Fox News host Megyn Kelly criticized the use of the “hands up, don’t shoot” protest gesture on Wednesday night because, she said, black teen Michael Brown may not actually have raised his hands in a show of surrender when he was shot by white police officer Darren Wilson.
The fatal shooting, which took place in August in Ferguson, Mo., was the focus of a heated debate with GlobalGrind editor-in-chief Michael Skolnik on Wednesday night’s “The Kelly File.”
Kelly presented eyewitness testimony from people who said Brown charged at Wilson before being shot.
“Eyewitness testimony’s always all over the place,” Skolnik said, discounting Kelly’s comments. “I want forensics.”
“What about the eyewitnesses who said the hands up?” Kelly said. “Why do you accept that?”
“I’m not accepting anything,” Skolnik said. “I’m saying go to trial.”
“You are because you’re out there doing this,” Kelly exclaimed, raising her arms in the protest gesture, “and this may be a lie.”
h/t Mediaite
Why go with something that may be a lie? From the Network that gave us nonstop coverage of Whitewater, Vince Foster, the Swiftboat Liars for Truth, the Obama went to a Madrassa story, the birth certificate controversy, Fast and Furious, and, of course, BENGHAAAAAZIIIIII!
So what do you think? Does Fox test on-air talent prospects for the ability to completely suppress the self-awareness related gag reflex, or do they have some neurological procedure or drug cocktail they can administer to induce it?
Megyn, the Dubya admin lied their asses off to start a war that killed 4,493 American troops and cost more than $2T. I eagerly await your cross-examination of Dick “Dick” Cheney the next time he appears on Fox News.
I am rapidly becoming so disgusted with scum like Kelly I am questioning my deeply held views on non-violence.
Megan might be thought of by many as a bimbozilla but she is really a smart well educated woman. That is what makes her statement worse. She knows that it is entirely possible, and probably likely, nobody is lying. That is why we needed a trial in the Brown case.
Why use the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture? Well because it is very, very emblematic of the very serious problem we are facing in America. A lot of white police officers treat blacks, and especially black teenagers, differently than they do whites. Those cops are not being held to a professional standard but, instead, are more often than not being protected by other police officers and prosecutors.
She’s the best automaton Ailes has on staff.
He can count on her being able to slant in any direction.
She needs not even be consistent in one direction either.
And that’s due to her every-so-often penchant for calling out another
Fox talking head, showing momentary compassion,
or the more-than-occasional low-cut cocktail dress.
While not a ‘Bimbozilla’ as you’ve characterized the genre–
she does have all of the customary traits in her toolbelt.
That’s she is intelligent?
Simply means she’d sell herself to the highest bidder–
independent of her station in life.
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