Megyn Kelly makes case against Kavanaugh's accuser:

[DURHAM D]

‘Maybe he blew her off and she had an axe to grind’

“Maybe her blew her off,” the NBC host continued. “This is what defenders would say, right? She been harboring — she had an axe to grind about him and she lays the foundation as a Democrat [sic] donor, saying I don’t want — I’m just going with the most dramatic theory.”

Kelly offered what she said was a “legitimate” defense of Kavanaugh.

“It’s been 34 years,” Kelly said. “He was allegedly 17 when it happened. How is he supposed to defend himself? There’s a reason we have statutes of limitation in this country and that’s because — this isn’t a criminal case — but that’s because memory fades, details fade and it’s impossible for him to prove a negative.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/09/megyn-kelly-makes-case-kavanaughs-accuser-maybe-blew-off-axe-grind/

I hope this ends Megyn's career.

[dalton99a]

1. Megyn forgot to mention the possibility of blood coming out of her wherever

[NurseJackie]

2. "I hope this ends Megyn's career." ---- I do too.

I hope this ends Megyn's career.

I do too. I'm sick of her.

[Iliyah]

12. I guess she is only one

that we must believe when she accused men of sexual assaults, huh. What a RW blowhard.

[Fred Sanders]

20. Not sure, but I bet she was attacking Franken and supporting the women?? As was all of Fox.

Being ignorant of the psychology of sexual assault victims...maybe she is that dumb, but I think she play dumb just as well.

[calimary]

28. Count me in on that, too.

[kacekwl]

37. Megyn who ? n/t

[NurseJackie]

44. ...

[JonLP24]

3. Sure he won't face criminal charges

But that doesn't mean he should be on the Supreme Court. How would she feel if it was OJ Simpson?

[Fred Sanders]

21. The defence is "yes, it was criminal, but not anymore because of the statue of limitations"...

You go with that...Kelly is really losing her touch, and her mind and memory.

[CatMor]

4. Her memory of what he did to her will never fade

[Scarsdale]

36. Very true.

An experience such as that lingers in a woman's mind. Let him take a lie detector test like she did. Also, his creepy friend who watched.

[dlk]

5. Sadly, Women Can Be Misogynists, Too

Kelly is a partisan hack with zero credibility.

[get the red out]

6. She's a disaster

Why is she still on??????????

[iluvtennis]

23. +++ Agree, Why is she still on NBC. GAH.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

40. She is the reason I do not watch NBC morning news on the local channel...

... if I want to look at fake bake, I will head to a truck stop and sit at the counter, across from the heat lamps.

[ismnotwasm]

7. God she's such a fucking asshole.

I remember when I was assaulted and almost raped at 17 clearly. It’s nothing you forget and unfortunately as memories fade, sexual assault tends not to be one of them.

[Cha]

62. ...

[BootinUp]

8. Pretty lame case. nt

[Tardislass]

9. Fact is this should disqualify him from being the highest authority in the US

Perhaps not from an everyday job but the Supreme Court is supposed to be made up of the best of the best. However, since we have a unethical POTUS, I guess everything goes.

[grantcart]

55. Besides the initial act is his lying about it which is happening NOW

[unblock]

10. oh, not fair to him because *his* memories fade, but *she* can't get over him "blowing her off"?

that's the defense? that all he ever did to her was "blow her off", and because of that, she fabricates an alleged rape 34 years later?

wow, that's really holding a grudge and amping it up. oh and, it suggests she wanted it and he didn't. it would be a nice defense if it had any logic or plausibility to it.


of course, one wonders why, if she was the sort of person to turn a forgettable slight into a criminal act, why didn't she go for fabricating a completed rape? why only an attempted rape?

and why on earth would she ever put one of *his* friends in the room of this supposedly fabricated attempted rape, when there's no way he could possible corroborate her story if indeed it was fabricated?


that's all just nuts.

vastly more likely is that he did something very serious to her -- you know, something like, maybe, what she said he did....

[gratuitous]

15. Standard right-wing defense

They've been using it for decades, "a little bit nutty, a little bit slutty." Maybe this is the time that despicable strategy finally doesn't work. Maybe this is the time it backfires. I hope so. Kelly's hiring at NBC was supposed to be a coup for Andrew Lack. He put his own prestige and position on the line to snare her from Fox and give her a prominent position at NBC News. When that didn't pan out, they put her in a special correspondent position. When that still proved to be above Kelly's ability, they put her on in the third or fourth hour of the Toady Show. It appears that even that do-nothing job is beyond Kelly's capabilities, and her despicable comments, rank speculation, show that once again Lack made a colossal mistake in hiring her.

Kelly's bullshit should end two careers at NBC.

[spanone]

11. just what i'd expect from ms. kelly

[elias7]

13. Maybe she was wearing something provocative!

Has Megyn missed what has been happening for the past year? She seems to have missed the #metoo boat. Maybe she can be an honorary member of Cavanaugh's tits and clits club...

[TheBlackAdder]

14. Not surprising from Megyn "Higher, Higher, Higher. . . HIRED!" Kelly.

[shraby]

16. Didn't she do a bit of accusing also?

[GoCubsGo]

33. Why, yes. She did.

It's why both she and Roger Ailes are gone from Fox "News."

[miss-nasty]

17. At my house

She had already ended it.

[Squinch]

18. Because of course she did.

[ooky]

19. You can take the Fox News host out of Fox News

but you can't take the Fox News out of her.

[Iggo]

22. "I hope this ends Megyn's career."

If "Santa is just white" didn't end it, this won't.

[Texin]

24. I'm sick of men, especially rethug men, using the old adadge, "Boys will be boys."

Well, those "boys" grow up to be men, most of whom go on to father more boys that later become men. That kind of attitude emboldens boys and men to act out their sexual aggression against women, young and old alike, and then brush it off with a shrug of their shoulders. After all, a "guy's just gotta do what God made him want to do."

It's the type of attitude that allows men to sexually assault their dates or their actual girlfriends, and later to slap, punch and force their wives to "perform" their "duties". It's the type of attitude that leads to men putting their hands on women or leering at a woman without provocation, permission or with no desire on a woman's or girl's part whatsoever. Why another woman (who surely must have encountered this kind of physical abuse herself at some point in her professional career!) would lay into another woman and accuse her of any wrongdoing is repulsive and base. It's the height of moral hypocrisy.

[Botany]

25. does she still have a show?

[Iggo]

50. She's on one of the big 3 networks' morning shows.

Don't know which one. Doesn't matter.

[Wellstone ruled]

26. Well,Comcast is paying this Person

25 mil a year to help turn NBC/MSNBC into a Right Wing Fake Noise type Cable News Outlet.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. Women's accusations are to be believed and taken seriously...

then comes a legitimate THOROUGH investigation. The days of treating these incidents as "bimbo eruptions" are over!!! #MeToo

[SunSeeker]

29. Wow. There is a special place in Hell for people like Megyn Kelly. nt

[JDC]

30. F her

[kanda]

31. Megan Kelly's advice to women who've been assaulted

“I say find your underground army. Find your fellow women to whom it’s also happened or who will support you if you come forward. Find your other men who are empathetic to what you’re going through. Talk about it even quietly.”

From a Nov, 2017 interview on Deadline. Also mentioned that she complained about O'Reilly.

Hypocrite.

[LittleGirl]

32. I remember every moment of my attempted rape

when I was 19. Every fucking moment and that was in 1978.

That Kelley bitch needs to shut the fuck up.

[kairos12]

34. Kelly is vile.

[tulipsandroses]

35. Just saw her lawyer on MSNBC

She stated that the woman had described this as an attempted rape to her therapist. I got the gist that this woman had been talking about this to her therapist about her trauma for some time now. So Megyn can go kick rocks. It sickens me when people defend abusers, but I am especially sickened by women that defend abusers.

I'm a psych nurse, one of the questions I ask all my patients when they are admitted - any past history of sexual abuse - The majority of them answer yes - the majority say they never told anyone. Quite often, through tears or anger - I am the first person they are telling. So these 65 women professing how "nice" he is don't know squat about abusers,


And let me just add - One of the " nicest people " I've known for many years - Someone I included as one of my very best friends - recently was found out to be a horrible disgusting person who was indeed a predator that sexually harassed many women. Those of that know him personally, are still reeling from having to come to the realization that he is not the person we thought he was. He had 2 faces. The face he showed us. Then the other that he showed his victims. Thank goodness for technology, he was caught on tape. Had it not been for that, sadly, the victim may not have been believed since we all thought he was such a nice guy.

[Tardislass]

41. Amen. My sister dated a few times in high school a guy who we all thought was friendly, kind, etc

He never showed any anger or untoward interest in women while we knew him. Turns out in college and as a young man, he was having sex with underage girls and was a bit of sexual predator-of course none of the girls went on record. Everyone was shocked as he seemed like the nicest guy-think Mr. Rogers only younger. My parents adored him and were upset with my sis for dumping him-a good thing.

Even today it's hard for me to picture him with underage girls. It reminds me of Ted Bunny, you had all these political people saying how wonderful and smart he was. Yet he showed an entirely different side to his victims. I guess if you are white, smart and middle class people tend to believe you. It's only if you are a poor minority where you are automatically accused.

[usaf-vet]

38. Maybe.....Ms.Kelly has her own axe to grind

Maybe Megyn Kelly was rejected by a young liberal man or two in her past. They saw her for what she is a person with a vindictive personality. And she has always had a score to settle. A grudge to guide her thoughts. An axe to grind?

[DonCoquixote]

39. Megyn, Megyn

after the son of the man who sexually assaulted you threatens you with hell:
https://boingboing.net/2017/05/22/roger-ailes-son-threatens-ac.html

You seem damned sure to kiss up the the GOP. Is this Stockholm Syndrome? Maybe you are just angry that the people who watch NBC just DO NOT ACCEPT YOU.

[DFW]

42. If some guy tried to rape you........

I doubt it would be forgotten in 34 years or 84 years.

Hey, Megyn, remember a guy named Roger Ailes? You know, the reason you left Fox Noise? I didn't think so.

[Power 2 the People]

43. She has tried to be a wolf in sheep's clothing but her wolf barks too loud

Or is it her FOX?

[-Steph-]

45. Megyn Kelly should be fired immediately. With zero basis for her remarks, she suggests on national

television that Kavanaugh's accuser might not have only WANTED it, but is so bitter that HE didn't, that she's been harboring a grudge for more than 30 years and is now just trying to get revenge over him rejecting her way back in high school?.......

Megyn Kelly is SCUM.

[ZeroSomeBrains]

46. This pisses me off so much.

I have had a situation similar to this from my brother when I was a similar age. No one was home at the time and he wanted to stick a finger up my buttwhole. That ought to really piss him off he said. I went into my room and put a chair against the door to keep him from breaking in. It didn't stop him from trying and I held him off until my parents thankfully got home. At a previous time he did do it and did other physical abuse as well.

I share this because I didn't tell my parents about it because I was scared. My brother is dead from the opiod crisis so retribution is impossible. But the scars in my subconscious remains and will stay there forever.

Do you want people to just believe you meghan kelly? Are people not trustworthy if they don't tell right away? I told my therapist and family after a few months. Does that make me less trustworthy? What is your goddamn point other than painting with a ridiculously broad brush about victims? I really hope your fired. Does NBC have any line at this point with her?

[SummerSnow]

47. I hope she or any of her daughters never experience sexual assault. If this ever

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happens to her daughters, I bet she will blame them. Every woman in her audience should have walked out

I forgot to put the word 'never'. I made the correction. Sorry about that

[Iggo]

51. Um....bye.

[onetexan]

48. the more i hear from this irrelevant woman the more i can't stand her

NBC just needs to cancel her show altogether. Despicable!

[secondwind]

49. Dear Megan: A WOMAN NEVER FORGETS.. NEVER

[mountain grammy]

52. I also hope it ends her career. Finally and at long last.

[still_one]

53. yeah megyn, "he blew her off", just like Roger Ailes blew you off you asshole. WTF did MSNBS hire

her anyway for

[LiberalFighter]

54. Makes no sense.

Why would anyone have an axe to grind who did well without marrying a possible serial rapist?

[RhodeIslandOne]

56. Her career is pretty much over

No one who watches a respectable news outlet like NBC likes her and now FAUX News Trumpers hate her guts.

[Docreed2003]

57. So Megyn...

How do you write off the fact that Dr Ford addressed this in therapy sessions long before Kavanaugh was nominated? How do you respond to her FBI polygraph that she passed attesting to these attacks??

But sure she must be some jilted lover with an axe to grind...

[Mike Nelson]

58. I can't believe she...

… still has a show... I know they have to pay her however many millions, but I would just pay her to stay off TV! At this point, that's a better value for the money.

[Thekaspervote]

59. Of course she did! She may no longer be at fux news but she just can't wash the stench off!

[NastyRiffraff]

60. What the hell is that woman doing on a major network?

She belongs on Fox. Better yet, she belongs on the unemployment rolls.

[JHan]

61. smh.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

63. Just like you had one to grind with Fux Noise?

[erpowers]

64. Too Stupid

That line of thought is just too stupid. So, supposedly this woman is still angry that 30 years ago this guy blew her off and now is claiming that the man attempted to rape her in high school. If the woman was so angry about him blowing her off why did she not lie about him trying to rape her when they were still in high school.

This line of a woman is claiming rape because a man did not hug her enough is used too much. A few year ago a football player, I think it was Jameis Winston, was accused of raping a woman. A former football player was interview by a local morning news show and the former football player said there is a chance that Jameis might not have hugged the woman enough after sex and that may have made the woman mad. So, next time Jameis should be nicer to the woman he has sex with before kicking her out.