Megyn Kelly mercilessly mocked Mika Brzezinski by recreating the raunchy pose the MSNBC star did for Vanity Fair in 2012 during a show appearance yesterday.
Kelly, 54, slammed the Morning Joe star, 57, as a hypocrite for preaching feminism despite appearing with her leg raised in the air in a magazine shoot with her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough.
You have a picture of the two of them where Joe Scarborough is like in a power pose and she is up there on the desk like this, Kelly said as she got on her desk and lifted her leg to mock Brzezinskis pose.
Im not dressed for this but Im going to show you, Kelly added as she laughed during her appearance on Sky News Australia.
In the shoot in question, which was published in September 11, 2012 for an article titled MSNBCs Hot Ticket, Brzezinski was pictured on top of a desk wearing a sleeveless black dress and high heels as she kicked her leg in the air.
Miss Champion, Miss Feminist... Kelly continued.
I’m so over her f***ing bulls**t about her women’s rights and empowerment...you’re full of s**t and we all know it.
The former Fox News and NBC host has been criticizing Brzezinski and Scarborough for meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after they deemed him a fascist throughout the 2024 election cycle.
Megyn Kelly mercilessly mocked Mika Brzezinski by recreating the raunchy pose the MSNBC star did for Vanity Fair in 2012
In the shoot in question, which was published in September 11, 2012 for an article titled MSNBCs Hot Ticket, Brzezinski was pictured on top of a desk wearing a sleeveless black dress and high heels as she kicked her leg in the air
It wasn’t just Hitler and fascist, it was also eight years of "racist, sexist, rapist," that’s what he was being called all over their show and MSNBC and it’s all just forgotten, it’s nothing? He’s not a rapist? He’s not Hitler? Kelly asked.
The Morning Joe stars have received massive backlash from both conservative and liberal media figures after they revealed that they met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago to restart communications.
Their average audience is down 20 percent from Monday to Wednesday - and down a whopping 45 percent in the 25-54 demographic, to just 49,000 viewers.
Kelly also went against the hosts earlier this week, telling them to go f**k themselves.
Go f**k yourselves, you dishonest jokes of faux journalists, Kelly said on Monday, reminding her audience that the Morning Joe hosts initially supported Trumps bid for president in 2016.
It is nauseating, its so stomach-turning, Kelly added. Theyre so disgusting.
Kelly then claimed that Scarborough stopped supporting Trump after Scarborough found out he was not gonna be the vice presidential running mate.
He had been rejected for that position and they turned, they turned on Trump because access to power is everything to that small, little man, the former Fox News and NBC News star said.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski defended themselves from the backlash after they revealed that they met with Donald Trump
Scarborough shared that they and Trump didnt see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so
Earlier this week, Scarborough and Brzezinski faced an awkward broadcast in the wake of a bombshell report claiming Comcast is set to spin-off its cable channels, including their employer MSNBC.
The hosts brought up the news after the Wall Street Journal reported Comcast will release a swathe of its NBCUniversal cable TV networks, as Scarborough joked that it would mean his wife needs to give up her penthouse.
When this happens, you never know whats going to happen, Scarborough said.
As he tried to downplay the move, Scarborough said his show could all be fired a year from now, to which Mika chimed in: Or tomorrow.
While she was joking, the remark was telling over the danger MSNBCs top talent find themselves in - which notably comes after the network suffered dire ratings in election season.
Comcasts move to spin off its NBCUniversal networks would have been a staggering move years ago, with its fleet of channels previously among the companys most profitable assets.
But the decision will see channels including MSNBC, USA, Oxygen, E!, and Golf Channel branched off onto a separate entity - and separate balance sheet.
Comcast executives said that they will not spin off all channels, and will keep Bravo, the Peacock streaming service and the NBC broadcast network under the parent company.
But by shedding its expensive networks, Comcast is hedging its bets that it can expand its movie studio and theme park industries without being dragged down by the struggles of traditional television news.
According to the WSJs reporting, which broke the story, the new cable venture will have an ownership structure that mirrors Comcasts, but would likely need greater scale to thrive.
This appeared to be on the minds of Morning Joes panel on Wednesday, as the hosts poked fun at the move while clearly understanding it may drastically alter MSNBC.
Scarborough said: The big concern that stockholders right now on Wall Street are wondering about, before they decide what to do with Comcast shares, is whether Mika is going to have to give up her penthouse.
Now, now, Brzezinski responded.
The announcement this week from Comcast is indicative of the significant changes the media industry has been hit with in recent years, which has also seen a swathe of outlets forced to downsize their staff numbers.
This month, this also led CNN to reportedly launch plans to axe some of its high-paid staff after the network also suffered dismal election ratings.