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Author: Michael J. Gaynor
Date:  September 16, 2015

Topic category:  Partisan Politics

Megyn Kelly's Anti-Trump Bias Is Obvious and a Disservice to Her Viewers


KELLY NEVER ASKED CLUB FOR GROWTH'S MCINTOSH WHETHER THE CLUB HAD REQUESTED A CONTRIBUTION FROM TRUMP AND BEEN REFUSED BEFORE THE CLUB ATTACKED TRUMP AS JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN TRYING TO CON VOTERS!

Fox News star Megyn Kelly used her role as a debate moderator to try to torpedo Donald Trump's presidential campaign by charging that Trump is at war with women (as distinguished from harsh with particular women who attack him, including Rosie O'Donnel and Kelly at the debate.

Kelly apparently was not deterred by the post-debate polls and still seems determined to keep Trump from winning the Republican presidential nomination next year.

On Thursday night, September 15, Megyn Kelly interviewed four Republican presidential hopefuls--Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, In effect, she gave them the floor to make their case.

Kelly didn't ask a tough question to any of them and did her best to boost both Carson and Fiorina.

Then Kelly covered the Club for Growth's ad campaign against Donald Trump and interviewed the Club's president, David McIntosh.

Trump promptly responded to the ad campaign--the theme of which is that Trump is just another politician conning voters--by saying that he had refused a Club request for a $1,000,000 contribution and the ad campaign was sour grapes funded by lobbyist and special interest money.

KELLY NEVER ASKED CLUB FOR GROWTH'S MCINTOSH WHETHER THE CLUB HAD REQUESTED A CONTRIBUTION FROM TRUMP AND BEEN REFUSED BEFORE THE CLUB ATTACKED TRUMP AS JUST ANOTHER POLITICIAN TRYING TO CON VOTERS!

Fox News claims to be fair and balanced.

It wasn't fair to Fox viewers for Kelly to give McIntosh the floor to criticize Trump without asking whether Trump's assertion to have refused to contribute was true.

Earlier in the evening Bill O'Reilly interviewed Trump and pointed pressed Trump whether he would vote to defund Planned Parenthood and demanded a yes or no answer.

Trump answered yes, without equivocation.

Viewers must be wondering whether Club for Growth admits or denies and why Kelly never asked.

I doubt that O'Reilly would have left his viewers wondering whether Club for Growth admits or denies Trump's claim to have been solicited by Club for Growth.

I'm sure Sean Hannity would have pursued an answer to that question.

Kelly's viewers deserve better.

Michael J. Gaynor


Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.


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