Megyn Kelly is so hell-bent on smearing the woman who has accused seven Cornell students of raping her that I have to wonder if a member of her family is one of the accused.
Last week, Media Matters caught Kelly whining about the woman known as Jane Doe being allowed to remain anonymous. “I'm just going to tell you right now, if her identity is revealed, I am going to name her. I am going to name her,” Kelly vowed to her SiriusXM audience.
Kelly amped up the gratuitous cruelty to a shocking degree on Monday. This time, Media Matters caught Kelly patting herself on the back for considering “the possibility” that Jane Doe is so ugly that she was “thrilled” to have sex with multiple students and “enjoyed it.”
KELLY: No one will even consider the possibility that this woman made a decision to get it on with four men total, not seven, and enjoyed it because — I'm just going to be honest, she's not the most attractive gal. She's extremely beefy in her arms and her legs. She has a whole video online talking about her cankles. And she possibly enjoyed being admired. This is how women make these mistakes.
Admired, wanted, some women even foolishly say loved by these guys at Cornell. But this is probably a first for her. She's probably thrilled to be so admired because she clearly didn't grow up the incredibly beautiful one.
“I'm not trying to be insulting,” Kelly laughably added. “I'm just trying to tell you the narrative that is likely to have occurred here, in my opinion.”
Let’s be clear: Kelly's opinion is based on nothing but her mean-spirited opportunism. The former TV host has no credentials in police work, sexual assault crimes or criminal prosecution. Before her television career, Kelly worked as a corporate lawyer, as per her Brittanica biography. Kelly’s only “experience” with actual cases was her law-school service on a panel that reviewed sexual harassment allegations against faculty members.
But lack of credentials has never stopped Kelly from providing politically-expedient TV coverage of some high-profile sexual-assault cases.
“Why can't we account for that possibility?” Kelly continued. “That the girl who was never the most sought after suddenly had four guys who wanted to have sex with her. And she counted this, yeah, in her inebriated state, as a win and liked the feeling of being sexy and desired and wanted. It happens. Sorry, it does. And that's why she kept saying yes. Why do we have to go right to she’s a victim?”
Not surprisingly, Kelly now cloaked her smears in pro-women rhetoric. “This is so disempowering to all of womankind, to all of us, to our daughters,” she continued. "We are capable of making decisions. She made the decision to drink and then show up at a fraternity house at 11 o'clock.”
Megyn Kelly’s accusations of sexual harassment from Roger Ailes was instrumental in his ouster from Fox News. Yet she has publicly admitted keeping it quiet for years, claiming it would have harmed her career.
Someone should ask her if she, a then-unknown newbie at the network, had enjoyed it.
