


Right-wing pundit Megyn Kelly hit back at George Clooney after the actor questioned what she has done to be a journalist.
Their feud began after Clooney gave an interview with “60 Minutes” to promote his Broadway show “Good Night, and Good Luck,” in which he stars as renowned journalist Edward R. Murrow.
Kelly accused the actor, who stated that “telling truth to power has to be waged like war,” of lecturing professional journalists.
In a March episode of her podcast, Kelly fumed that Clooney “is not a journalist because he’s in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck.’”
“George Clooney feels like he’s in the position to lecture all of us on how it’s done, how it ought to be done, after having been conspicuously silent for the last four years,” Kelly said.

In an “Actors on Actors” video published on Tuesday by Variety, Clooney and Broadway star Patti LuPone both questioned Kelly’s journalistic chops.
“You see Megyn Kelly, who’s come out and said, you know, I’m not a journalist; I didn’t say I was a journalist,” Clooney said.
LuPone interrupted by stating, “Neither is she, by the way.”
Clooney responded that he’s “not quite sure” what Kelly has done to be called a journalist.
“I’ve at least been to, you know, Darfur and Sudan and the Congo and been shot at to try to get stories out, you know. I’m not quite sure what she has done to be a journalist.”
He then referenced a part of the production that shows a montage of television history, including a news clip of Kelly.
“We don’t tell people what to think. It’s not out of context. We don’t manipulate it. We literally just go, ‘These are your words,’” Clooney said.
Kelly responded to both LuPone and Clooney on a Wednesday episode of her podcast, dismissing LuPone as a “loudmouth” and “Broadway’s biggest and oldest bully.”
As for Clooney, Kelly, 54, made a few jabs about the 63-year-old actor’s age and stated that he “must not know anything if he doesn’t know that I’m a journalist.”
“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? I’m just asking,” Kelly jabbed before listing examples of the people she had interviewed.
“Not to toot my own horn but, like, I think literally anybody who watches the news regularly in America would know that and would have some idea of some of the highlights because they have gone everywhere in certain instances,” she later said.
Kelly spent most of her journalism career at Fox News, where she worked for almost 15 years before moving to NBC for a brief period of time. She now hosts a podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show,” catering to a right-wing audience.
Kelly also ripped into Clooney for keeping his thoughts about President Joe Biden’s fitness to run for reelection private until his 2024 New York Times op-ed in which he called for Biden to drop out of the presidential election.
“That’s not journalism, George. It’s cowardice followed by naked partisanship,” Kelly said. “You’re not fooling anyone.”