After the Trump Administration captured Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro over the weekend, it’s safe to say Megyn Kelly didn’t find Fox News’ coverage unbiased.
While discussing the coverage on The Megyn Kelly Show on Monday, the former Fox News host said she would have felt compelled to champion the move if she were still with the network.
“When I was at Fox News — which was a long time, 14 years — I would have known exactly what to do in the wake of Trump’s attack in Venezuela,” she said. “His retrieval — shall we say, to put it in mild terms — of Nicolas Maduro. I would have known that I was supposed to cheerlead it.”
She then turned her attention to what she saw when she tuned into the coverage. She shared that she didn’t like what she saw on the screen.
“I turned on Fox News yesterday, and I’m sorry, but it was like watching Russian propaganda. There was nothing skeptical. It was all rah-rah cheerleading, ‘Yes! Let’s go!’ And that’s fine. I love our military as much as anyone, and I believe in President Trump, but there are serious reasons to just exercise a note of caution before we just get on the rah-rah train.”
She admitted she had reacted similarly during her tenure with the network, but had learned her lesson after being burned in the past.
“I have done that enough times in my career as a Fox News anchor to have been embarrassed enough to know I’m going to stay on the yellow light for this,” Kelly said. “I’m not in the green-light territory. I’m not in the red-light territory either, but I am staying in the yellow-light territory for now.”
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Good job. It’s important to know which way the wind is blowing. Actually, it’s not: Principle is king!