Megyn Kelly Cries ‘WTF’ After The Babylon Bee Makes the Same Joke She Defended Last Year
Megyn Kelly cried “WTF” after The Babylon Bee, a conservative satire website, published an article making the same joke about her that she didn’t mind when it was directed at Mehdi Hasan last year.
The Bee headline in question read, “Megyn Kelly Gets Rid Of Old Pager Just To Be Safe,” likely in reference to her continued promotion of Tucker Carlson and the friendly tack she’s taken toward Candace Owens, both of whom have been widely criticized for what many perceive as anti-Semitic rhetoric.
In response, Kelly wrote “WTF,” and tagged Seth Dillon, the CEO of the Bee. Since then, the post appears to have been taken down.
But Kelly didn’t object last year when Ryan Girdusky told Mehdi Hasan that he hoped Hasan’s” beeper doesn’t go off” on CNN Newsnight, a crack that got Girdusky banned from the network’s airwaves.
In fact, Kelly hosted Girdusky for a friendly interview after the incident, during which she declared:
Here’s where it went south. Mehdi Hasan leaned so far into playing the victim, he reminded me of those World Cup soccer players and their drama, pretending that they’re hurt so that they can get a red card or whatever on somebody else. It was over the top, he deserves an Academy Award for the “Did you just say you want me dead? You just said you want me to be killed?” What is he e-, it’s obviously-, the beeper thing is a reference to what Israel did to Hamas supporters and members of Hamas where they blew up their beepers, and in some cases blew up the men holding the beepers. And he-, you were saying if you support the Palestinians, you later said you thought he said Hamas, maybe he has a beeper. I get that’s the comment. But he-, how do we get from that to “I hope you die.” Like, I want you to be blown up tomorrow. That was him trying to cause trouble for you.
She went on to denounce CNN for its handling of the aftermath of the Girdusky-Hasan dust-up, characterizing it as “absurd theater,” and a “holier-than-thou act.”
Reacting to The Bee’s joke about Kelly, far-left commentator Glenn Greenwald claimed that The Bee had “threatened Megyn Kelly that she’d be murdered by Israel for refusing to de-platform all Israel critics.”
“As Israel loyalists often do, they used the pager image to pretend it was all just a joke,” he added.
