Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly is vacationing this week, while blonde doppelgangers with names like Shannon and Martha take turns in the anchor chair. You have to give it to Fox for having a deep bench when it comes to good looking, blonde news anchors.
According to Fox News, Kelly is enjoying a long-planned summer vacation with her family. Fox felt obligated to clarify Kelly's vacation scheduling after Donald Trump spun Kelly's absence as a stint in news anchor prison.
According to The Donald, Kelly was given a time out by Fox News officials for her poor treatment of the presidential candidate during the first GOP debate in Cleveland last week.
As much as it pains me, I'm going to have to give Fox the benefit of the doubt on this one.
In case you missed the Kelly-Trump match up, it started with Ms. Kelly asking The Donald what seemed like a reasonable question. She asked him if, in light of all the horrible things he's said about women, did he think that he would have a problem with the female half of the electorate.
Trump responded by saying that he reserved those choice pejoratives for Rosie O'Donnell, unwittingly doubling down on the whole misogynistic thing.
It seems to have escaped everyone that no one defended O'Donnell. Apparently, being gay and unappealing makes her fair game. The issue, though wasn't the object of Trump's remarks, but the fact that he made them.
Trump followed that encounter with a thinly veiled inference that Kelly's monthly flow caused her to go all PMS on him. For her part, Kelly said that she thought her questions were fair and that she would not apologize for doing her job.
And that was that. She handled the whole thing with grace and aplomb and pegged the needle on my esteem meter. Too bad that was only the beginning of the show.
Kelly's first story after she put the Trump thing to bed was about the one year anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO. Commemorating the event, there were people in the streets of Ferguson, MO. Black people. Angry black people.
Blonde, beautiful Megyn Kelly did not understand what all the fuss was about. After all, as she described it, Darren Wilson, the white cop who shot and killed unarmed, black, 18-year old Michael Brown was "completely exonerated" by a federal investigation.
"Completely exonerated." She said it a couple of times and over-enunciated it like it was one of the Ten Commandments.
I don't know the difference between "completely exonerated" and "exonerated," but "exonerated" is defined as, "freed from any question of guilt; absolved from all blame."
I read most (all right, some) of the Department of Justice's report on the Michael Brown shooting and the word "exonerate" did not leap from any of the pages. What they said was, "There is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove Wilson's stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety."
Pretty far from an exoneration. It's more of one guy's word against another guy's word, only one guy's dead.
Obviously, the DOJ can't disprove Darren Wilson's stated state of mind, which is the basis for his defense. The gist of the report, though is that Wilson is a symptom of the problem in Ferguson, not the disease, itself.
The essence of the report was a scathing indictment of a systematic disparity of justice in Ferguson, MO, with a racial bias heavily disfavoring the black community.
In 1995 Megyn Kelly got her J.D. (insert your own lawyer joke here) from Albany Law School, where she served as editor of the Albany Law Review. She graduated a few months before the end of O.J. Simpson's murder trial, where he was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman.
I doubt that if the verdict had come out while Kelly was still editing that law review, the headline would have read, "OJ Completely Exonerated."
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