During an epic special episode of her Sirius XM radio show and podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” former Fox News Channel personality Megyn Kelly sounded off on CBS News’ biased moderation of the Tuesday, October 1 debate between Minnesota Governor and 2024 Kamala Harris running mate Tim Walz and Senator and 2024 Trump running mate JD Vance.
Particularly, Kelly hammered how the two CBS News moderators, but particularly co-moderator Margaret Brennan, had acted in an obviously biased way against Sen. Vance. An example of that biased moderation is when Brennan, against the rules of the debate, fact-checked Sen. Vance, and the network then cut his mic as he attempted to correct her and note that she had breached the rules.
Kelly, commenting on the debate, began by noting that it was a special episode meant to cover the VP debate, saying, “Hey everyone. I’m Megyn Kelly. Welcome to the Megyn Kelly show and our special live coverage of the vice presidential debate between Ohio Senator JD Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.
Continuing, she immediately got to the meat of her criticism, noting that the moderators in the debate were quite biased, and did only a bit better of a job than the two ABC News moderators in the debate between former President Donald Trump and VP Kamala Harris. She said, “The moderators were not much better. They were a little better than ABC News.
She then described Sen. Vance’s epic demolition of both the two co-moderators who were biased against him and of Gov. Walz, who she characterized as his “lying opponent.” She said, “But JD Vance put on a master class in how to handle biased moderators and a lying opponent, and it was the thing of beauty. It’s beautiful.”
Next, Kelly praised Vance for responding in just the right way to the moderators, saying, “Every Republican or Republican voter or person who in this case, is rooting for Trump knows exactly what I am feeling right now, which is just, thank God, just listening to a guy go out there and know how to raise the right point in response to the right questions, to not take the moderator’s bullshit. It was really cleansing. It was just you never see it.
Then, mocking the moderators as being “gross” and joking that the co-moderator who went after Vance with a vengeance is in desperate need of “bronzer,” Megyn Kelly went on to say, “It’s just so great to see the moderators are gross. Margaret Brennan, not only do you desperately need some bronzer.”
Turning from insults to criticism of how Brennan ran the debate, Kelly said, “You need to understand how to moderate a fair debate when you have half the country who’s rooting for the other guy? She didn’t even attempt to be fair. I mean, I’m going to utter words I never thought I would utter. I preferred Nora O’Donnell.
Watch her sound off on what happened during the debate here:
Trump, tweeting about the debate, said, “Lyin’ Kamala just put out a request for another Debate because they lost so badly tonight – Again, it’s like the fighter who lost, gets up and says, “I WANT A REMATCH.” I beat Biden, I then beat her, and I’m not looking to do it again, too far down the line. Votes are already cast – And I’m leading BIG in the Polls. I’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she’s incapable of it.
Watch Margaret Brennan break the rules and fact-check Vance here.
Trump, tweeting about the debate, said, “Lyin’ Kamala just put out a request for another Debate because they lost so badly tonight – Again, it’s like the fighter who lost, gets up and says, “I WANT A REMATCH.” I beat Biden, I then beat her, and I’m not looking to do it again, too far down the line. Votes are already cast – And I’m leading BIG in the Polls. I’ll MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, she’s incapable of it.