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Megyn Kelly UNLOADS on Fox News: ‘Stop this nonsense! I see what you guys are doing … it’s disgusting!’

May 3, 2023 | | Print Article

Independent journalist and SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly went scorched earth on Fox News Tuesday, calling out its “dirtball” tactics as the network allegedly leaked at least three videos to leftist media outlets in what was seen as a brazen attempt to smear and destroy former host Tucker Carlson.

Kelly has been on a roll, eviscerating her former employer at every turn for what she sees as disgusting behavior in the way that Fox News showed Carlson the door. She warned that hit jobs against him were likely coming and, suddenly, they surfaced right on cue showing Carlson using colorful language and joking. But the videos actually make him look even better despite the efforts of outlets such as Media Matters and The New York Times.

“They can’t help themselves… Fox is losing its fastball,” Kelly declared. “This is just too obvious, Irina. Again, It’s my opinion. This is all being leaked by Irina Briganti who’s made it her mission to ruin Tucker Carlson. She hates it when you mention her name on the air. She hates it when her pictures make the air, but she’s happy to besmirch yours. She’s in the business of ruining your name. Welcome to the club! It doesn’t feel very good does it, Irina, when your name is all over the news as somebody who’s possibly doing very disgusting dirty, dirtball kinds of things? It doesn’t feel good.”

For good measure, Kelly rightfully pointed out that CNN is not stooping to such sleazy tactics concerning former host Don Lemon who was let go the same day that Carlson was.

“I just want to point out – CNN is not doing any of this crap to Don Lemon,” Kelly noted. “They fired the guy. They’re in the middle of a negotiation. As far as I know, it’s going the way you would expect. And I think Don Lemon is going to walk away with his paycheck. Tucker, it’s a different situation at Fox where you must be ruined as I’ve been telling you.”

She then made her case that Fox News was behind the leaks.

“Ask yourself about my theory that this is Fox News doing it to him, that it’s Irina Briganti,” Kelly contended. “Who sat there combing through his commercial downtime to look for anything? If this is all you got, you lost your fastball. I can’t wait for the tape that absolutely sinks him because this is absurd. So far you made Fox Nation look bad. You’ve made Tucker look good on his ripping on Media Matters for America. And you’ve made Tucker look good because he’s obviously a funny guy who mocks his enemies and makes [it] clear that he understands you might be taping him!”

“Would love to hear from you, Irina. Let me know if I’m off base on all this. I’d love to have a chat. You can deny it – why don’t you come on the show? We can have a chat about old times. Because I see you. And I see what you guys are doing, and so does Tucker’s audience. And it’s disgusting,” she concluded making her apparent disgust for Briganti crystal clear.

For full context and because it is just a must-see, here is the full clip from Kelly on Carlson Tuesday, which shows the leaked videos:

(Video Credit: Megyn Kelly)

Kelly has flat-out warned Carlson that Fox News’ goal is to destroy him. She asserts that the head of public relations at Fox News is running “an orchestrated hit job” to smear him.

Fox News responded in a statement unequivocally, “this is completely false and an outright lie.”

She also told Fox News to grow a pair and admit they actually fired Carlson, “Have some balls, tell your audience why you fired your number one host Tucker Carlson.”

According to Kelly, the network seems to be in a panic to prevent Carlson’s 3.5 million viewers from following him to a new network or whatever gig he sets up.

“This is all an orchestrated hit job, in my opinion, and it’s not a subtle one,” Kelly claimed on Monday.

“It’s not enough to fire you,” she told Carlson. “You must be destroyed, and it doesn’t matter how nice a guy you were, how many points you put on the board for the channel, that you brought us through the Trump years, that you were No. 1 in your time slot, that you haven’t said one negative word about us.”

Kelly did not directly blame the Murdoch family for giving Carlson the boot. She once again went after the network’s notorious public relations department headed by Irena Briganti, who is the senior vice president for communications.

(Video Credit: Megyn Kelly)

“You will be destroyed to settle some angry, bitter internal PR hack’s personal vendetta against you,” she warned Carlson. “And, if she managed to convince the bosses, the Murdochs, that he’s not good for them either, that he may have called them a name or two: So much the better. That’s what I think’s going on here.”

Kelly also believes the leaked videos are meant to be a message to Carlson’s potential employers, “So, you see: He’s a hassle; he’s a difficult employee; he’s not a team player; he rips on you from the inside.”

“It’s not going well for Fox News at 8 pm, at all, which is the understatement of the year,” she commented. “Meanwhile, Media Matters for America releases another mysterious outtake of Tucker onset speaking frankly. This happened last week. Two videos were released. By whoever could it be, Irena [Briganti]?”

“So they first leaked to The New York Times: This is my supposition, for the record, because it hasn’t been yet confirmed, but I know it’s them,” Kelly accused. “And I know it’s Irena Briganti, who runs coms and f***ing hates Tucker. Sorry. She hates his guts. And it’s mutual. He doesn’t like her, either. None of us do. Nobody likes Irena.”

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