Some three weeks have passed since The Daily Mail published its explosive report alleging Doug Emhoff forcibly slapped an ex-girlfriend in 2012 while waiting in a valet line outside of a charity gala in Cannes, France, and there has been nary a peep from the corporate media about the accusations.
A representative for Emhoff denied the reporting with a vague statement, and the media outlets that have interviewed Emhoff since the story broke have steered clear of the topic. Meanwhile, the same press that rushed to dissect E. Jean Carroll’s sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump have been noticeably silent on Emhoff.
But that all changed when a Republican voice on a CNN panel made a passing reference to the scandal on Tuesday, which immediately led to a meltdown. On Wednesday’s show, Megyn was joined by Mark Halperin, Sean Spicer, and Dan Turrentine, hosts of The Morning Meeting on 2Way, to talk about the exchange and the hypocrisy from the left on this story.
The CNN Meltdown
Former Bush administration official Scott Jennings was part of a roundtable discussion on CNN’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip on Tuesday when he attempted to bring up the allegations against Emhoff while talking about Eminem endorsing Kamala Harris.
“Everything that’s said about Donald Trump and his treatment of women and the gender gap in this campaign, this rapper – who I fully admit sold a lot of records – if you’ve read some of the things he has said about the promotion of domestic violence against women,” Jennings said before being interrupted by leftist commentator Bakari Sellers.
After pleading with Sellers to let him finish, Jennings went back to his point: “So when you think about the things [Eminem] has said in order to sell those records, and you also consider some of the questions that are swirling around Harris’s own husband in this regard–”
That is when all hell broke loose on the set with Sellers cutting Jennings off as Phillip attempted to regain control of the conversation. “I just have to say, I’ll take those concerns seriously if you also express concerns about the allegations– he’s been found liable for rape,” Philip asserted (incorrectly) in reference to the civil lawsuit brought by Carroll in New York City. “So, we’re not going to litigate those other things, but you can’t, you can’t just pick and choose–“
Sellers told Jennings that “I can’t represent you in the defamation case,” as others on the panel, including Ashley Allison and David Urban, talked over each other until Philip finally tossed to a break.
The Double Standard
Megyn had a message for Phillip. “You cannot just pick and choose and some of us don’t; some of us report on both candidates and the nasty things that come up against them because there is a possibility that they are true,” she noted. “Some of us have a history of doing that, Abby, unlike you who wants to sweep this under the rug.”
When you look at the media’s history covering Trump, Spicer said the hypocrisy is clear. “We can’t talk about it? We will be sued for even mentioning this? Like, they don’t want the conversation to exist,” he said. “I’m no lawyer, but I believe that they spent a lot of time talking about Donald Trump and every accusation that has been made on a whole host of issues, but we can’t talk about Doug Emhoff?”
Turrentine likened the media blackout to how the Hunter Biden laptop story was treated in the lead-up to the 2020 election. “I hate to say this as a Democrat, but in 2020 when we had the allegations of the Hunter Biden laptop, count me as someone who thought it was a Russian plot to disturb the election,” he admitted. “We later learned that was not the case. So, to just knee jerk say ‘there’s nothing to see here’ and ‘we can’t talk about this,’ if you’re being honest, yes, you would want to talk about this.”
To that point, Halperin wondered if any other media outlet has even explored the claims – which come from three contemporaneous witnesses with paper receipts – for itself. “I do wonder how much The Washington Post and New York Times and others have spent investigative bandwidth on trying to confirm it,” he noted. “It seems like if this were a Republican, the candidate would have been asked about it and he would have been asked about it in more detail than [Emhoff] has been asked.”
You can check out Megyn’s full interview with the guys by tuning in to episode 924 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.