The Better View: A Discussion with Mercedes Schlapp and Megyn Kelly

Mercedes Schlapp sat down with Journalist and host of The Megyn Kelly Show, Megyn Kelly at CPAC in DC 2024 for a discussion on the state of the media, the Left’s weaponization of government, and the Left’s attacks on children.  

Kelly’s twenty years in reporting have given her a front row seat for the Left’s takeover of the mainstream media. What started as subtle, left-wing sympathies morphed into explicit support of the Democrat Party in the 2016 presidential election. Mainstream media’s covering of the Trump campaign and later Trump presidency became an onslaught of calculated attacks on the conservative president and his supporters. Kelly calls this the “assisted suicide” of the mainstream media that killed the industry and gave rise to the thriving alternative media industry where conservatives have found refuge. 

“They thought it was important to say their own opinion, ‘He’s a bigot. He’s a racist. He’s a this. He's a that.’ And completely sacrificed their objectivity and in so doing, sacrificed the industry. I’ve said before it was an assisted suicide. Trump helped them, but they did it to themselves,” Kelly explained.  

The Left was not satisfied with stopping at censoring conservatives and have now weaponized the justice department to wage lawfare against President Trump and his supporters.  

The case in Fulton County, Georgia is a prime example. The District Attorney Fani Willis has shown herself to be nothing but corrupt after she unsuccessfully attempted to cover up her conflict-of-interest affair with the prosecutor on the case, Nathan Wade. Much like in the New York and Mar-a-Lago cases, the case Willis is overseeing is a witch hunt based on weak or even manufactured evidence intended to intimidate, ruin, and prevent the former president from ever returning to office. 

“We never used to do this to each other. We would fight; we knew we disagreed...but we would never put a man’s freedom at risk because we disagreed with him,” said Kelly.  

The Left has not only put our conservative leaders in danger but are putting America’s children in danger with radical transgender policies for women’s sports.  

Incidents are increasing of young girls severely injured by a female-identifying male playing on girls’ sports teams. These incidents have escalated the issue of biological males competing with females from giving equal opportunities to girls to concern for the safety of female athletes. A young girl in North Carolina suffered permanent brain injuries and paralysis after receiving a blow to the head with a volleyball spiked by a male player. In Massachusetts, a female field hockey player’s teeth were knocked out when she was hit in the face by a ball thrown by a male player. Still more, three more female athletes were injured in a basketball game by a 6 foot tall male player. 

Kelly warned, “Someone’s going to die. Find your voice.”  

Watch the full conversation on X @CPAC.