‘She’s a Bad Person!’ Megyn Kelly Unleashes on ‘Nasty’ Kara Swisher

Megyn Kelly fired back at tech reporter Kara Swisher over the latter’s criticism of the former’s new media venture on Monday, calling Swisher a “bad person” and telling an unflattering story about her reaction to the death of Kelly’s sister.

Commenting on Kelly and her project, Swisher recently mused, “I think she’s just a rage machine, and she has a little act that she takes on the road, and screams at women — a lot of women,” before asking “What is wrong with her?”

“What is wrong is I see you, and I hear you, and I see how nasty you are to everybody,” said Kelly on her show Monday after characterizing Swisher as a “very tough, ballsy, openly lesbian woman.”

“And I love that she calls me a rage machine. She is literally known for like, walking away with people’s balls. It’s a mystery in Silicon Valley why people continue to sit down with her. Elon [Musk] hates her guts. All she does is rip on Elon night and day,” Kelly said, adding:

If you are an executive in Silicon Valley that sits with her, you know she’s going to try to leave with your jugular, that’s what she’s known for. By the way, I will put my record of protecting women up against Kara Swisher’s any day of the week. In fact, I can’t think of a single thing Kara Swisher’s ever done for women at all. Except what? Support abortion rights. That’s probably what she’s thinking.

Kelly went on to tell the story of how Swisher reacted to the death of her sister:

Now honestly, I was very open-minded to Kara Swisher and understood our politics were very different, but you know, I have a lot of friends who are on the other side of the aisle and I would never make those the stakes of a relationship. You know where things went south was she didn’t like my Covid commentary once I actually did launch the podcast, either on the show or on X, which was then Twitter.

And I was pointing out that young people were getting myocarditis, especially young teenage men, and dying and suffering the world over, as a result of these vaccines, and it wasn’t being disclosed. And I was citing Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was way ahead on this issue, was having pediatric cardiologists on his show and talking about it. She didn’t like that. None of the left liked that.

And unfortunately, she invited me to go on her podcast, and I agreed, that’s not the unfortunate part. I said, “Fine, I’ll do it.” I was fine, and I’m fine mixing it up with people. I was scheduled to go on, I think on a Tuesday or a Wednesday, and the previous Friday, so like five days prior, my sister died. My sister unexpectedly had a heart attack and died at age 58. And I had Abby text her assistant to say, “MK has had something personal happen, something personal came up, and she’s not going to be able to make it.”

This is five days in advance, but I knew very well I wasn’t going to doing anybody’s podcast. And she responded, not the assistant, she responded and said, “Oh, that sounds like a good idea and I certainly hope she’ll stay off X in the meantime.” So her instinct was to question like why I was doing it, like she wasn’t really accepting that it was a personal thing that had happened to me.

She thought I was trying to avoid her because I was on X saying controversial things that she was objecting to and that I wasn’t, you know, strong enough to go on Kara Swisher’s podcast. Again, like somebody who doesn’t fucking know me at all, right? Like I’m afraid of having somebody ask me tough questions or mixing it up.

And Abby responded by saying, “Actually, her sister died.” And she writes back, “Oh, well I was only joking. I was only joking, you know, sorry.” I’m sorry, but she’s a bad person! That’s-, you’re a bad person. Did she ever send me a note? Did she every say, like, “I’m so sorry about your sister?”

Or, and like, the last correspondence we had had was sure, I’d be happy to come on your podcast. Then she shits on me to my assistant, and finds out that she’s a shit, that I’ve had a death in the family, someone close to me. And does she say, “Politics don’t matter, I’m gonna shoot her a note, we’ve had these drinks, I helped her, whatever.”

No, she says, “Oh, I was only joking.” She tries to cover her own ass because she knows she’s now made herself look terrible. And from that point forward, all she’s done is rip on me, and frankly, vice versa. I mean, I just see her very differently now. I think she’s a bad person.

Watch the clip above.