Looks like Megyn Kelly’s credibility is going the way of her ratings.
Sadly, that’s the only conclusion that can be reached as Kelly’s synthetic “profile” of Infowars founder and host Alex Jones fell flat on its face, despite Kelly constructing an elaborate ruse to try to get Jones to incriminate himself and promote “conspiracy theories” that she had earlier promised him she wasn’t going to discuss.
The savvy Jones knew exactly what to expect from Kelly — who now has taken her holier-than-thou act to mainstream network NBC. So, he recorded not just the entire interview that Kelly’s team subsequently edited to high heaven, but also the preliminary conversations Kelly had with Jones wherein she made promises that her coverage of him wouldn’t stray from “softball,” puff-piece territory.
Of course, when Jones sat down for the interview itself, Kelly’s team lit him ghoulishly and had Kelly repeatedly return to the most controversial topics that she had vowed not to bring up, over and over, until she caught the supposedly “gotcha” moments she was looking for.
And yet, despite the allegedly sensational content Kelly captured and the “furor” it raised with parents of children who died in the Sandy Hook massacre of 2012, Kelly’s interview was still beaten handily in the ratings by a rerun of 60 Minutes.
Watch as Kelly proves for a second time (the first was with a poorly received interview with Russia’s Vladimir Putin) that the media wildfire she started at her previous network, Fox News, seems to rapidly be extinguishing.
