TYT: Megyn Kelly Destroys Gallagher Over Maternity Leave 'Racket'

[alp227]

Run time: 05:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMiipGGdHIs   Posted on YouTube: August 12, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 13566   Posted on DU: August 13, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 3898

 
Fox News host Megyn Kelly (recently returned from maternity leave) destroyed conservative talk show host Mike Gallagher over the fact that he referred to maternity leave as a 'racket'. Is she a hypocrite? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

[bluestateguy]

1. Only because she personally benefitted from maternity leave

I am quite certain that if she chose to not have kids she'd be agreeing with Gallagher.

[Ruby the Liberal]

2. Yep. Jon Stewart Destroys Megyn Kelly over Maternity Leave Hypocracy

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-11-2011/lactate-intolerance?xrs=share_copy

[JHB]

12. Quoting part of JS's segment:

Y'see this is the problem with entitlements: They're really only "entitlements" when they're something other people want. When they're something you want, they're the hallmark of a civilized society, the foundation of a great people.

I just had a baby and found out "maternity leaves strengthens society". But since I still have a job, unemployment benefits are clearly socialism.

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So either Megyn Kelly has inadvertently exposed the hypocricy at the heart of conservative demonization of unions and the working class, or... (oh my God, it's worse than we thought)... Megyn kelly is suffering from Post Partum Compassion.

It'll pass.

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Typical Stewart brilliance. That man and his staff could sniff out a needle

of hypocracy in a mountain of bullshit.

[brewens]

3. I can tell you I've worked with a few women that actually abused it.

We've had several that worked for my company just long enough to qualify, got pregnant, used it all and then never came back to work. Did they apply for the job because they wanted the job, or were they just trying to get in a position to have their baby without going into debt?

We even had one still drawing her paycheck and she had moved halfway across the country. She had her roommate forward the check and played it like she was coming back to work the whole time.

I'd like to see that FM LA maybe have a two year wait for new hires before the maternity leave benefit kicks in. We try and hire people that actually want to work for us and we train them at considerable expense.

[dflprincess]

5. FMLA is unpaid leave

If a company has short term disability insurance a woman may use during her maternity leave.

If you work for a company that continues to pay someone her salary while she's out on leave, you're really lucky to work for an outfit that is so forward thinking and concerned with its employees well being.

[brewens]

17. They are allowed to use their sick leave, so it's basically paid

maternity leave. I think they are eligible to use the FMLA after six months but it's closer to a year before they have the sick leave to cover their checks for the whole maternity leave. I think they are then allowed three months but I might be wrong on that.

Along with the bad examples, several of our best employees have used it. They were all around longer than the 4 1/2 years I've been with the company. No one had any problem with them. Two of whom also were disgusted with a couple of the girls that appear to have screwed us.

The fact that I work for such a progressive company is why stuff like that pisses me off. .

[glowing]

6. Well u must work with one employer in America that the most of us don't.

I work for a small company. I don't qualify for FMLA act because of the work staff size. And if I take 3 mos off, I'd be out of a job. The most my employer is willing to hold the job is 6 wks. The only extra pay is whatever is leftover from vacation and sick pay (about 2 wks). Basically, if I want 3mos off to bond, adjust, work my body back into shape, I'm paying for it out of my working poor salary I'd have to save up. Oh and because I'm married, I don't qualify for anything like medicare, WIC, food stamps, or any other Govt agency help. When u sit in the middle working ur ass off, you are screwed. It's why no new taxes plays so well on the middle-ish class. Being screwed from being to "rich" when u clearly need the help and "too poor" to actually enjoy the perks that a job like working for Rupert Murdoch allows, people get rightly pissed.

[AlbertCat]

11. I can tell you I've worked with a few women that actually abused it.

So...it's a racket because a FEW women in your anecdotal evidence abused it?

I'm sure you don't think it's a racket.... but abusing the system is something that will always happen. That's why retailers add a bit to cover shoplifting.... because in the real world , it happens.

I'm sure there are those abusing welfare and food stamps.... and the RW likes to point that out and use it as an excuse to end such programs. But it's really a moot point.... an a real world.

[raouldukelives]

4. Bogus! No smashed watermelons! nt

[Enthusiast]

7. Well, Cenk.

I'm sure Megyn Kelly had a high quality white baby. Poor women? Not so much. :sarcasm:

[glowing]

8. Nah. She reads a TelePrompTer. She is rewarded with pay and benefits most dream about.

She sold her soul to the devil to lie to the American People. She enjoys a liberal issue, but would be quick to deny this benefit to others had she not used it herself. Oh, and now she wants to claim other European Socialist countries are better because they have even better maternity and paternity paid leave from their jobs. I'd love to see how she defends a long vacation next too.

If u notice, she lives and works in that bastion of liberal, commie north east elite land of NY, NY.

[tanyev]

9. She's just suffering from post-partum compassion.

[AlbertCat]

10. Ahhhh ... the poor put upon white man syndrome.

And, cheesus!, is Megan Kelly even clueless on this. She doesn't know she's championing Bill Clinton and Liberal ideas. She only knows SHE benefited.

What a circus of stupid Fox is!

[SharksBreath]

13. Megan the flaming liberal. Who knew.

[SharksBreath]

14. FMLA was vetoed by two Republican presidents.

Mike should have told her that Republicans don't support that act.

Then he should have called her a flaming Liberal and explained to her that the bill was vetoed by two R presidents.

He then should have told her to get over herself. She only had a baby.

Mike is a coward.

/sl

[demigoddess]

16. not to mention that day care usually does not take babies

right out of the womb, not until they are 3 months old at least. You could not require a woman to be at work with absolutely NO ONE to take care of the baby. Unless you are rich enough to hire a nanny.