Posted on 09/22/2017 9:33:10 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
NBC's Megyn Kelly said in an interview that "there are so many reporters who are completely biased against Trump, it’s absurd," but also noted doesn’t change the fact that he puts them in a dangerous place by targeting them."
Kelly's interview with TVNewser.com published Friday comes as her new 9:00 a.m. ET program "Megyn Kelly Today" is set to launch on NBC as the third hour of "The Today Show" on Monday.
The 46-year-old former attorney also believes reporters are being roped into personal battles with President Trump instead of staying "on the sidelines where they belong."
"It’s not the way it used to be, being a journalist today," said Kelly, who jumped from Fox News to NBC in January after 13 years at the cable news network.
"He [President Trump] is effectively, and not just him, but his most ardent supporters, have made us players on the field instead of on the sidelines where we belong," she continued.
Kelly was routinely attacked on Twitter by candidate-Trump following the first GOP primary debate on Aug. 8, 2015 after she asked the president about his past derogatory comments about women.
A backlash quickly ensued from Trump, who said of Kelly at the time that during the debate, "blood was coming out of her eyes. Blood was coming out of her, whatever," during an interview with CNN's Don Lemon.
Kelly never hit back at Trump personally during the rest of the campaign on her Fox program or social media.
"That’s not to say there’s not media bias," she continued in her interview with TVNewser.com. "There are so many reporters who are completely biased against Trump, it’s absurd."
But while Kelly says the media by-and-large is "extremely biased" against the president, he also is putting the press in a "dangerous place by targeting them."
"He’s right that they’re biased against him. They’re extremely biased against him. And some play right into it," Kelly observes. "They do themselves no service with that tactic. But that doesn’t change the fact that he puts them in a dangerous place by targeting them."
Kelly laments that seemingly every event on TV has become political, including last Sunday's Emmy Awards that included a cameo by former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
"Why can’t I watch the Emmys without seeing Sean Spicer? What was he doing there? Can’t I just watch the fabulous gowns? Can’t I have an escape? Must everything be political? Everything? Everything! I’m sick of it. And I’m not the only one."
"Megyn Kelly Today" will be shown before a live studio audience starting on Sept. 25.
All this backtracking is how Megyn stays in shape.
HA! Good try, Meghan.
You gambled your career on HilLIARy winning and you lost.
She came after him at the debate with blood shooting from her eyes and now she says this?
Does she really think no one remembers?
She's actually half-right on that one- but HE did not do it, they did it to themselves - including her.
Too old to become a stripper.
Indeed. She was particularly noted among the numbers of the ones who were “completely biased against Trump”.
She just described herself. These people are mental.
Megyn through an entire debate to Trump.
A little late for Megan to re-emerge from the Dark Side.
What a pathetic mental case. Who cares what she says about anything? This loser has had her 15 minutes of fame. Go away.
Not at The Villages!
I think Kelly fell on her head. It really affects her thought “process”....
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They are DNC hacks, not reporters or journalists...........
She is doing nothing more than pandering to ‘entice’ Trump into coming on her show. After her bombing out with Ellen, its all she has.
Does she still wear his cocktail lounge dress to work?
“He [President Trump] is effectively, and not just him, but his most ardent supporters, have made us players on the field instead of on the sidelines where we belong,” she continued.”
Hilarious - they have always been “on the field” but now they are being correctly called out for which team they are playing for.
The media’s sanctimonious posing has ended and is never coming back.
Maybe a new niche market? I’ve often thought that a BBW strip club might go over big, as it were.
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