Megyn Kelly, host of Sirius XM’s “The Megyn Kelly Show,” leveled serious accusations at a senior executive at Fox News on Monday, saying that that executive was the one who was behind the recent leaks of out-of-context, slanderous background information about Tucker Carlson.
Specifically, Kelly accused Irena Briganti, the senior executive vice president of corporate communications at Fox News, of targeting Tucker Carlson by leaking previously unseen footage and private text messages to Media Matters and The New York Times. Briganti has denied those accusations, saying that Kelly’s accusation is “completely false and an outright lie.”
In any case, Kelly, accusing Briganti, said, “Two videos were released, oh, by whomever could it be — Irena — to The New York Times saying, in one, he called a woman ‘yummy,’ we have zero idea the context. Could’ve been his wife for all I know. Zero idea. And one, he said something like, ‘Will my post-menopausal audience still find me attractive in this outfit.‘”
“Nice try, Fox. But, you tried and failed. So they first leaked to The New York Times, this is my supposition for the record because it hasn’t been yet been confirmed, but I know it’s them. And I know it’s Irena Briganti who runs comms and fucking hates Tucker. Sorry, she hates his guts. And it’s mutual, he doesn’t like her either. None of us do. Nobody likes Irena.”
In one of the leaked clips, Tucker is discussing the idea of bringing Tate on his show to the rep and debating whether to do it on Fox Nation or Fox News Channel, saying, “Have you watched any way? We’re gonna, because I, you know, I’m like, I don’t want to be. I don’t want to be a slave to Fox nation, which I don’t think that when people watch anyway, we’re gonna because I you know, I’m like a representative of the American media now speaking to an exile in Romania and welcoming him back into the brotherhood of journalists.”
Responding, the rep said Tate wasn’t going to be wearing a suit for the show, saying, “Yeah, it would help us out if you want to know because we asked him not to wear a suit. Like he was kind of talking about it. And so you don’t have to talk he’s gonna be looking casual. Our show looks is that okay?”
Tucker was unhappy with that, saying, “I mean, this is airing on the nighttime show, and I want it to look official, I don’t want it to be like, Bro talk. And I and I, you know what I mean?”
Then, shortly afterward, Tucker savaged Fox Nation, saying that “the site sucks” and that he’s frustrated with how useless and difficult the Fox Nation website is. In his words:
“Nobody’s gonna watch it on Fox Nation. Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks. So I’d really like to just put the dump the whole thing on YouTube. But anyway, that’s just my view. I’m just frustrated with it’s hard to use that site. I don’t know why they’re not fixing it. It’s driving me insane. And they’re like making like, Lifetime movies. But they don’t they don’t work on the infrastructure of the site. Like, what? It’s crazy. And it drives me crazy. Because it’s like, we’re doing all this extra work, and no one can find it. It’s unbelievable. Actually, I don’t know who runs that site.”
He then later called their inability to make Fox Nation “a betrayal” of the hard work he was putting into making content for it, saying, “I know but we’re doing our part. We’re like working like animals to produce all this content and the people in charge of it. Whoever that guy’s whatever his name is like they’re ignoring the fact that the site doesn’t work. And it’s I think it’s like a betrayal of our efforts. That’s how I feel so I of course, I resent it.”
Watch Tucker here:
“Nobody watches Fox Nation because the site sucks.” Tucker Carlson caught on tape before he was fired trashing Fox Nation, the network’s streaming platform. (Video via Media Matters) pic.twitter.com/EMSLa4uOER
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 1, 2023
In another leaked video, Tucker Carlson can be heard hilariously telling Media Matters to “go f**k yourself.”
And, in a leaked text message, Tucker was talking about how he viewed an attack on an Antifa thug, saying, “A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living shit out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?”
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video
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