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Fox's Megyn Kelly asks ACORN spokesman: "You're going to send child rapists out to conduct the census?"

March 19, 2009 12:53 pm ET

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    • Author by harley (March 19, 2009 12:59 pm ET)
         

       

      Interrupting a guest over and over and over they disagree with....yeah, that's so "fair and balanced".  Faux, you're embarrassing yourself.  

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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (March 19, 2009 1:04 pm ET)
           

        I doubt it because Fox has neither pride nor shame.

        "The loyalty of small men can be bought cheaply, becasue greed has no pride." ~Prince Xizor

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    • Author by shaggles (March 19, 2009 1:16 pm ET)
         
      Wow!  Megan Fox sure is a hard hitting journalist.  Shame she doesn't know the difference between voter fraud and registration fraud.  She might have learned if she'd shut up and listened to her guests answers.
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      • Author by thejbomb65 (March 20, 2009 10:19 am ET)
           

        megyn kelly. wrong megan.

         

        megan fox is an actress from Transformers 

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    • Author by Übermensch (March 19, 2009 1:16 pm ET)
         
      And a leopard certainly does shows its spots. Asking questions, not letting guest answer properly. Not waiting until guest is done with point before going on to the next question.

      ACORN rep had it correct. Just because somebody is employed at an organization and are found guilty of something, doesn't mean the whole organization is guilty. Remember back in February when Aaron Bruns of Fox News was arrested for child porn? Megyn Kelly works at Fox News...so I guess she is guilty of child porn as well.

      "Do I have to cut your mic? Ya konw what..forget it. You're gonna give answers to my questions or I'm gonna cut your mic"
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    • Author by jim359 (March 19, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
         
      Yes, Megan, you just go on being stupid, an out and out liar and a shill for the Echo Chamber Rethugs. You go girl!
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    • Author by pithaughn (March 19, 2009 1:28 pm ET)
         

      Hi Megyn, For starters how come you spell your name with the Russian spelling? How long have been a secret mole of the Kremlin?

      Second, voter REGISTRATION fraud is to VOTER fraud as my canoe is to the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) aircraft carrier.

      Canoe - 14 ft beam, 80 pounds, human powered.

      USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Powered by two nuclear reactors that can operate for more than 20 years without refueling Expected to operate in the fleet for about 50 years Carries over 80 combat aircraft

      Towers 20 stories above the waterline 1092 feet long; nearly as long as the Empire State Building is tall Flight deck covers 4.5 acres 4 bronze propellers, each 21 feet across and weighing 66,200 pounds 2 rudders, each 29 by 22 feet and weighing 50 tons

      Thirdly, the more you try to demonize ACORN, the more proof you provide that you have absolutely no interest in being "fair and balanced".

      You, your wirters, your producer, every one, with the possible exception of some hourly staffers, at Murdoch Empires are partisan propagandists.

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    • Author by eyerah (March 19, 2009 1:38 pm ET)
         
      more fox news b.s. i work with a local group that is partnering with the census and our city to do outreach efforts, same as ACORN although they aren't active in our community. we don't send out census takers...the CENSUS bureau hires and sends out census takers, and they all have to pass background checks. fox is deliberately misleading people, AGAIN. i watched this interview this morning and almost puked in my mouth...but meghan kelly sure is hot...
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    • Author by harley (March 19, 2009 1:39 pm ET)
         

       

      Using Kelly's "logic", the Faux Network pushes and supports pedophilia

       


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    • Author by snoopy (March 19, 2009 1:51 pm ET)
         

      In an effort to avoid long drawn out bantering with the few who will defend Megyn to the last breath I've started putting together a book of cued "defenses". Expect to see 1, 2, 4, 7 and 9 given most frequently. ;)

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      • Author by peachesthepuppy2192 (March 21, 2009 9:31 pm ET)
           
        Your damn right I will defend Megyn. Your wrong about there being a few of us. It is one thing to disagree with someone but to resort to the name calling and degrading comments  expressed in these comments is disgusting. Some of you people should get a life instead of your Megyn bashing.
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        • Author by mescal (March 22, 2009 1:35 am ET)
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          Did you not watch the attached video? She openly SLANDERED Acorn, and shut off all real discussion, resorting to every cheap, hackneyed, and belittling tactic from the Faux News handbook. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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    • Author by puttforever4682 (March 19, 2009 1:52 pm ET)
         
      It is unfortunate that the Acorn spokesman was not quite clear enough in showing the difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud.  Ms Kelly interchangeably used both terms as iof they were the same. An uninformed viewer might not have caught the blurring done by Fox. The  Acorn spokesman needs to review the video in order to make his point a little clearer for the ignorant Fox viewer.
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (March 19, 2009 2:22 pm ET)
         

      Is there no way to stop this kind of nonsene over the public airwaves ?

      I couldn't care less if they ran this stuff in one of the conservative publications that's losing money, but each day on TV

       C'mon

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      • Author by JOhn5323 (March 20, 2009 2:34 am ET)
           

        If they are all losing money, how are they staying in bussiness?

        Why are publications like The New York Times, and The Boston Globe, laying people off, and The Wall street journal is hiring?

        PUT DOWN the KOOL-AID!

        Do some real research. 

         

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    • Author by orogeny (March 19, 2009 2:35 pm ET)
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      This was ACORN's NATIONAL SPOKESPERSON?!?!  Jeebus, he couldn't even explain clearly how the ACORN workers who plead guilty were actually guilty of defrauding ACORN, that they took money from ACORN to collect registrations, and they cooped on the job, just creating false regs to make it look like they were dong their jobs. 

      I'd expect this kind of performance from one of the workers, but not from someone who is officially representing the organization. He should have had specific statements about these issues prepared and memorized in advance instead of wandering all over the place and allow the Faux shouter to make him look foolish.  Clearly, ACORN need to find a new national spokesperson.

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      • Author by jstrick (March 19, 2009 4:02 pm ET)
           
        you are right, he should have been better. He acted like he didn't know that she was going to say something similar to what she said. He was going on Fox news, he should have been well prepared for what she was going to bring up.
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        • Author by orogeny (March 19, 2009 4:39 pm ET)
             
          It would have been sweet if when she made the child rapist comment, he'd have come back with "Wait a minute, one of your most popular commentators is a pervert who had to pay out big bucks in a sexual harassment suit and he's still is on the air.  Does that mean Fox actively supports sexual harassment?" 
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    • Author by harley (March 19, 2009 3:04 pm ET)
         

       

      I refuse to give Drudge my traffic, but anyone want to bet this will be on Drudge Report....if it's not already?

       

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    • Author by toofakind4147421 (March 19, 2009 8:14 pm ET)
         

      All Megyn wanted was to talk to the man and he came out swinging by saying Fox was lying.  Registration fraud and voter fraud  are the same in my book. If the registration fraud was left unchecked it would have led to voter fraud.  You have to have contempt for anyone not marching to your beat - it really is sad.

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      • Author by deeznuts (March 19, 2009 8:58 pm ET)
           

        You have to have contempt for anyone not marching to your beat - it really is sad.

        My irony-meter just exploded.

        You.

        Are.

        Wrong.

        Voter registration fraud and vote fraud are NOT the same. Regardless, ACORN as an organization is guilty of NEITHER. Learn something before you post again.

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      • Author by fromtheheartland (March 21, 2009 4:01 am ET)
           
        BY LAW Acorn alerted the government,BY LAW Acorn turned in the fraudulent registrations with the names of the person who signed them right on the forms. I registered voters in the 1970's & 1980's voluntarily because I knew how to do so. I know that it is very difficult now to find volunteers for a variety of reasons. Let's say Acorn group transports ten employees to a neighborhood to register voters for several hours, they all split up. Workers meet back up, turn in their voter registration forms to Acorn, get paid by Acorn and go. Most likely never to be seen by Acorn again. BY LAW Acorn has to turn in ALL signed registration forms to the Voter Registration Office and they point out that...obviously as an example...they fear that twenty of the five thousand registrations they have are not real so they have kept them separate for the appropriate Government Official to follow their laws. The registrant (low paid employee who is gone by now) has ...sworn under penalty of perjury that they checked the id, etc. of the person they registered. So when they have a form for Mickey Mouse it is kind of obvious that they have committed perjury. That's what made news. Acorn was never accused of wrongdoing. People they hired wanted more registrations than they had and were willing to break the law to do so. They may have known they were wrong from addresses too. BY LAW ANY SWORN REGISTRANT HAS TO GIVE ALL SIGNED FORMS TO VOTER REGISTRATION OFFICE REGARDLESS OF WHAT NAME IS ON IT! THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE THE ONLY PERSONS WHO CAN INVALIDATE A SIGNED VOTER REGISTRATION FORM. If there was no Rodeo Drive in the area they were in, etc. Acorn or any group paid or unpaid has this happen. It is always up to the local voter registration office to determine that a voter registration is valid. It is not up to Acorn or any individual or group. In my state you can register online. It is then determined by our County Clerk, Election Board, Voter Registration Division to make sure that registration is valid. Acorn would not be allowed to do this if they were as a group found to be fraudulent. They have never tried to get people registered fraudulently. I think it is sad that we need Acorn, or any organization that has to pay people to register voters. I would love to see a day when everyone in this country can go to the polls and register and vote on election day, they are able to in all of the purple finger countries that we made possible. We should have uniform ballots pictured for months in all the papers, and on television for U.S. Congressmen, U.S. Senators, and The President. Those candidates should be the only ones on the ballots, they should be paper and marked with a pencil and counted by hand. The States should have every other election according to their individual state election laws. Then when one state has problems with their ten page ballots or touch screen breakdowns, etc. it won't affect the Federal Elections. What do you think the chances are that Megyn will read this and learn. Ha, ha. They know what happened. Like she said she was reading about the guilty pleas from the registrants. BTW, why do all the men on her network say inappropriate things to her about her looks and her clothes every time I watch a clip of her. I'm sure you noticed the leopard print comment from her co-worker, any place besides Fox News and they would have been trained about Federal Laws that prohibit Sexual Harassment in the workplace. Most women would not allow their co-workers to degrade them on such a regular basis. She is a very smart woman and is perfect at her job according to Fox Standards. I'm sure she would be competent at whatever she chooses to do, I heard once that she used to be a lawyer. That makes it even more shocking that she allows them to break the law at her expense.
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    • Author by mescal (March 19, 2009 9:42 pm ET)
         

      Faux News' rising loudmouth Megyn Kelly is clearly Bill O'Lielly's apprentice, and has learned well at the feet of her master. She has quickly become expert in how to shout over her subject's words, how to fake outrage, and how to cut off answers (by cutting off the mic) that conflict with her tortured memes.

       

      I suppose it could have been worse. She could have learned her craft at Dickhead Morris's feet.

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    • Author by jingleberry (March 20, 2009 1:52 am ET)
         

      Why do people keep appearing on Fox when they know that this sort of confrontational drama is likely to happen?

      I missed the guy from Acorn's name, but he wasn't prepared and he didn't do a very good job. He shouldn't be on TV again until he's got his chops down and his defenses in place.

      Meanwhile, any organization who's thinking of accepting an invitation to appear on camera for this sleazebucket outfit should do their homework beforehand and know exactly what they might encounter from each and every one of Fox's whores. It appears as though our Acorn-guy foolishly allowed himself to be ambushed. They even rigged the lighting against him! Did you notice how bright and sunny they made her appear and how dark, dingy and .... dare I say  ...criminal they made him look by comparison?

       

       

       

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