Posted on Jan 28, 2016
There’s no beating Megyn Kelly: What Donald Trump should have learned from her Fox News interview...
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"In addition to Fox News posing as a real news outlet, with serious interest in reporting, they also went after Trump with mockery and snark: “the Ayatollah and Putin both intend to treat Donald Trump unfairly when they meet with him if he becomes president. … A nefarious source tells us that Trump has his own secret plan to replace the Cabinet with his Twitter followers to see if he should even go to those meetings.”
It’s important to pause and digest the absolutely odd conjunction of Fox News blustering about its journalistic integrity and going after Trump with the sort of satirical sarcasm we get on late night comedy treatments of Trump. If you read that statement about Putin and Twitter followers without attribution, you might think that Stephen Colbert had penned it.
This was all the perfect setup for Michael Moore, who entered the circus performance for an interview with Megyn Kelly to promote his new film “Where to Invade Next.”
Moore had made his mark on Fox News when he sparred with Bill O’Reilly in a famous interview back in July of 2004 after the two crossed paths at the Democratic National Convention and O’Reilly decided to have him on his show. The idea was to debate the claims offered in Moore’s controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which made the case that George Bush lied to the U.S. public when he launched the Iraq War.
While that interview was legendary, it was nothing like the Kelly interview with Moore. Moore is an artful interviewee, using his considerable talents as a comedian to move the interviewer off of his or her talking points. In the O’Reilly interview he kept going back to the key question: Would you send your child to fight in Iraq?"
It’s important to pause and digest the absolutely odd conjunction of Fox News blustering about its journalistic integrity and going after Trump with the sort of satirical sarcasm we get on late night comedy treatments of Trump. If you read that statement about Putin and Twitter followers without attribution, you might think that Stephen Colbert had penned it.
This was all the perfect setup for Michael Moore, who entered the circus performance for an interview with Megyn Kelly to promote his new film “Where to Invade Next.”
Moore had made his mark on Fox News when he sparred with Bill O’Reilly in a famous interview back in July of 2004 after the two crossed paths at the Democratic National Convention and O’Reilly decided to have him on his show. The idea was to debate the claims offered in Moore’s controversial film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which made the case that George Bush lied to the U.S. public when he launched the Iraq War.
While that interview was legendary, it was nothing like the Kelly interview with Moore. Moore is an artful interviewee, using his considerable talents as a comedian to move the interviewer off of his or her talking points. In the O’Reilly interview he kept going back to the key question: Would you send your child to fight in Iraq?"
There’s no beating Megyn Kelly: What Donald Trump should have learned from her Fox News interview...
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"But if Bill O’Reilly has been the “papa bear” of Fox News, it is Kelly whom the network sees as its future. With an aging audience, Kelly is the network’s one hope of drawing in younger viewers. Kelly’s style, though, is a hybrid. Her reporting a sort of Frankenstein. At times, she hits hard –with her probing question on Trump’s misogyny at the first GOP debate as a prime example. At other times, she echoes the Fox News idiocy like the time she insisted that Santa Claus and Jesus were white.
Moore’s interview really took her down the rabbit hole, though.
In a tweet setting up his visit Moore referred to Fox News as Beelzebub’s Den and Lucifer’s Lair. His plan, though, was to enter as an invader, a merciful one, but still an invader.
This, of course, was a reference to his new film, “Where to Invade Next,” which is already being heralded by conservatives as an attack on the nation, more of the anti-American drivel they expect from libtards.
Except, as the interview reveals, those ideas are fictionalizations of Moore, who is about as patriotic as anyone could be. The only difference is that his idea of what would make America great is not the same as that of his so-called patriotic, Tea Party detractors."
Moore’s interview really took her down the rabbit hole, though.
In a tweet setting up his visit Moore referred to Fox News as Beelzebub’s Den and Lucifer’s Lair. His plan, though, was to enter as an invader, a merciful one, but still an invader.
This, of course, was a reference to his new film, “Where to Invade Next,” which is already being heralded by conservatives as an attack on the nation, more of the anti-American drivel they expect from libtards.
Except, as the interview reveals, those ideas are fictionalizations of Moore, who is about as patriotic as anyone could be. The only difference is that his idea of what would make America great is not the same as that of his so-called patriotic, Tea Party detractors."
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Bill O'Reilly interviews Michael Moore at the Democratic National Convention, 2004.
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