I am not one generally to speak well of the Fox News Channel.
The cable news network that keeps boasting aboutĀ its “fair and balanced” approach to news reporting is neither fair or balanced, in my view. Then again, that’s likely my own bias revealing itself . . . for which I will not apologize.
I do applaud Fox, though, for standing behind its superstar news anchor/debate moderator Megyn Kelly.
Fox announced that Kelly will be co-moderator — along with fellow news anchors Chris Wallace and Bret Baier — in a Republican presidential debateĀ scheduled forĀ March.
Big deal? Sure. Donald J. Trump is angry with Kelly because she had the utter gall to ask him a pointed question in the network’s first debate about Trump’s comments regarding women.
He said Kelly disrespected him. I guess he wasn’t paying attention to the heavy lumber she was tossing at the other candidates as well.
Trump was so angry that he didn’t participate in the final GOP debate, also sponsored by Fox, before the Iowa caucuses. His absence from that debate might have played a role in his losing the caucus fight to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
Kelly’sĀ role as moderator should not rest on the pique of a particular candidate who demonstrates a remarkably thin skin as he seeks to become the head of state of the world’s most powerful nation.
This Kelly-Trump feud has become the No. 1 sideshow of this Republican presidential primary campaign.
I happen to beĀ glad that Fox is treating it that way by refusing to knuckle under to a political candidate’s demands.