There’s never been any love lost between Megyn Kelly and Chris Cuomo, and that was on display this week over the Nancy Guthrie case.
Cuomo and Kelly have been frequent critics of one another over the years. That boiled over this week when Chris Cuomo took shots at Megyn Kelly and his colleague Ashleigh Banfield over their coverage of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie.
During a monologue on his NewsNation show, Cuomo called Kelly a “fugazi, sloppy influencer” and a “would-be sleuth” for continually bringing up Nancy Guthrie’s son-in-law as a potential suspect in the case.
In response, Megyn Kelly took Cuomo to task on her SiriusXM show, calling him a “douchebag” and continually calling him “Fredo”, an insult based on Fredo Corleone from The Godfather, meant to label someone as the inept younger brother of someone more powerful and influential.
“Ok, so let me tell you what Fredo is really upset about,” Kelly began. “Fredo no rate-o. That’s his real problem: nobody watches his show on NewsNation, and I mean nobody. Nobody watches his failed podcast either. Nobody watched his Sirius radio show, nobody watched him on CNN, and therefore he gets upset at anybody who does well, like our show, which is always one of the top three conservative podcasts in the nation … Fredo doesn’t like that, ok? Because as I say, Fredo no rate-o, so he gets upset and he gets jealous.
“Sometimes in the past on this show, we’ve called out Fredo for his terrible behavior, for his bad ratings, for his lies about bumping into people who just happen to be listening to his podcast, because literally nobody does,” Kelly concluded. “And Fredo can’t take criticism.”
In response, Cuomo took issue with the language Kelly used in her monologue.
“Get over yourself, little hater,” Cuomo said in a post on X. “Odd language choice for a mom with young kids. Classy.”
After that post, Megyn Kelly responded by saying, “I know your thing is harassing women (runs in the family!) but your focus on me is getting creepy.”
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