{"id":3161,"date":"2025-03-27T04:41:42","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/don-lemon-explodes-on-megyn-kelly-go-f-yourself-after-she-calls-joy-reid-the-worst-on-tv-news\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T04:51:29","slug":"don-lemon-explodes-on-megyn-kelly-go-f-yourself-after-she-calls-joy-reid-the-worst-on-tv-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/?p=3161","title":{"rendered":"Stunning Announcement: Whoopi Goldberg, Megan Rapinoe, and Taylor Swift Announce They\u2019re Leaving the U.S.!\u00a0In a surprising turn of events, three of America\u2019s most influential women\u2014Whoopi Goldberg, Megan Rapinoe, and Taylor Swift\u2014have sparked a nationwide conversation after hinting at plans to leave the United States&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/TIhgeLmwx0OXb30aqZ1MmarxewA=\/4000x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(739x250:741x252)\/don-lenon-megyn-kelly-joy-reid-022525-bf78fd72aab94aa0befd64726bc257d0.jpg\" alt=\"Don Lemon Tells Megyn Kelly 'Go F--- Yourself' After Joy Reid Comments\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Joy Reid\u2018s\u00a0sudden exit\u00a0from MSNBC continues to draw fiery responses from current and former television news personalities.\u00a0Don Lemon\u00a0recently took to Instagram (via\u00a0The Daily Beast) to slam\u00a0Megyn Kelly, who celebrated Reid\u2019s departure by calling Reid the \u201cabsolute worst person on television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\u201cLet me just say this to Megyn Kelly,\u201d Lemon said in a direct-to-camera address. \u201cIn my 30-some years as a journalist and my 50-some years as a person of color: Go fuck yourself, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-13\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"\/>\n<script><![CDATA[\n  window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};\n  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n    googletag.defineSlot('\/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle', [[336, 280], [300, 250]], 'div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\n    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n    googletag.enableServices();\n  });\n]]><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- \/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <script><![CDATA[\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0'); });\n  ]]><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Lemon went on to slam Kelly as a \u201ctroll\u201d and a \u201cracist\u201d and rebuke her claim that Reid had a habit of going after white woman on her show and \u201cmocking white women\u2019s tears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, the worst person on television was fired from NBC and the \u2018Today\u2019 show a few years ago, and that\u2019s Megyn Kelly!\u201d Lemon fired back. \u201cThat\u2019s the worst person who\u2019s not on television anymore. It\u2019s you! So, hoorah for that. NBC did something good with that.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-14\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"\/>\n<script><![CDATA[\n  window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};\n  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n    googletag.defineSlot('\/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle', [[336, 280], [300, 250]], 'div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\n    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n    googletag.enableServices();\n  });\n]]><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- \/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <script><![CDATA[\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0'); });\n  ]]><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Lemon then dived into Kelly\u2019s problematic past, including the\u00a0notorious moment\u00a0from 2018 when Kelly defended Blackface costumes for Halloween. He also attempted to expose Kelly\u2019s history of attacking other women on television, including CNN host Kaitlan Collins. Lemon threw to a clip of Kelly calling Collins \u201cextremely boring with no personality\u201d and a \u201ccold-hearted bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\u201cWas that really necessary?\u201d Lemon asked. \u201cAnd how is that supportive of women? Now, she could\u2019ve given some advice and said, \u2018Hey, you need to somehow establish a bond or connection with your audience.\u2019 She doesn\u2019t have to call the woman a B.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-15\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"\/>\n<script><![CDATA[\n  window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};\n  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n    googletag.defineSlot('\/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle', [[336, 280], [300, 250]], 'div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\n    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n    googletag.enableServices();\n  });\n]]><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- \/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <script><![CDATA[\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0'); });\n  ]]><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Lemon later added, \u201cI was actually friendly with Megyn Kelly, and then, when people show you who they are, you better fucking believe it, because we should\u2019ve known.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Reid\u2019s exit from MSNBC also drew scorn from her network colleague Rachel Maddow, who\u00a0spoke out against her own company\u00a0over what she calls a \u201cbad mistake.\u201d She went on to call it \u201cindefensible\u201d that MSNBC could let go of \u201ctwo non-white hosts in primetime,\u201d citing Reid and Alex Wagner.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-16\" style=\"margin: 8px 0; clear: both;\">\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/securepubads.g.doubleclick.net\/tag\/js\/gpt.js\"\/>\n<script><![CDATA[\n  window.googletag = window.googletag || {cmd: []};\n  googletag.cmd.push(function() {\n    googletag.defineSlot('\/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle', [[336, 280], [300, 250]], 'div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0').addService(googletag.pubads());\n    googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();\n    googletag.enableServices();\n  });\n]]><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- \/21715635079\/Grow\/updatetinus.com_inArticle --><\/p>\n<p>\n  <script><![CDATA[\n    googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1734668498599-0'); });\n  ]]><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">Watch Lemon\u2019s full takedown of Kelly in the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HOT TAKES! - Bless Your Heart, Megyn Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lscf4ARflpg?feature=oembed\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-origwidth=\"500\" data-origheight=\"281\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Reid\u2018s\u00a0sudden exit\u00a0from MSNBC continues to draw fiery responses from current and former television news personalities.\u00a0Don Lemon\u00a0recently took to Instagram (via\u00a0The Daily Beast) to slam\u00a0Megyn Kelly, who celebrated Reid\u2019s departure &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3167,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3161\/revisions\/3167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightflowmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}