Former GOP speechwriter tears into 'rancid' Megyn Kelly's hateful tirade

Former Republican and current Bulwark podcaster Tim Miller showed no mercy to MAGA podcaster Megyn Kelly after her attack on Haitians this week.

“I think you're kind of nice to Megyn Kelly there because what Megyn Kelly is doing is she's being a rancid b——,” Miller said on his Friday afternoon Bulwark podcast with guest host Jane Coaston. “That's what she's doing. I'm sorry but, like, that is all she's doing.”

The former NBC daytime talk host took to her SiriusXM “Megyn Kelly Show” and denigrated Haitian immigrants living in the U.S.

“And half of you people, more than half, you won't assimilate. We don't want you,” Kelly said. “We don't care if you're offended. Get out. Go home. Go back to f—— Haiti. Sorry. I'm just I'm thinking about our friends in Ohio who've been dealing with these … Haitians for years now. Drunk driving all over their towns and killing people.”

“This is the whole cats and dogs thing,” Kelly then added, citing a soundly debunked claim by President Donald Trump that immigrants were eating cats and dogs prior to his 2024 re-election. “They don't want to live like Americans live.”

Coaston called Kelly’s rage insincere because she was merely doing it for money.

“It's a performance for an audience. It's fake. This is what [they] want,” said Coaston. “This is what [they] want to hear from you … and we want this from you and it will benefit you financially to do this. If it didn't, she wouldn't be doing it.”

“We have evidence of all of this because do you remember when she was working for NBC?” Coaston asked Miller.

“Yeah, it was a totally different character,” said Miller. “She was like a totally different character. She was loving trans children, having them on the show. There's like a soft morning mom after school drop off [kind of vibe]. She did the wine dancing.”

Kelly’s tenure on NBC was short-lived, however. In 2018, she was criticized for on-air remarks she made on Megyn Kelly Today related to the appropriateness of blackface as a Halloween costumes, saying “that was okay as long as you were dressing up like a character." She also defended Luann de Lesseps's use of blackface to wear a Diana Ross Halloween costume.

Kelly issued an email apologizing for the remarks after catching backlash. But three days later, NBC canceled Megyn Kelly Today. She had only been with the network for about a year.

Kelly is just an actor, said Miller, who contributes nothing to the nation, unlike the immigrants who actually arrive and work hard.

“She is perpetrating a lie. That is what is underscoring the tragedy that's happening to these people that are being sent back to Haiti for no reason. They're being menaced by our government for no reason. They're in the country working hard, going to church. raising their families,” said Miller. “… Megan Kelly, you didn't build s——. She has not built any lasting cultural touchstone. She's added nothing to the culture. All she's trying to do is rip the country apart, undermine what made America special.”