Megyn Kelly panned “out of contact billionaire” Oprah Winfrey’s “ridiculous” city corridor that she hosted for Vice President Kamala Harris, saying that “skinny Ozempic” Oprah had grow to be “elitist” and that she was now not “real.”
“I miss fats Oprah. She was simply real,” Kelly stated on Friday’s episode of the SiriusXM podcast “The Megyn Kelly Present.”
“Now this skinny Ozempic Oprah has misplaced — together with the kilos, her coronary heart — her sense of authenticity,” Kelly stated.
Winfrey emceed a city corridor in the important thing battleground state of Michigan.
The occasion was billed because the “Unite for America Rally,” an official Harris marketing campaign city corridor on Thursday night which was streamed dwell on the web.
The occasion was attended nearly by high-powered celebrities together with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Jennifer Lopez. Winfrey additionally interviewed Harris in a format just like her personal long-running daytime tv present.
Kelly, nonetheless, was not impressed.
“I used to like Oprah, like most of us who grew up after we did,” the previous Fox Information prime time star stated.
“And solely now did I notice I’ve been getting spoon-fed propaganda from this girl for years.”
Kelly stated the Oprah-hosted city corridor was a “debacle” and “the last word fruits of her journalistic fails.”
Whereas interviewing “the potential subsequent president of the US,” Winfrey failed “not solely…[to] ask her onerous questions” however she as a substitute used the format “to rehab and repackag[e]” Harris.
Kelly stated that Winfrey ought to have pressed Harris about her insurance policies on weapons in addition to the border disaster.
Harris made information in the course of the occasion when she instructed Winfrey that “if anyone breaks into my home, they’re getting shot, sorry.”
“Most likely shouldn’t have stated that,” Harris stated because the viewers laughed. “However my workers will take care of that later.”
Kelly blasted Winfrey for not following up with Harris by asking her about her assist for necessary gun buybacks.
“You possibly can craft that query in quite a lot of methods, however it have to be crafted in case you’re an sincere dealer,” Kelly stated.
“She’s not,” she added in reference to Winfrey.
Kelly stated that Winfrey’s wealth has made her a “cleansed, elite, billionaire” who hasn’t “frolicked hanging out with a working class individual” on this nation.
Kelly additionally took Winfrey to process for “the yelling” that she did in the course of the occasion.
“I used to be like, what’s she doing? This feels affected, compelled, and it’s making me uncomfortable,” Kelly stated of Winfrey.
The Submit has sought remark from Winfrey.