Fox News’ Megyn Kelly criticized rival network CNN on Thursday for hiring Donald Trump’s fired campaign manager Corey Lewandowski just days after he was ousted.
“This is the same guy who has threatened more than one journalist in the course of this campaign, has had some very ugly language attributed to him when it comes to women,” Kelly reminded viewers. “And now he will be getting paid by Donald Trump one day and by CNN the next.”
Her guest, Fox News’ Howard Kurtz, said Lewandowski handled his firing with “class,” but also knocked CNN’s timing.
“For CNN to hire him 12 minutes after he was fired is to use, one of Trump’s famous words, sad,” Kurtz said, as quoted by Politico. “It’s really sad.”
Kelly also speculated about an “awkward” potential meeting at the network between those Lewandowski has had run-ins with – CNN reporter Noah Gray, who Lewandowski threatened last year to “fucking blacklist” among them – and the newly hired political commentator.
“Think how the CNN reporter over there feels, the one that he threatened,” Kelly said. “I hope they don’t bump into each other in the green room, that’ll be awkward. It’s really remarkable.”
Watch an edit of Kelly’s remarks via Politico:
It’s not even the pot calling the kettle black. It’s more like a $500-an-hour call girl criticizing a $20-a-pop streetwalker for having loose morals.
They also had this story on dailykos, and I couldn’t stop laughing because the writer of the article referred to Howard Kurtz as “Igor - pronounced eye-gore”. PERFECTION!
Yeah CNN, what gives? You know he was supposed to be hired by Roger Ailes.
The abhorent criticizing the odious.
Agreed…but just because Kelly is the one to call them out for this, doesn’t mean she is wrong. Broken clocks and all that.
This was, IMO, a horrendously stupid move on all sorts of levels for CNN, not the least being that without a doubt, Lewandowski is under NDA from the Trump campaign (even though he refuses to answer that question…I mean, who in their right mind hires someone who refuses to say if they are under NDA??), which means the marginal bit of inside baseball he could bring is off limits.
And For FSM sake…how many Trump surrogates does CNN need to have on their payroll??
With any luck, here’s hoping that this election destroys both FoxNews and CNN. Their 24-hour-a-day Trump BJs are going to look pretty awful after the November win by Clinton.