Don Lemon is riding for her fellow television host Joy Reid following Megyn Kelly‘s unhinged remarks. After news broke that MSNBC would be axing Reid’s show, The ReidOut, on Monday (Feb. 24), Kelly took to X/Twitter, where she mocked the Brooklynite for being terminated from the company.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly typed. “Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
Lemon caught wind of the commentary and uploaded a video response to Kelly onto his YouTube channel. The former CNN news host made it his latest HOT TAKES! episode and entitled it, “Bless Your Heart, Megyn Kelly.” The video’s description box details it as a “no-holds-barred roast” with Lemon “[dissecting] some of the cringe-worthy and offensive rhetoric that has made Kelly a lightning rod for criticism.” And Don did just that. For 22 minutes, the acclaimed journalist picked apart Kelly’s character and history of attacking minorities and other women in the business in order to make herself appear “dignified.”
The 58-year-old played a clip of the former Fox News anchor using profanities and bringing up her blackface incident before making a strong declaration: “So let me just say to Megyn Kelly, in my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color: Go f**k yourself. Okay?”
The Baton Rouge native then brought up a moment, with video evidence, when Kelly attacked his former CNN colleague Kaitlan Collins, demanding that she “smile more” and be less of a “cold-hearted bi**h.”
“CNN is trying to make [Kaitlan Collins] into a star…I will submit for the record that her biggest sin is not that she is biased, though she is, it’s that she is boring. She’s extremely boring with no personality. I have a pro tip for her: Try smiling every once in a while. Try not to be like, in your delivery, such a cold-hearted bi**h all the time because it gives people nothing to bond to,” Kelly said in the video.
Lemon responded in kind, stating, “Was that really necessary? And how is that supportive of women? Now, she could’ve given some advice and said, ‘Hey, you need to somehow establish a bond or connection with your audience.’ She doesn’t have to call the woman a ‘B.’”
Watch the video above.
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