# Megan Kelly wtf? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437 "2017-09-27T16:57:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/121 "2018-10-26T16:44:05Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Who dresses up as Obama for Halloween? Is this actually a thing? Somebody must be buying those Obama masks.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/122 "2018-10-26T16:54:09Z")
> [@HelenTroy](#): > > A real life black person’s skin is not a costume. You can dress like a person without changing your skin tone. Yes, it is wrong. Jesus Christ, this bitch has been making racist comments for years and y’all bend over backwards to make excuses and justify. Maybe, just maybe, stop giving the benefit of the doubt to racists. What about a wig? Hair style can be “cultural appropriation” or racism or something to offend as well. I can link several articles that make that claim. It’s just so bizarre that weaponized language has come so far and has been so effective. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/123 "2018-10-26T16:58:13Z")
[She’s done at Today](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/today-show-confirms-megyn-kelly-on-way-out-at-30-rock). ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/124 "2018-10-26T17:12:15Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What about a wig? Hair style can be “cultural appropriation” or racism or something to offend as well. I can link several articles that make that claim. It’s just so bizarre that weaponized language has come so far and has been so effective. Get back to your fainting couch, you hypocritical fuckstain. > [@Saint\_Cad](#): > > [She’s done at Today](https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/today-show-confirms-megyn-kelly-on-way-out-at-30-rock). I’m sure Fox will welcome her back with open, groping hands. Or she can do like the other disgraced former Fox hosts do and get herself a YouTube channel where she can commiserate with weeping conservatives about how unfair it is you can’t demean minorities like the good old days. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/125 "2018-10-26T17:22:10Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I’m sure Fox will welcome her back with open, groping hands. [Nope!](https://news.avclub.com/fox-news-takes-a-hard-pass-on-megyn-kelly-1830023256#sfidzkmb1) ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/126 "2018-10-26T18:05:14Z")
I expect she’ll be working for Trump in about an hour. Or Infowars. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/127 "2018-10-26T18:52:35Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > I expect she’ll be working for Trump in about an hour. Or Infowars. Don’t you recall that Trump made his infamous “ blood was coming out of her whatever” remark about Kelly after she dared to ask him a real question during a debate. I’m surprised he hasn’t gloated on Twitter about her cancellation yet. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/128 "2018-10-26T18:57:53Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Get back to your fainting couch, you hypocritical fuckstain. > > I’m sure Fox will welcome her back with open, groping hands. Or she can do like the other disgraced former Fox hosts do and get herself a YouTube channel where she can commiserate with weeping conservatives about how unfair it is you can’t demean minorities like the good old days. > > Stranger Pointing out hypocrisy and intellectual inconsistencies is NOT hypocrisy you projecting, bloviating windbag. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/129 "2018-10-26T19:02:16Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Pointing out hypocrisy and intellectual inconsistencies is NOT hypocrisy you projecting, bloviating windbag. Maybe not, but pointing to different people with different thoughts on the offensiveness of “cultural appropriation” or wearing of wigs is NOT pointing out hypocrisy, unless you think every single person who identifies as “liberal” thinks the exact same thing about every topic ever discussed ever. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/130 "2018-10-26T19:10:17Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Pointing out hypocrisy and intellectual inconsistencies is NOT hypocrisy you projecting, bloviating windbag. You have done neither, you vomitous, dissembling nitwit. Flee now to whatever fungal crevice you emerged from and remoisten your mucus glands for more phony wailing outrage, thou lump of foul deformity. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/131 "2018-10-26T19:40:25Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > You have done neither, you vomitous, dissembling nitwit. Flee now to whatever fungal crevice you emerged from and remoisten your mucus glands for more phony wailing outrage, thou lump of foul deformity. > > Stranger A: I’m not outraged. b: I’m typing this while wearing a wig and working on my tan call the PC police. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/132 "2018-10-26T20:17:43Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > You have done neither, you vomitous, dissembling nitwit. Flee now to whatever fungal crevice you emerged from and remoisten your mucus glands for more phony wailing outrage, thou lump of foul deformity. > > Stranger Now **that** is a good Pit post. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/133 "2018-10-26T20:22:14Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Don’t you recall that Trump made his infamous “ blood was coming out of her whatever” remark about Kelly after she dared to ask him a real question during a debate. I’m surprised he hasn’t gloated on Twitter about her cancellation yet. Maybe he’ll get around to it between whining about how no one is paying attention to HIM because of all this “bomb” stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/134 "2018-10-26T20:45:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Now **that** is a good Pit post. The Bard is always good for a quality insult. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/135 "2018-10-26T20:49:57Z")
I really don’t think this has to do with PC, or politics, or liberals, or anything else other than business. Had they kept her on, NBC would have been the “blackface is OK” network. Guests were already cancelling their appearances on the show. Advertisers were soon to follow. Soon the show would be reduced to interviewing the likes of David Duke or the Proud Boys, their advertising limited to Confederate flags, pickups, firearms, and maybe pork rinds and beer. It just isn’t a winning business model for a nationwide broadcast. My only regret is that she didn’t make it to the Halloween show in which she backed up her convictions with actions, appearing in actual blackface, so that we could all enjoy her career exploding into that much bigger and flamier of a fireball. ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/136 "2018-10-26T21:00:51Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > What about a wig? Hair style can be “cultural appropriation” or racism or something to offend as well. I can link several articles that make that claim. It’s just so bizarre that weaponized language has come so far and has been so effective. If we lived in a just world that had been so for generations, wearing blackface would be no worse than dyeing your hair. We don’t live in that world, and I can see why black people who live in this one don’t want to be reminded of minstrel shows. I don’t know about wigs, as I don’t know what cultural appropriation is. ---
**Author:** ![Measure\_for\_Measure](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/measure_for_measure/32/557_2.png) [@Measure\_for\_Measure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Measure_for_Measure)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/137 "2018-10-26T21:12:48Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’m more worried about myself, wondering if I was actually being singled out or not. FWIW, I think usage of certain gender-specific insults crosses a certain line: I try not to do that myself. I don’t police others though. I don’t think gendered insult is as harmful as **iiandyiiii** believes. On some level I think there are greater fish to be fried. Separately, don’t want to disarm myself of the term hysteric, though mindfulness of language is something for this awkward wordsmith to aspire to. Calling a birth control advocate a slut crosses a 2nd line IMHO, for reasons I can’t quite articulate. It sounds pretty ugly though, below the belt. That’s worth a mention, even if it’s from a 6 year old thread. Is it worth _denouncing_ though, given that it happened 6 years ago and targeted nobody on this messageboard? Not in my view. But there’s lots of over-reaction in the pit. It’s what we do. Not a good thing I say, though I advocate a sizable carve out for ironic outrage. ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/138 "2018-10-26T22:17:27Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > So, since then I started paying attention to threads you participated in to see if you did, in fact, do as you say you do, as evidence that you believe what you say you believe, and that this techniques is not just rhetorical weapon to be selectively employed your opponents. …this is fucking creepy. > [@](#): > > I’ve seen two incidents of pretty severely charged language against women made by people on the left in threads you participated in, where you failed to call it out. > > I called your attention to an instance here where someone called Megyn a “twat.” You failed to register it. Perhaps the definition of the word is relevant. > **[Twat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twat)** > > Twat is an English-language vulgarism which means the vulva or vagina, and is used figuratively as a derogatory epithet. In British English, and Irish English it is a common insult referring to an obnoxious or stupid person regardless of gender; in American English, it is rarer and usually used to insult a woman. In Britain and Ireland, the usual pronunciation rhymes with "hat", while Americans most often use the older pronunciation that rhymes with "squat". This is refl The literal sense is fi... The primarily understood usage is to call someone “obnoxious or stupid.” Its very typically used this way throughout the commonwealth. In that context it isn’t a gendered insult at all. And if you aren’t trying to play “gotcha games” (how long have you been waiting to play that particular card?) then the context of WOOKINPANUB’s post becomes entirely clear. WOOKINPANUB doesn’t think Megan Kelly is “female genitals.” WOOKINPANUB thinks Megan Kelly is stupid. > [@](#): > > I don’t know why. Maybe you refuse to see it, or think it’s not done with bad intent. Confirmation bias is a powerful thing. It is isn’t it? Your “victory post” reeks of confirmation bias. > [@](#): > > When I see you calling me out on something 6 years old, that is happening around you every day, it is hard for me not to conclude that you were sincere. If you are monitoring other posters posts in an attempt to “catch them out in a display of hypocrisy” because you are upset at being called out over something you said 6 years ago, I’m gonna suggest that maybe you are being just a little bit thin-skinned. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/139 "2018-10-26T22:20:49Z")
And unhinged. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437/140 "2018-10-27T00:15:02Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Somebody must be buying those Obama masks.🙂 Well… duh!! :rolleyes: Bank robbers, of course. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/megan-kelly-wtf/797437.md?page=8)