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ABOVE: Good light.

BELOW: Keep reading for Marsha Blackburn running from the truth, Collins a YES on Brown Jackson, Trump still begging Putin for help and more ...

ABOVE: Noah Centineo is well on his way to He-Man status.

BELOW: Keep reading for Trump going full QAnon, Kamala's lesbian chief of staff and more ...

ABOVE: Better red!

BELOW: Lucas Hedges opens up on his sexual orientation, Marco Rubio gets feisty with Alex Jones, Raquel Welch is pushin' 80, some tennis-player buns, the dark side of standom, and more ...

Via Huff Post: Jeez, both Megyn Kelly — formerly one of Fox News's reliably arch blonde harpies, now a pretending-to-be-mainstream NBC star — comes off badly in new, edited audio tapes InfoWars nutjob Alex Jones released of their pre-interview chat.

Pre-interviews are standard practice in journalism, but Kelly, under fire for giving Jones a massive platform in the form of a sit-down Q&A on her new show in the first place, comes off as disingenuous and ingratiating to the extreme in the tapes.

Kelly reassured Jones in the tapes, saying she won't be doing a “contentious, sort of gotcha exchange” interview and praising him as not being “one-dimensional” (!) before asserting:

Of course I’m doing a fair interview. I’m still me. I’m not going to go out there and be Barbara Walters.

Barbara Walters may be queen of the softballs, but she has lobbed some tough questions in her time when they weren't being directed at Most Fascinating People. Kelly should be so lucky as to end up with Walters's legacy.

More importantly, Kelly's overtures to Jones are REPREHENSIBLE.

My goal is for your listeners and the left, who will be watching — some — on NBC to say, “Wow. That was really interesting.” ... I'm not looking to portray you as some bogeyman or, y'know, do any sort of a gotcha moment. I just wanna talk about you. I want people to get to know you. And the craziest thing of all would be if some of the people who have this, y'know, insane version of you in their heads walk away saying, “You know what, I see, like, the dad in him, I see the guy who loves those kids and who is more complex than I've been led to believe.”

Kelly deserves to be embarrassed for going after Jones in the first place and shining an even brighter light on his idiocy. Thanks, Megyn — now you've not only honored Jones with mainstream attention, you've also been played by him.

As an advertiser, I'm repulsed that @megynkelly would give a second of airtime to someone who says Sandy Hook and Aurora are hoaxes. Why? https://t.co/luwyCwP7Ti

— Kristin Lemkau (@KLemkau) June 12, 2017

Wow, I am impressed that J.P. Morgan Chase is pulling some ads over Megyn Kelly's decision to give whackjob Alex Jones of InfoWars a prime-time platform via a legitimizing Q&A.

(Jones has already trashed Kelly anyway, but that's beside the point.)

Jones has suggested Aurora and Sandy Hook were hoaxes — that is so far beyond the pale, Kelly (and Trump, who loves Jones) should be ashamed to have anything to do with his monster.

Tonys ratings were almost at an all-time low! (Image via TonyAwards.com)

EW: Tonys have some political oomph, Spacey me-me-me-ness, that epic Midler speech: “Bette Midler for president!” List of winners.

Sick of hearing actors talk re politics? 2 bad I won’t stay silent while politicians attack our rights. Proud to #StandwithPP #TonyAwards pic.twitter.com/197VcICzgl

— Sally Field (@sally_field) June 11, 2017

Salon: Alex Jones, Sandy Hook denier and full-fledged nut, given prime-time Q&A by “cold” “sociopath” Megyn Kelly, who says, hey, Trump legitimized him first. 

Here you go @megynkelly - her name is Ana Grace Márquez-Greene. Say her name- stare at this & tell me it's worth it. @nbc #SandyHook pic.twitter.com/mKrU63KWmA

— Nelba Márquez-Greene (@Nelba_MG) June 12, 2017

Twitter @KaraDuffyCBS12: 49 people dressed as angels stood vigil outside Pulse last night to commemorate today's anniversary.

RIGHT NOW: 49 people dressed as angels stand out front of Pulse honoring the men and women killed one year ago today. pic.twitter.com/dw9cgCUIpm

— Kara Duffy (@KaraDuffyCBS12) June 12, 2017

Bloomberg: Will Trump testify? This guy sued Trump — and got him to admit to 30 lies while under oath. So bring it on.

Joe.My.God.: John McCain says America was better off under his old rival Obama.

New York Daily News: Caving to Fox News noise machine, Delta and Bank of America defund Public Theater over Trumped-up Julius Caesar.

The Trump-like characters in this production rattled corporate backers. (Image via Joan Marcus)