Megyn Kelly bowed to pressure from network stars and slammed NBC’s decision to fire former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel just days after learning she had been hired as a paid contributor. .
“Dem-SNBC’s kids are mad,” Kelly said on Tuesday’s episode of SiriusXM’s podcast “The Megyn Kelly Show,” in which McDaniel was a longtime supporter of former President Donald Trump. I talked about the controversy surrounding his hiring.
Kelly mocked the uproar caused by MSNBC stars Rachel Maddow, “Morning Joe” Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Jen Psaki, as well as network personalities such as Chuck Todd.
“Our sacred airwaves! They must be protected from liars!” Kelly sarcastically targeted the Peacock network on Tuesday.
“After all, they are in the business of integrity!”
Kelly criticized Psaki, a former White House press secretary under President Biden, who was hired as MSNBC host despite having previously held an openly political job.
“Hey, President Obama had no problem hiring Jen Psaki, who then made a living by lying for years as Biden’s press secretary, so… what do you get? ?” Kelly added that Psaki reminds her of Dora the Explorer, the main character from the Nickelodeon animated series.
Psaki on Monday slammed critics who compared her to McDaniel, who was fired from her job at the RNC along with dozens of others after the Trump campaign made sweeping changes.
A former Biden aide said “parts of the right-wing ecosystem” are pushing the comparison, but her political experience was “associated with honesty and integrity,” whereas McDaniel’s He said it was out of place because he was dedicated to “service to society.” One man. “
Kelly on Tuesday accused Psaki of “the lie that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are not here to stay.”
She also cited Psaki’s comments as press secretary that “no one expected the Taliban to take over Afghanistan so quickly” and his attempts to dismiss Hunter Biden’s laptop as Russian disinformation. He also mentioned Psaki’s efforts.
The Post has reached out to NBC for comment.
NBC News stars criticized the decision to hire McDaniel because of his relationship with former President Trump, who claimed Biden was the rightful winner of the 2020 election that brought him to power.
McDaniel distanced himself from those claims in an interview with “Meet the Press” on Sunday, saying that Biden won the election “fairly and squarely” and that he is the “legitimate” president. Stated.
Maddow, MSNBC’s most popular personality, likened it to having a gang member work for the district attorney’s office.
“I think the decision to put her on the payroll is puzzling. I hope they reconsider that decision,” she said on her weekly show Monday night.
Other MSNBC stars, including Joy Reid, Nicole Wallace and Lawrence O’Donnell, also publicly condemned the move.
Republicans countered that the protests showed that people at NBC News, particularly MSNBC, were reluctant to tolerate opposing views. This hire and swift firing represents one of the rare instances where left and right are likely to come together in anger.
“NBC has capitulated to censorship,” X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk posted on his platform.
“The lunatics on the radical left are crazy and the upper management at NBC is weak,” President Trump said on his website Truth Social.
In announcing the decision to fire McDaniel, NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde confirmed that he agreed with McDaniel’s termination and apologized to staff who felt disappointed in his hiring.
“No organization, especially a newsroom, can succeed without cohesion and collaboration. In recent days, it has become clear that this appointment undermines that goal,” Conde wrote in a Tuesday memo. I wrote it in
But he said the network remains committed to centering “voices that represent different parts of the political spectrum.”
There was no immediate comment from McDaniel, who resigned as RNC leader about two weeks ago.
She learned of her job loss through media reports, not directly from NBC, said a person close to her, speaking on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Ta.
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