Megyn Kelly Torched For Giving NBC Air Time To Sandy Hook Truther Alex Jones
Two weeks after former Fox News Channel primetime star Megyn Kelly was torched for chiding cable news networks’ lack of civility in her NBC News debut, Kelly now is getting pounded for giving the NBC News platform to Sandy Hook truther/Donald Trump pal Alex Jones.
Kelly has defended the booking, scheduled for Sunday, insisting the public needs to know more about the man who has had Trump on his radio show, his InfoWars web program, and whose website is getting White House press credentials.
Hooey, critics shoot back, calling it a shameful ratings play, demanding NBC News pull the interview and putting the squeeze on Kelly’s Sunday newsmag advertisers, in service of which they’ve created hashtag #shameonNBC.
Jones is best known creator and public face of Infowars, in which he preaches that the federal government is behind the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Towers and Pentagon, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter which he insists was staged. Oh, and the feds faked the moon landing.
In promotional material for Sunday’s broadcast, Kelly is seen asking Jones about his Sandy Hook truther claims, and she asks him questions that might better have been put to a mental health expert, including “They call you the most paranoid man in America. Is that true?”
In re his Sandy Hook conspiracy, viewers will, on Father’s Day, see Kelly ask him, “When you say parents faked their children’s deaths, people get upset.”
He shoots back: “But they don’t get angry about half-a-million dead Iraqis killed by sanctions.”
Kelly accuses him of dodging question and he goes to his playbook: “I looked at all the angles about Newtown, I made my statement before the other media picked it up.”
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