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PEOPLE & ARTSSaturday 2 April 2016

Fox’s Kelly: O’Reilly, CNN should have done more for me

DAVID BAUDER In this Jan. 28, 2016 photo, Moderator Megyn Kelly waits for veterans nearby in Iowa. not ban Trump from the
AP Television Writer the start of the Republican presidential primary debate in Des CNN, which has seen its network.
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Moines, Iowa. ratings soar with nearly full- “What he really wants is ox-
Channel’s Megyn Kelly is time campaign coverage, ygen, you know, he wants
taking notes on who she The Republican presiden- during the interview. aired some of that rally television time,” she said.
feels has been supportive tial candidate has been Kelly called it a “dark mo- and Kelly said the network “So the only thing that is
when she was attacked badmouthing Kelly, mostly ment” and said she would shouldn’t have. really meaningful to him,
by Donald Trump, and col- via Twitter, ever since he have done more to defend “There should have been the only consequence that
league Bill O’Reilly and was taken aback by her O’Reilly if the positions had a moment of solidarity would actually have an
CNN are both on her list. tough question in an Au- been switched. among journalists that night effect on him, we cannot
Kelly, in an interview with gust debate on his com- “I think Bill did the best to say, ‘We will not allow enact because it would
Charlie Rose to air on CBS’ ments about women. he’s capable of doing ourselves to be bullied by be insane. You cannot ban
“Sunday Morning” this O’Reilly asked Trump to re- in those circumstances,” a presidential front runner, the presidential front runner
weekend, said she wished consider missing the Fox Kelly said, which Rose said even one as powerful and from a channel.”
O’Reilly had done more debate in Iowa, but it was was “damning with faint as ahead in the polls at
to defend her when he in- noted by many that he praise.” that point as Trump was,’” Despite the bad blood,
terviewed Trump before a didn’t rush to defend Kelly During the Jan. 28 debate, Kelly said. “’This is about Kelly said she’d have Trump
January debate that the when Trump attacked her Trump held a fundraiser for journalism and the First on her show anytime. The
Republican skipped be- Amendment, and we will main question she’d want
cause he wanted Kelly re- put the debate moderator to ask is “why?”
moved as a moderator. out on the stage that we She conceded the fight
She also wishes CNN hadn’t think is appropriate.’ And with Trump has done some-
aired portions of a Trump I think it’s a slippery slope thing for her.
rally on the night of that when we don’t stand shoul- “One of our baby sitters is
debate. der to shoulder in those mo- from Peru,” she said. “And
Her remarks laid bare ten- ments.” she came home one day
sion between Fox’s two CNN declined to comment and told us that she saw
top personalities. O’Reilly’s on her remarks. my name in the Peruvian
prime-time show has been Kelly said she understood papers. I don’t think that
the most-watched on ca- the difficult position that ever happened before this
ble news for many years, the feud with Trump put particular dustup. So I’m
but has been challenged her bosses at Fox News. As gonna have to give him
recently in the ratings by angry as Fox might be that that point. I certainly think
Kelly, whose show airs di- one of its personalities was it’s gotten me much more
rectly after his. being attacked, they could exposure.”q

George Lopez says San Antonio
incident is fodder for his series

In this Nov. 10, 2015 file photo, comic George Lopez attends the the fans that I thought I did There’s a larger issue about and wealthy new associ-
premiere of the HBO documentary, “The Latin Explosion: A New in San Antonio.” comedy, he said. “Every- ates not quite comfort-
America”, at the Hudson Theatre, in New York. Lopez said he was trying body is so sensitive right able with a minority. He
to deflect ridicule for a fel- now,” he said. “The politi- subverts stereotypes: In the
Associated Press low comic, who had just cal correctness is destroy- first episode, Lopez absent-
mistakenly referred to be- ing comedy. We used to mindedly hands a ticket to
DAVID BAUDER performance of the Com- ing in San Antonio when be the reporters of the ab- someone he thinks is a valet
he was onstage in Seattle. surd.” only to learn that it’s former
AP Television Writer edy Get Down tour in a The comedy tour’s previous Still, he recognizes the ex- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio
stop was in San Antonio. perience as prime mate- Villaraigosa, who flames
NEW YORK (AP) — Com- Seattle arena. The remark Lopez tried to heap praise rial for a future episode of him online for the mistake.
on Seattle by saying, “You his show, to examine the In the show, rapper Snoop
ic George Lopez says he was recorded and posted guys have outdone San idea of viral clips of a per- Dogg tries to get Lopez to
Antonio. F--- San Antonio.” formance taking on a life of perform a comedy routine
plans to use the recent flap online without context, an- Once that clip was dis- their own. He’ll disguise it by for his Latina maid.
tributed, Lopez became using a city other than San That’s taken from real life —
over his remark about San gering many Texans. the target of online critics. Antonio, he said. His show, the number of people who
“George, you should have “Lopez,” which debuted ask him to be funny in so-
Antonio as fodder for his “There’s a lot of hate ly- known better than to mess last week on TV Land, is cial situations who wouldn’t
with Texas,” was one of the reminiscent of HBO’s “Curb necessarily think of asking a
new comedy on TV Land, ing underneath,” Lopez clean comments. Your Enthusiasm” in that he doctor they met at a cock-
“It wasn’t even long,” Lo- plays himself and responds tail party to take a look at a
which is loosely based on said in an interview. “If this pez said. “It wasn’t like I to odd things that happen mysterious rash.
did a dissertation on what I in his life. “It’s ridiculous,” he said.
his life. one thing that I apologized don’t like about San Anto- The show’s Lopez is a suc- “You wouldn’t think that
nio. But what I’ve seen and cessful Mexican-Ameri- anyone would have the
Lopez has apologized for for can create that much read is vile. To create things can caught between old nerve to do that, but it
that are so insensitive and compadres who see him happens more often than
slurring the Texas city on- negativity for me in San An- personal. I’m hurt.” as moving beyond them not.”q

stage during a March 19 tonio, maybe I don’t have