Megyn Kelly reacts to MSNBC firing Joy Reid: Whos crying now?

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 ...