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fastlizzy .. Blowhards, Beware: Megyn Kelly Will Slay You Now

smart, strong, sexy, fierce, sympathetic and brave .. lol, i like her .. this from about 2/3 down a long one

Defeating the male blowhard by being fully prepared became a Kelly specialty. The rest of her career ascent would be littered with the bruised bodies of guys who had it coming—all while she continued to have babies. In 2011, when right-wing radio host Mike Gallagher remarked on his show, in reference to Kelly’s maternity leave for her second child, that maternity leave was a “racket,” Kelly, upon her return, invited him on her show. “Maternity leave? It’s a ‘racket’? … What a moronic thing to say! … What is it about getting pregnant and carrying a baby nine months that you don’t think deserves a few months off so bonding and recovery can take place?”

Gallagher tried to double down. “Do men get maternity leave, Megyn?”

“Guess what, honey—they do. It’s called Family Medical Leave Act.”

Next up was Karl Rove, Republican strategist and Fox News’s chief political analyst. It was Election Night 2012, and the election desk at Fox News had reported that Ohio—and the presidency—had gone to Obama. But Rove, sitting at the desk with Kelly and co-anchor Bret Baier, knew better. He spat out a whole bunch of numbers about the Ohio vote he was hearing about—in this county and that—which he was confident would lead to a Romney victory. “Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better or is this real?” Kelly asked. The clip of this humiliating moment made the rounds; even Jon Stewart celebrated her moxie. Less than a year—and another baby—later, she was given her own show in prime time.

The hits kept coming. In May 2013, she gave the Megyn treatment to Fox Business Network host Lou Dobbs and contributor Erick Erickson, head of RedState.com, after they’d bemoaned a report that in 40 percent of households a woman was the breadwinner. To Dobbs, it was a sign of the end of civilization; to Erickson, a perversion of the natural world’s order in which male animals are dominant and female animals are submissive.

“I’ll start with you, Erick,” she said. “What makes you dominant and me submissive, and who died and made you scientist in chief?! … I’ve got a list of studies here that say your science is wrong.” Erickson scrambled, while Dobbs, getting rattled, tried the patronizing approach. “Excuse me. Let me just finish what I’m saying, O Dominant One.” Sheryl Sandberg, who didn’t know her, immediately saw a woman who leaned in hard, and promptly invited her to *Fortune’*s Most Powerful Women Summit. “Megyn speaks truth to power,” says Sandberg, who has become a friend. “She’s tough, fair, and relentlessly brave.”

Today, Erickson admits, “She definitely got the better of me. It was a wake-up call. You’ve got to be more responsible about what you say. Particularly when you have a daughter and a wife.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/12/megyn-kelly-fox-news-cover-story

i haven't read yet past THE DONALD DUCKS .. :)