![]() In fact, to borrow from Sheryl Sandberg, she’s leaning in - even if that means the Drudge Report puts her face at the top of its page the day of the book’s release with one simple, loaded line, “Year of the Bull,” and links to a story about its explosive allegations involving Donald Trump and Roger Ailes. So I’ve just been holding them.”Īnd in her new book, Settle for More, she’s not backing away from any of it. I’m certainly not going to take a position on Trump. “As a journalist, I’m not quite sure what to say. ![]() “I’ve had a lot of women just openly crying, come up to me and start hugging me,” she says. If many in New York City are still reeling from the election, especially in certain neighborhoods, including the liberal enclave of the Upper West Side, where Kelly lives, she has become a symbol for the disenfranchised. “It has just come to include in particular a pro-choice agenda, and that’s no place a journalist should be going.”īut a funny thing happened on the way to the stunning 2016 election: Kelly found herself exceeding the journalistic expectations of her network and also that of the men and women who watch her. “I find it’s very alienating to at least half of the women in the country,” she reasons. But Kelly herself does not identify with feminism. Great.”įeminists long have despised Fox News. It earned her kudos from The New York Times‘ Maureen Dowd, whom Kelly says pulled her aside at an event years later to say: “That’s when I knew you were a great journalist. And her proudest moments seem to be when she has challenged falsehoods, as she did during an interview with Bill Ayers during the 2008 presidential campaign, dismantling his assertions that no one got hurt when The Weathermen were planting pipe bombs to protest the Vietnam War. Kelly’s an overpreparer, which makes her a natural fact-checker when a guest is trying to spin his or her way out of a tough line of inquiry. “They don’t want to be told what makes them feel good.” “I think my viewers want smart, honest programming,” she says. Ever since she challenged Donald Trump on his sexist remarks at the first Republican debate in August 2015 (more than a year before the “grab ’em by the pussy” hot mic conversation with Access Hollywood host Billy Bush leaked), she has burnished her journalistic bona fides and reputation for independence in an era defined by vitriolic partisanship. ![]() Kelly also can be given her share of credit for bringing new energy to Fox News - and for expanding the tent at the hugely successful ($1 billion in profit last year) but often reviled-by-the-left network. Louise Linton Welcomes Baby Girl With Husband Steve Mnuchin - and a New Rom-Com
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