Megyn Kelly BioSnap a weekly updated Biography.
Megyn Kelly has spent the past few days right where she likes to be, at the center of the conservative medias biggest arguments and the broader cultures hottest controversies. At Turning Point USAs AmericaFest in Phoenix, she headlined Friday night and used the stage to deliver a blistering, highly personal response to Ben Shapiro, after he had publicly accused her of cowardice for not denouncing Candace Owens over Owens unsubstantiated claims about Charlie Kirks death. Deseret News reports that from the AmericaFest stage Kelly said she and Shapiro are likely no longer friends, reminded the crowd that she helped make him a star at Fox News, and rejected the idea that he gets to excommunicate anyone from the conservative movement. She framed the clash as fundamentally about Israel policy and insisted pro Israel activists like Shapiro and Bari Weiss do not get to dictate how she handles friends or on air allies.
Video from Right Side Broadcasting Network and Magno News shows Kelly in a fireside chat with Jack Posobiec at the same event, where she cast herself as a behind the scenes peace broker in the TPUSA world. On stage, she described extensive private conversations with Erika Kirk and others about how to handle the Candace Owens rift and Charlie Kirks legacy, depicting herself as trying to cool a brewing MAGA civil war rather than inflame it. Posobiec closed by thanking her for brokering peace and for refusing to take easy sides, a line clearly aimed at her feud with Shapiro.
Off the stage, she has also been under fire for commentary on another high profile case. Media Matters notes that on her SiriusXM Megyn Kelly Show she speculated that the alleged role of drugs in the Reiner family murders might point back to parenting, a segment that critics said unfairly blamed the victims parents. Inside Edition reports that she then faced a social media backlash after she mused on air about whether the defense in the Nick Reiner case might try to draw comparisons to the Menendez brothers, a bit of true crime punditry that struck many as tasteless given the brutality of the killings.
Tabloidy but biographically significant, these intertwined storylines reinforce the same Megyn Kelly profile we have seen for years: a highly paid independent broadcaster who leans into controversy, treats intra conservative feuds as both principle and performance, and uses every public hit, from AmericaFest stages to SiriusXM segments, to sharpen her brand as the woman in the middle who still will not back down.
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