Megyn Kelly Gets Giggly Over Gay Softball Team That Wasn’t Gay Enough

by Jon Bershad | 7:20 pm, May 5th, 2010

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There are a lot of terrible news stories out there these days, so it’s nice to see news anchors and pundits find a story that they actually enjoy reporting. Sure enough, Megyn Kelly and the ladies of “Kelly’s Court” discussing the patently bizarre story of a softball team in a gay softball league that was kicked out for not being “gay enough” is cable news gold. Some highlights and the video after the jump.

While the story of the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance and the lawsuit against it isn’t the most interesting “not gay enough” story this year (that prize goes to this doozy) it’s probably the most entertaining. It’s so quirky that the copywriters at Fox News seemingly took a page from the New York Post‘s headline writing staff to write Kelly’s intro to the piece.

“On the docket today, gay softball players accused of playing for the wrong team. A few fabulous boys of summer are suing the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance. Their team suspended and stripped of a second place trophy after it was determined that they were not gay enough for the Gay Softball World Series. You cannot make this stuff up.”

“Fabulous boys of summer?” Is the word “fabulous” even still popular in the gay community? We will give them credit for the “wrong team” line. Sometimes the most obvious jokes are the funniest.

While Kelly did put ridiculous emphasis on the word “gay” every time she said it (and also seemed to stifle a giggle whenever she said the phrase “gay league”), all the little jokes in the segment seemed to stay just on the side of slight political incorrectness instead of all out offensive. However, there were a couple of interesting incidents. At the 4:19 point in the video below, watch the awkward moment as Jonna Spilbor begins to make some kind of joke and then stop herself. Kelly set her up for the comedy lay up that never came.

“Kelly: What was it in the behavior on the field that made them say, ‘You’re not one of us?’
Spilbor: You know, maybe somebody slid home instead of…I don’t know”

Aw, come on, Jonna! Don’t leave us hanging! We can only assume the punchline she had in mind wasn’t going to be “instead of running across the plate when the catcher had a good chance of tagging him out so sliding would have made more sense and, by the way, homosexuals can play sports just like us regular people.”

Even odder was when Spilbor’s opponent in the piece, Lis Wiehl, brings up the ethnicities of the players for no discernible reason! Like Kelly says, you cannot make this stuff up.

Either way, it’s segments like this that make cable news (and Kelly’s Court in particular) so ridiculously entertaining.

Jonna Spilbor, Kelly's Court, Lis Wiehl, Megyn Kelly

badr

Megyn is a cutie.
Jon Bershad

Badr, normally I’d be angry at what seems like an irrelevant comment but, since I totally agree with you, I’m gonna let it fly.

And that’s why women can’t get any respect. Because of people like us.
badr

It it totally relevant. Why do the left hate Palin? Because she’s pretty. Same here.
proudpatriotusa

Why do the left hate Palin? Because she’s pretty.

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Typical right-wing simpleton thinking.

Like there are no liberal women that are attractive, yeah right.

The left hates Palin because shes a fraud, a carny, a political grifter.

Sarah Palin’s career would be over in half an hour if she were ever to appear on “Face the Nation” or “Meet the Press” or “This Week.”

And she doesn’t have enough hands and Sharpies to do a serious non-Fox press conference.

You will never see her outside of Faux News/GOP TV catching slow-pitch Wiffle balls because her handlers know off script she’s a know-nothing word salad generator.
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For the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance to claim that this winning team is not “gay enough” (due to too many bisexual players), this becomes an insult to ALL the gay players in the league since it suggests that bisexuals (or straights) are somehow superior players and gay men just can’t compete with them.

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Rogue-Comic

proudpatriotusa says:
May 5, 2010 at 11:00 pm

Why do the left hate Palin? Because she’s pretty.

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Typical right-wing simpleton thinking.

Like there are no liberal women that are attractive, yeah right.

The left hates Palin because shes a fraud, a carny, a political grifter.

Sarah Palin’s career would be over in half an hour if she were ever to appear on “Face the Nation” or “Meet the Press” or “This Week.”

And she doesn’t have enough hands and Sharpies to do a serious non-Fox press conference.

You will never see her outside of Faux News/GOP TV catching slow-pitch Wiffle balls because her handlers know off script she’s a know-nothing word salad generator.
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I disagree , the left hate Palin because she rivals Obama as the most charismatic figure in politics. Not being able to sexually conquer her is a secondary high school cheerleader fantasy for the males and being jealous of her natural extroversion infuriates females.

Both her and Obama avoid any hard news conferences/ interviews because they know they can w/o hurting their base. Palin can get away with it, but inside a year Gibbs will be the unwilling Judas that will turn the press against Obama.

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I like Megyn and her court segments plus she plays a really good devil’s advocate in touchy debates in her newscasts. She fills the gaps Shep can’t for hard right exclusive viewers of FNC.
timzank

proudpatriotusa says:
May 5, 2010 at 11:00 pm
Why do the left hate Palin? Because she’s pretty.

————————————————
Typical right-wing simpleton thinking.

Like there are no liberal women that are attractive, yeah right.
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Can ya name a few, cuz I can’t think of any ‘cept maybe Kirsten powers…
nocountryforwho

Try almost every celebrity in Hollywood, which you guys despise so much.
writer

“You guys.” Is that a stereotype?
ImNotBlue

nocountryforwho says:
May 6, 2010 at 10:31 am

Try almost every celebrity in Hollywood, which you guys despise so much.

Ah Hollywood… home of the uber-rich and poorly educated. And you’re proud of this?
txvoodoo

Oh, please, my toaster has more charisma than Palin, and it’s smarter.

And Megyn Kelly (what’s with the spelling of “Megan”?) may be sort of attractive (not so much after you discount all the makeup and bleach), her idiocy and homophobia render her ugly. Pretty is more than skin deep, people, which is why Palin is ugly.