Megyn Kelly: Fox News Pundits Don't Make Nazi References (VIDEO)

Megyn Kelly pushed back against a guest's assertion that Fox News commentators make regular references to Nazis on the air, telling him it was "just not true."

Kelly and her guest, former Clinton adviser Richard Socarides, were discussing Rep. Steve Cohen's comparison of the GOP to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels during a debate on health care. Socarides said he disagreed with Cohen's comparison, but that Fox News had things to answer for as well.

"Every night on the very network that we're on right now, the leading commentators on this network use this very language," he said.

"That's just not true, Richard," Kelly said. "...I don't if you sit and watch our programming every night, but I watch it every day and you're wrong."

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Hopefully Kelly wasn't watching Glenn Beck's program later on Thursday. Beck used Cohen's remarks to make a slew of Nazi references and comparisons.

"I'm glad to know he thinks Republicans learned their tactics from Goebbels," Beck said of Cohen, "but does he know that Goebbels learned his tactics from the progressives?"

Later, Beck compared Obama aide Cass Sunstein's so-called "Nudge" theory to the so-called "progressive" tactics that he said formed the basis of Goebbel's thinking. "Progressive tactics are Nazi tactics," Beck said. "Nazi tactics are progressive tactics."

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Comments

[BluesHen]

01:18 PM on 02/12/2011

oy vey this is all just so wrong!

[YKH]

01:56 AM on 01/31/2011

Apparently, no one at Fox has had the heart to tell Megyn that she has been watching a test pattern.

[cvbnm67]

02:21 AM on 01/26/2011

Maybe Comedy Central is working behind the scenes with FOX News, this was too easy.

[ShinjiIkari]

03:32 AM on 01/25/2011

Fakes News people don't refer to Nazis... except on the days of the week that end in Y.

[mgray34]

02:12 AM on 01/25/2011

Well Jon Stewart does it again just like we were waiting for...lol

Megyn put that foot so far up her B-Hind, she can taste it in her mouth hahaha

[Oldie]

11:20 PM on 01/24/2011

Why are we even discussing what this young lady says?

[delfry]

11:19 PM on 01/24/2011

Classic Daily Show tonight, I'm sure Jon Stewart sent a thank you card to Megyn for serving up that home run ball!

[juliebird]

11:07 PM on 01/24/2011

Been waiting all weekend for Jon Stewart to rebut this twit.
Awe. Some.

[Mikeystyle]

11:03 PM on 01/24/2011

Well, Megyn Kelly obviously doesn't watch her own network.

Lewis Black says Glenn Beck has Nazi tourettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk

[Titus]

09:18 PM on 01/24/2011

Come'on Megan. Don't you have a producer that can yell in your ear that you're wrong? What's wrong with you guys at Fox? Do you not watch each other's programs?

[rebt]

05:21 PM on 01/24/2011

What Rep Cohen said is absolutely correct. It is Fox's M.O. The term is "perception management." Same thing as propaganda but not as mean sounding. What do you expect from Fox anyway..... anything resembling the truth? Don't count on it.

[Duppy]

05:21 PM on 01/24/2011

Are these people living on an alternate planet ? Earth to Fox ! Earth to Fox ! Come in Fox! There is such a thing as tape. Why is it that Republican Tea baggers ALWAYS forget about "tape" ? Hello !

[steelej]

02:10 PM on 01/25/2011

They know - they just subscribe to the "repeat it often enough whether true or not and people will believe it" ideology just like the Na.........

[Erik77]

12:10 PM on 01/26/2011

For the most part, it has worked rather well for them. Not all the time but way more than it should. If they manage to de-fund education, it will work better.

Oh wait, this just in - They are 100% for education. It is teachers that they are against.
Perfectly logical to a Republican.

[mom792]

04:39 PM on 01/24/2011

Megyn, let your roots grow out, maybe your brain will not be so addled.
I just wish you weren't the poster-girl anchor (along with Hannity and O'Reilly) of the assisted living crowd in Massachusetts, maybe then I could have conversations with my parents and relatives.

[Sonia Vivar]

04:28 PM on 01/24/2011

My goodness, Meg need to relax, chill, double up on Zoloft !

[mespeland]

03:59 PM on 01/24/2011

Is she new or something? Since when has FOX not alluded to Nazis on the air? During the auto bailout, Glenn Beck likened it to the "early days of Hitler." The Peace Corps was compared to Hitler and the SS, etc, etc, etc.