Here is a classic Flashback Friday clip of Fox News Host Megyn Kelly taking down RedState editor Erick Erickson back in May of 2013.
During the clip, Kelly slams Erickson over an on-the-air lament he recently made about the increase in mothers as household breadwinners where he asserted that the “male typically is the dominant role” in families. Erickson went on to defend himself the next day on his website writing, “Many feminist and emo lefties have their panties in a wad over my statements in the past 24 hours about families.”
After presenting the background of the incident, Kelly slammed Erickson asking him “What makes you dominant and me submissive and who died and made you scientist in chief?”
Kelly responded to this claim by telling Erickson “I don’t think I’m an emo liberal. I was offended by the piece none the less.”
As Talking Points Memo reports: “She held up a highlighted piece of paper. ‘I think you are judging people. […] This is a list of studies saying your science a wrong and your facts are wrong.'”
Erickson: I’m not judging them and no one should, it is just the reality.
Kelly: You are judging them.
Erickson: I’m not.
Megyn: You are. You come out clearly and say women who choose to work instead of staying at home to nurture the children they are making a worse choice. […] Just because you have people that agree with you doesn’t mean that it is not offensive.Kelly also compared Erickson’s logic on natural male dominance to the pseudo-science used by people opposed to interracial marriage in the 1950s and 60s:
Kelly: In this country in the ’50s and ’60s there were huge, huge numbers of people that believed that the children of interracial marriages were biologically inferior and that is why it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in some states in the country up until 1967. And they said it was science and fact if you were the child of a black father and white mother or vice versa you were inferior and you were not set up for success. Tell that to Barack Obama.
You can watch the clip, below:
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