Megyn Kelly on Feet, Favre, and Fuggedaboutit!

Imus was wrong about many things this morning, including the observation that Megyn Kelly is “29 months pregnant.” Admittedly, however, that is how large Kelly, the host of Fox News Channel’s America Live program, feels. 
 
“I feel like I’m so much bigger this time around,” she said of her second pregnancy. “It’s gotten to the point now where I’m starting to mislead people about how far along I am. People are going to be wondering why I’m, like, 11 months pregnant at some point.”
 
Though she’s no football fan, Kelly is a huge fan of a good story, and devoted some time on her show recently to discussing New York Jets Head Coach Rex Ryan’s foot fetish. Because, as she put it today, “Are you kidding me? Who could not talk about that?”
 
Kelly observed that Ryan and his wife, who made racy foot-related videos, are entitled to do as they please in their personal lives; just don’t complain about the ramifications when it winds up on the internet.
 
“I think it’s fair for the media to ask questions about whether that shows good judgment, and why he would get a pass on publicly outing his fetish when you have other figures on the Jets, like Brett Favre, who used to be with them, who gets publicly outed and shamed for sending racy texts to a so-called sideline reporter,” Kelly said.
 
That Favre denied ever sending pictures of his weiner to anybody, as Imus noted, did not shock Kelly. “Having spent some time online looking at the evidence,” she said, “I don’t blame him.”
 
The FBI and police arrested 129 alleged mafia members yesterday, among them six top bosses and 30 made men, and while Kelly said it “sounds good,” the likelihood of any of these people going to jail for a substantial amount of time is very low. Regardless, she commended Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to make an example of these guys.
 
“Even though we have a love affair in this country with the mafia, because of The Godfather and Good Fellas and movies like that where there’s some glamour to it, these are really just thugs who are harassing working class people, who don’t have the power to do anything about it,” she said.
 
Someone more likely to actually spend time behind bars is Jared Loughner, the man suspected of killing six people and wounding 13, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, outside a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona two weeks ago. Loughner will be tried in both federal and Arizona state courts, a technicality that Kelly, who is also an attorney, thinks bodes will for the prosecution.
 
“In Arizona, there’s no such thing as not guilty by reason of insanity—it’s guilty, but insane,” she said. “So there the jury has an out clause—they can find him guilty, but insane, and he’d go to the insane asylum, and then when and if his doctors ever pronounce him sane, he would be transferred to jail. Which makes a lot of sense.”
 
Kelly recently interviewed Mary Jo Buttafuoco, who was famously shot in the head nearly 20 years ago outside her Long Island home by her then-husband’s then-mistress Amy Fisher, to talk about the road ahead for Giffords. Despite some remaining facial paralysis, Kelly said Buttafuoco is now “100 percent” mentally, but Imus disagreed.
 
“I would have questioned her mental competence before she got shot,” Imus said. “For her decision to marry Joey Buttafuoco.”
 
-Julie Kanfer