Before Candace Owens was ever the queen of bonkers takes, Megyn Kelly held that crown. And if her latest reason for why she thinks Sydney Sweeney went to Jeff Bezos’ wedding is any indicator, Kelly will not leave that crown without a fight.
In case you forgot, Kelly was once at the epicenter of conservative conversations throughout the US. She spent her time in the limelight asking guests if Will & Grace made them gay, having a sit-down interview with Jane Fonda about a movie but instead asking about her cosmetic surgery, and, of course, who can forget that time she told her audience that Jesus was white and so is Santa Claus on her late-night show. She’s still never cleared up whether she believes Santa is real. Anyway, eventually the base turned on her when President Trump made her a target of one of his common misogynistic remarks.
Since then, Kelly has not quite settled at any job, and she now does a self-published talk show online. Candace Owens is much more popular with younger crowds because, unlike Kelly, Candace will discuss tangential topics like Macron’s marriage with the same fervor as the Baldoni case. That kind of politics-to-celebrity pop culture pipeline is irresistible to the algorithms, and Kelly seems like she wants a piece of that pie too.
According to Page Six, Megyn Kelly took to her show to discuss the much-opined-over, over-the-top Jeff Bezos wedding. In particular, she was concerned about the guest list. Kelly specifically questioned Sydney Sweeney’s attendance, who is much younger than the marrying couple, demanding to know why she was even there. Now, Sweeney is just an actor, and Jeff Bezos is now a studio head, and sometimes in Hollywood — and in other jobs, really — you just have to show up for the boss’s event if they invite you. That’s all it was. An awkward situation at worst.
Kelly, however, believed that it was Sydney Sweeney’s body that got her an invite. Megyn Kelly explained to her shrinking audience, “Sydney Sweeney’s the new toast of the town out there because she’s got these enormous breasts that everybody’s obsessed with.”
There are multiple instances where Megyn Kelly decides she will be the story rather than the topic at hand. The New York Times has even published a comprehensive list on that. This is just what she does. She talks about people in a very authoritative way, but when you break down her words and consider them slowly, you go, “You know what, Megyn Kelly is wrong about that, white people should actually not do blackface under any circumstance, much less on Halloween.” For Kelly, everyone in the world is just too sensitive to fully embrace her ideas. But in reality, she’s just Kanye West without a back catalogue of great music.
Megyn Kelly was doing these takes before there was even an algorithm to spike, so kudos to her for the consistency. But she’s irrelevant. We have enough to deal with trying to untangle Candace Owens’ weekly ramblings as is.
