Megyn Kelly had little sympathy for Joy Reid, the MSNBC host who had her show canceled over the weekend by the left-leaning Comcast-owned channel as part of a lineup reshuffle ordered up by new network boss Rebecca Kutler.
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?” Kelly, SiriusXM host of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” wrote on her X account over the weekend.
“Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
During the 2021 trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of two people during protests in Kenosha, Wis., Reid infuriated viewers when she ridiculed him over his emotional testimony in court — likening it to statements made by then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.
Kavanaugh grew emotional during the confirmation hearings when he fended off accusations of sexual assault that were leveled by a high school classmate.
In a TikTok video, Reid argued that Rittenhouse was cynically using emotion in his testimony just as Kavanaugh did.
Kavanaugh “cried his way through the hearings to make him a permanent member” of the high court and “his tears turned out to be more powerful than the tears of [accuser] Christine Blasey Ford. Which were the tears of an alleged victim,” she said.
“But in America, there’s a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears,” Reid said.
“Really, white tears in general, because that’s what Karens are, right? They Karen out, and then as soon as they get caught, it’s bring the waterworks,” she added.
Reid said in the TikTok video that “white men can get away with that too.”
“And it has the same effect, even as the right tries to politicize the idea that masculinity is being robbed from American men by multiculturalism and wokeism. They still want to be able to have their tears.”
Reid also stirred controversy following the Nov. 5 election, when she urged white Democrats not to bother inviting African-American women to anti-Trump protests.
As it became apparent that former President Donald Trump had routed Vice President Kamala Harris in the election, Reid attributed the result to the fact that “white women voters did not” show up for the Democratic nominee.
“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris. White women voters did not,” she said on the air during MSNBC’s election coverage.
“That is what it appears happened in that state.”
Reid was reacting to the news that North Carolina broke for Trump. She noted that women in the Tar Heel State “lost their reproductive rights” under Trump when the Supreme Court voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The Harris campaign bet that abortion would be a winning issue for them in North Carolina, but “that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman,” Reid said.
“This will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy,” said Reid, suggesting that women blew it by not electing Harris in 2024 or Hillary Clinton in 2016.
Trump, meanwhile, blasted MSNBC on Sunday, saying the network should pay “vast sums of money” for the “unpardonable sin” it has done to the country — while celebrating the axing of Reid, whom he called a “mentally obnoxious racist.”
Trump took to Truth Social late Sunday to rip the leftist network, calling it MSDNC because it is “nothing more than an illegal arm of the Democratic party” while celebrating the end of Reid’s show.
“Lowlife Chairman of ‘Concast,’ Brian Roberts, the owner of Ratings Challenge NBC and MSDNC, has finally gotten the nerve up to fire one of the least talented people in television, the mentally obnoxious racist, Joy Reid,” Trump wrote.
“Based on her ratings, which were virtually non-existent, she should have been ‘canned’ long ago, along with everyone else who works there,” he continued.
Reid, a longtime critic of Trump and a prominent voice on mainstream media, has been a key presence on MSNBC since 2011.
Following Trump’s re-election in November, viewership for Reid’s show saw a dramatic decline.
Nielsen Media Research reported that by December, her audience had nearly halved, contributing to a 53% drop in MSNBC’s primetime ratings after the election.
Reid’s program “The ReidOut” is set to air its final episode this week.
According to a report from the New York Times, it will be replaced by a new panel show featuring co-hosts Alicia Menendez, Michael Steele and Symone Sanders Townsend.
The Post has sought comment from Reid and MSNBC.
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