Megyn Kelly Excoriates George Clooney in Fiery 11-Minute Rant: ‘You’re Not Fooling Anyone’
Megyn Kelly devoted a scorching 11-minute opening monologue to torching Democratic powerbroker George Clooney, slamming the Hollywood A-List star’s “naked partisanship” and “cowardice” after his jibe at her credentials as a journalist.
The feud flared after Clooney, currently playing broadcast legend Edward R. Murrow in a Broadway adaptation of Good Night, and Good Luck, took a swipe at Kelly’s career credentials during a sit-down with actress Patti LuPone for Variety’s Actors on Actors.
“I’ve at least been to Darfur and Sudan and the Congo and been shot at to try to get stories out,” Clooney said, adding of Kelly: “I’m not quite sure what she’s done to be a journalist.”
Kelly wasted no time firing back on the Wednesday edition of The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM, opening up with an attack on the Michael Clayton star.
“He’s starring in a play about Edward R. Murrow because Clooney fancies himself a journalist, you see,” she scoffed. “And [he] has lots of thoughts on how journalists need to do journalism.”
Kelly also ripped into Clooney’s 2024 New York Times op-ed calling for former President Joe Biden to step aside, accusing the actor of waiting until after the political damage was done. The op-ed was widely seen as a turning point in the Democratic Party’s scramble to replace Biden before he eventually stepped aside.
She said: “He does it mainly by stumbling upon the biggest story of the decade, that a sitting president is mentally infirm and ought to be 25th Amendment’ed right out of office, and then burying it, saying absolutely nothing for weeks on end, and then only after that president humiliates himself on the national stage at a presidential debate, and then refuses to step down as the entire Democrat Party watches its electoral chances up and down the ticket go swirling down the toilet.”
“That’s not journalism, George — it’s cowardice and naked partisanship. You’re not fooling anyone,” she said.
She also took shots at his pivot to Broadway: “What’s the matter, George? Are the Hollywood roles getting a little hard to come by as you age and get decidedly more smug and self-congratulatory? I’m just asking.”
Kelly also took a shot at LuPone, mocking her as “Broadway’s biggest and oldest bully” and, in defense of her own career, the former Fox News host recounted major interviews throughout her career — from President Donald Trump to everyday Americans — as evidence of her journalistic chops.
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