Megyn Kelly Gets Facts Wrong About Coalition Against Islamic State

Fox News' Megyn Kelly ignored the pledge of military assistance from allied countries to aid the United States in its fight against the Islamic State (IS) when she claimed that “no one is committing to help us.” But just one hour earlier, Kelly's colleague Bill O'Reilly explained the commitments made by several countries to address the threat. 

On the September 15 edition of Fox News' The Kelly File, host Megyn Kelly discussed recent airstrikes on the Islamic State by the United States, noting that Fox White House correspondent Ed Henry questioned whether Secretary of State John Kerry “has failed in building the broad coalition” to combat IS. Kelly asked “who will be with us” during continued military action against IS, before claiming that “no one is committing to help us”:

Kelly's claim ignores that, according to CNN, Australia will deploy “up to eight Royal Australian Air Force F/A-18 combat aircraft, an E-7A Wedgetail airborne early warning and control aircraft and a KC-30A multirole tanker and transport aircraft” to the region. France also began reconnaissance flights over Iraq, and told the Iraqi prime minister that it promised that France “will participate in efforts to hit terrorist locations in Iraq.”

Many other nations pledged assistance that doesn't include military strikes against IS targets, a fact that Kelly's Fox colleague, Bill O'Reilly, acknowledged one hour earlier.