When former Fox News host Megyn Kelly says there is “no question the media represented it as so much worse than it actually was” — immediately after the woman she was interviewing said she didn’t “want to listen to anybody’s thoughts on the 6th unless they were, like, there,” which Kelly wasn’t — she’s suggesting that focusing on the threat instead of the non-threat is dishonest. It’s the same strategy that’s been deployed even since the riot was still underway by those seeking to deflect blame from Trump or his base of support.

Source: Washington Post July 15, 2021 19:32 UTC