NEW YORK – The aftermath of Megyn Kelly’s interview with a former Justice Department lawyer over a New Black Panther Party case has made her a hero and a villain.
The Fox News Channel host is a hero to fans who appreciate the time she has spent on a story about a nightstick-carrying New Black Panther Party member standing outside a 2008 polling place, wondering if it reflects an Obama administration inconsistency in pursuing civil rights cases.
But she’s a villain to critics who believe Kelly is promoting a dubious story given outsized attention because it could hurt a president unpopular with most of Fox’s viewers.
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Kelly followed the story so relentlessly that she perhaps goaded the Obama administration into its bungling of the Shirley Sherrod case, much like a baserunner dancing off third base who distracts a pitcher into a balk. ...
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... promotion, rather than politics, drives discussion of the New Black Panther case.
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It promotes, ultimately, Fox.
“This is a mistake that a lot of people make when they talk about Fox, where they think that a political agenda is the driving force,” said Paul Levinson, head of the journalism department at Fordham University. “They certainly have a political agenda, they being some of the commentators, but when you go up to (network owner) Rupert Murdoch, he’s a business person first.”
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Why Is Fox News' Megyn Kelly Obsessed With the New Black Panthers?
"Have you heard about the New Black Panther Party? No? Well, you must not be watching Fox News, which has spent the last week treating the fringe group as the greatest threat to democracy since... well, since health care reform. ..."
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