be a combination of Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Barbara Walters. The special was essentially a public interview for her next job.”
But Kelly’s show proved that she’s no Oprah, Rose or Walters, at least not yet.
In fact, Kelly came across as mainstream Fox News.
"But Kelly’s chummy treatment of Trump may have damaged her brand as tough and fair-minded (this being Fox, the bar was pretty low).
Worse, she cozied up to Trump at the very moment Rupert Murdoch decided Fox News will supportthe GOP front-runner. By lobbing softballs — or, as Times TV critic James Poniewozik described her questions, “airballs” — at Trump, Kelly came across like any other GOP cheerleader at the right-wing network."
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