Saturday, April 2, 2011

Fox GOP propagandist Megyn Kelly 'covers' DOJ review of Black Panther case — three days late

Media Matters notes that Megyn Kelly ignored the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility's statement that it had completed a review of the Justice Department's handling of the New Black Panther Party case until Rep. Frank Wolve (R-VA) issued a demand to the DOJ for documents related to the case.

So if you're following:
  • Kelly held off on reporting on the OPR statement clearing DOJ attorneys of wrongdoing until there was comparable news of a GOP congressperson accusing DOJ of wrongdoing.
  • Kelly didn't even bother to get the name of the internal investigating body correct, calling it the Office of Professional Conduct.
  • After initially reporting correctly that the OPR found that "neither race nor politics" played any role in the DOJ's actions, Kelly walked back the findings on race.
  • Kelly spent less time on the story than she spent today on the feud between the "Barefoot Contessa" and a Make-A-Wish child:
     Between the release of the OPR statement and her minimal, belated report, Kelly also devoted airtime to the allegation of a "studio cover-up" regarding how much dancing Natalie Portman did in the making of the movie Black Swan, kids who got stuck in the mud, a YouTube video of two girls in a fistfight, a missing cobra, a tent collapse in Florida, an upcoming special on cannibalism in New Guinea from National Geographic Channel, and the deaths of two skydivers in a mid-air collision.
     Remember, Kelly spent much of last July -- over three and a half hours in a mere two weeks -- pushing baseless claims that the Obama administration's actions in the case demonstrated that they refuse to protect white voters from black intimidators. You would think she would have some sort of responsibility to spend some significant amount of time reporting that the story fell apart.

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