Megyn Kelly Roasted by Left and Right Over Refusal to Criticize Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens
Megyn Kelly raised eyebrows across the political spectrum on Tuesday with her explanation for why she will not confront the wild conspiracy theories emanating from Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, which many critics have accused of being both anti-Semitic and exploitive of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
A social media user replied to Kelly on X and wrote, “If you can’t separate yourself from Candace Owens, many of us are going to separate ourselves from you. We do NOT have to align with everyone that claims to be ‘of the right’ when their motives and history are as shady as hers.”
Kelly responded to the account, “Look at this. No, I have no obligation to ‘separate’ myself from anyone. I run my own media company and my own show. That show is where I express my own opinions and I will decide what/what not to opine on.” She added:
If you need me to condemn Candace or Tucker for their opinions in order to listen to me, then I may not be for you. He’s a close friend and she is under enough pressure w/o gratuitous shots from me. My fight is with the left, not these two.
Kelly, a former Fox News host turned successful podcaster, had previously made a similar argument last week for why she did not care about the bombshell allegations against Border Czar Tom Homan that he accepted $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents as a bribe for securing government contracts.
The Dispatch’s Jonah Goldberg replied to Kelly, writing, “So you will condemn anti-Semites on the left, not because they’re anti-Semites but because they’re on the left? But you won’t condemn anti-Semites who are on the right (or are your friends) because they’re not? Okay, at least that’s a position, I guess.”
Podcaster Konstantin Kisin replied to Kelly, “The problem with this approach which many on the right are taking is that this is exactly how the left allowed its own extremists to first flourish and then to become the face of the entire movement.” He added:
If you agree with Candace and Tucker, people will respect that. But, to many of us, their behaviour is so extreme and so deranged that the idea that it can be simply ignored because “your fight is with the left” doesn’t wash. You have always been a great, principled, truth-seeking journalist so, to many of your admirers like me, the question might be, “If you agree with them, fine. But if you don’t, why *isn’t* your fight with them?”
Kelly replied to Kisin, saying, “The more one insists that I say what one demands me to, the more committed I get in my refusal.”
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