Megyn Kelly of Fox News didn’t take any crap from the overexposed attorney Gloria Allred during a discussion about the Tim Tebow’s pro-life commercial set to air during the Super Bowl.
HotAir.com reports the details:
Allred claims that the Focus on the Family ad, which features Florida University football star Tim Tebow and his mother, Pam, is “misleading” even though she hasn’t seen it.
The ad reportedly will tell the story of how Pam Tebow decided not to abort Tim even though doctors told her the pregnancy could endanger her life. Allred is threatening to file complaints with the FCC and FTC if the ad airs but does not mention her allegation that aborting the pregnancy at the time in the Philippines would have been a crime.
Kelly poked holes in Allred’s take on the ad throughout the video. She asked whether Allred believes a woman’s right to choose extends to choosing life, why she would object to someone airing an ad with a religious message, and why abortion advocates don’t air a competing ad if they are so bothered by the Tebows’ message.
“As you know, that’s the bedrock of the First Amendment,” Kelly said. “The answer to speech you don’t like is not less speech; it’s more speech.”
But the highlight of the segment comes at about the 4:30 mark. Allred ridiculously in effect argued that if Focus on the Family insists on airing an advocacy ad during a sports event, it should be compelled to air the equivalent of a mini-documentary explaining Philippines law.Kelly’s response: “No ad can tell the entire story about the law as it stands in the Philippines. … It’s just a practical impossibility, Gloria, which would lead many to say that this is a PR stunt by you.”
A word of warning: Never stand between publicity whore Gloria Allred and a TV camera. She will knock down you, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and her own mother to be seen on television.
Source: HotAir.com
This post was last modified on April 10, 2021
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I support a woman's right to abortion if it is due to medical dangers to her, but I do not believe in abortion as a means of birth control. However, I think pro-choice advocates have every right to state their opinions via media outlets, BUT, so do pro-choice advocates! Gloria Allred, and those like her, only want to get THEIR view out, and they don't want anyone who disagrees with them to be able to spread their message, as well. Gloria Allred is pitiful. She is a very intelligent and beautiful woman, but she is nothing more than a media wh*re who exploits people to gain fame. That is sad. I admire Focus on the Family for airing this message, and I applaud CBS for being fair and letting the ad air. Tim Tebow is a wonderful role model for our youth!
Yeah I agree I am not sure where you got the beautiful as for the intelligent the jury is still out lol
I was with you until you got to the word "beautiful".
Gloria Allred is a leftist prophet spewing forth a doctrine of freedom from consequences for one's actions. The woman who finds herself pregnant as a result of rape or incest or the woman who finds her own life in jeopardy due to a pregnancy did not make a choice to be in that situation and the law provides exceptions in these cases. The woman who becomes pregnant either due to promiscuity or careless use of contraception, has made her choice which, according to the laws of the universe, comes with a consequence. The destruction of a life has its consequences and several studies have shown that women who undergo an induced abortion are at risk for higher rates of physical and mental disease.
jews like to remind everybody about the holocaust but they think every woman should be able to kill an unborn child, typical media whore
Gloria Allred took $3,500.00 from me in 1982 (I had to sell gold coins to retain her) and she never showed up in Court, nor did she even call the Court and the Judge couldn't locate her so he sent me and 3 witnesses home at two thirty...but I had no home, and I haven't seen Gloria Allred since. My life and our son's lives were completely DESTROYED! My husband, HOLLYWOOD STUNTMAN JIM BURK, ended up paying CASH for a 68 acre ranch in Darby Montana, remarrried after our divorce was final and me and our son's were forced into poverty that was BEYOND inhumane. I've tried and tried to shine the light on this heartless and soul less "advocate for victims" but she's another rat in my opinion that's gotten so rich she's "too big to fail"? It's only a dream but I wish I could put her in the house me and our son had to live in because it was in such bad shape we had to wear flea collars on our wrists and ankles for two weeks after moving in! Jim died a millionaire on March 9 2009, disinherited our three sons and left "his" estate to a neice barely knew and someone that "doesn't want their name revealed", and we're so poor we can do nothing...again. HELL IS NOT HOT ENOUGH FOR GLORIA ALLRED!
OMG This is horrible! It sounds like your husband and Gloria Allred should go to the same place together. Why didnt you sue her with a pro bono attorney who would love to go against this b*tch and of course put his name on the news?
I will never understand why some people get so irate if they hear another confess they are pro-life. It is as if the thought of one not being able to take the life of an unborn baby causes a rage and anger to spew out of their demonized soul.
I guess because they know that they would do it if the baby is not planned and presents issues they don't want to deal with or if the baby has health problems. To hear someone else make a determination to just deal with the cards life has dealt, especially if it was their decision to have sex in the first place, I suppose makes them feel as they are being judged. Liberals/Progressives hate being judged even if they are not necessarily being judged. Yet they tend to be the most mis-judgmental people.
l think perhaps many of these women have aborted and do not want to be told that their decision was wrong, even if indirectly told by someone who is not even talking to them.
Allred is a horrible person and it shows in that video clip.
Her whole thing is outrage that a woman chose not to abort and looking for some excuse to denigrate Pam Tebows choice, as though she was coerced.
planned parenthood targets minorities and the poor for abortion. It's all part of the progressive plan to engineer the elimination of the "undesirable class".
These people are simply horrible through and through. Read some of the history of the progressive movement - it is so ugly and arrogant. All about death if you happened to not be one of the gifted class.
Actually, I have a cousin who does radio work in Los Angeles & has dealt with Allred more then a few times, he says she has never been a pain in the a$$ to deal with. Now I agree with her on very little politically, from what my cousin says, she's not a horrible person.
The part about Planned Parrenthood & it's aims & goals, that was dead on. Margret Sanger is the founder of PP, look into her backround & it will tell you everything you need to know about PP. Many that support PP don't even know the truth about this group, & I think many would cringe if they knew.
Why did MK give GA a forum to spew in the first place? Good tv brings in ratings. The attention that both MK and GA got from this is a win-win for both.
Megyn Kelly like most Fox News anchors want fair and balanced discussions. I agree it gives the opposition attention but at least it is fair and balanced unlike some.
This is why I love Megyn Kelly. Yes, she is a very cute & sexy girl with a brain & a sense of humor. But she will also drop the gloves & slug it out in a debate. I watched her hold O'Reilly to a draw a few times, & also watched her just crush others, like Allred here. Don't ever let her looks fool you, she's nobody's fool, & she knows how to win an arguement. After all, she's a lawyer, that was her job, to win.
Yeah I would go ahead and say that most conservative women or conservative leaning women are tough, but also fair. Obviously a TV Network will not hire less than stellar looking women UNLESS they have a lot of talent and brains to offset it, like Greta, who is not a beauty, but she is not a fool either and she also tells it like it is although I am not 100% if she is conservative leaning well leaning could be a fair thing to say about her I guess.
It is life, that beauty can and does get you through the door. It would be stupid to say otherwise, that is why we women spend so much time taking care of ourselves. However, women like Contessa the Whore and other liberal women who are pretty, but completely stupid, it doesn't necessarily gets them respect nor respectable ratings in the end.
And yes I do admire that she was and always is able to remain as composed as she can when she is being stared down even by someone that for some I imagine find intimidating like Bill O'Reilly. O'Reilly doesn't intimidate me. He is much much older than me and he is probably better read and has more experience in life, but if you know your crap and you know it well and can back it up with facts people like that do not intimidate me at all. So I think that is her situation as well. She is not so easily intimidated.
KQ I could'nt have said it any better!!!
One thing that makes O'Reilly intimidating is that he is a big guy, like 6'4". Plus, when omeone that big, that smart, that confident of his own opinion, & knowing how to use his well earned reputation as an animal when agitated, they know are intimidating. I like the man, he can drive me up the wall at times, but I've watched him since he started at FoxNews, he just gets better.
My 22 year-old son called me up today just to tell me how much he now loves this woman, now that he's seen the video. Hot and tough he says.
I happened to drive by the planned parenthood office in the city of ORange today and someone was outside with horrible pictures of aborted babies. I'm so glad that this ad will put a much more positive spin on the issue. yes, let's get the discussion going.
Any country that has laws against abortion ALWAYS has this exception: A therapeutic abortion is legal WHEN THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS IN DANGER.
Duuuuh, Gloria!