‘What Was Fox Thinking?!’ Megyn Kelly Trashes Fox For Hosting Debate With Univision — Which Was Not Fox’s Call

SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly complained about “liberal framing” at the Fox Business GOP debate and asked “What on Earth was Fox thinking” partnering with Univision — and tore into moderator Ilia Calderón, calling her “that woman!”

But the inclusion of Univision as a media partner was not a Fox News decision —  it was the RNC’s.

In a press release from August 9th, Ronna McDaniel said “I am excited to announce that our second Republican primary debate will be in partnership with FOX Business, Rumble, Univision, and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, which will serve as an iconic venue for the debate. We are looking forward to continuing our fair, neutral and transparent primary process in Simi Valley to elect the next President of the United States.”

Seven qualifying candidates took the stage Wednesday night for the second GOP debate, this time airing on Fox Business Network and once again proceeding without the Republican frontrunner, ex-President Donald Trump. Coverage of the event focused on the chaos and a handful of one-liners — and several provocative exchanges that stemmed from Calderón’s questioning.

But Kelly was not happy about what she called the “liberal framing” and worked herself into a lather during a discussion on The Megyn Kelly Show this week, targeting Calderón as well as Fox — even though it was the RNC who chose the media partners for the debate:

MEGYN KELLY: What about you, Eliana? What’s your grade for what we saw last night?

ELIANA JOHNSON: …when the candidates were talking, the questions appeared to me more appropriate for a general election debate, if that than for a Republican primary debate they just weren’t asking about, for the most part, things of interest to Republican primary voters. The ones that stood out to me as particularly inappropriate for Republican primary voters was one of the questions was, what are we going to do for the Dreamers? Another one was about gun safety. There was a third about LGBTQ plus Americans. And while all of those might be okay for a general election debate, these things just aren’t top of mind for conservative voters and–

MEGYN KELLY: Not at ALL!

ELIANA JOHNSON: For that’s who this show is for. And so keep the audience in mind. And The New York Times today ran a glowing profile of that Univision anchor.

MEGYN KELLY: Oh, my God.

ELIANA JOHNSON: Univision retained editorial control over all of her questions. Well, it was obvious and it was a fail.

MEGYN KELLY: What on Earth was Fox thinking, partnering with Univision?! That, that woman, Ilya Calderon, is a leftist who’s been partnering with Jorge Ramos, who more than anyone is responsible for the abandon objectivity approach to Donald Trump and to journalism. I mean, they have almost singularly undermined the profession of journalism more than any other that I can think of off the top of my head.

And it was intentional! She’s his co-anchor! This is a leftist news organization that’s basically propaganda! They’ve been in partnership with the Clintons. It was like having Hillary Clinton out there, this woman’s questions.

And while I mean, I’ve anchored five presidential debates in the GOP primary field, and you can go out there and it’s perfectly fine to say, hey, here’s an issue that’s going to be a problem for you if you’re the nominee when you get to the general, you can do that. Like you’re too extreme for moderates on abortion. What say you? Is that true or not? That’s okay. We’ve been doing that from time immemorial. But the issue selection and the way in and out of the questions showed her bias time and time and time again!

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