Megyn Kelly referred to as out MSNBC host Rachel Maddow over her on-air criticism of the left-leaning community’s resolution to take away hosts together with Pleasure Reid, saying she “took her boss’s faces and rubbed them in s–t.”
“She is one of the most annoying people on television,” the Sirius XM host mentioned. “She oozes sanctimony and self-righteousness and here’s the real capper. She took her boss’s faces and rubbed them in shit last night,” Kelly mentioned.
MSNBC’s cancellation of Pleasure Reid and Alex Wagner’s exhibits prompted Maddow’s rant amidst a serious network-wide reshuffling ordered up by new boss, MSNBC President Rebecca Kutler.
Kelly referred to as upon Maddow’s two bosses, Kutler and Mark Lazarus, the CEO of MSNBC’s dad or mum firm, to take motion for Maddow’s remarks.
“If one of my employees ever did this to me… I would fire them so fast and you couldn’t get me to back down with claims of ‘viewpoint discrimination, ‘you’re cracking down on free speech,’ no, you work for me,” Kelly mentioned.
Kelly additionally criticized Maddow’s implication that MSNBC’s actions had a racial bias, as she recognized each canceled anchors, Reid and Wagner, as non-white hosts.
On air, Maddow mentioned it was unnerving to see “both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows” and that it “feels indefensible.”
Kelly started the present by studying varied definitions of the phrase “sanctimony” — when one acts morally superior– to explain Maddow.
“Just getting on to randomly disagree with their decisions and accuse them of racism because you would’ve come to a different conclusion, she should be fired,” Kelly mentioned.
Kelly mentioned what Maddow “got away with on the air last night” was “disrespectful.”
