Megyn Kelly had little sympathy for Pleasure Reid, the MSNBC host who had her present canceled over the weekend by the left-leaning Comcast-owned channel as a part of a lineup reshuffle ordered up by new community boss Rebecca Kutler.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly, SiriusXM host of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” wrote on her X account over the weekend.
“Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
Throughout the 2021 trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted within the deadly taking pictures of two folks throughout protests in Kenosha, Wis., Reid infuriated viewers when she ridiculed him over his emotional testimony in courtroom — likening it to statements made by then-Supreme Courtroom nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
Kavanaugh grew emotional through the affirmation hearings when he fended off accusations of sexual assault that had been leveled by a highschool classmate.
In a TikTok video, Reid argued that Rittenhouse was cynically utilizing emotion in his testimony simply as Kavanaugh did.
Kavanaugh “cried his way through the hearings to make him a permanent member” of the excessive courtroom and “his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of [accuser] Christine Blasey Ford. Which were the tears of an alleged victim,” she stated.
“But in America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears,” Reid stated.
“Really, white tears in general, because that’s what Karens are, right? They Karen out, and then as soon as they get caught, it’s bring the waterworks,” she added.
Reid stated within the TikTok video that “white men can get away with that too.”
“And it has the same effect, even as the right tries to politicize the idea that masculinity is being robbed from American men by multiculturalism and wokeism. They still want to be able to have their tears.”
Reid additionally stirred controversy following the Nov. 5 election, when she urged white Democrats to not trouble inviting African-American ladies to anti-Trump protests.
Because it turned obvious that former President Donald Trump had routed Vice President Kamala Harris within the election, Reid attributed the end result to the truth that “white women voters did not” present up for the Democratic nominee.
“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” she stated on the air throughout MSNBC’s election protection.
“That is what it appears happened in that state.”
Reid was reacting to the information that North Carolina broke for Trump. She famous that girls within the Tar Heel State “lost their reproductive rights” beneath Trump when the Supreme Courtroom voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Harris marketing campaign wager that abortion could be a profitable concern for them in North Carolina, however “that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman,” Reid stated.
“This will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy,” stated Reid, suggesting that girls blew it by not electing Harris in 2024 or Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump, in the meantime, blasted MSNBC on Sunday, saying the community ought to pay “vast sums of money” for the “unpardonable sin” it has accomplished to the nation — whereas celebrating the axing of Reid, whom he referred to as a “mentally obnoxious racist.”
Trump took to Fact Social late Sunday to tear the leftist community, calling it MSDNC as a result of it’s “nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democratic party” whereas celebrating the tip of Reid’s present.
“Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenge NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television, the mentally obnoxious racist, Joy Reid,” Trump wrote.
“Based on her ratings, which were virtually non-existent, she should have been ‘canned’ long ago, along with everyone else who works there,” he continued.
Reid, a longtime critic of Trump and a outstanding voice on mainstream media, has been a key presence on MSNBC since 2011.
Following Trump’s re-election in November, viewership for Reid’s present noticed a dramatic decline.
Nielsen Media Analysis reported that by December, her viewers had practically halved, contributing to a 53% drop in MSNBC’s primetime rankings after the election.
Reid’s program “The ReidOut” is ready to air its remaining episode this week.
In accordance with a report from the New York Occasions, will probably be changed by a brand new panel present that includes co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend.
The Put up has sought remark from Reid and MSNBC.
