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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:32 AM Jun 2017

Alex Jones releases secretly-taped audio of Megyn Kelly interview

Source: MSN/The Hill

Alex Jones on Thursday released secretly-taped audio of his interview with Megyn Kelly three days before the official airing was supposed to occur on NBC.

Jones, a conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder, offered a preview of what was going to be released in a 2-minute, 20-second video clip that appears to include off-the-record conversation with the former Fox News host in Kelly. The interview is set to air Sunday.

"I've never done this in 22 years, I've never recorded another journalist," Jones said in a Twitter video. "I've never done this, but I knew that it was a fraud, that it was a lie."

"It's not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I can promise you that." Kelly is heard saying to Jones.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/alex-jones-releases-secretly-taped-audio-of-megyn-kelly-interview/ar-BBCKbKV?li=BBnb7Kz

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Alex Jones releases secretly-taped audio of Megyn Kelly interview (Original Post) TomCADem Jun 2017 OP
Circular firing squad ready...aim.. sandensea Jun 2017 #1
Yep, this is what comes with their big hiring coup brush Jun 2017 #27
ever since NBC fired Ann Curry because of Matt Lauer & put that loud mouth Savannah Guthrie in onetexan Jun 2017 #34
What I like best about this is the effect... dchill Jun 2017 #2
Fingers crossed. nocalflea Jun 2017 #7
Crossed by 2 ! ....rather than double crossed ! :) OnDoutside Jun 2017 #11
I won't watch, She doomed her show onit2day Jun 2017 #29
YEP Cosmocat Jun 2017 #23
not lbn really. more like entertainment tonight nt msongs Jun 2017 #3
Alex Jones is a human stain. SergeStorms Jun 2017 #4
+100 Duppers Jun 2017 #6
I am revolted by Zucker's criticism. THE TEASE????? Justice Jun 2017 #20
Agree. Well said. mountain grammy Jun 2017 #21
If it's not a hit piece it's not journalism onit2day Jun 2017 #30
You're right. The only sane way of presenting Alex Jones christx30 Jun 2017 #32
As much a piece of excrement Alex Jones represents he has only one rival living on the planet gordianot Jun 2017 #5
No shit. dalton99a Jun 2017 #17
Slimebag. But this MAY mean Jones is unhappy with the interview. Hortensis Jun 2017 #8
"another journalist"...guy thinks he's a journalist? chelsea0011 Jun 2017 #9
And therein lies the problem. Maggiemayhem Jun 2017 #13
The irony. Really ... Whiskeytide Jun 2017 #18
Half the sovereign citizens in America think they're journalists jmowreader Jun 2017 #37
Unsurprising oberliner Jun 2017 #10
Jones speculated - what if someone "pumps rounds" in Wolf Blitzer's "little pumpkin head" BumRushDaShow Jun 2017 #12
"I've never done this..." - Yep! Yep! Sure! Sure! keithbvadu2 Jun 2017 #14
I think this is Jones's way of trying to get them to re-edit if they were doing Dustlawyer Jun 2017 #15
So does it backfire? GopherGal Jun 2017 #35
It might help to draw back her old audience which is what they are shooting for. Dustlawyer Jun 2017 #36
She should never have interviewed him. If she wanted to do a piece . . . MrModerate Jun 2017 #16
Sow. Then reap. JenniferJuniper Jun 2017 #19
The liars interview. Disgusting! mountain grammy Jun 2017 #22
Megyn and Alex probably cooked this up together to boost ratings. Tanuki Jun 2017 #24
Definitely for ratings, but orchestrated from higher up than Alex and Megyn. Freethinker65 Jun 2017 #26
Welcome to the new NBC... LakeArenal Jun 2017 #25
Bag-a-Shit Plucketeer Jun 2017 #28
"It's not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I can promise you that." LiberalLovinLug Jun 2017 #31
Did she think she could trust him? TNNurse Jun 2017 #33

brush

(53,791 posts)
27. Yep, this is what comes with their big hiring coup
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 10:01 AM
Jun 2017

Someone from faux noise who is fascinated by Alex effin Jones, and thinks everybody else will be too once she gives him a platform.

And they loss Tamron Hall for this?

onetexan

(13,043 posts)
34. ever since NBC fired Ann Curry because of Matt Lauer & put that loud mouth Savannah Guthrie in
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 05:24 PM
Jun 2017

i've completely tuned off this network. They've never been able to recover from that. Doesn't surprise me they've sunken lower with firing beautiful and talented Tamron Hall and replacing her with this blond rightwing touting ditz who came from Fox. This network has lost all credibility.

dchill

(38,505 posts)
2. What I like best about this is the effect...
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:44 AM
Jun 2017

it will have on Andy Lack's reputation. Let alone what's-her-face's.

 

onit2day

(1,201 posts)
29. I won't watch, She doomed her show
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 12:49 PM
Jun 2017

A sick psycho paranoid sociopath will gain her eyeballs but not approval. Another National Enquirer on tv

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
4. Alex Jones is a human stain.
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 04:00 AM
Jun 2017

From the link;

"I think the issue here is the way that they have thus far presented it has not led to the belief that he's held to account as much as somebody who spews such hatred and nonsense needs to be," Zucker, the former head of NBCUniversal, said. "If you're going to do this story, the tease needs to be you holding up a picture of the dead kids at Sandy Hook and saying, 'How dare you?' And I think their marketing of this has thus far been unfortunate."

If NBC makes Jones look even the SLIGHTEST BIT sane and responsible, then I hope the parents of those children sue the ever loving crap out of NBC, and Megyn Kelly in particular.

"It's not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I can promise you that." Kelly is heard saying to Jones. WELL IT DAMNED WELL OUGHT TO BE! Jones deserves nothing less for the pain and heartache he's caused with his incessant conspiracy bullshit about Sandy Hook.

I'm not a religious man, but I wish there IS A REAL PLACE IN HELL reserved for that deplorable piece of monkey crap named, "Alex Jones".

Justice

(7,188 posts)
20. I am revolted by Zucker's criticism. THE TEASE?????
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 08:38 AM
Jun 2017

Zucker, the former head of NBCUniversal, said. "If you're going to do this story, the tease needs to be you holding up a picture of the dead kids at Sandy Hook..."
 

onit2day

(1,201 posts)
30. If it's not a hit piece it's not journalism
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 12:53 PM
Jun 2017

when it comes to this nutjob. Just asking legitimate questions about his actions and rhetoric would sound like a hit piece.

christx30

(6,241 posts)
32. You're right. The only sane way of presenting Alex Jones
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:32 PM
Jun 2017

would be a hit piece. Anything that wouldn't look like it to him would be fawning on him or saying "You know... you have a point. I never thought of it that way." That type of personality is very fragile. He can't stand to be challenged. He'll blow up like when he was screaming about the gay frogs.
Is he a character, is it an act? Or is that really who he is on TV? Either one is horrifying. He fancies himself a journalist.

gordianot

(15,241 posts)
5. As much a piece of excrement Alex Jones represents he has only one rival living on the planet
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 04:19 AM
Jun 2017

Fellow Turd Donald Trump who screams about fake news yet accuses Obama and Hillary Clinton of founding ISIS. No amount of normalization by MSNBC and their FOX News rejects will ever normalize Jones and Trumps mirror image in spreading hate.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Slimebag. But this MAY mean Jones is unhappy with the interview.
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 05:16 AM
Jun 2017

A preemptive defensive strike that he obviously planned to have ready ahead of time. "I've never done this, but I knew that it was a fraud, that it was a lie."

Of course, even if that were the case, it wouldn't necessarily mean the interview was anything near as tough and revealing as America needs it to be.

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
18. The irony. Really ...
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 08:21 AM
Jun 2017

... neither of them can lay claim to that title. It made me laugh until I remembered the fucking president of the US - and his fans - DO consider him a journalist, and listen to him with religious fervor, and actually take action based on what spews out of his mouth.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
37. Half the sovereign citizens in America think they're journalists
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 08:27 PM
Jun 2017

Such as these wonderful gentlemen:

&feature=youtu.be

(Why the hell the cops didn't just fill these people full of lead is a mystery to me.)

GopherGal

(2,008 posts)
35. So does it backfire?
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 11:47 PM
Jun 2017

Kelly now needs it to be a fairly tough piece if she's to maintain (?) any credibility at all. Then again, in order to edit it into a tough piece, you have to have something tough that was filmed in the first place. Fortunately for her, as the administration proves every day, credibility seems to have been overrated.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
36. It might help to draw back her old audience which is what they are shooting for.
Sat Jun 17, 2017, 12:51 AM
Jun 2017

They know we won't watch her.

 

MrModerate

(9,753 posts)
16. She should never have interviewed him. If she wanted to do a piece . . .
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 07:49 AM
Jun 2017

...on him, she could have used existing footage, fleshed out by having a producer confront Jones with the story's main points, capturing footage of the amusing teakettle noises that Jones makes when excited.

Tanuki

(14,919 posts)
24. Megyn and Alex probably cooked this up together to boost ratings.
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 09:02 AM
Jun 2017

I wouldn't watch either one of them for all the tea in China.

Freethinker65

(10,024 posts)
26. Definitely for ratings, but orchestrated from higher up than Alex and Megyn.
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 10:00 AM
Jun 2017

Glad I only tangentially know who either one is and seldom watch television. Sounds like pretty typical crap "must see" tv.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
28. Bag-a-Shit
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 11:30 AM
Jun 2017

A powerful cage match between Bag-a-Shit Jones and Megyn-America-Grate-Again Kelly!!! Don't miss a single minute of When Liars Collide!

LiberalLovinLug

(14,174 posts)
31. "It's not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I can promise you that."
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:16 PM
Jun 2017

Probably one of the few times MK spoke the truth.

And one of the times where a "gotcha hit piece" is totally apropos. If this was an interview with Jake Tapper from CNN or Rachel Maddow or any other real journalist, I'd watch because I'd know they'd hold his feet to the fire. Megyn is there to humanize him, make him look harmless, make him look legitimate. This should be a 60 Minutes style set em up and knock em down style interview.

I'm sure there will be one or two "Some say you are ....." type questions that he will be prepared for. But I predict very few followups and mostly fluff.

But of course Jones, in his perpetual paranoia, records the interview himself just to make sure.

TNNurse

(6,927 posts)
33. Did she think she could trust him?
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 03:33 PM
Jun 2017

Or she could charm him into behaving?

She apparently has gotten this far with her looks, not her intelligence or dignity.

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