Does having been spanked as a child (being spanked as an adult is, as the vast majority of you know, an entirely different kettle of fish) make a person more aggressive and emotionally unstable as a grown-up? That’s what precisely what Fox News’ Megyn Kelly seeks to find out.

Karen Handel — who today resigned from her position as Susan G. Komen’s senior VP following a controversial policy change that resulted in the foundation cutting its grants to Planned Parenthood — visited America Live‘s Megyn Kelly to explain her decision to step down, as well as her role in the foundation’s new policy.

Michigan residents watching the Super Bowl last night may have noticed an unusual political ad that aired during Sunday’s game. In it, a young Chinese woman is seen riding a bike through what appears to be a rice paddy. She stops to tell the viewer all about Democratic Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow‘s spending, as young Chinese women riding bikes through rice paddies are wont to do. As a result of spending, she informs us, the U.S. has to borrow more money from China and “your economy get very weak. Ours get very good. We take your jobs. Thank you, Debbie Spenditnow!”

On the heels of a geopolitically troubling report by the Washington Post’s David Ignatius that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta anticipates “that Israel will attack Iran over the next few months”, hawkish former UN Ambassador John Bolton spoke with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly about the potential military response if a war between the two nations broke out. “I don’t think we will be able to stay out and I don’t think it’s in our interest to stay out,” Bolton exclaimed.

You might recall that, just yesterday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly hosting a very heated panel discussion between guests Sandy Rios and Jehmu Greene about Susan G. Komen’s controversial decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. Now that the foundation has reversed its decision, Kelly invited the two back for more.

On Thursday’s America Live, host Megyn Kelly invited Sandy Rios vice-president of Family-Pac Federal, and Jehmu Greene, formerly of the Women’s Media Center, to discuss the ongoing controversy surrounding the Susan G. Komen’s foundation’s new approach regarding funding.

Megyn Kelly is not exactly the first person one would imagine who had their parents joke that they were too ugly to get married, and yet it’s still something she yells at her mom about, the Fox News anchor tells Elle magazine this week– along with explaining how a tenth-grade career quiz told her to be a journalist and, in her current job, what it takes for her to ban someone from the show.

On Friday afternoon’s America Live, Fox News contributor Alan Colmes beat back a tide of anti-Obama talking points about the President and Israel. Most importantly, he refuted 2011′s real Lie of the Year (in my book), one that was referenced by presidential candidate Mitt Romney at last night’s debate, but has also been spread by the likes of NBC News’ Brian Williams: that President Obama urged Israel to return to the pre-1967 borders.

Rick Tyler, a former campaign spokesman for Newt Gingrich and current senior adviser for the pro-Gingrich super PAC “Winning Our Future,” appeared on America Live today to discuss When Mitt Romney Came to Town, the half-hour documentary that purports to take a look at the fallout from Mitt Romney‘s time at private equity firm Bain Capital.

The National Review‘s Rich Lowry,, appeared on Fox News’s America Live to talk about his publications editorial which urged Republicans “to have the good sense to reject a hasty marriage to Newt Gingrich, which would risk dissolving in acrimony.”

Even though Fox News is known for using offbeat guests like Ted Nugent and a stable of body-language experts, it was still a bit jarring to see hard-edged Megyn Kelly interviewing a self-proclaimed psychic on this afternoon’s edition of America Live. Kelly quizzed Dallas psychic Stephanie Almaguer, with a straight face, about her efforts to help find Missouri baby Lisa Irwin, missing since early October.

Mediaite managing editor Colby Hall paid a visit to America Live this afternoon to discuss new poll results indicating that Americans may be losing confidence in our national culture.

According to the Pew Research poll, 50 percent of survey-takers agreed that “our people are not perfect, but our culture is superior to others.” Four years ago, 54 percent of Americans expressed agreement with that statement, and nine years ago, 60 percent of survey-takers agreed that American culture is superior to others.

On America Live Friday afternoon, host Megyn Kelly played referee in a shouting match between Fox News liberal embed Alan Colmes and conservative radio host Mike Gallagher over supposed outrage at Democratic support for Occupy Wall Street. Colmes chided Gallagher, and the media, for focusing on the actions of a small number of protesters, but what really set Gallagher off was Colmes’ comparison of OWS to the Tea Party.

Megyn Kelly made a bold confession on her Fox News program this afternoon, revealing that she was caught shoplifting at a Kmart when she was a teenager. “I have to tell you when I was 12 years old, I shoplifted,” Kelly admitted. Correspondent Trace Gallagher stunnedly gasped. “What?!” “I got caught shoplifting at a Kmart…It was really my then best friend that made me do it.” Kelly explained.

strong>Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is the real-life Chauncey Gardner character who has become somewhat of a national sensation due to a conversation that he had with then candidate Barack Obama. Since then “Joe the Plumber” has guested on numerous cable news programs, visited Israel as some sort of dignitary, and recently decided to run for congress for his Cleveland area district.

In teasing an upcoming America Live segment Wednesday, Fox News’ Megyn Kelly said that “the White House” launched a new website called Attack Watch, and a graphic reading “Obama Admin Launches Website to stop web ‘misinformation’” displayed throughout the segment. Love it or hate it, the Attack Watch website was launched by Obama For America, and the White House has nothing to do with it. If only there was some way to report this kind of misinformation…

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin jumped to the defense of current GOP frontrunner Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) over President Obama‘s over-the-top “treason” rhetoric…wait, no, that wasn’t it. In an appearance on Fox’s America Live, Palin said of the President’s reaction to Perry attacks that Obama should “quit picking on other people like Rick Perry, who is just going to continue to call it like he sees it.”

On America Live this afternoon, Megyn Kelly had conservative radio host Ben Ferguson and liberal radio talk show host Rob Thompson on to discuss how the current state of the job market and the economy will impact Barack Obama as he campaigns for a second term.

When Kelly tried to interrupt Thompson mid-speech to ask Ferguson another question, the segment began to veer slightly out of control. And, yes, there was giggling.

Cable news producers are in a bit of a predicament when it comes to Charlie Sheen. Yes, there are ethical questions raised by enabling the embattled actor’s megalomania with continual coverage, but America’s appetite for “Sheen Mania” still seems insatiable. So what’s a producer to do? At America Live the answer is booking Stephen Baldwin; another embattled actor — though one of a completely different stripe — who ends up giving as insightful a take as anyone else has thus far.

Fox’s Megyn Kelly talked to Equality Matters’ president Richard Socarides Thursday, discussing the dustup over Rep. Steve Cohen’s recent comments on the floor of the House, when he compared Republicans’ “lies” to the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.

On America Live, Socarides and Kelly disagreed over whether Cohen’s comments since amounted to an apology or not, and somehow that led to a back-and-forth over Socarides’ belief that Fox News hosts regularly use the same kind of language:

Fox News Channel organized what America Live host Megyn Kelly accurately dubbed the “best panel ever,” comprised of Catholic League president Bill Donohue and president of the American Atheists, Dave Silverman. The two men discussed — what else? — the divisiveness and alienation some non-Christians feel this time of year, particularly when faced with a veritable twinkling forest of Christmas trees.

A new billboard is causing a bit of a stir in New Jersey. The ad, which appears on a highway that leads to New York City’s Lincoln Tunnel, features a nativity scene stamped with an unexpected message: “You know it’s a myth. This season, celebrate reason!” As the bottom of the billboard reveals, the space was rented by American Atheists. Today, the president of that organization, Dave Silverman, stopped by America Live to talk about religion, free speech, and the “war on Christmas” with Megyn Kelly.

Thanksgiving is for eating meals prepared by your loved ones and, since we hope you at least like like us here at Mediaite, here’s a little food for thought. Yesterday evening, I was watching Hardball where Chris Matthews was again making it clear that he doesn’t have a problem with the TSA body scanners, when I noticed something interesting. On the screen was a one of the scanner images, completely uncensored. It reminded me that, whenever Fox News shows one, there’s a blurry circle almost as large as the image itself. Hmmm, I wonder why the difference…

Television producers take note: the element of surprise is your greatest ally in creating compelling television. Case in point: Conservative commentator Monica Crowley predictably took the position that the real culprit in North Korea’s recent rogue behavior was a “weak” President Obama. Enter America Live host Megyn Kelly, bringing the pain to her guest’s rather obviously and overly political opinion, with sharply punctuated and exasperated “What?!”

Fox News reporter Trace Gallagher had just filed a report about a North Carolina woman who had been brought back to life after her heart had stopped for 15 minutes when he tossed back to America Live host Megyn Kelly. The astonished Fox News host tried hard to wrap her head around his explanation, and somehow arrived at the hope one can divine from this story – that having your spouse stuff you in the freezer could one day save your life. Sound funny? Maybe – but not nearly as funny as Kelly found it.