In The Kelly File’s preview of an upcoming interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, Fox touted Megyn Kelly as a tough interviewer. But Kelly's own comments indicated she's going to paint the so-called “liberal media” as the real villains in the Duggar sex scandal. Oh, and Bill Clinton, too.

As I’ve previously noted, Fox has mostly ignored the Duggar sexual molestation scandal. Now it looks like Fox is ready to acknowledge it – at the same time that the network has figured out how to spin it.

The preview began with a rundown by Fox’s Trace Gallagher of the scandal involving son Joshua Duggar’s molestation of underaged girls, including his sisters, while he was a teenager. Gallagher quoted unquestioningly from the Duggars when he relayed their reasons for going on The Kelly File: “to share our hearts with you about the pain that we walked through as a family twelve years ago, the tears we all shed and the forgiveness that was given.”

No mention of the pain the Duggars may have caused by holding themselves up as paragons of purity, all the while concealing this not-so-pure behavior.

Gallagher played a clip of Republican Nicolle Wallace praising the Duggars as “smart” for going on The Kelly File but also saying they’re “fools if they think that Megyn Kelly is gonna go easy on them.” Wallace called Kelly “tough” and said she’d “put journalism ahead of any sort of politics.”

Well, either Wallace doesn’t watch The Kelly File or she’s such a Republican acolyte that she hasn’t noticed how blatantly biased Kelly is.

Kelly proved it moments later when she began talking with Fox's media critic, Howard Kurtz.

KELLY: I’ll take that reputation as a tough but fair journalist. However, this isn’t going to be a cross examination of a family. It’s going to be an interview. I want to hear their story. And I think America wants to hear their story now. And what’s been remarkable to me as, I admit, somebody who doesn’t watch this show, is to see how many in the media have handled it. From jumping to “They’re the worst, the house of horrors, this family’s sick, sick, sick” to people like this woman on CNN trying to make this the problem of the Republican presidential field.

Kelly played a clip of CNN’s Poppy Harlow talking about all the Republicans who have had their photos taken with Jim Bob Duggar.

Kelly turned into a vision of scripted indignation on behalf of Republicans.

KELLY: Bill Clinton was accused of rape! He has been accused by several women of sexually assaulting them! But the fact that a presidential candidate has posed with some random member of the family that’s going through this issue is somehow a problem for the GOPers?

Rather than call out this sleight of hand, Kurtz smiled appreciatively as she spoke. He continued, “That CNN reporter had plenty of company.” He went on to complain about how he has been “disgusted” by “some liberal media types” for using “a family tragedy to score political points.”

As if Fox wouldn’t do exactly that if the Duggars were liberal.

“Where is the media outcry over the fact that someone in law enforcement leaked to InTouch Weekly and to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Josh Duggar’s juvenile police records, which are supposed to be sealed and sacrosanct?” Kurtz asked. “Some critics enjoying this scandal so much, Megyn, they can’t even be bothered to mention that.”

Kelly added that in addition to the improper release of Josh Duggar’s private records, “The records of the young girls have also been released and, in part, their identity because the police records leave very little doubt about who they are.”

This is actually a valid point, in my view. But why is Kelly conflating it with her interview with the Duggars, if not to make them more sympathetic?

And/or to use the tragedy to score her own political points?

Watch it below, from the June 1 The Kelly File.