Podcaster Megyn Kelly lashed out at NewsNation host Chris Cuomo after he insulted her over coverage of Nancy Guthrie.
The sudden and unexplained disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy, has left ample room for speculation and theory-crafting as people try to make sense of what is currently believed to be a kidnapping. Kelly is among those who have been discussing the case on her podcast, The Megyn Kelly Show. In a recent segment, she took on Cuomo’s assessment of her coverage without pulling any punches.
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“I’ll show you what the douchebag Chris Cuomo is saying,” she said, cutting to a clip of Cuomo ranting about “people who get paid for clicks and ragebait.”
“He’s very upset that Ashleigh Banfield and yours truly have raised questions about the brother-in-law. Here’s Fredo Cuomo on his little-known show on NewsNation, which has less viewers than I have fingers,” she continued, as a silent video of Cuomo next to images of Kelly played in the background. The video then gains audio, where the NewsNation host can be heard complaining about “fugazi, sloppy influencers and would-be sleuths.”
Kelly defended her decision to talk about speculation surrounding the brother-in-law, pointing out that many news outlets are covering this angle, including Cuomo’s own NewsNation, “because, in an investigation like this, you don’t rule out family because of feelings!”
She then turns her attention to the scandal that effectively resulted in the beginning of the end of his career at CNN.
“Because I know you’re in the business of protecting your family. We learned that firsthand during COVID when you put your loser brother on there and ran cover for him. And then ultimately, it was one of the things that led to your downfall, because you didn’t report honestly on his many, many problems during COVID, or his many, many problems grabbing women. Perhaps the reason you chose not to do that was because you yourself were accused of having a ‘Me Too’ problem, as you well know,” she said, recounting the number of women who spoke out against Cuomo’s alleged conduct.
She again defending conversation around the brother-in-law by pointing out that the sheriff involved in the investigation has bluntly said “nobody has been ruled out” yet.
“No one. No one’s been ruled out. Everyone remains a suspect until we have somebody in handcuffs. That’s the way you do it, and you especially do it that way when the sheriff tows the car belonging to the sister and her husband. You do that when the sheriff and the FBI continuously return to the sister and her husband’s home, taking pictures in the middle of the night with the lights off, go back time and time again to search the home, and take belongings from the home and take photographs of the home, which is not the crime scene,” she says. “This is what a responsible reporter does.”
“Envy is a very unattractive thing, Fredo. Work on that,” Kelly smirked.
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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