Megyn Kelly counter-punches with the perfect of ’em.
The previous Fox Information famous person is now a media darling of her personal creation. “The Megyn Kelly Present,” heard on SiriusXM and podcasting platforms throughout the globe, lets her weigh in on the newest headlines and sometimes makes information, too.
One bonus? She has a large platform from which to combat again in opposition to progressive smears.
She did simply that relating to George Clooney’s Selection chat with Broadway star Patti LuPone. The duo dressed Kelly down of their latest dialog, suggesting she’s not a “actual” journalist.
Clooney is starring in Broadway’s “Good Night time, and Good Luck,” the theatrical adaptation of his 2005 movie on the skilled lifetime of Edward R. Murrow.
“Clooney fancies himself a journalist, you see, and has a number of ideas on how journalists have to do journalism,” Kelly mentioned, kicking off her April 23 broadcast. “Like he does it, primarily, stumbling upon the largest story of the last decade – {that a} sitting president is mentally infirm and should be twenty fifth Amendmented proper out of workplace after which burying it, saying completely nothing for weeks on finish.”
“That’s not journalism, George. That’s cowardice, adopted by bare partisanship,” Kelly mentioned.
Kelly notes that “Good Night time, and Good Luck” ends with a barrage of stories clips together with one in all Kelly herself. Elon Musk’s so-called “Nazi” salute on the 2025 inauguration additionally made the reduce.
“As a result of Elon Musk and I are the hazards Clooney fears, not the propaganda that was pushed on us for 4 years by his favourite leftist, so-called journalists, that President Biden was high quality. … or the 4 years earlier than that saying Trump was a Russian asset,” she mentioned.
She learn a snippet of the Selection chat between Clooney and LuPone. Kelly’s identify got here up in an unflattering manner.
Clooney: I don’t care a lot by way of what they are saying. We don’t inform folks what to assume once we present that montage on the finish, as an example. You see Megyn Kelly, who’s come out and mentioned I’m not a journalist. I didn’t say I used to be a journalist.
LuPone: Neither is she.
Clooney: I’ve at the least been to Darfur and Sudan and the Congo and been shot at to attempt to get tales out. I’m not fairly positive what she’s accomplished to be a journalist. Having mentioned that, we solely present her phrases on this play. We don’t inform folks what to assume. It’s not out of context. We don’t manipulate it. We actually simply go, “These are your phrases.”
Kelly shortly educated the pair on her journalistic bona fides.
“Completely none of my tales held any curiosity for George Clooney. Of that, I’ve little question,” Kelly mentioned earlier than ticking off a formidable record of accomplishments.
- Interviewed Susette Kelo, whose battle with Large Authorities was captured in “Little Pink Home.”
- Coated quite a few faculty shootings
- Moderated six presidential debates
- Interviewed girls who accused each Donald Trump and Joe Biden of sexual assault
- Sit downs with Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu
Kelly additionally mentioned the anecdote the place Clooney was shot at within the Darfur area of Western Sudan didn’t occur.
The reality? A 10-year-old little one pointed a gun at Clooney and his car whereas they have been filling a documentary within the African nation. He was by no means shot at, Kelly famous.
“George, this isn’t the sort of reality and integrity we wish in our career,” Kelly scolded the actor.