We Hate to Say This, But Alex Jones Just Owned Megyn Kelly

When Megyn Kelly contacted Infowars conspiracy theorist and all-around blowhard Alex Jones about an interview on her NBC show, Jones immediately smelled a rat. It turns out that although he may be despicable, he’s not entirely stupid. Knowing that Kelly would likely try to take him to task for his controversial beliefs—such as “gaming” the idea that the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax—Jones decided to record Kelly’s pre-interview pitch as a way to protect himself later.

And after NBC aired a dramatic teaser in which Kelly attacks Jones for dodging her questions, Jones released audio from those pre-interview recordings as a way to show how dishonest Kelly was about the nature of the interview. In Jones’ YouTube clip, Kelly can be heard saying things like:

My goal is for your listeners and the left—you know, who will be watching some on NBC—to say, ‘Wow, that’s really interesting.’ It’s not going to be some gotcha hit piece, I promise you that.

She even offered awkwardly high praise for the man, such as:

The reason you are interesting to me is because I followed your custody case and I think you had a very good point about the way the media was covering it. And for some reason they treated you and your family as fair game, and they never would have done that [to a] mainstream-media figure … I saw a different side of you and you became very fascinating to me. Your comments during the trial just reminded me you are just like anybody and I thought that would be an interesting story to tell.