The feud between popular podcast host Megyn Kelly and Fox News host Mark Levin ramped up this weekend after Kelly reposted a tweet from Drop Site News co-founder Ryan Grim that was sympathetic toward Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, the man accused of plowing his explosives-laden truck into Temple Israel, a Reform Jewish synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, last Thursday.
Grim, a liberal, reported that the week before Ghazali attacked the synagogue, he had learned that two of his brothers, a niece, and a nephew had been killed in Lebanon by an Israeli air strike. Grim either omitted or was simply unaware at the time of his post that the suspect’s brothers were members of a Hezbollah rocket unit in southern Lebanon that had been targeting Israel, thus making them fair game.
At any rate, incensed that Kelly would repost Grim’s tweet, Levin responded on X by calling her “evil” and “diabolical.”
Kelly fired back: “I’m sorry you have a micro penis @marklevinshow but don’t drag the rest of us into your drama.”
Another round of insults ensued. Levin wrote:
Poor Megyn Kelly. An emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck. She’s completely revealed and destroyed herself. She’s everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful, or substantive comment. Utterly toxic.
And Kelly took things down a notch further, replying:
Micropenis Mark @marklevinshow thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I’ve had arrested. He doesn’t like it when women like me fight back. Bc of his micropenis.
Finally, after President Trump wrote a glowing post about Levin on Truth Social, Kelly doubled down on her insults.
Many longtime fans of Megyn Kelly were surprised to see her descend to this level. Reaction on social media was largely negative.
Professor Jacobson replied, “One of the nation’s largest podcasters is still in middle school.”
Outkick’s Jon Root noted that she had just proved Levin’s point.
Some X users thought this latest round made them all look bad.
We’ve watched over the past year as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens have drifted away from the Republican mainstream. Their anti-Israel positions have angered many conservatives, particularly Levin and Ben Shapiro.
Shapiro was especially upset following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, when Owens began promoting baseless conspiracy theories suggesting that Erika Kirk may have been involved in her husband’s murder.
It was Kelly’s refusal to call out Owens’ statements about Erika Kirk that caused the final rupture in Shapiro’s friendship with her. For Shapiro, her reluctance to condemn the conspiracy theories marked a breaking point. The war with Iran has only intensified those fractures.
The entire episode underscores how dramatically the landscape has shifted. It has been surreal to watch the transformation of Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson from prominent conservative voices into figures increasingly estranged from the Republican mainstream. But perhaps even more unexpected has been watching Megyn Kelly take their side in these disputes. What began as disagreements over Israel and foreign policy has now spiraled into personal feuds that reveal deep and growing rifts within the conservative media.
Elizabeth writes commentary for Legal Insurrection and The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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