In another entertaining fight involving Megyn Kelly, she obliterated former CNN host Don Lemon after he got vulgar attacking her during a recent broadcast of his podcast. Namely, he told her to “go f*ck” herself after she mocked former MSNBC personality Joy Reid for being fired.
Kicking things off online was Kelly, who mocked Joy Reid after Reid broke down crying about being fired. She tweeted, in response to a video of Reid crying about MSNBC’s decision to cut her loose, “Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight. She’s had zero empathy for anyone. Now she wants us to feel sorry for her. WE DON’T.”
Fuming, Don Lemon attacked her in a subsequent episode of his podcast, getting vulgar and attacking her for cheering Reid’s firing and playing the race card as he did so. He said, “So let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color, go f*ck yourself.”
Continuing, Lemon said that he didn’t want to attack Kelly because she thrives on such criticism, saying, “Okay, I usually don’t like to talk about her, because she’s one of those people — she thrives on it. She has built the second part of whatever, of her career, on being a troll.” But he did so anyway.
Doing so, Lemon attacked Kelly for daring to criticize a fellow woman, ignoring Reid’s horrid past comments and how that might overrule sex-based loyalty He said, “So this is what Megyn Kelly said about Joy Reid, right? And remember, Joy Reid is a woman. Megyn Kelly’s a woman. She’s supposed to be all about women, and, you know, support women.”
Still not done with his angry tirade, Don Lemon declared that Kelly has “spent every day proving the point that she is a racist and not very supportive of women” after leaving NBC. He added that he thinks Kelly, not Joy Reid, was “the worst person on television.”
Concluding, he once again pulled the race card, attacking Kelly for being racist and saying, “When I said Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was racist, it wasn’t my opinion. This isn’t my opinion about Megyn Kelly. The evidence is there.” Watch his freakout here:
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Toasting Lemon in response, Kelly said, “Saw in the news yesterday Don Lemon was out there upset that I’m enjoying the Joy Reid termination, once again calling me nasty names. And really what’s happening here is when one cannot generate light on one’s self by oneself, they may find it fine just to bathe in the reflective light of someone else who actually is successful.”
She continued, roasting Lemon’s lack of an audience, “That’s what’s really happening there. Don Lemon has no viewers. He has no listeners whatsoever. He has not been able to make it in the cable news world, where he was repeatedly demoted and then fired. He was fired two minutes after getting hired by Elon, which should have been a lifeline to him, but he was too stupid to actually take advantage of it, and now he’s too stupid to actually make it in the digital lane, so he did the one thing that he could think of to do, which was get into the press by attacking me.”
Concluding by calling him “sad” and “pathetic,” Kelly said, “And now he’s gotten more ink than he’s gotten in the past four years, but he’s a sad, pathetic little man who actually cannot make it in business on his own. And really at this point, thoughts and prayers. Don hang in there.” Watch her here:
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