Megyn Kelly Unleashes Scathing 11-Minute Takedown of George Clooney After He Calls Out Her Journalism Credentials

Megyn Kelly did not hold back. After George Clooney publicly criticized her during a recent Variety Actors on Actors segment, the former Fox News and NBC anchor devoted the opening of her Tuesday show to a blistering, 11-minute response — and she made it personal.

Clooney, who’s currently starring in a Broadway adaptation of his 2005 film Good Night, and Good Luck, brought Kelly up unprompted while discussing political backlash with fellow guest Patti LuPone. After LuPone referenced Clooney being labeled “a communist” and “a fascist,” Clooney mentioned that Kelly had dismissed him as “not a journalist.” His response? “I didn’t say I was a journalist… but I’ve been to Darfur, Sudan, the Congo. I’ve been shot at to get stories out. I’m not quite sure what she’s done to be a journalist.”

He also defended the inclusion of Kelly’s real-life commentary in the play’s closing montage, which features actual media clips. “We only show her words,” he said. “We don’t manipulate them. We don’t take them out of context. These are your words.”

Kelly was not amused. On the April 23 episode of The Megyn Kelly Show, she tore into Clooney with the kind of fury typically reserved for cable news primetime monologues.

“He fancies himself a journalist,” Kelly scoffed. “He stumbled into the biggest political story of the decade — that Joe Biden is mentally unfit for office — and said absolutely nothing for weeks. Then, only when Biden humiliated himself in a debate and refused to step down, George suddenly finds his voice and pens an op-ed in The New York Times.”

She added: “That’s not journalism, George. That’s cowardice wrapped in partisanship.”

The former anchor, now an independent media voice, didn’t stop there.

“What’s the matter, George? Are the Hollywood roles getting a little hard to come by as you age and get decidedly more smug and self-congratulatory? Just asking.”

Kelly then rattled off her résumé — presidential debates, interviews with world leaders and average Americans alike — to contrast her work with Clooney’s Hollywood activism. She also took a jab at Patti LuPone, calling her “Broadway’s biggest and oldest diva,” before dismissing the entire Actors on Actors conversation as “pathetic.”

While Clooney has yet to respond, Kelly made it crystal clear she doesn’t intend to back down — and she’s more than willing to escalate.