Megyn Kelly wishes ‘that O’Reilly had defended me more’ in his Trump interview

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Megyn Kelly covers the new issue of More Magazine. She’s been getting a lot of press this year, and while it might seem like her professional life has taken a hit because of Donald Trump’s attacks, she’s probably more well-known, and this is her second major magazine cover this year (she covered Vanity Fair’s February issue). While I respect what Megyn is trying to do as a journalist, I really do believe many of the conspiracy theories out there about Megyn simply doing Roger Ailes’ bidding, then getting thrown under the bus when Ailes’ Trump strategy changed. Megyn seems to know that her support is somewhat shaky at Fox News, which is why she’s probably doing a magazine-interview blitz. She wants to be a celebrity journalist who has options beyond Fox News, if it gets to that point. Anyway, you can read her More piece here. Some highlights:

On the message that she hopes Donald Trump’s second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses sends to other politicians: “The result in Iowa, to the extent it damaged Trump’s fortunes, as Trump believes it did, will hopefully serve as a lesson to other politicians that they bully the media at their own peril. It’s always fun to beat up on the moderators in the press—I get that—but there is a boundary one should not cross, and hopefully this helped define where it is.”

On not letting Trump’s insults get under her skin: “I’ve been thinking about that Margaret Thatcher quote where she said something like, ‘I love when they attack me personally because it means they don’t have a political argument left.’”

On wishing she had more support from her Fox colleague Bill O’Reilly: “I do wish that O’Reilly had defended me more in his interview with Trump. I would have defended him more. Honestly? People think I’m fearless. But I’m human. I was not looking forward to going out on that stage and dealing with Trump if he was going to attack me. I felt the pressure of that and the stress of that. But I also knew I would walk through that fear and I would go out there and I would handle it. I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.”

On balancing her career ambitions with her personal aspirations: “There are huge parts of who I am that I don’t ever get to express. I am genuinely searching. I love my job and what I do. But that doesn’t mean I don’t want to tap into this other need … You never know. One wrong move, and you’re doing a podcast that only your kids listen to.”

On struggling as a new mom: “We set the expectations too high for new mothers. I’m always telling women, Don’t expect to not hate it. You’re going to feel and look terrible, and you’re going to wonder if you blew up your life. The cruel irony of it is, just at the time you’re loving it and you’ve got it down, you have to go back to work.”

On her recent resolution to recapture the simplicity of life with her children: “We’ve already tried to drill it into their heads that they’d better be prepared to work hard if they want anything. I don’t want my kids to think that everything they touch is gold. I try not to crush their spirits, but I don’t let them win all the time, and I don’t tell them second place is winning. Because it’s not. It’s losing.”

[From More Magazine]

The Bill O’Reilly comments are getting a lot of notice and I have mixed feelings about it. Not to defend O’Reilly (whom I hate), but why would he need to defend her? Why does she need O’Reilly’s protection? That’s not his job, unless you consider Fox News to be a wing of the GOP and this whole Trump thing is just an internal power struggle about the Frankenstein’s monster they’ve created and unleashed upon the world? Oh, right.

And almost on cue, Trump has been bashing Megyn Kelly on Twitter this week.

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  1. Crumpet says:

    I am SO glad she gave up the long blond mullet hair and glossy bright pink lips. My husband watches FOX and she got on my last nerve, trying to be so tough and taken seriously all the while looking like she was going to an 80’s prom night.

    • Tourmaline says:

      I think her hair is awesome, that’s about all I have nice to say about her.

      • isabelle says:

        Its a very classy hair cut. She annoys Donald and she has put him in his place. Think about, she is the only thing in this election he runs from and tries to avoid. She has won the stronghold with him. That makes me like her a lot more.

  2. Nancy says:

    She shouldn’t expect others to come to her rescue. She is a professional and not look to others for help. Perhaps this is why she is on the F network which I refuse to acknowledge. Can’t help laughing thinking about Anderson Cooper looking over his shoulder…help me, he’s mean…..lol

    • K says:

      Sorry that isn’t what she is saying. She is saying she wouldn’t have allowed trump to speak of her colleague like that- and for the record and she expected the same professional respect that isn’t out of line. That is called being coworkers!

      And not for anything as much as I loath this woman she is currently the ONLY person in the media challenging trump so let’s give her some credit because everyone else backs down.

      • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

        Agreed. I don’t like any aspect of the entertainment program disguising itself as news but her complaints aren’t unfounded. There’s a level of professional curteosu and decorum afforded to everyone in the professional world and she received none.

        We all know why and that’s why it’s ironic but she was right, what happened to her was an unfortunate display of caring more about the golf buddy than the job.

      • Diane says:

        Chris Cuomo on CNN takes on Trump like no one else. He doesn’t let him get by with anything. As far as I’m concerned, Chris Cuomo interviews are the way every journalist should challenge their “gets”.

      • Nancy says:

        I’m with you Diane. Chris is the man. I loved him on ABC but haven’t seen him as much these days. He is an excellent journalist and commentator. All Kelly did was give Trump more arsenal. He takes comments likes hers and runs with them. She’ll learn…..nah she probably won’t…lol

      • isabelle says:

        Exactly, well said.

    • LAK says:

      I’m with Nancy here.

      She’s whinying. So what if her colleagues don’t defend her. They look foolish, not her.

      And then to quote Thatcher as an inspiration whilst whining……a woman who managed to turn every insult into a strength including being known as the Iron lady, a sobriquet bestowed on her by Russia as an insult.

      Not to mention Thatcher hated whiners.

      • BB says:

        Ignoring everything else Megyn said, that Thatcher quote really sums up Trump’s style. He has no argument so he turns to personal insults all the time. That is the trademark of someone who has no substance to their words.

    • Dangles says:

      Meh. Anyone who works for Fox deserves everything they get it.

  3. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    Well, honey, you work for a sexist company with a sexist agenda. You were hired because you meet the physical requirements for the job. You’re also smart, but that’s not why you were hired. You’re just one of many pretty Fox faces. You think they’re going to side with you against a powerful man? You reap what you sow.

    • littlemissnaughty says:

      This is why I don’t understand women who support the ideas expressed on Fox, by Fox’ talking heads, and by some very prominent and powerful politicians (let’s not sh*t on Republicans exclusively but … yeah, mostly them). Because if sh*t gets real, they will turn on you. Of course they will, you’re a woman and a misogynist is a misogynist is a misogynist. As long as you’re in a privileged position, you can afford it. But that can change. See Megyn Kelly. It’s like she expected a cookie for subscribing to their sexist agenda for so long. Uh, no.

      • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

        Heck, that’s true of minorities too.

        Listening to Cruz, Rubio, and Carson desperately run back and forth between denying their heritage and trying to use it for election points is embarassing. They believe if you tow the line long enough you stop being a target – NOPE. You’re just closer to the shot gun blast as it were.

      • lucy2 says:

        Isn’t it also the network that took her off the air temporarily after the first dust up with Trump?

    • cannibell says:

      And you’re as mean-spirited as the rest of them when it suits you. Or, to put it another way, it seems as if you can dish it out, but you’re not so good at taking it. (That said, she was totally right in asking Trump the questions she did and his response was off-the-chain inappropriate on multiple levels. That was the most journalistically correct – and one of the two journalistically correct – things I’ve seen her do. The other was when she asked Karl Rove about “Republican math.”)

      • Lilacflowers says:

        Although she only challenged Rove after every other network had called it a good 15-20 minutes earlier. She had sat there all night going along with the charade

    • Naya says:

      This is really harsh although I see what you are trying to say. Its like the Breitbart lady who was surprised her own employers preferred to side with her assaulter than jeopardise their link to Trump. What did you expect? But at the same time screw Breitbart and Fox for this sexist bs even if its aimed at an unpalatable victim.

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        Oh, definitely I hold Fox responsible for its sexist views and agenda. I just don’t think she should be surprised that he wouldn’t support her.

      • BB says:

        Have you guys read anything about that Corey guy? He seems right up Trump’s alley, Breitbart and Fox know where their bread is buttered. Donald Trump is like a Brietbart comment’s section come to life.

    • Alex says:

      THIS. Does she have a CLUE who she works for? That’s like asking him to say something about the racism day in and day out

  4. popodamofo says:

    Trump and O’Riley are both pigs. That is all.

  5. Belle Epoch says:

    How whiney. Taking a private beef to the press? Not very adult. She is saying to the world “I wanted a big man to defend me.” Ugh.

  6. Lilacflowers says:

    What did she expect? Sexist O’Reilly is not going to defend the woman he views as competition.

    Still teaching kids Santa Claus is white, Megyn?

    • Dez says:

      Maybe she should ask Santa to come and defend her.

    • isabelle says:

      Maybe she wants to vocalize it so others will pay attention. She knows he is a arsehat but her calling him out publicly, everyone knows its just another , just another sign he is one. She wants us to hear it and probably has little to do with if she knew it or not.

  7. grabbyhands says:

    Why am I not shocked that she would quote Margaret Thatcher?

  8. Wren33 says:

    I’m not saying I like Megyn Kelly. She seems like a typical conservative – only speaking out about issues like maternity leave and feminism when it impacts her personally and not having empathy otherwise. However, I think it is helpful to have one of the right-wing’s own speak up to some of the sexist BS. Sure, maybe sympathy for one of their own beautiful, blonde white ladies won’t translate, but at the same time, she is presenting herself as being ambitious and powerful, and not a damsel in distress. I don’t read her comments about O’Reilly that way.

  9. K says:

    Ok now I can’t stomach to watch O’Reilly but I did see some clips on daily show and trump was attacking her as a person not her performance or job but he called her stupid and made the blood comment again, that she was crazy. I mean not for nothing but MSNBC, CNN and Daily Show several other news organizations and liberal shows jumped to defend her because it was about her as a person not her work. If it was her work id be like get over it but to allow a man to call your coworker a crazy PMS riddled bitch on tv is inexcusable.

    I will say that I don’t agree with Megyn Kelly’s politics at all; but she is handling this well and she is the only person that is going to come out of this on the republican side not looking like a fool. Yeah she will probably lose Fox but she’ll get a huge job on network or another cable.

    I also want to add the we can’t say we are feminist and only rally behind women we agree with. I mean this board has gone to war attacking each other over whether we are slut shaming kim but there are some posts on Megyn Kelly that because she is republican or works for one she deserves this crap with trump?

    Nope sorry if you stand with women you stand up for the fair treatment of all women even those you disagree with or can’t stand.

    • Jen says:

      Nicely said – and I agree with all points you made.

    • Lilacflowers says:

      O’Reilly and Fox have settled numerous sexual harassment lawsuits. As a prominent employee there, she has to know that. I agree that no woman should be subjected to that in the workplace but it should have come as no surprise to her that O’Reilly would not have had her back. If it bothered her, and clearly it does, she should have filed a complaint using whatever internal sexual harassment policy Fox has in place, alleging hostile environment. If that wasn’t going to resolve it, the EEOC office is that way.

    • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

      Exactly.

      That Thatcher quote is accurate, when the time comes for personal attacks then intellifent discourse has been lost. I don’t like or respect Megyn nor do I like of respect Fox but what happened to her was completely inappropriate and she did deserve to be defended.

      Now did she deserve what happened? Sure, that’s karma and irony just like what’s waiting for Trump.

    • jsilly4e says:

      K: I totally agree with you. Well written.

    • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

      Nobody is saying that she deserves this crap with Trump. And, sorry, but I don’t rally behind every person who has a vagina just because I’m a feminist. Megan Kelly spends her days trying to get Planned Parenthood shut down, arguing that birth control shouldn’t be included in insurance, spouting the sexist anti-feminist misinformation that Fox specializes in. But I should “rally” behind her because her colleague, who has been sued for sexual harassment, didn’t defend her as he should have? As if he ever would. As if he gets why Trump was wrong. If Trump is elected, Fox News and Megyn Kelly will have played a big role in that. I have sympathy for her because she was attacked personally by Trump and what he said was sexist and vile. I think it’s laughable that she thought Bill O’Reilly would defend her.

    • BB says:

      That is one of the big issues with Trump that I wish more people in the press would call him on. He cannot criticize a person without resorting to insults or insulting language. He couldn’t come back at Rosie’s comments all those years ago (which were not really that bad) without calling her a fat ugly pig. He made fun of that reporter with a disability (even if he claims he didn’t). He often makes fun of the looks of protestors kicked out of his rallies. That is where I will side with Megyn, he can’t come back at her or criticize her without throwing in some personal insult. But yeah, why would anyone expect Bill O’Reilly to defend them?

    • Keaton says:

      Well said K!

    • bella says:

      I agree wth K, too, on most points, but disagree on Fox and Megyn Kelly.
      Seems I’m def in the minority, but I’m a Fox girl and I respect Megyn Kelly’s work.

      K – why do you say she’ll lose Fox?
      Other posters are saying this too.
      I must be missing something, but it seems she’s the network’s darling.
      Look at the spot she holds and how she’s moderated most if not all of the debates.

      I’ve read that she was sent on vacation after the first run in with Trump last summer, but I’ve also read that it was a scheduled vacation with nothing to do with the Trump dispute.

      I’m in the media industry and I can say that there is no way Megyn Kelly drives the content of her show alone.
      It is a partnership with producers and signed off by the network.
      The network could be what’s driving the content as well.
      So, if the network is hanging her out to dry when she takes the hits for its agenda, she’ll be the one walking and I don’t get that feeling from her performance since the summer Trump run in and subsequent ones.

      I’d love to hear other perspectives…

      • K says:

        Why? Couple reasons because the republicans are looking to blame someone for trump and refuse to take personal responsibility. Also that thing she said about one wrong move and being on a podcast.

        I also don’t think she is a network darling I think she is a token; they can push her out there as a moderate newswoman to push that fair and balanced but at the end of the day she doesn’t fit the rest of the women on that network, she feels different and again can’t stand her but I think when they decide to make someone take the fall for not ending trump at the first debate she will be who they blame, and this press is to swing her into Today, the View, MSNBC or 20/20 she dropped a hint of what is really happening with that podcast comment.

      • bella says:

        Aaahhh.
        You raise good points.
        I just took her podcast comment as more of the same..part of her humor/personality.
        I watch her every night and find that she makes such comments often.
        Let’s see what’s to come.
        It would be a bombshell, at least for me, if the network tanks her.
        But who knows?
        When she was on a supposed vacation in the days to follow the 1st Trump controversy, perhaps it was Fox’s 1st step in putting her out to pasture.
        This spot the republicans find themselves in with Trump is not good.
        And Fox’s role in how this plays out is something I am anxious to see.
        As for Megyn, I can’t see her on The View or some other similar show.
        I’ll get flack for this, but she strikes me as someone shooting for a 60 Minutes gig like Anderson Cooper (God, is he GORGEOUS 😎

    • lurkingweirdo says:

      Well said, K.

      And your inclusion of Kim K’s name in this discussion just made me imagine Kim K interviewing Trump (or even better, moderating a Republican debate). I would hate watch that all day!

  10. Who ARE these people? says:

    “The cruel irony of it is, just at the time you’re loving it and you’ve got it down, you have to go back to work.”

    New mothers wouldn’t have to go back to work too soon with more enlightened social policy but the Fox-promoted Republican establishment is busy dismantling anything that would be friendly to the health of women, children and families.

  11. Joh says:

    Gotta laugh at the words Megyn Kelly and journalist in the same sentence.

  12. aims says:

    I don’t take FOX as a legit place for news. It’s a propaganda machine. It’s misleading and fear mongering. They don’t hire reporters who are unbiased. If you’re going to work for them I automatically think that you agree with their rhetoric. If they actually believed in the news, they would report it, factually. I have zero sympathy to anyone who decides to work for them. If you sleep with dogs, you’ll wake up with fleas.

  13. K says:

    Wow this thread just proves why the women’s movement doesn’t go anywhere! I’m sorry I find her grating, I think what she said about Santa being white appalling and I disagree with her on almost 95% (what she said here about motherhood seemed on point) political issues.

    That being said she is a woman who has been ATTACKED for being a woman who DARED TO QUESTION A MAN!! Currently she is the ONLY journalist who won’t back down or let him get away with lying which makes me sad. For this she has been called crazy, a liar, mocked for having a period, almost cost career opportunities because said man didn’t want to work with her! We should as feminist all be saying hold the F up nope you don’t get to do this! You are not allowed to treat us like that! We can call her on her bullsh*t to and we should but to not defend and support her in this because of it is shameful!!!

    So I think people need to ask are really a feminist who supports women or do you just support those who agree with your POV? Because like I said I disagree with her all the time but she did her job well and continues to and she will probably lose her job for it and you bet your a** as a feminist I’m going to scream that that is wrong and fright for her way before Kim K’s nude selfies, because what is happening to her can easily happen to you!

    • Lilacflowers says:

      I think Trump treated her disgracefully and I will deal with that by voting against him. I think her employer treats all women disgracefully and I deal with that by boycotting it. If her employer and co-workers are treating her badly, there are laws in place that can help her. I support strengthening and enforcement of those laws and wish more women would avail themselves of those laws.

      • Magnoliarose says:

        Agree lilac. Bill O is doing what he always done. He is a sexist jerk. I don’t see where she thought he’d suddenly change in her case. He was wrong but not surprising.

    • aims says:

      I have no problem defending her. My problem is that she’s working for an organization that doesn’t really care about quality over quantity. She’s working for a company that has reported misinformation and seems to be in line with misogynistic behavior. So when you decide to work for a company that upheld these views, then in my view you’re choosing to participate. You can’t be an active participant in something wrong, then cry when they don’t have your back. Yes, I think that FOX is sexist, along with many other things. She knows who and what she’s working for. She’s guilty by omission.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        She is working for an organization that has a bad track record when it comes to compliance with workplace anti-discrimination laws. Not that women who work there should just roll over and take it but complaining that a co-worker, who is a known misogynist, didn’t defend you when talking to another misogynist who attacked you isn’t going to change anything when it is done in a magazine interview. Doing it in an EEOC complaint would do something but Megyn isn’t going to wrong that boat.

    • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

      She shouldn’t have been attacked. Simple.

      In a perfect world she has displayed plenty of terrible ideas and actions to call her out on that should have been focused.

      But let’s be clear what happened here before you wag your finger at all feminists: a woman who chose to work at a ‘news’ station that continuously exposes racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic, ignorant beliefs repeatedly – against actual fact and reason went to work and became a target of the same beast she feeds?

      I don’t really see people saying, “Hey awesome she got attacked.” so much as “She was happy to be around the wild animal when it was mauling someone else and it only became a tragedy when it happened to her.”

      Feminism does have support for women at its roots but I don’t believe someone being racist, sexist, homophobic and all other forms of destructive thought is merely “well she doesn’t agree with me”. Megyn Kelly and her like hurt other women. I do not think I am failing some feminist ideal to not support a woman who has actively participated in the destruction of other women with her inflammatory and false reporting.

      I am a feminist but whether it’s Kim K or Megyn I’m not going to support someone simply because of their gender. If you’re not a quality person who is also trying to be positive and help others then I do think you deserve the irony of your choices – and that’s what happened to Megyn.

      She shouldn’t have been attacked but she was and it was by the same system she had encouraged and actively participated in. That’s her choices and chickens coming home to roost.

      • aims says:

        Exactly how I feel. 100%!!

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        Exactly what I was trying to say.

      • K says:

        I’m not waving my finger at all feminist, and true my statement about the movement was harsh but the comments on this board disgusted me this morning. let’s be real here this board was up in arms that people dared to say to Kim put some damn clothes on women are more then their bodies.

        I’m also not saying that if this was about Megyn Kelly’s positions on certain issues she wouldn’t deserve to be dragged she would. Hell I’ve dragged her for stuff and will when she says offensive and stupid anti feminist, anti divistity things again.

        But here this issue she is facing the fundamental issue that all women face that are jobs could be endagered because we are women questioning a man! And in this thread people have said she isn’t allowed to quote Margaret Thatcher, they’ve called her a whiner, said she deserves this and shouldn’t be shocked because she works for Fox News. Some have said she should use her resources privately well as a person who works in a sexist environment trust it won’t work she’ll be blamed. So guess what she is using her resources and keeping everyone involved on blast.

        All of these terms that have been used are the coded terms that are always used against women all then time. The do it to Hillary, they did it to Marsha Clark, they are doing it to Megan Kelley and trust me she will be the one to pay for the downfall of the Republican Party and be out of a job she knows it she said it here. So yes when she says something stupid call her on it, I will because being a feminst doesn’t mean blindly supporting women just because they are women but when a woman is being attacked for being a woman doing her job then yeah you stand up for her because seriously if you don’t then what’s to stop it from happening to YOU!

      • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

        “but when a woman is being attacked for being a woman doing her job then yeah you stand up for her because seriously if you don’t then what’s to stop it from happening to YOU!”

        This sentence is essentially 100% what happened to Megyn. That’s what people are calling her out on.

        But it does happen to women everyday and many times FROM women such as Megyn. Feminists aren’t a monolith and in this comment section I see different people responding to different aspects of this story with their own perspective. Same with the Kim K thread. These discussions are part of the nuances of feminism and there is no one perfect answer. We should discuss and examine our perspective all the time.

        You mention Megyn using her resources to put Fox on blast but what of the other women who filed suit and claimed sexual harassment? Did Megyn stand up for them? Did she do anything to help them? Did she further and encourage workplace sexism? Did she mock the plight of women struggling with sexism by claiming they didn’t know how to play ball or weren’t capable of being in a charged workplace environment?

        What feminism fights against is the idea women should be treated inferior simply because of their gender. That is an action, not a feeling. I and many others can say Megyn should not have been treated that way while pointing out the irony of it. Megyn herself used sexism and ignorance as a sword against other women. There’s very little sympathy to spare for her. No one is telling her to stay at Fox and be abused, but they are rightfully pointing out that she was comfortable with this abusive workplace because she was the media darling. Now that the shine has come off her because HER target audience followed what SHE said she suddenly realizes how all those other women SHE mocked and targeted felt.

        She should get a new job, but even feminism can’t force victims to sympathize with an abuser simply because she wears a skirt.

      • GoodNamesAllTaken says:

        @K
        Maybe you weren’t “here” the day the Megyn Kelly/Trump dispute was featured, but everyone was on her side and said that they may not agree with her politics, but he was completely in the wrong for attacking her in such a personal and sexist manner. I don’t remember any comments that didn’t support her. But that’s a different issue than her being surprised that O’Reilly didn’t stand up for her. I think that may be the distinction.

      • Lilacflowers says:

        I really don’t understand what is being expected of feminists here. Trump launched his attack on Kelly months ago and people were outraged. Most news sources covered it and blasted Trump for it. (Kelly is not the only one standing up to Trump.) Yes, it was discussed here and most posters defended Kelly. The issue now is not Trump but Kelly’s comments in a magazine about a co-worker not defending her against Trump. A co-worker with a long, well-documented history of sexual harassment, which is a form of gender discrimination, who has been repeatedly supported by their employer. We are saying that, while every employee has the right to a work environment that is not gender hostile, it should come as no surprise to Kelly that her co-workers and employer fail to meet that legal standard. She is supposedly a journalist; the lawsuits have received coverage. Kelly has legal options; ones that would hold her employer legally accountable and force positive changes. That would constitute putting Fox and O’Reilly on blast. Complaining about O’Reilly to a magazine will not bring about those changes. Complaining to a magazine does nothing. There are laws to defend and protect us against the O’Reillys in our workplaces. Use them! Blast them with legal action

        Meanwhile, Trump has been circulating a video that depicts Clinton as barking like a dog while Putin, who is shown exercising, laughs. Because men are brawny and only men can handle them and women are little yapping dogs.

      • Tanja says:

        Tell the truth!!!! Yes you said it!

      • Magnoliarose says:

        This is what I am saying and thinking too. We can have our feelings and opinions based on situations dealing with women and still be feminists. Megyn has been asked several times if she was a feminist and she said No. Fine, it’s her life.
        But she has never been supportive of women’s issues and now that she is experiencing blatant sexism she acts taken aback. I don’t know where she got the idea that she would be supported in that environment.
        Did she really think Fox would have her back? Like the rules of their misogyny is for everyone but her?
        Being a woman does not mean she is immune to criticism.

      • K says:

        @lilac I find the add trump is running with Hillary a disgrace but I find all things trump disgusting. I wasn’t here when the original thing with Megyn was discussed so this is my first view and to see comments like she works for fox she gets what she deserves is horrifying to me. I work for a sexist company I don’t think I deserve to be treated poorly just because well you know that’s how those men act.

        I also only watch MSNBC and NBC and I have to be honest their refusal to let trump get away with lies, to not stop him in his tracks and just let them talk over them is a disgrace to me especially when you compare it to how they speak to Hillary. I have seen Megyn handle trump because of this and she isn’t as soft- Again I find her repugnant but I find a lot of comments here too. I also don’t think she is doing that great of a job ans this entire election just makes me miss Tim Russet.

      • lilacflowers says:

        @K, again, and I think it all goes back to the fact that this situation with O’Reilly is a workplace situation. Nobody deserves workplace harassment but given her employer’s horrible record and support of O’Reilly’s past transgressions, she should not be surprised by it and she should not be whining to another media outlets about it. She should file a complaint according to Fox’s internal process – they have to have one under federal law due to corporate size AND repeat violations – and, if that doesn’t work out, she should file a complaint either with the EEOC or with the state agency that handles discrimination cases (some states have better laws than the federal.) She supposedly was an attorney so she should know her basic rights in this instance and she does have rights. Instead, she actually may have given Fox grounds to bring disciplinary action against her by going outside the proper process to complain in public about O’Reilly.

    • jsilly4e says:

      Once again I agree with you K. My husband watches CNN, FOX, etc. so the tv is always on the coverage of the election. And you’re right, she is the only journalist challenging Trump. Everyone else, woman or man, is letting him get away with his bold lies. They are scared to challenge him. And she does and is doing her job and she’s being attacked on a personal level. And she’s being attacked because she’s a woman. I would expect one or two comments about her being negative but hello what happened to feminism?!? Is that only ok when someone wants to show their naked body parts? Because crazy Santa comments aside isn’t she a woman that is being directly attacked because she’s a woman? And she is a journalist. Why is it a punchline?

      • mp says:

        K in what university is Kelly the only “journalist” attacking Trump? Seriously? If that is the case, you need to stop getting your news from the TV and start reading…oh, IDK, the Economist, Nytimes, slate, vox, PBS, the list goes on and on.

      • K says:

        @mp sorry I meant on TV you are right I know the papers are going after him I’ve read all the articles. I should have been clear and stated when interviewing him on tv or reporting on him on tv they aren’t questioning him. A lot of tv reporters let him run rough shot over what he says, don’t fact check etc. so yes again apologize for not being clear about reporters on tv.

        And let’s be honest so many people don’t read the papers and sources you mentioned they do get their news from TV, so with this the election for no one to not question or hold him to his words or actions on tv is upsetting.

    • Katse says:

      This happens all the time here. As someone upthread stated, there are numerous women in entertainment who willingly partake in the highly misogynist entertainment industry and continue to do so but because they may proclaim to be liberal — regardless of what types of images and or disempowerment they promote in their own work — they are rallied behind. I don’t like Kelly. I don’t like her politics, and I don’t like her personality, and she strikes me as a bit of a fame chaser. That said, the fact that so many so-called feminists here unilaterally dismiss her because she works for a sexist organization — really? If you work in corporate America or the entertainment industry and want to stay employed, then you will 1) suffer abuse as a female and 2) work for abusive misogynist. There is no defending the way that cretin attacked her regardless of her views. He attacked the essence of her womanhood to diminish and minimize her. Anyone who truly cares about feminist issues would most definitely denounce that — as most liberals in the real world are doing.

      • lilacflowers says:

        I don’t see people dismissing her because she works for a sexist organization. They are pointing out that she should not have been surprised that a co-worker with a history of sexual harassment did not support her. And nobody is defending Trump. He has been unilaterally denounced. The issue of Trump’s disgusting behavior and the issue of O’Reilly’s behavior are different – Trump is NOT a co-worker. O’Reilly is. And she’s complaining about O’Reilly. She should be filing official complaints through her job. And if you are working for someone who is exposing you to abuse, you should contact the EEOC. No, women do NOT have to put up with that.

  14. darkdove says:

    Donald Trump is just a coward who only attacks those he sees as weaker or lesser than him that’s why he goes after women or minorities I haven t herd of him saying enything as disgusting to other white men because he is afraid of those he sees as equals to him, he is so stupid that if he were to be president he would say something about another country or President who wouldn’t just ignore him and make the USA more hated and more deadly enemies and he wouldn’t care about the wellbeing of the people in the USA and go to war with another country thinking he would win because he sees the other president as lesser he is a dangerous man he would be the worst that could ever happen to the USA I remember people complaining about bush and saying he was dumb but he had people around him who were smart all Donald Trump had is yes people and butt kissers who feed his ego and delusions.

    • K says:

      Donald trump is horrible but I sort of disagree on the weaker thing I think he attacks women and minorities because he fears they AREN’T weaker, and if he doesn’t push them down and hurt them he isn’t smart enough to compete. So in order to stay on top he has to force them everyone else to the bottom with bullying.

      That Margret Thatcher quote is right when you challenge him with intelligence, facts or a plan he just goes into bully mode because he can’t compete.

      I could be wrong but that is what I’m seeing with him is a very stupid angry insecure little boy who is dangerous in his fear of his inability to compete.

    • isabelle says:

      He mocked Jeb! all the time, and called Rubio “little”, trashed Cruz called him psycho. He is mean to all types of people. Especially to those he sees as a threat. He is for hate equality.

  15. Talie says:

    I think she’s angling for a Diane Sawyer career at a major network and this blitz will help.

  16. The Eternal Side-Eye says:

    Between Megyn and the Brietbart lady a few lightbulbs went off in how logical it is to support a facet of a political party that holds straight, white, religious men up as people to worship. They may marry and employ you ladies but they do not respect you and when it’s between you and a powerful man? Well it’s ‘vacation’ for Megyn and your editor formally telling his employees to stop defending you for the other woman.

    I also think Megyn sees the writing on the wall and is trying to make herself palatable for something other than Fox. The Brietbart lady one is more embarassing since the company has all but publicly declared they’d rather sacrifice her.

    It’s not smart ladies. Maybe take the time when you’re both looking for new jobs to think about what you’ve done with your lives.

  17. Bobbie says:

    Why do they airbrush / photoshop her pictures so much? She looks like a caricature of herself.

    She looks better on TV – obviously more natural and with actual flaws, but so much better.

  18. Neelyo says:

    After the year she’s had I’m wondering if she regrets staking her claim at Fox News. Maybe she thought she was different and wouldn’t be treated badly. Now where could she go?

    Fox News doesn’t seem like the starting point for a career as much as the end of the line. Maybe the conservative slot on THE VIEW or THE TALK or THE CLATCH or whatever.

    • The Eternal Side-Eye says:

      That’s a good point. People work to get ON Fox so that they can lob easy puff pieces and kid’s glove questions. There isn’t really an ‘after’ Fox because evertything you’ve done to be on the network has made you so unappealing to the majority of people.

      Maybe she wants a reality show, there’s a market for pretty blond conservatives.

  19. mp says:

    I have a couple of classmates who went on to work at Fox News. The smart ones used it as a stepping stone to jump to other news orgs fast. Some of the pretty (ethnic) females stayed and are trying to get publicity. They know their employer is racist, sexist, and gaslights – but they want the Twitter views, the name recognition, to be the next Megyn Kelly. And these were college kids. You can’t say Megyn Kelly didn’t know who she was jumping into bed with, just like my classmates quickly figured it out.

    It’s like having Enron or being a Madoff on your resume. A lot of explaining would be necessary for me to hire you.

    • isabelle says:

      So Fox attracts shallow people wanting fame more than them being part of the journalism process, shocked I tell you, shocked.

  20. mellie says:

    She sure is loving all this attention as she plays the role of the victim.

  21. betsyh says:

    Sweet baby Jesus. Megyn writes, ” I don’t tell them second place is winning. Because it’s not. It’s losing.” That’s what Ricky Bobby’s father says in Talladega Nights. When Ricky Bobby confronts him, he says, “I was high when I said that!”

  22. Sherry lassiter says:

    Why would she expect any support from a man who beat his wife? Really?