Did I mention that she also has a political science degree?
Sometimes I get it…she has to play at being ‘devil’s advocate’ on a show that frankly she must be happy to do…because she clearly doesn’t need that income.
However here’s my problem with her seeing that protester as a threat: I might be wrong, but chances are she had to have taken a civics course in either high school or college and she had to know that the first protects the right to peaceful assembly. That cop wasn’t going to do anything, because as long as the protester doesn’t physically lay a hand on him…
Personally though, I’d have like to have asked her how that ‘one to one’ was inappropriate, but chances are her answer wouldn’t settle the discussion.
The cop probably feels really awkward, and maybe a little scared. He’s a cop. That’s his job. And that protester has a right to protest. It’s actually quite symbolic.
But, remember when a bunch of white guys who were actual criminals stared down a few cops, and they were armed? And it was a much longer stare, and they were threatening bloodshed? And then Fox News felt really sorry for the cops? Neither do I:
from four years ago or Megyn Kelly [‘explains’][1] what’s in pepper spray…
from the article…
And I told him that what these kids were doing was very American.”
Kelly also told O’Reilly, “from a legal standpoint, I don’t know if the cops did anything wrong,” but that the force they used is more a moral question, than a legal one.
Why shouldn’t a citizen look a cop in the eye? Cops are not gods to be feared and worshiped. As a taxpayer, the citizen pays the cop’s salary, he’s his boss.
She’s faking her whole persona. She said, not too long ago, that she would have been just as successful at MSNBC. That says she’s nothing but an actress (surprise). Good luck getting a job anywhere else after Fox News. I read a little op ed by a Fox News cameraman where he said he has to take Fox News off his resume because no one will hire him or give him an interview. He’d rather explain the gap in employment than why he worked there.
Kent State happened right after Uncle Sam released me from a little gig. I had gone back to a state cow college in the far southern half of my state below the I-40 line so it was very conservative. I shot a few rolls of film at protests that took place even there. Kennedy, King, Kennedy, Kent State. And that Southeast Asia blood bath. My State had the highest percentage death rate during the Viet Nam festivities. I had to go work on a forest service lookout tower for a few years.
[“He gets right in his face and stares him down? This cop hasn’t done anything wrong,” Kelly replied.
“You think that’s fine? You have no problem with this?” Kelly later asked Fowler after he maintained that the protester had a right to stare down the officer.]
Translation for FOXtool’ Kelly: “Look at that. That protester is getting all uppity! Time to take him out!”
The racist dumb-fuckery bubbling to the surface in our country, and being broadcast and amplified by Fox News and the usual Fright-Wing™ media infotainment ecosystem is truly sad and disheartening.
" . . . she has a political science degree." So what? Every law school graduate has an undergrad degree in something. There is no undergrad degree called pre-law. That’s just a vanity statement by students planning to go to law school while they are really Political Science, History, Economics, even English majors; just as students claim to be pre-med when they are really Bio or Chem majors. I had hundreds of “pre-law majors” pass through my classroom, and had them in my family as well. BTW, do you know how many “lawyers” have never passed the Bar Exams or practiced law?
