Earlier this week, MSNBC host Joy Reid hosted her final show. In the aftermath, Rachel Maddow slammed her own network, but Megyn Kelly believes it was disingenuous.
After Reid’s final program, Rachel Maddow blasted MSNBC for its decision to end The ReidOut. “In all of the jobs I have had in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow said. “I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call and I understand that. But that’s what I think.”
During an appearance with Semafor News Editor-in-Chief and co-founder Ben Smith, Kelly was asked about her previous statements about the MSNBC host. She did not backtrack in the slightest.
“Rachel Maddow got out there and tried to act like, ‘Oh, I’m a woman of the working class. I’m here to represent the poor staffers who could lose their jobs now as a result of Joy Reid biting it,'” said Kelly. “Meanwhile, she’s collecting $25 million a year. She’s got multiple homes worth millions. You know what? Why don’t you take a $2 million pay cut and save 10 of those jobs? If you feel that said, you don’t even have to pay it out of your pay your bank account. Just tell them, ‘Pay me $23 million next year instead of $25 million. She won’t do it.”
Megyn Kelly continued by alleging that Maddow cares more about the optics of her stance rather than the principle.
“She wants to see virtuous and sanctimonious. But in fact, she’s only the latter, because she won’t actually put any money on the line and an example of the exorbitant life she leads while she’s trying to remind us ‘Oh, I’ve worked so many jobs. The jobs I’ve worked’, puts, to the point, her hypocrisy.”
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