“This Moron”: Megyn Kelly Goes Nuclear on CNN Fact-Checker Over “Cover for Democrats”

Speaking during the Monday, January 13 broadcast of her SiriusXM radio show and podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” eponymous podcast host Megyn Kelly called out CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale for, as she saw it and put, running “cover for Democrats” with claims about whether the Pacific Palisades did or didn’t run out of water before it burned down.

Dale, as background, claimed in a fact-check that the reservoir used for firefighting in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Southern California, in the Los Angeles environs, had not dealt with a water shortage that inhibited firefighting efforts. Megyn Kelly argued that his fact-check was incorrect and misleading.

Speaking on the matter, Kelly said, slamming CNN and its fact-checker as being trying to create a narrative with on-air fact-checking that misleads the quite concerned public, “Now you’ve got the media, including CNN’s fact checker air quotes Daniel Dale, trying to tell us that there was no shortage of water in LA. ”

Adding to that, she argued that there is proof that the reservoir used by the destroyed area ran empty and hammered Dale’s talking point that contradicts that, saying, “I mean we know that the reservoir that serviced the area that burned to the ground was empty, but he’s like ‘There’s absolutely no problem with shortage of water in the LA area.’ Listen to this moron.”

In the clip of Dale making such claims about the water infrastructure in the Pacific Palisades vicinity that Kelly then played, Dale was on CNN and said, “There is no shortage of water in the LA area.” He then said that those reports that have emerged of fire hydrants running dry came about due to “technical logistical infrastructure.”

Kelly, however, quoted a local official with the Department of Water who told the LA Times in a statement on the matter, seemingly vindicating Kelly, “the reservoir’s absence, the one we’re talking about for Palisades likely contributed to some diminished pressure and dry hydrants in upper regions of the Palisades.”

Returning to slamming Dale, Kelly then snapped, “So how do you figure that there’s no shortage of water in the LA area Daniel Dale? And that this empty reservoir had no effect? Who died and made you fire chief or Department of Water investigator? He knows nothing, this guy. All he knows how to do is run cover for Democrats.” Watch her here:

One big potential issue, the Los Angeles Times reported, was that “the Santa Ynez Reservoir was out of use and closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117-million-gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.” The paper further quoted Martin Adams, the former general manager of DWP as saying, “You still would have ended up with serious drops in pressure. Would Santa Ynez [Reservoir] have helped? Yes, to some extent. Would it have saved the day? I don’t think so.”

Trump, sounding off on the water situation in a post on Truth Social, said, “To Gavin Newscum: RELEASE THE WATER FROM UP NORTH. MILLIONS OF GALLONS A DAY. WHAT’S TAKING YOU SO LONG. SHOULD HAVE DONE IT EIGHT YEARS AGO, AND YOU WOULD HAVE HAD NO FIRE PROBLEMS TODAY. GROSS INCOMPETENCE!”

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