Megyn Kelly RIPS Fox News REVEALS Pro-War MANDATE

Megyn Kelly disclosed that during her 14 years at Fox News, there was an implicit, if not explicit, mandate to 'cheerlead' US military interventions. She specifically referenced Trump's Venezuela operation, stating she would have known to 'cheerlead it' at Fox News and found the network's current coverage akin to 'Russian propaganda' due to its lack of skepticism. She expressed personal embarrassment over past actions and now advocates for a 'yellow light' approach to such interventions.

Megyn Kelly's direct statement: 'When I was at Fox News... I would have known that I was supposed to cheerlead it... I have done that enough times in my career as a Fox News anchor to have been embarrassed enough to know I'm going to stay on the yellow light for this.'

The hosts elaborate on Kelly's revelation by referencing Noam Chomsky's concept of 'manufacturing consent.' They argue that major cable news networks often don't need to issue direct talking points because they primarily hire individuals who are already ideologically aligned with the network's editorial stance, especially on significant foreign policy issues like US interventionism. This pre-existing alignment ensures consistent messaging without overt top-down directives.

Host: 'You don't need that direct instruction... to know what you're supposed to do and to know what the consequences are if you don't do that.' And later, referencing Chomsky: 'The point is they hire people who are ideologically in agreement on this big foreign policy question which is imperialism and US intervention.'

The Trump administration's intervention in Venezuela exposed ideological fault lines within the MAGA movement. While some figures like Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson expressed caution or 'yellow light' hesitancy, others, such as Matt Walsh, openly embraced a brazenly imperialist justification, stating that 'going to war to secure a vital resource for your own people is totally legitimate.' This division suggests that while the anti-forever war stance was a Trump-era talking point, specific interventions can still rally diverse MAGA factions under different pretexts (e.g., anti-communism, drug trafficking, resource control).

Matt Walsh: 'Going to war to secure a vital resource for your own people is totally legitimate... Why should we allow some third world communist hole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?' Host: 'There was not the same level of resistance from MAGA on this as there was with Iran... You've got the Latin American neocons, you've got the... 'it's just based to come in and take the oil' vibe. You've got the drug trafficker thing... the communism angle.'