Former CNN host Don Lemon minced no words in a scorched earth rant about Megyn Kelly that saw him call the former Fox News personality a “racist” on Monday morning.
Lemon kicked off his indictment of Kelly by saying “Let’s talk about the haters,” and taking a swig out of a Megyn Kelly Today mug, a relic of Kelly’s NBC talk show, which was canceled a little over a year after its inception.
“Instead of supporting-, just remember, Megyn Kelly is allegedly, right, although I do hear, the streets are talking, that allegedly, she’s not a support-, as supportive of women as she makes out to be. Especially that whole thing that went on at Fox News with Roger Ailes and all of that there. They’re like, ‘Really, Megyn is saying that? Huh. Y’all don’t know her.’ Oh, I’m going there,” began Lemon. “I usually don’t like to talk about her because she’s one of those people, she thrives on it. She has built her-, the second part of whatever of her career on being a troll. On being a troll!”
Lemon then had his producers show the results of a Google search for the phrase “megyn kelly calls out,” and then read the results out loud, pointing out that there are a number of clips that begin with that formulation and are boosted by her PR team.
After arguing that this is a right-wing phenomenon, Lemon submitted that “the left” and “center people who speak with integrity, and facts, and aren’t always calling people out” don’t have that, and said “I don’t want to be one of those people whose Google profile begins with ‘Don Lemon Calls Out.’ It’s gauche, it’s unseemly, and it’s beneath me, and it should be beneath her.”
Then he reacted to Kelly’s response to the cancellation of Joy Reid’s MSNBC show.
“So this is what Megyn Kelly said about Joy Reid, right? And remember, Joy Reid is a woman, Megyn Kelly is a woman, she’s supposed to be all about women and, you know, supports women,” said Lemon before reading the following social media post from Kelly out loud:
Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked “white women tears” as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy? Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.
“And she has a, you know, she has an ax to grind when it comes to MSNBC. And also, you know, you know, this whole-, she’s racist, right? It’s just-, I’m gonna give you the evidence. Supposedly learned from and then spent every day after apologizing for it and being fired for it, then spent every day proving the point that she is a racist. And not very supportive of women, if you look, all you have to do, the evidence is in her Google search and what she says about women, and how she calls them out all the time,” commented Lemon. “The worst person? 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. That’s the worst person who’s not on television anymore — it’s you. That’s the worst person who’s not on television. So hurrah for that, NBC did something good for with that.”
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