Doug Mataconis · · 20 comments

I honestly never really expect much in the way of serious commentary from the people at Fox News, but the latest utterances by afternoon anchor Megyn Kelly descend to an entirely new level of, well, just stupidity:

Plenty of conservatives are pretty upset over a campaign by the Society of Professional Journalists to convince reporters to stop using the terms “illegal aliens” and “illegal immigrants” in favor of “undocumented immigrant.” But none are as livid as perpetually outraged Fox News host Megyn Kelly, who on Wednesday afternoon asked if journalists were going to start calling rapists “non-consensual sex partners” next.

“You could say that a burglar is an unauthorized visitor. You know, you could say that a rapist is a non-consensual sex partner which, obviously, would be considered offensive to the victims of those crimes,” Kelly said. “So how far could you take this?”

“What if there was a push by the criminal defense… bar to re-brand the use of the word rapist to nonconsensual sex partner?” Kelly asks her guest. Jehmu Greene, the former president of the Women’s Media Center, said that was like comparing “apples and oranges.”