Outnumbered pundits got backup from SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly after a CNN panel erupted over DEI: “…you would have thought it was 1949 America the way this thing went down.”
Thursday on “CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip,” the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion sparked furor from the black ladies on the panel. Leading the outrage was former Obama White House staffer Ashley Allison who sparred with commentator Scott Jennings and attorney Arthur Aidala with claims she’d been paid less as a black woman, prompting Kelly to ask, “How do you know that’s due to your color and your gender?”
Joined by Hoover Institute senior fellow Victor David Hanson, the host of “The Megyn Kelly Show” shared a clip from the fiery CNN segment as she declared, “They’re really not letting go of the race thing.”
“She thinks she’s downtrodden, poor her because she’s a black woman, and therefore we’re supposed to be feeling sorry for her,” continued Kelly, “How do you know that’s due to your color and your gender? “Maybe you were the youngest, maybe you had the least experience? Maybe you actually just weren’t that talented.”
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The CNN segment had kicked off with Allison, once deputy director and senior policy advisor for the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement before later serving as National Coalitions Director for the Biden-Harris 2020 presidential campaign, asserting, “The issue in this country right now is we live in different realities. I live in a reality where I know I do not have the same opportunity as you, I know I don’t…I’m not talking about how you feel, I’m talking about how I feel, me, a black woman in this country and if you want me to, I will run to the facts.”
Vocal objections from Jennings and Aidala were met with Allison continuing to snaps from fellow panelist Cari Champion, “I’ve got a law degree, a masters and two bachelors, probably more education than all of y’all added up together at this table, and I have always been the least paid person on payroll at every institution I have worked in.”
NEW: Ashley Allison loses it, argues in favor of DEI by explaining how she has always been the lowest paid person despite all her degrees.
She just told on herself.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 6, 2025
The credentials were not in dispute as Aidala made note of the number of high-ranking officials who are black and Jennings sought to promote merit as the reason for Allison’s success.
However, as the former White House staffer pressed on with support from Phillip and Champion, Kelly argued, “Maybe you’re not quite as good on television or in the White House for Obama, who I don’t think has a bias against black women, as you think you are.”
“But this is their chance to get out there, even though the nation has just issued a referendum on the nonsense around this kind of thinking, to say, you’re all wrong. We’re victims,” she added. “Honestly, all these women are extremely successful, you would have thought that it was 1949 America the way this thing went down.”
While the CNN host advanced a claim that black women were at once among the highest educated and the least paid without sharing specifics on the data to prove if she was making an apples-to-apples comparison, Hanson spoke from his own personal experience leading as many as 40 search committees in academia.
“If I had a white male,” he offered after suggesting he’d never had a problem getting qualified minority women into graduate programs, “I figured that he had to have 40-100 points, at least, higher…and I still couldn’t get them in. I must have had 100 calls in my life, when I would complain, from these Ivy League schools that say we do not want any more white males. That’s just a fact.”
Turning her ire on Phillip, Kelly had gone on to add, “I guarantee — Abby Phillip was out there, just as bad as the other two. I guarantee you she’s making over a million dollars, and yet she’s still — like Michelle Obama — wants us to think this is a racist, sexist country that won’t reward her adequately for her talents.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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