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I admire Megyn Kelly and I was really impressed with this interview. She is smart, informed, principled, real, and a very influential and relevant figure in the mediascape today. Thank you for having her on the show.

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Did I miss the part when they discussed January 6? WTF?

Did Moynihan softball this interview? Friend of Bari?

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First time I listened to her interview - I'm impressed. The NYC private school story is on point.

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Megyn Kelly was much more appealing when she was at FOX because, unlike most of her prime-time talking head colleagues, she wasn't clearly in the tank for Trump and his acolytes as she is now, to the point of defending the outrages of Tucker Carlson. She's just taking a clear MAGA side in the clip-bait journalism world. She was also profanity-free at FOX. The brassy potty-mouth shtick is a real turn-off, whether coming from the right or left.

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Thanks for having a transcript. I’d much rather read it than listen to a podcast. Please do more transcripts of podcasts in the future.

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Side note: Most podcasts have no radio pros or vets on their staff; thus, they do everything backwards or outright wrong. The content window is too far, the ads are in the wrong place, and they include information from the episode description, title, etc. that need not be there. All in all, podcasts need to utilize the vast amount of radio folks who are now out of the industry due to corporate death and make better audio.

1. brevity

2. shorter content window

3. ask audiences to listen to ads

4. smarter ad placement

5. stop with the music

6. less is more

7. forget the intros

8. narratives need not be novels

9. background info is better read than spoken

10. find people to host who actually have some concept of the human voice and how to talk to someone face to face rather than "at" a group

11. Paul Harvey pauses work, and they have no clue how to use them

12. professional editors who know how to punch up audio without losing content

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At some point, Moynihan has to figure out how to push back. She fact checked Alex Jones and he was right about everything? Ezra Klein's minimalist strategy for this is saying, "I don't agree with that but we can continue to the next topic." I'd like some of that

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She didn’t say everything. She specifically pointed out 9/11 and SandyHook.

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If you don't think fact checkers at NBC NEWS wouldn't be trying to find the smallest untruth in anything Alex Jones said, you're not a very smart man.

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I don't believe the story. Others have debunked the frog thing.

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Your comprehension skills leave much to be desired.

Yeah. You're not a very smart man, Adam.

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I'd never heard of this lady before reading this (I'm British) - thank God for women like her! I wish she could be put in charge of the BBC.

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What is that microphone Michael is using? Is it a SM7b clone?

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Oct 1·edited Oct 2

meanwhile Iran is launching hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel. I shudder at the idiotic duo of Biden/Harris having 4 more years to destroy the world.

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Moynihan's comment of Trump being a 'populist' misses the larger picture. Trump won in 2016 because he got the Democrat white male vote. Trump, a true narcissist, can bring unity because he could care less about Democrats or Republicans, he only cares about winning. He proved this when he tried to negotiate immigration in his first term. Democrats could have won big if they'd have signed on but didn't and we all know why; this is a great vote getter in an election year, so they don't negotiate on immigration.

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Hey, look at that, more TDS.

As more people like me see what The FP truly is and cancel our subscriptions, I've noticed the steady uptick of the kind of people Bari actually wants here: NYT readers and CNN / MSNBC / ABC News / CBS News watchers who aren't antisemitic. Still brainwashed. Still horribly Woke. Just not Jew-haters. I guess that's a small victory.

When my sub ends in February, you people are welcome to this site.

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Dude wtf are you talking about? The FP is a news site, a great one that is growing. It covers topics the MSM wont.

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I think you missed my point. I am not against Trump running for President as a Republican (I don't have TDS I think he did a pretty good job his first term). I just think its a mistake to label him a 'Republican'. You can listen to Trump decades ago and he says the same things today, all the while posing with 'prominent' Democrats. If he's anything, he's probably more of an old fashion liberal. The MSM takes his jokes and pretends he's serious and they takes his opinions out of context. He hasn't changed, the Democrat Party has changed. TFP is growing because of their willingness to listen to the other side and present it. They aren't required to agree with it. In today's environment that takes courage. I don't agree with everything they say, but I love their willingness to debate the issues. This may not be your cup of tea, but I'm thankful for people like TFP, Elon Musk, Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberg; people willing to take a stand to protect free speech.

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I found it particularly amusing when Megyn Kelly said she'd taken an online test and had found that she was supposedly "way more conservative".

"Conservative" must not mean the same thing anymore. I can think of nothing more conservative than standing up for the constitutional republic and the time-honored tradition of peaceful transfers of power that have made this country exceptional. That must be so quaint to someone like her.

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Did Biden not assume power on 1/20? Thought I watched it live but maybe I dreamt it.

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Oct 1·edited Oct 1

Hey look at that, more TDS. Tell me George, was there a peaceful transfer of power? I seem to remember there was. Oh, you must be referring to the minor mostly peaceful protest on Jan-6 where no one died except Ashley Babbitt. Where Capital Police ushered people into the building, and where FBI agitators somewhat successfully did their job to agitate the crowd.

I know you might not know this, because The FP's editor Oliver Wiseman refused to cover it here, but it FINALLY came out a few weeks ago, 3.5 years later, that President Trump did request National Guard presence on Jan-6 that would have made what happened a non-issue, but the request was denied by the traitorous Mark Milley.

You looking for an actual American traitor George, how about you start with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who conspired with China and ignored direct, lawful orders from his President?

I know, I know. Your case of TDS makes it impossible for your brain to comprehend anything else but ORANGE MAN BAD, but you can't say I didn't try. Oh well. Back to your regularly-scheduled brainwashing, George. You're in the right place for that here at The FP, by the way. They're just a lot more sneaky about it than the MSM.

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Derangement is something that is wildly irrational. There is nothing irrational in describing what Trump did: he was the first president who wouldn't commit to peaceful transfer of power, months before the election was held. As a result - we didn't have one.

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Oh, good Lord, people! Who stages a governmental coup wearing Halloween costumes and carrying no weapons?

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Except we did have one. Power was peacefully transferred. There was no war. No battle. Trump left D.C. Biden had an inauguration. These things did happen.

You're lying, but that's okay. Your very real derangement prevents you even from seeing that you're lying. Your fever dream of what you think Jan-6 was, because of the brainwashing by the media, Deep State, and Democrats (same thing) that you've invited into your deranged mind, doesn't change the truth of what is.

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Dont assume FP has tds just because some commentators do

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Kelly's comment to Moynihan's suggestion that the Democrat party is moving more toward center left was spot on : 'She wouldn't have chosen Tim Walz as her running mate if this was true.'

The facts show the Democrat party is moving farther left. When Kamala Harris was in the Senate and her 33 tie breakers as VP, show she votes farther left than Bernie Sanders. When she ran for President in 2020 no one wanted what she was selling because she was radically far left. Her campaign folded for good reason. She told us herself she hasn't changed her values.

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So to your point - Trump was polling five to seven points over Biden in the swing states before there infamous debate. Now with Harris they are effectively tied. Why do you think that is? I don't think it's because she's far left.

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Moynahan is just another of The FP's useful idiots.

Common Sense does not exist at The FP.

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What great priority driven intellectual perspective hard hitting questions from Moniyhan here.

Let’s see, Rando conspiracy theory nobody’s that are either guests on independent media or tweeting something.

Or an infiltration of the U.S. security state and unelected bureaucrats already in democrat government agencies and within the House of Representatives, with a possible Keith Ellison installed as AG for good measure.

https://canarymission.org/individual/Maher_Bitar

RANDOS on the internet

Or

Agencies with power and legislative priorities over our lives.

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I have a problem with American’s allowing the media to filter who can express their views. Let people speak. Challenge if there are lies. Get multiple views, understand different perspectives.

This business of wanting to cancel Tucker Carlson because he occasionally brings on to his show people who have unorthodox opinions is an example of the problem. I can listen, reject those speakers who are off base and I’m not harmed or adversely influenced.

I appreciate that Carlson has speakers from across a spectrum and that they are there to deliver views in first person. In fact, I wish he had speakers further to the liberal side of the spectrum so I can better understand how they see the world.

So many American’s have got this child-like idea now that speech is dangerous. It’s like they want the media to give them a “safe space”. Grow up and exercise critical thinking.

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"Because if one peers into this “independent”—and often right-wing—media landscape, one cannot help but notice the frequent descents into conjecture and conspiracy theory"

Let's just change a few words here:

Because if one peers into this utterly dominant legacy—and ALWAYS Left-wing"—media landscape, one cannot help but notice the frequent descents into conjecture and conspiracy theory....and outright propaganda.

There, that should balance it out.

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FP - Thank you for posting a transcript which allowed me to get a better sense of this interview much quicker than listening to it.

TBH, I find it weird to be a one issue voter solely focused on trans like Megan Kelly has expressed. Seems rather simplistic and foolish to me to boil this election down to that one issue, but she's got her vote which counts the same as mine so who am I to judge?

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Do you have a school-aged daughter? Or any daughter at all? Any kids?

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