While Joy Reid shed tears over her departure from MSNBC Monday, Megyn Kelly relished in the aftermath—ecstatically waving goodbye to the “absolute worst person on television.”
“I’m so torn! I’m thrilled she’s gone, she literally was the most racist person on television,” Kelly said on the Monday episode of her self-titled show, pointing to a montage of Reid discussing topics like “white vigilantism and white tears” as examples of her “racism.”
“But, you know it’s like, we won’t have her to kick around anymore so there’s a little sadness in that,” she continued while proceeding to slam Reid for her ratings.
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The former Fox News host doubled down on her Reid rant on X Monday as well, commenting on a video of Reid sobbing while discussing her show’s cancellation: “Joy Reid has viciously mocked the tears of every white person she’s helped cancel over the years for some imaginary racial slight.
“She’s had zero empathy for anyone,” Kelly continued. “Now she wants us to feel sorry for her. WE DON’T.”
When the news of The ReidOut’s cancellation first broke Sunday, Kelly rejoiced at the prospect and slammed NBC–where she worked as an anchor between 2017 and 2018–for “letting it go on this long.”
“Remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked ‘white women tears’ as pathetic and offensive to her? Who’s crying now, Joy?,” Kelly wrote on X Sunday. “Good riddance to the absolute worst person on television, and shame on NBC for letting it go on this long.”
One of MSNBC’s most outspoken anchors, Reid was a mainstay of the network since 2014. Her weeknight broadcast The ReidOut was canceled this week as part of seemingly broader program overhauls and changes at MSNBC.
During a surprise appearance in a Win With Black Women call Monday, Reid disclosed she’s been feeling “every emotion” from “anger, rage, disappointment, hurt” to “guilt.”
“But in the end, where I really land and where I’ve landed on today is just gratitude,” she added through tears. “Just pure gratitude and gratitude — not just because people would take the time to get on a call like this or to take care of me, but also that my show had value and that — I’m sorry — that what I was doing had value.”
