November 13, 2013 03:18 PM UTC

Cory Gardner Gets Grilled--By FOX News' Megyn Kelly

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• by: Colorado Pols

An unusually interesting clip of FOX News video posted by Rep. Cory Gardner's office on YouTube today:

This is an interview of Rep. Gardner last night by FOX News' popular evening anchor Megyn Kelly. The subject is ads from a pair of Colorado nonprofits released yesterday (blogged here) that have become hotly controversial–mostly as conservatives vented their outrage at the mildly suggestive content of the latest round. A few weeks ago, the "Brosurance" ad for Colorado's health insurance marketplace achieved a measure of virality, but the latest ads targeting women with "Shotskis," and "hot" guys being a motivator for birth control–free under Obamacare–have touched off an even bigger round of nationwide affected outrage from conservative pundits.

With that in mind, Gardner might have been surprised to discover that FOX host Kelly wasn't taking the bait. Kelly notes correctly that the young people targeted by these ads, and important to the success of health care reform, "might be doing keggers," and the ads might therefore be on target. Gardner, by contrast, comes off as stuffy and out of touch–to Kelly as well, though, we admit, maybe not to FOX News' target audience.

As unusual as it might seem on FOX News, this isn't the first time that Megyn Kelly has pushed back on conservatives and sexism. Kelly ripped into Erick Erickson of RedState this year after his diatribe about women in the workforce "hurting our children." In the case of these viral ads, looking past the attention-grabbing concepts, there's an obvious logic in them–as much as any catchy ad aimed at a specific demographic.

Which doesn't happen to be Cory Gardner's.