Do you think Megyn Kelly is being unfair to Trump?

[trickmind]

The die was cast when FOX threw out that very unprofessional and unnecessary press release. Sure FOX has done them before to other people, but not ones who have the power to embarrass them. They gave Trump the excuse he needed to quit the debate and create a PR disaster for them.

[Broken System]

The die was cast when FOX threw out that very unprofessional and unnecessary press release. Sure FOX has done them before to other people, but not ones who have the power to embarrass them. They gave Trump the excuse he needed to quit the debate and create a PR disaster for them.

I think at this point it's quite obvious that, for whatever reason, Fox News wanted for Trump to quit the debate.

[ProudModerate2]

Do you think she is being unfair to him or is he just whining like a crybaby?

Hey now, don't be picking on babies. Trump whines like the cowardly sack of narcissistic chickensh**t he is.

[Ronnie]

Donald Trump put up a commentary by Rush.  Even though I don't agree with everything he said, I think he makes some good points:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/27/trump_refuses_to_play_by_the_rules

[ElectionsGuy]

He's a massive crybaby and wimp who acts all 'strongman' but cowers in the face of tough journalism (also may have something to do with his misogyny). But the stupids in the Republican party will nominate him anyway. Megyn Kelly is doing her job greatly and is one of the better journalists on Fox, I don't think many can dispute that.

[Lief 🗽]

He's a massive crybaby and wimp who acts all 'strongman' but cowers in the face of tough journalism (also may have something to do with his misogyny). But the stupids in the Republican party will nominate him anyway. Megyn Kelly is doing her job greatly and is one of the better journalists on Fox, I don't think many can dispute that.

He was just on Bill O'Reilly and answered a lot of very tough questions. He has no problem facing journalists; he's probably done more interviews than anyone else running for president this year. What he has a problem with is competing in a debate that is stacked against him, while his opponents are given softball questions.

[ProudModerate2]

He's a massive crybaby and wimp who acts all 'strongman' but cowers in the face of tough journalism (also may have something to do with his misogyny). But the stupids in the Republican party will nominate him anyway. Megyn Kelly is doing her job greatly and is one of the better journalists on Fox, I don't think many can dispute that.

He was just on Bill O'Reilly and answered a lot of very tough questions. He has no problem facing journalists; he's probably done more interviews than anyone else running for president this year. What he has a problem with is competing in a debate that is stacked against him, while his opponents are given softball questions.

When you are your party's leading candidate, you are going to get "non-softball questions," and you are going to get more questions compared to your opponents.
When you say many controversial things during your candidacy, you need to expect that you are going to get challenging questions.

When you are President of the United States, there are going to many rigorous and testing questions and situations that you must assess and deal with. As President, you cant cower and hide .... the American people demand this of you.
And you don't say I'm not going to the designated party that I am expected to attend as President, but instead (like a big crybaby) I'm going to suddenly create and announce my own party.

And to make things worse, you "hide behind" narcissistic nonsense that your party is better anyway, because it is for charitable purposes (and you also hope that the first party is a dude).

Absolutely incredible ! But of course, Trump supporters are so ignorant, that they will lap-it-up like the pea-brains they are.

[Sir Mohamed]

No, not at all. The only one unfair is The Trump himself.

[SillyAmerican]

The die was cast when FOX threw out that very unprofessional and unnecessary press release. Sure FOX has done them before to other people, but not ones who have the power to embarrass them. They gave Trump the excuse he needed to quit the debate and create a PR disaster for them.

Yup. Bottom line: Trump doesn't need the debate coverage as much as the debate coverage needs Trump.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

No she's doing her job bringing up quotes from Trump....but once again this won't hurt him but will more likely help him.

[Stan]

I'm in Italia, and unfortunately in My Country are a lot of unfair journalists. I think Megyn Kelly is not an unfair journalist, for sure She isn't for Italian standards.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

It's the whole thing of Trump being able to dish it out but not take it and it makes me hate him even more.

This. This is one of the most obnoxious things about Trump.

Trump is hardly unique in this quality.  I can say this about the majority of the candidates running.

Trump is smarter than the rest.  What he realizes is that Megyn Kelly, far from being a "journalist" with any sort of integrity, was, and is, part of the "Get Trump" squad of the GOP that will do anything to ensure that he not become the nominee.  Kelly's schtick was asking Trump personal questions in a debate rather than questions about policy.  This is a FOX trick; they used to ask Ron Paul about what he thought about 9/11 "Truthers" rather than substantive questions about foreign policy.

In that respect, Trump is telling all of FOX News "Homie don't play that game!".  And why shouldn't he?  Trump's been rude and crude toward Rosie O'Donnell, but I've watched Rosie's show, and I've watched her be rude and crude to Tom Selleck just because he had a different opinion on gun ownership.  Rosie's not a victim, not in my book.  This has nothing to do with running the country.  And Kelly is someone with an ax to grind.  Trump called her out long ago as a shill.  Most respectable networks wouldn't place such a biased reporter on a debate panel, but this is a "Get Trump" panel that works at the behest of the GOP Establishment. 

[136or142]

He's a massive crybaby and wimp who acts all 'strongman' but cowers in the face of tough journalism (also may have something to do with his misogyny). But the stupids in the Republican party will nominate him anyway. Megyn Kelly is doing her job greatly and is one of the better journalists on Fox, I don't think many can dispute that.

I dispute it.  From what I've seen of her, I agree that she is a lightweight.  No self respecting 'journalist' (other than Chris Wallace) would want to work for a propaganda outfit.  There are clips of her all over youtube showing her making a fool of herself that were put up long before this spat.

Maybe those clips aren't a fair reflection of her 'journalistic abilities' but then I go back to my first point.

Here is one clip of her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEP_22dIUM8
Here is another: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmzgohHHQh4

Both of those, you'll note, were put up long before her fight with Trump.  There are also several other videos where she comes out as either unable to hear an opinion different from her own or unable to understand relatively complex arguments, but those are two of the worst.

Also, before proclaiming herself as the 'defender of women' or whatever she argues she is vs. Trump, she herself made all sorts of 'jokes' about women and herself that were pretty much the same as what Trump said.  Maybe some people see that as a case of a 'woman can say that about herself and other women, but a man shouldn't' (assuming Trump really is a man), but she hardly used to cast herself as a raging feminist.

On the other side, I had no problem with her question to Trump.  Presidents aren't robots and their personalities and 'character' matter.

[136or142]

It's the whole thing of Trump being able to dish it out but not take it and it makes me hate him even more.

This. This is one of the most obnoxious things about Trump.

Trump is hardly unique in this quality.  I can say this about the majority of the candidates running.

Trump is smarter than the rest.  What he realizes is that Megyn Kelly, far from being a "journalist" with any sort of integrity, was, and is, part of the "Get Trump" squad of the GOP that will do anything to ensure that he not become the nominee.  Kelly's schtick was asking Trump personal questions in a debate rather than questions about policy.  This is a FOX trick; they used to ask Ron Paul about what he thought about 9/11 "Truthers" rather than substantive questions about foreign policy.

In that respect, Trump is telling all of FOX News "Homie don't play that game!".  And why shouldn't he?  Trump's been rude and crude toward Rosie O'Donnell, but I've watched Rosie's show, and I've watched her be rude and crude to Tom Selleck just because he had a different opinion on gun ownership.  Rosie's not a victim, not in my book.  This has nothing to do with running the country.  And Kelly is someone with an ax to grind.  Trump called her out long ago as a shill.  Most respectable networks wouldn't place such a biased reporter on a debate panel, but this is a "Get Trump" panel that works at the behest of the GOP Establishment.  

1.As we've seen on a couple occasions, Tom Selleck is a scumbag, a cheat, a liar and possibly a criminal and isn't the classy guy he likes to portray himself as, so people who portray themselves as 'rude and crude' in public can be better than those who are rude and crude in 'real life.'

2.In regards to Megyn Kelly, this is nowhere near the conflict of interest that NBC put itself in by having Andrea Mitchell as one of the moderators in the Democratic debate.  I didn't read the comments on the debate on this site, so I don't know if this was mentioned or not, but, as we all know Mitchell is the wife of the world class idiot Alan Greenspan, whose incompetence and idiocy allowed the financial meltdown of 2008 to occur.  

Given that that topic was obviously going to come up, had I been a Democratic candidate in the debate, I would have refused to attend with her moderating/asking questions.  Her stupid questions in that debate were bad enough.

From a quick search, Avarros (I apologize if I misspelled the name) did mention it:  In the thread of 'who lost the debate'
"Andrea Mitchell. No one with close ties with Randian radicals has any place on a Democratic debate stage."

Interesting that Trump can't handle what to a Democrat was basically the same situation, not a single Democratic candidate seemed to have a problem with.

[SillyAmerican]

I don't know about unfair or bias, but Megyn Kelly is definitely an intellectual lightweight

Yeah, and the Donald is an intellectual heavyweight. Uh huh.

That said, he definitely knows how to use the media to his advantage.

[emailking]

2.In regards to Megyn Kelly, this is nowhere near the conflict of interest that NBC put itself in by having Andrea Mitchell as one of the moderators in the Democratic debate.  I didn't read the comments on the debate on this site, so I don't know if this was mentioned or not, but, as we all know Mitchell is the wife of the world class idiot Alan Greenspan, whose incompetence and idiocy allowed the financial meltdown of 2008 to occur.  

Given that that topic was obviously going to come up, had I been a Democratic candidate in the debate, I would have refused to attend with her moderating/asking questions.  Her stupid questions in that debate were bad enough.

From a quick search, Avarros (I apologize if I misspelled the name) did mention it:  In the thread of 'who lost the debate'
"Andrea Mitchell. No one with close ties with Randian radicals has any place on a Democratic debate stage."

I see no problem with her moderating the debate. Andrea Mitchel has been a "down the middle" journalist her entire career. I've never once even heard her bring up her husband. I don't see why it should matter.