Guest Post by John Stossel
Today, big media has an agenda. Fox and most talk radio push right; most other media spin left.
For a long time, leftists pretended this wasn’t happening. In 36 years at CBS and ABC, none of my colleagues admitted leaning left. There were only “facts” versus “narrow-minded conservatives.”
Then Bernie Goldberg’s book “Bias” came out. The book is dead-on accurate, and a huge bestseller, but my ABC peers wouldn’t even read it.
Soon after, annoyed by my wish to cover failures of big government, ABC dropped me as “20/20” co-anchor.
My new Fox News bosses didn’t like my libertarian arguments either, but they never stopped me from making them. They let me argue that America should allow more legal immigration, stop policing the world, end the drug war, etc. Conservatives were still nice to me in the hall.
There I befriended Megyn Kelly. She seemed neutral politically. But when she got a prime-time show, she made it clear she found some leftist opinion just silly.
That’s when the envy and hatred came out.
As her friend, it was ugly watching it happen.
First, Donald Trump fans attacked her. She had done the professional thing, confronting Trump about his calling women “fat pigs,” etc.
Trump then took to the media — including Fox — to say, “I have zero respect for Megyn Kelly” and, “She had blood coming out of … ”
Trump fans then threatened Kelly.
What I didn’t know until I interviewed her this week is that there was also blowback from our Fox boss, Roger Ailes. He told Kelly not to be so hard on Trump.
“He was scared,” she says in my new video. “He was losing a portion of the Fox News base to people who felt Fox wasn’t being fair to Trump.”
Then, when Ailes got embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal and Kelly didn’t leap to his defense, Fox’s nasty “media relations” department came after her.
“They would cut you,” says Kelly, meaning they would spread dirt on their own reporters.
Still, she says, “They look like absolute teddy bears compared to where else I’ve been.”
“Where else” she’s been is NBC, where she moved after Fox.
That’s when we saw how stupid and vicious the leftist media can be.
Because Kelly was pretty and successful, other reporters, especially women, hated her. Because she once worked at Fox, she was “evil” and fair game.
People attacked her simply for interviewing bad guys, like Vladimir Putin and Alex Jones.
News shows like “60 Minutes” win awards for interviewing despicable people, but now the media claimed that it was “horrible” for Kelly to interview Jones.
After Kelly interviewed Putin, “The Daily Show’s” Michelle Wolf sneered, “Seeing someone so conniving trying to manipulate the American public was disgusting … I’m not talking about Putin, I’m talking about (giggle) Megyn Kelly.”
Women even attacked Kelly for asking Jane Fonda about plastic surgery.
“How much work have you had, b—?'” shrieked “The View’s” Joy Behar.
Then, shortly before Halloween, Kelly, after she asked a question about dressing in blackface, said, “When I was a kid, that was OK.” Her NBC guests nodded in agreement.
But the media pounced on Kelly.
“Kelly has always been racist,” said Elle Magazine.
Her comment was “jaw-dropping,” said a column in The New York Times.
Lefties like Behar and Jimmy Kimmel had actually worn blackface, but Kelly was vilified just for asking a question about it.
The next day, nearly in tears, she apologized.
The following day, NBC fired her.
Now she tells me: “The leftist media and the woke left are the most insufferable people we have.”
She’s free to say things like that today because she’s her own boss. Kelly now has a popular podcast that runs on SiriusXM.
“I’m totally un-cancelable,” says Kelly. “That was my only mission in coming back into our business.”
She calls most of the media “stupid, uninformed ignoramuses” and is upset that they “are the ones driving our national discussion.”
I agree. I’m glad that more people now can get another side of the story from independent journalists like Kelly.
And … me. At Stossel TV, I bring many points of view together for civilized debate. I don’t shout anyone down. Even when I disagree, we let them have their say.
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Sadly, this article highlights an ongoing event…the falling away from relevance of John Stossell. When you conflate calling one individual woman a “fat pig” with calling ALL women everywhere “fat pigs”, you’ve not only committed a falsehood, you’ve tarnished the reputations of ALL involved…including yourself.
At least Paul Craig Roberts will have some company on the long slide to irrelevancy.
Remember this fucking conservative Whore, yeah me too.
She’s one of them.. Look at the intro _______File right in your face!!!!!!!
Still, she says, “They look like absolute teddy bears compared to where else I’ve been.”
This is odd, sumting wong.
There is no such thing as “the news”. That was bullshit from the start. It’s a search for truth among powerful forces desperately trying to pull you one way or another. I’m at the point where I occasionally watch “the news” to see which way THEY are steering the human cattle.
Never watch the “news”. It is all programing designed to control the fools. The US has destroyed Ukraine and led the EU into economic suicide but 99% of stupid fuck Americans believe Putin did it. Nation of programed fools. Now we all get to beg for digital money when the wheels come off.
No, it’s a search for their version of the truth…or they simply do what they are told in order to protect their jobs.
Dead on, CCR
I (finally!) got my wife to understand msnbc’s “programing” was exactly that and she has since been watching faux news in the morning.
While they are not much better, they are, at least a bit, further right.
That said, I was talking over a segment with B. Kilmeade frothing over about the Ukraine situation and how we should be sending even more support.
This drives my wife crazy so she turned on HLN.
Thank God she left for work shortly after and I turned on the Mecum auction and enjoyed my morning tea.
B. Kilmeade hasn’t met a war he didn’t like. I am not sure who likes blowing up people more, him or (R) General Jack Keane.
There is nothing on any of those stations she needs to know. Get out & talk to neighbors to find out what matters, local events that affect your lives.
Watching TV bypasses many of the natural filters of our brain. The process has been refined and perfected so much since Bernays that most, including many on TPB, can’t tell when we are being propagandize.
They (the media)all have an agenda and I expect in one form or another they get paid very well for pushing a certain agenda. Wonder who is paying Stossel to push for more immigration??
“who is paying Stossel “?
Hmmm, that’s a tough one. Maybe https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/beach-houses-owned-rich-paid-everyone
has something to do with it?
CNN Formally Announces ‘Hundreds’ of Christmas Season Layoffs
The reckoning has arrived at far-left CNN with the formal announcement of “hundreds” of layoffs.
Chris Licht, CNN’s hapless new chief of lies (CNN is returning to journalism — oh, okay), released a memo Wednesday that warned “many” they might want to learn how to code
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2022/11/30/nolte-cnn-formally-announces-hundreds-christmas-season-layoffs/
“The reckoning has arrived”
Just a warm up, get those remaining FULLY on board. The REAL layoffs have nor even begun.
Somewhere in Hell, Joseph Goebbels is wondering why he couldn’t have used the media the way the Republican and Democratic parties use ours. Truth is no longer absolute and facts don’t matter. If someone is truly interested in what’s happening in the world, they have to dig around the internet to find a variety of perspectives. Otherwise they inhabit the same echo chamber that only confirms their belief.
The fact that anyone would down vote this statement is proof that America is lost…the sheep are toast.
I agree. I dig around the internet daily, sometimes for hours. It is usually possible to get an idea what is happening around the country and the world. It is also possible to see the lies and the truth.
I appreciate John Stossel trying to rehabilitate Megyn’s reputation…the truth is Megyn is a cunt.
I’d hit it 3 times in 1 night and I’m 75 years old!!
With your hammer or your tongue?
“With your hammer or your tongue?”
LOL! Not sure what ‘Fair share’ lifetime Avg. would be. Know an 86 yr. old, his daughter was remarking on some refrigerated injections. AND? he is ‘dating’ an OLDER woman.
Old age and wisdom don’t always come together. no pun intended.
Prolly both.
Met her way back when she was a co-anchor on the Fox Channel in Charlotte. Just another talking head.
All media whores should be taken with a grain salt. The larger their platform the less you can trust them, best to just tune them out altogether. They get where they by sucking miles of cock.
C’Mon John,when the hell was Fox right wing?,twenty years ago maybe…..
Asking TRUMP about salacious crap is NOT proffesional! Nobody asked about actual POLICY which would have been.He was running for Pres.,not “most popular!.And now look at the dude on the sunday morning show,he’s ugly even with lipstick!
Everyone in the MSM needs a bounty on them. We will never begin to turn this country around until the traitors live in fear…..
Or , people could just not watch their crap. I know, they still will.
If there was not a market for their bullshit, they would go out of business. They have no fear of that ever happening. The mAsses are stupid and even without the MSM, they would still be stupid.
No, that is not how it works. Look at CNN, they have not had the viewer base to justify anyone advertising and keeping them in business, and yet woke corporations still do…. with your money.
If we truly want to reform this country, we must start by going after corporations, and corporate charters. So long as corporations exist, the people will be slaves to them.
Fox leans right?
Okey dokey.
We used to think so. Did they change, or did we?
They were pretty far to the right of the other major media players, but that put them pretty much in the middle, then the boys took over from the old man and they started playing catch up with the competition.
That’s how I read the situation.
The surest byproduct of success…ENVY! Stand tall Ms. Kelly.
I’ve seen her flash the “praise Satan” hand sign on national TV..more than once. That bitch is NOT to be trusted.
Hmmm, then, Stossel, why don’t you have on Enrique Tarrio or Viktor Orbán or T. Dalrymple on your show? I might even watch that, except that I do not have a TV. It’s bad enough to read of these smarmy self-promoting shit bags without having to see their ugly lying faces. Perhaps you could even have Joyless Behar on? That would be a laugh, if you tried a little bit, you could tie her up in so many inconsistencies (lies) with expedience, I’m sure. Impugn her and her character, let her harpoon her own fat derriere. But, I will not hold my breath.
One way or another, you do realize that this media Clown Show is a front for the satanists working out the next steps in this Long March? Yes, imagine the darkened room draped in heavy darkened crimson draping ( à, la Brandon’s national ‘speech’), people are in diligent effort, low murmuring amongst small and larger groups, sometimes a riotous boisterous laugh will break-out followed by low snickering by the lesser minions.
Something’s going to break Mr Stossel. It may break towards fastidious obeisance and demur, abject subjugation as the evil ones want, or…. Or, it may break into some form of resistance. I believe that many more will die than have ever been in such conflicts. I also believe it will be multi-national. It’s going to be ugly. There will be no fence sitting and those who try will find their plights resulted as they did with Humpty Dumpty.
Lastly, Mr. Stossel, if I make a personal observation, from the dozen or so shows you hosted in past times, you come across as a nice, reasoned, adroit interviewer/expositor. In short, you seem like a nice guy. Nothing wrong with that, but I hope that you have some huge clanging appendages, because I have never seen any evidence by your demeanor.
You can’t white wash that old bitch, John.