Like her or not, an energetic, long-form interview with PBS Frontline is another signal that Megyn Kelly wants back on TV. Kelly walked away from NBC News and her failed Today show slot with multi-generational wealth, so is in a position to create her own production company rather than try to get a gig with an existing network.

In the interview, portions of which will apparently be included in an upcoming PBS documentary, Kelly made some very fair, perceptive, and concise statements about politics and journalism, even if the sit-down seemed contrived. She also threw some shade at unhinged Trump haters Morning Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who gave Trump a huge amount of airtime on MSNBC before reversing course.

The former corporate lawyer reflected much of what the country is thinking by observing that impeachment is falling flat for the Democrats because they have cried wolf way too often, starting immediately after the November 2016 election.

“Only Rosie O’Donnell”

Her claim about being a down-the-middle journalist seems to be a stretch, however. Starting with the famous or infamous August 2015 GOP debate during which she accused the New York real estate mogul of misogyny, and during  The Kelly File at 9 p.m. weeknights on Fox News, Megyn Kelly essentially spent about a year auditioning for a job in the mainstream liberal media by criticizing Trump. She also seemingly planned her November 2016 book tour for the Settle for More memoir as anti-Trump victory lap after, which his election thwarted.

She and Trump feuded during this election season, although Kelly would insist that the quarrel was one way, and she was just doing her job as a journalist. “Following the public feud between the two that went on for months, Kelly lost her standing with conservatives and has since been a bit of a pariah without credibility or support from either conservatives or liberals,” BizPacReview recalled.

Trump Is a Savvy Politician

Kelly, who is portrayed by Charlize Theron in the upcoming movie Bombshell (that may bomb at the box office) about the late Fox CEO Roger Ailes and the sexual harassment allegations at the network, also thinks Trump kept the storyline going for nine months to boost his standing with his base.

Despite what happened, Megyn Kelly acknowledged the following about the POTUS and his America First agenda:

“I don’t think Trump is a truly bad man. I think he is a savvy politician who knows what to say and what to do to get elected…Trump is a bull in a china shop, for sure, but a lot of that china need to be broken….the media, it’s sickening what they’ve done…”

Kelly claims that Breitbart News under Steve Bannon allegedly conducted an associated vendetta against her (“they tried to destroy me”), which stirred up enough of her detractors that got to the point of escalating security concerns for her and her family. Any kind of physical harassment or threats is obviously disgusting and complete unacceptable.

Megyn Kelly Truth Seeker

Insisting that she kept the playing field level during the 2016 presidential campaign, Megyn Kelly insisted that “I’m not for either side; I’m for truth.”

Contrary to revisionist history, Megyn Kelly correctly recalled that the “pre-Trump” Sarah Palin electrified the GOP base as John McCain’s vice presidential running mate. Parenthetically, McCain could have won that election even against the far more charismatic Obama if only he had bucked the establishment and voted against the Wall Street bailout.

According to Megyn Kelly, “Obama, by most people’s measure, is a good man with policies that led to mediocre success and that have been largely been reversed…[Trump’s] policies on paper largely done a lot of good in the eyes of Republicans.” Kelly seemed to overlook that many independents and some registered Democrats also back Trump.

The Obamacare Lie

She also correctly noted that Obamacare “got shoved down our throats without majority support in the country” on a straight-party line vote.

Megyn Kelly also seems to be one of the few pundits who is willing to publicly draw a distinction between Trump’s exaggerations, jokes/trolling, and general showmanship that perpetually outrages the media echo chamber and the blue-check brigade with Obama lying about an important public policy issue such as “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” in the context of Obamacare.

“Look, Trump does not have an adult relationship with the truth, that’s just a fact, but I think Republicans who love him are quick to forgive him because they see his lies as ‘I got an A instead of a C..’ You know, puffery about himself, or how well he’s doing or how someone he loves is doing. Obama lied to them about something that struck at the very heart of their lives–their healthcare, their relationship with their doctor…there was a slow boil with that group of would-be voters, and boy, they had their say in November of 2016.”

Locker Room Talk

From the Daily Beast about the scandal that many incorrectly felt would end his White House bid.

“Later, Kelly says that as ‘jarring’ as Trump’s Access Hollywood tape was, she thinks he deserves credit for cleaning it up by bringing Bill Clinton’s accusers to the debate that followed. ‘It reminded all of us that the woman who would go into office if he lost was no saint either,’ she says. ‘Not Hillary herself, necessarily, but her husband. And with her enabling.’ Kelly claims that Trump ‘made a very powerful case’ before essentially dismissing the president’s ‘colorful history with women’ compared to Bill Clinton’s ‘dangerous history with women.’  Finally, Kelly ends the interview by openly mocking those who view Trump’s presidency as an ‘existential’ threat to American democracy. ‘I just don’t buy into this catastrophic, ‘the nation will never be the same!'” she says, pretending to cry and then rolling her eyes. ‘We’ll be fine.'”

And while the political/media apparatus obsesses about impeachment, the Trump agenda moves forward and the economic prosperity continues to set records, as the Washington Examiner detailed on December 13:

  • An agreement on a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal.
  • A new budget including more than $1.3 billion for a border wall and blocks a government shutdown.
  • House approval of the U.S. Space Force, a brand-new branch of the military.
  • Government family leave that will be a model for a proposal for the public.
  • Tentative agreement on trade with China.
  • Approval of Trump’s 50th federal appeals judge.
  • Confirmation of a new Food and Drug Administration chief.
  • The signing of a pro-Israel anti-Semitism executive order

Watch the entire, wide-ranging and in-depth Megyn Kelly-PBS interview below and draw your own conclusions: