Megyn Kelly Legitimizes Ted Cruz’s McCarthyism

In case you missed it, Tea Party Senator Ted Cruz has been revealed as a modern-day Joe McCarthy, thanks to the reporting of the New Yorker. The magazine quoted him a few months ago as saying Harvard Law School had “twelve” Communists who “believed in the overthrow of the U.S. Government” on its faculty when he attended in the early nineties. That allegation is disputed by one of Cruz’ former professors, Charles Fried, a Republican who served as Solicitor General in the Reagan administration. But yesterday, Megyn Kelly, in a segment obviously designed to present Cruz as a conservative victim of liberals, “asked,” when confronted with Cruz’ McCarthy-esque allegation, “But do you have reason to believe that’s not true?”

Either Kelly did no research for this segment or she was only interested in presenting one side of the picture. Regardless, she once again proved that on Fox News, asking loaded questions is more important than imparting information.

Oh, and don't forget that Kelly's America Live show airs during what Fox News calls it "objective" programming lineup.

Video below via Media Matters.

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commented 2013-06-16 15:23:37 -0400 · Flag

Cruz is deliberately being outrageous and Fox News is encouraging the behavior. I have a feeling you’ll see him following Allen West onto the airwaves after his short Senate career is over. If you think about it, he’s taking a pretty smart approach – get some visibility riling up the right wing base while doing nothing in Congress, and then parlay that notoriety into millions on the media and personal appearance train. Hasn’t been a bad thing for Sarah Palin, no reason it can’t work for Cruz.

commented 2013-06-16 06:20:15 -0400 · Flag

The moron with lipstick was also running her trap at the Faith and Freedom Coalition event praising Rafael Cruz and, gasp! decrying the gNOpig DC establishment.

What happened to Ben Carlson?

I guess Rafael Cruz is the flavor of the month.

commented 2013-06-16 02:31:43 -0400 · Flag

What I get out of this story is that having been subjected to the evil influences of 12 (twelve!) commie professors did not somehow infect him.

The foxies are so wont to going on and on about mere exposure to progressive ideas being supposedly sufficient to pervert young minds.

commented 2013-06-15 17:09:18 -0400 · Flag

Why wasn’t Alan Colmes mentioned in this summary? Hat’s off to him for speaking clearly and forcibly against the Cruz pr.

commented 2013-06-15 14:34:11 -0400 · Flag

Megyn, along with the rest of Fux Noise, are proof of Pynchon’s contention that- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”

NewsHounds posted about Megyn Kelly Legitimizes Ted Cruz’s McCarthyism on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2013-06-15 13:10:08 -0400

Megyn Kelly's "objective" question.