The acid-tongued reaction from Megyn Kelly following the sudden departure of Joy Reid from MSNBC last week has provoked the wrath of former CNN anchor Don Lemon, launching a battle of words between the two ex-Prime Time newshow hosts, with Lemon telling Kelly to “go fuck yourself.”
The dismissal of Reid from the left-leaning cable news network that aired The ReidOut from 2020 until her recent sacking was announced on Sunday and is part of restructuring plans the network confirmed Monday. This overhaul coincides with the Trump administration’s massive overhaul of federal agencies, as well as CBS News potentially settling a suit with Trump over its editing of an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris and shortly after ABC News settling a lawsuit filed by the president.
Kelly, who was fired from Fox News and later from NBC News, where she hosted Today for two years until 2019, was quick to gloat about the end of Reid’s time at the cable news network.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘White women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” she wrote on X (formerly Twitter) over the weekend. “Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
Lemon, who knows the sting of a public firing after he was let go from his nighttime show on CNN last year and then dumped by Elon Musk after the journalist asked less-than-friendly questions while interviewing the mogul for a show on X, was quick to come for Kelly on his YouTube show. He called her a “racist” who doesn’t support women and ultimately told her to “go fuck herself”
“No, Megyn Kelly, the worst person on television was fired from NBC and the Today show a few years ago, and that’s Megyn Kelly,” he told her and his audience. “The worst person who is not on television anymore is you.”
The former CNN anchor then laid into Kelly for the notorious moment where she shrugged off the idea of wearing blackface as part of a Halloween costume.
“Girl bye… Look who’s crying now, what she said to Joy Reid, look who’s crying then with the crocodile tears,” he said on his online show. “Had she learned from that, she wouldn’t spend almost every day being a racist, proving the point that she was crying about and that people called her then, because then I would say, ‘You know what, she learned!’ I was actually friendly with Megyn Kelly, and then when people show you who they are, you better f—ing believe it.”
In conclusion, Lemon evoked his resume as a newsman and his life as a minority in America while dressing her down with a final blow.
“Let me just say to Megyn Kelly,” Lemon said. “In my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color: Go fuck yourself. OK?”
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