Megyn Kelly Goes There on Epstein [View all]

Megyn Kelly has been obnoxious for so long that at this point, it feels less like a personality trait and more like a political science case study. Long before she became the YouTube auntie of white grievance culture, she was already a comet of culture-war nonsense, lighting up Fox News with moments like insisting Santa Claus is white — one of those claims so embarrassing that even conservatives winced.

Her exit from Fox was newsworthy enough that journalists covered it like a natural disaster—especially when she revealed that accusing Roger Ailes of sexual harassment felt like a “career suicide mission,” a phrase that said more about Fox’s internal rot than it did about her bravery. And yet, the woman who once cast herself as a casualty of misogyny somehow had no trouble becoming a repeat offender in a different lane of bigotry when the spotlight turned her way.

After years of culture-war theater at Fox, she somehow managed to mainstream herself at NBC, which, in hindsight, remains one of the boldest miscalculations in recent TV history. Studios thought that if Charlize Theron played her in a movie like Bombshell, maybe real-life Megyn could pull off being a wholesome morning host for a network that still pretends it’s the older sibling of network news. That illusion lasted roughly six months before the now-infamous blackface comments detonated her career and left NBC execs staring into the camera like a mockumentary cutaway. She vanished from the air while her future “remained in doubt,” which is a polite way of saying the entire experiment had blown up so spectacularly that even NBC’s PR team gave up trying to spin it.

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But this time, the trolling got away from her. Because Megyn Kelly has opinions the way junk food has nutrients—they’re technically there, but nobody is fooled. She graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in political science and earned her J.D. from Albany Law School, which means she’s a learned woman. A lawyer. Someone who passed the bar. Someone who should understand the difference between statutory rape and consenting adults. Someone who should know that “15-year-old girls” are not “barely legal.” And yet, when you’ve been in the bigotry business as long as she has, thoughts get replaced with increasingly stupid provocations. That’s why she sat on her show recently insisting Jeffrey Epstein “wasn’t a pedophile” because he was “into barely legal girls,” as though that distinction is anything but repulsive.

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