I'm starting to really like Fox News Host Megyn Kelly, after her standing her journalistic ground against Karl Rove's insistence that he had the "real Ohio numbers" and "that it wasn't over yet" -- despite the statistically significant evidence to the contrary, that Romney had just lost this key state. Megyn Kelly was having none it: the Karl Rove high-jacking of the basic election facts.
And now Megyn Kelly is standing up for working women everywhere, by deflecting and challenging the Conservative Fox Cavemen, who would very much like to "see women back in their place" -- taking care of the kids and home, while the man of house makes his way out into the world, to "win the metaphorical household bread."
The fireworks started out like this, on Faux News yesterday:
Fox News Host Megyn Kelly Shreds Lou Dobbs And Erick Erickson Over Women In The Workplace
by Brett LoGiurato, BusinessInsider.com -- May 31, 2013,
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In the video below, perhaps the most cringeworthy part comes around the 56-second [5:50] mark, when Kelly challenges Dobbs over his comments attributing women's role in the workplace to marriages "shattering" in society.
"Why are you attributing that to women in the workforce?" Kelly said, interjecting.
"Excuse me. Let me just finish what I was saying, if I may, oh dominant one," Dobbs said.
"Excuse me?" Kelly said.
Megyn Kelly vs. Erick Erickson, Lou Dobbs -- 05/31/13
link to video [article has a shorter clip of this exchange, which won't embed.]
Caveman Dobbs ignores Kelly's incredulity at his condescending insult;
Caveman Erikson openly laughs at Lou's not-so-subtle sexist "put down."
But that wasn't the end of the fireworks. Perhaps the best exchanges were between Megyn Kelly, and red-stater Erick Erickson, since he was the one, promulgating this very antiquated theory, about women and their rightful place "in the kitchen":
Transcript from the description block of that video clip:
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Erickson went the farthest with his analysis, claiming it is "anti-science" to not believe that men are supposed to play the dominant role in the household. The group collectively bemoaned the increase of female breadwinners.
[Timemark 0:15]
In response, this afternoon, Kelly asked: "What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist-in-chief?"
"It doesn't have anything to do with submissive, per se, and it was poorly constructed how I said it," Erickson responded before reiterating his point that, in nature, male animals "tend" to be the "dominant one" and that "feminists" have taken society to the point where "male and female roles are completely interchangeable."
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[Timemark 3:00]
Erickson waved away those findings as "self-selective" and then hedged his comments as simply suggesting women cannot "have it all" and are "making compromises" by trying to be a mother working 12 hours per day and attempting to balance that with being a good parent. "I'm not judging them; and no one should. It is just the reality," he said.
"You are judging them," Kelly shot back. "You come out clearly and say women who choose to work instead of staying at home to nurture the children, are imposing a worse future on their children."
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[Timemark 3:45]
"Just because you have people that agree with you doesn't mean that it is not offensive," Kelly replied. She then pointed again to Erickson's blog, calling him out for laughing off his critics -- including herself -- by labeling them "feminists" and "emo liberals."
She then tore into him once more:
"I was offended by the piece nonetheless. I don't like what you wrote one bit. I think you are judging people. You sound like somebody who is judging but wants to come out and said 'I'm not, I'm not, I'm not but let me judge, judge, judge. And by the way, it's science and facts, facts, facts.' But this is a list of studies saying your science is wrong and your facts are wrong."
[Timemark 7:20]
She later pointed to "69 studies over 59 years of research" to dispel Erickson's "science," asking him: "Why are we supposed to take your word for it, Eric Erickson's science instead of all of the experts?"
His dismissive response: "I think the experts can be as politically motivated as any one else."
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Only on Fox News could such rightwing stereotypes pass for facts and commentary, on what is wrong with society today.
Good for Megyn Kelly for standing up for hard-working women, and standing against the the ill-founded theories on the inherit inferiority of all groups -- other than white males.
Good for Megyn Kelly for standing up for gay-marriage [Timemark 2:00], and for mixed-marriages too, and even standing up for president Barack Obama, starting around [Timemark 7:45].
What a breath of fresh air, and on Faux News no less. Probably will not last however, not once this feminist-upstart news gets back to the Murdoch Cavemen at corporate.