{"id":2284940,"date":"2024-06-27T21:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T01:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-wants-cnn-to-let-candidates-debate-no-one-gives-a-s-about-the-moderators-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-27T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T01:36:44","slug":"megyn-kelly-wants-cnn-to-let-candidates-debate-no-one-gives-a-s-about-the-moderators-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-wants-cnn-to-let-candidates-debate-no-one-gives-a-s-about-the-moderators-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly wants CNN to let candidates debate: \u2018No one gives a s***\u2019 about the moderators &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmegyn-kelly-wants-cnn-to-let-candidates-debate-no-one-gives-a-s-about-the-moderators-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2284940&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Megyn Kelly, a host on SiriusXM&#8217;s &#8220;Megyn Kelley\u2063 Show,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/union-refuses-to-aid-teacher-who-faced-termination-for-criticism-of-woke-training\/\" title=\"Union Refuses To Aid Teacher Who Faced Termination for Criticism of Woke Training\">expressed criticism<\/a> regarding the \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-impeachment-updates-house-reconvenes-to-debate-trump-impeachment\/\" title=\"Live impeachment updates: House reconvenes to debate Trump impeachment\">rules set<\/a> for a CNN\u200b presidential debate between former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden. Kelly argued \u200bthat the debate should proceed without the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israels-pm-bennett-holds-separate-talks-with-with-putin-and-zelensky\/\" title=\"Israel\u2019s PM Bennett Holds Separate Talks With With Putin and Zelensky\">moderating influence<\/a> of CNN anchors, specifically naming Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, implying that their involvement is unnecessary and \u2062unappreciated by the public. Her comments underscore her\u2064 belief that the candidates should be allowed to freely interact without moderator constraints.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/megyn-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Megyn Kelly\">Megyn Kelly<\/a> criticized the rules of Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cnn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"CNN\">CNN<\/a> presidential debate between former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>, saying the candidates should be allowed to debate without the constraints of debate moderators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one gives a s*** about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/dana-bash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Dana Bash\">Dana Bash<\/a> or Jake Tapper, with respect to them both,\u201d the SiriusXM <em>Megyn Kelly Show<\/em> host said, referring to the CNN anchors who will be moderating the debate.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<p data-video_id><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\" no one gives a sh about dana bash and jake tapper megyn kelly cnn must let candidates debate width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zj-ihXqV6KM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen    style=\"display:none\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3061125\/trump-biden-duke-it-out-viral-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRUMP AND BIDEN DUKE IT OUT WITH VIRAL ADS AHEAD OF DEBATE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not showing up to see them. Most Americans have no idea who they are. They want to see the two gorillas go at it. Eff your rules! Let them do the thing they showed up to do \u2014 debate!\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The former Fox News anchor said viewers want \u201cthe incredibly shrinking moderator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly clashed with Trump in 2015 during a presidential debate when she asked him about derogatory remarks he had made about some women, in which he called them \u201cfat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals.\u201d Trump said he was only referring to Rosie O\u2019Donnell. He slammed Kelly after the debate for her question.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, ahead of the debate, she complained that moderators can get a sense of self-importance and \u201cmiss the chance\u201d for the debate to actually happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, the moderator can fall so in love with his or her own voice and questions that they miss the chance to let the candidates actually debate,\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly noted that \u201cthere\u2019s gold there\u201d when the candidates are \u201cmixing it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not an interview. It\u2019s so much more boring when it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh gee, I get to really hear what\u2019s interesting to Jake Tapper get answered by this,&#8217;\u201d Kelly said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to see what does Trump think Biden needs to answer for,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n<p>Biden and Trump will face off in the first presidential debate of the 2024 general election on Thursday night in Atlanta, with several rules, including only providing two commercial breaks and no props or prewritten notes.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Megyn Kelly slammed the CNN debate rules between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, arguing for a moderator-free format. On her SiriusXM show, she dismissed the relevance of Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, despite respecting them, emphasizing that the focus should be solely on the candidates&#8217; direct exchange<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2678,"featured_media":2284941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP16328427270999-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[7064,9373,3896,33131,22276],"class_list":["post-2284940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-candidates","tag-cnn","tag-debate","tag-megyn-kelly","tag-moderators"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP16328427270999-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2284940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2284940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2284941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2284940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2284940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2284940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}