"Who gives a sh-t what you heard? Who died and left you political analyst-in-chief?” political commentator Megyn Kelly asked ABC’s David Muir after the presidential debate “moderator” interjected his personal opinion to attack Republican candidate Donald Trump Tuesday night.
“I'm disgusted. I'm ashamed of those moderators at ABC News. They did exactly what their bosses wanted them to do. The person who runs ABC News is a close personal friend of (Democrat candidate) Kamala Harris,” Kelly said in her post-debate analysis.
“It was three against one,” Kelly said, explaining how both ABC debate moderators contrived their questions and comments in an effort to help Harris:
“It's very easy to look like you know what you're doing when both moderators are entirely on your side.”
Kelly also called out the moderators for “fact-checking” Trump, but not Harris.
“And you accused him of lying, even when it was just your opinion that he lied,” Kelly said, providing an example of a time Muir interjected his opinion into the debate in order to discredit Trump:
“When Trump tried to say that his comment that he lost 2020 by a whisker was him being sarcastic, David Muir actually interjected, saying, ‘I didn't hear sarcasm.’”
“Who gives a sh-t what you heard?” Kelly asked Muir, reminding him that his job as moderator was to moderate, not to analyze, and to restrict his opinions to his personal life:
“Who died and left you political analyst-in-chief? You're supposed to be the objective news anchor of ‘World News Tonight.’
“That's a comment you make to your significant other, David, not in the debates: ‘It didn't sound like that to me.’
“Shut up. That is inappropriate. It's not for you to make that call.
“Leave it up to Kamala Harris, leave it up to people like me who will play the sound bite and let the audience decide. But you were out of line.”
“And they did it to him over and over and over again,” Kelly said.
“I'm swearing even more than normal right now because I'm mad. I'm angry. I'm angry at them, at ABC, at my industry that I want nothing to do with,” Kelly explained:
“And I've never been happier to be outside and be able to say how I truly feel - and yes, even with some colorful words, because that's what the situation calls for.
“They're trying to steal this election. They are openly working to sink him.”
“This was a mistake to trust ABC News with this debate,” Kelly said:
“This should be the last time the Republicans ever do this because those two moderators tried to sink Donald Trump tonight.”
In the end, however, ABC’s bias against Trump is going to backfire, because Americans are going to recognize it for what it is, Kelly concluded:
“I think it was so bad, their bias against him and toward her, that it's going to backfire. I actually think the American public is going to see through this, and there's probably going to be some empathy for Trump.”