<p>"There are personalities there that went hard right during the Trump administration," Kelly said. "Like, Maria Bartiromo sounded very different than when I was there. Lou Dobbs kind of sounded the same as he always did."</p><p>"But when I look at him, I don't think he's any more committed to his hard-right partisanship than Don Lemon is committed to his hard-left partisanship. The cable networks are doing that now, they're leaning into the far-right and the far-left."</p><p>The host pushed back on her comparison.</p><p>"Okay, I agree there's crazy on both sides, but that's a false equivalency, don't you think? Because what Lou Dobbs believes is that the election was stolen. I mean, I don't agree with Don Lemon on everything, but he's not living in an alternative reality," Maher noted.</p><p>"Well, I don't know about that," Kelly replied.</p><p>"But look at Rachel Maddow and Russiagate," Kelly said, using the framing Trump pushed while pretending it was a hoax.</p><p>"She went totally down the rabbit hole and was embarrassed by that," Kelly argued. "Lou Dobbs, same thing on the crazy election claims."</p><p>"So there's plenty of blame to go around," she argued.</p><p>Watch:</p>
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