Megyn Kelly Essentially

About

Megyn Kelly Essentially, also known as “Euphemism Megyn Kelly”, is an advice animal image macro series featuring a photo of Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly accompanied by captions with dismissive statements about a variety of violent acts.

Origin

On November 21st, 2011, Kelly appeared on the political commentator Bill O’Reilly’s talk show The O’Reilly Factor to discuss the UC Davis pepper spray incident. In discussing the effects of pepper spray, Kelly described the volatile substance as a “food product” and a YouTube upload was posted to Gawker shortly after.^[2]

Bill O’Reilly: “First of all, pepper spray -- that just burns your eyes, right?”
Megyn Kelly: “It’s like a derivative of actual pepper. It’s a food product, essentially.”
Bill O’Reilly went on to defend the officer saying, “I don’t think we have the right to Monday-morning quarterback the police. Particularly at a place like UC Davis, which is a fairly liberal campus.”

The first image macro was posted to Reddit^[7] on November 22nd, 2011 and was captioned with “Pepper spray? / it’s a food product, essentially.”

Spread

The same day, the original video was posted to BuzzFeed^[1], The Daily What^[3] and The Examiner^[4] and a petition for Kelly to “drink a full dose of pepper spray on national televsion” was submitted to change.org^[14] by Slactory editor Nick Douglas. Compilations of Megyn Kelly image macros have been posted to Geekosystem^[10], UpRoxx^[11] and BuzzFeed.^[9] Additional derivatives have been posted to Tumblr^[8] and the advice animals subreddit.^[13] A Quickmeme^[6] page has accumulated 590 submissions and a Facebook^[12] community page has 46 likes as of November 23rd, 2011.

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