Kelly presses ‘Infowars’ host Jones on Sandy Hook denial

Meanwhile, parents of children killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre have urged NBC not to give him airtime because he’s theorized the shooting could be a hoax. According clips from a tape of a private conversation between Kelly and Jones, which Jones released on Friday, she tells him, “I’m not looking to portray you as some kind of boogeyman”.

Jones was said to have been displeased with commercials for the interview, which he is said to view as distorting his opinions. What’s more, Jones “has the ear of our president”, and spurious things InfoWars says have a way of getting repeated by his phone-pal President Donald Trump, who has saluted the InfoWars host in the past. But then I was also going into devil’s advocate. “I’ve watched the footage”, he said.

Sandy Hook shooting looks like a drill to Alex Jones.

When confronted with the parents’ of children lost in the #Sandy Hook tragedy shattered lives, and the hurt and sorrow caused by his prior suggestions that the incident was a hoax, Megyn Kelly accused Jones of dodging her question.

“At that point – and I do think there was some cover-up and some manipulation – that is pretty much what I believed”, Jones said. “I don’t have that”. This, like similar outrage at Middlebury and Berkeley over Charles Murray and Ann Coulters respective appearances, brings to mind a weird, but poignant section from Act I of Arthur Millers “The Crucible, ” where he breaks from the action and lays out the plays theme and allegorical exploration of McCarthyism, “ in America any man who is not reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell.

NBC Connecticut affiliate WVIT announced prior to the interview it would not air Kelly’s special with Jones.

The Associated Press reported that station executives said in a memo they made their decision after listening to employees, viewers and Sandy Hook families.

Kelly, together with NBC News executives, sought ways to ameliorate the situation and chose to invite parents of the Sandy Hook victims to appear on the segment. NBC News Chairman Andy Lack told the AP that the Jones story would be edited with its critics in mind. She also struggled during her much-hyped sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin on “Sunday Night’s” debut a few weeks ago.

Yet in her determination to avoid normalizing Jones, Kelly also avoided drawing anything particularly interesting out of him or the phenomenon he represents.

Jones was quickly interrupted by Kelly, who put her head in her hands as she said: ‘Alex, the parents, one after the other, devastated, the dead bodies that the coroner autopsied…’ “I’ve had debates where devils advocates say the whole story is true and then I’ve had debates where none of it is true”.

“Of course, there is no evidence ‘on the other side, ‘” Kelly’s voiceover chimed in. “It left me, and many other Americans, asking the very question that prompted this interview: How does Jones, who trafficks in these outrageous conspiracy theories, have the respect of the president of the United States and a growing audience of millions?” “I see the guy who loves those kids and is more complex than we have been led to believe, ‘” Kelly says. During a rant posted on Saturday evening, he referred to Kelly, NBC News, and Tom Brokaw as “frauds”.

NBC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

She then was a key figure in the downfall of former Fox News chief Roger Ailes, telling in-house investigators of inappropriate conduct by Ailes that supported Gretchen Carlson and other women who had made similar accusations.