It's worth reflecting IMHO on the multiple levels of wrong embedded in this question. First, Mrs. Kelly knew of course that this was to be America's first look at Trump as a Presidential candidate. The main themes of his campaign have been jobs, immigration, trade and foreign policy. How exactly is his years-old Twitter-feud with Rosie O'Donnell or an even older and entirely obscure comment made during his 14 seasons as host of the Apprentice in any way relevant to those issues?Second, to get into the weeds of the particular referenced comments, obviously if you're having a particular issue with one woman, that says nothing about what you do or do not think about all women, so the Rosie O'Donnell quote is completely asinine. And the random quote for the Apprentice, when the video from that was played back, there was obviously a whole context there that at the time nobody batted in eyelash about. In other words, maybe it's relevant if it was something that caused a stir at the time, but to drag it up when nobody at the time thought any of it is just so far out of bounds.
But the worst, worst thing about Mrs. Kelly's egregious abuse of her role as a supposedly neutral arbiter is her reference to the entirely and overtly partisan "War on Women" meme. Nobody except extremely partisan Democrats thinks that Republicans are waging on war on women, so to have it brought up and reinforced by a "moderator" of a Republican debate is just the height of duplicity.
It should be obvious to everyone that Kelly is using her current gig as a stepping stone to bigger and better things on network television, and collecting Trump's scalp would be the ultimate calling card for her in that quest. That Fox News is allowing her to crap all over their network is somewhat surprising . . . until you understand the relationship between the GOPe, Chamber of Commerce, etc. and Fox.
Trump would've IMHO been fully within his rights to have declared then and there that he was never going to participate in another debate with Megyn Kelly as the moderator, or even with Fox News as the producer. Given what's transpired between then and now, I think he's just that much more justified in doing so.
The comments about Rosie, the crude remark to Brande Roderick, thenasty comment about Carly Fiorina’s looks, and his boasting about how many women, many of them married, he has slept with, are all of a piece and they show a Clintonesque attitude towards women.
His comments about Megyn Kelly after the first debate only reinforced that.
so right-— in particular, the reference to some obscure comment from “The Apprentice” which was completely taken out of context was the tell-tale sign... then Fox News carried on with the charade with a completely Frank Luntz focus group... Who all said that they were big supporters of Trump and Trump having repeated the same thing he has said a ton of times before in the debate had suddenly decided that Trump was evil and would vote against him...
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