FakeMegynKelly: Pepper Spray Comments Inspire Twitter Hashtag

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly caused a stir on Monday's "O'Reilly Factor" when she stated that the pepper spray used on seated UC Davis students was, "a food product, essentially."

Considering the overwhelming public concern regarding the incident, Kelly quickly realized she'd said something inflammatory and added that the spray was "obviously abrasive and intrusive" -- but that hasn't stopped the Internet from having their fun with her.

Slacktory has started a petition for Kelly to eat pepper spray live on the air in order to prove that it is, in fact, a food item, and a Twitter hashtag called #FakeMegynKelly has picked up a lot of steam.

The game is more or less to take something objectively horrible and try to give it a light and silly spin, and if the momentum it's built up this morning is any indicator, it's just getting started.

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[Madmiddle]

01:40 PM on 11/28/2011

FOX news is a place for the disfunctional to work essentially.

[Nancy Daniel]

06:37 AM on 11/28/2011

Excellent all around! "Lying" was my personal favorite, but nearly all made me laugh or chuckle.
Incidental­ly, is Kelly part of the "News" wing of Faux, or the "Opinion" wing? I never keep the two straight.
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[Andrew Harvey]

03:52 AM on 11/28/2011

Reading the comments on the HP, its like reading the graffiti on the bathroom wall, essentially.

[Madmiddle]

01:34 PM on 11/28/2011

Stop writing in your bathroom while enjoying your favorite show FAUX.

[DJGryce]

12:20 AM on 11/28/2011

Well, the title speaks for itself. Should we all need to say more?!

[Melissa Webster]

02:38 PM on 11/27/2011

Bwahaha!

Teargas: It's just a romantic rolling midnight fog essentially.

[h111aryc1inton]

02:22 PM on 11/27/2011

Love Megyn Kelly - but I have to say - some of these "fakes" are great... essentially

[farmilyman]

02:37 AM on 11/27/2011

Megyn Kelly is a journalist...........essentially.

[Queso Grande]

02:31 AM on 11/27/2011

Africa? It's the country where Obama was born, essentially.

[Queso Grande]

02:26 AM on 11/27/2011

Sexual harrassment? It's just a quick way to determine whether or not a job applicant is qualified, essentially.

[jdh48250]

02:21 AM on 11/27/2011

My lisp is not annoying, essentiall­­y.

[jdh48250]

02:19 AM on 11/27/2011

Pizza is a vegetable, essentiall­y.

[LMPE]

01:56 AM on 11/27/2011

Taking candy from a baby: it's an introduction to competition, essentially.

Cross-burning: it's a campfire, essentially.

[H Seldon]

10:50 PM on 11/26/2011

Fox News lies and corrupt reporting is just the Alphabet, essentially.

[LightBeam]

10:46 PM on 11/26/2011

Megyn would benefit from reading this thorough article and aspiring to back up her statement with facts and references as done here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/nov/25/shocking-truth-about-crackdown-occupy

[LMPE]

01:57 AM on 11/27/2011

Reading a thorough article requires a much higher IQ than the one preferred at Fox anti-News.

[Joseph Glackin]

09:34 PM on 11/26/2011

Me gyn says, "Peroxide is an IQ reducer, essentially."