Thursday, Jun 11, 2015 5:11 PM UTC
I got slimed by Megyn Kelly and Howard Kurtz: Fox News just declared war on me
Though it is refreshing to see Fox News acknowledging there's a problem with ideological echo chambers VIDEO
Topics: Video, Megyn Kelly, Howard Kurtz, liberal bias, Salon, Scott Eric Kaufman, Media News, News, Politics News
On Wednesday’s “The Kelly File,” host Megyn Kelly and Fox News media analyst Howard Kurtz attacked Salon for having the audacity to quote them accurately and at length, as well as embed a video of their conversation so that readers can judge for themselves whether the summary provided is accurate or not.
In the segment, captured by Media Matters, Kelly said that “some in the left-wing press continue to use this incident to dishonestly push their own agenda. Case in point — Scott Eric Kaufman, a writer at Salon, a site that often descends into partisan hackery, repeats a Media Matters lie…suggesting that yours truly ‘spent half the program trying to justify the police in McKinney.'”
She noted that only two out of the six segments that aired were about McKinney, so technically, she’s correct — she only devoted 14 minutes and 38 seconds to her coverage of McKinney, which given that the show came in at 38 minutes, isn’t quite half the program.
However, as if to prove that Salon was correct, she offered a tightly edited highlight reel of her coverage of McKinney in which she did, in fact, say exactly what Salon “accused” her of saying. Moreover, unlike Salon, Kelly’s hyperbolically deceptive editing of her own clip demonstrated exactly why we here at this humble publication embed the entire video in our articles — and preferably the ones provided by Fox News itself. (The video of this segment was not, for whatever reasons, posted on the official daily feed of “The Kelly File.”)
