Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly did her part Wednesday to hype Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) attack on the Obama administration over the flight ban to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport, but she didn’t quite have her facts straight.
“Did the Obama administration just pick a side in the Israeli-Palestinian war, and was it the wrong one?” Kelly asked, in what was a splendid example of how the anchor maintains a vague air of objectivity while still clearly upholding Fox’s agenda.
Kelly, who has insisted in the past that she’s “not a political person,” then went on to explain why conservatives like Cruz are suspicious of the Federal Aviation Administration’s extension of its ban on U.S. flights to Tel Aviv.
“The ban was extended despite the fact that there is no similar ban in place on flights over Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen — not even one over Ukraine, where a commercial airliner was just shot down,” Kelly said.
You probably would have heard something about the absence of such a ban in Ukraine last week, when a Malaysian jetliner was shot down and nearly 300 people were killed. Instead, the crash brought confirmation that the FAA had in fact prohibited U.S.-based airlines from flying over the airspace where the plane was shot down.
Here’s the notice of that ban, which the FAA issued in April.
Watch video of Kelly’s error, via Media Matters:
What’s that, Fox News misrepresented the facts? Unpossible…
“We got the bubble-headed bleach-blonde who comes on at Five…”
“She can tell you bout a plane crash with a gleam in her eye…”
“It’s interesting when people die. Give us dirty laundry”
Added Kelly: Everyone knows that preventing 4 US carriers from traveling to Israel for 48hrs is a clear indication of Obama supporting Hamas. His increase of aid to Israel by 400+ Million Dollars over the last President however, means nothing.
She’s been playing good cop/bad cop lately as part of her FOX news act. I hope they pay her well for selling her soul.
Boy the bubble is deep over there, isn’t it. Even the local news mentioned that the US airliners were directed to not fly over the Ukraine like the Malayasian flight did. There was even finger wagging about how irresponsible it was of them.