There are several people that I would be hesitant to tangle with in the public arena of the vigorous exchange of ideas. After just reading this article about Megyn Kelly scorching George Clooney, I have added Megyn to that list.
What she did to the well-known actor in a short amount of time is something that a staff of PR people and psychiatrists may need to take years to help mend. I think most of us understand that actors pretend to be a lot of things, but what the ones who are usually used to achieving the most success suffer from is inflated egos.
Megyn deflated Clooney with her spot-on commentary.
I read about what she said right HERE:
On Wednesday’s episode of the former talk show host’s eponymous podcast, Kelly argued that, despite what Clooney believes, she is a journalist. She also criticized Clooney’s New York Times op-ed in which he called for President Joe Biden to exit the 2024 US Presidential campaign.
“He’s starring in a play about Edward R. Murrow because Clooney fancies himself a journalist, you see, and has lots of thoughts on how journalists need to do journalism,” Kelly said.
Ok. Go on…
“He does it mainly by stumbling upon the biggest story of the decade, that a sitting president is mentally infirm and ought to be 25th Amendment’ed right out of office, and then burying it, saying absolutely nothing for weeks on end,” Kelly said.
“And then only after that president humiliates himself on the national stage at a Presidential debate, and then refuses to step down as the entire Democrat Party watches its electoral chances up and down the ticket go swirling down the toilet.”
“Finally, he decides to write an op-ed in the New York Times saying Joe Biden is not up for the job,” she continued.
Damn. Just damn Megyn.
George, get Brad Pitt and Matt Damon over STAT to help boost your self-esteem up pronto.
This is part of why Megyn went after the Biden angle, if you recall. My colleague Katie Jerkovich had this nugget about George a while back here: George Clooney Talks More About Dems’ Split With Biden, and Which Democrat He Wants to Run for 2028
“I was raised to tell the truth,” Clooney said, noting how he saw Biden up close at a fundraiser in June 2024 and he “was surprised.”
“I feel as if there was a lot of profiles and cowardice in my party through all of that, and I was not proud of that and also I believed I had to tell the truth,” he added.
Just easier to tell the truth after you have seen those polling numbers about how your boy got thrashed.
Kelly decided to throw a bit more mud in the eye with this parting shot.
Kelly threw even more shade at the Oscar winner as she insinuated that he launched the Broadway production of his new show, “Good Night, and Good Luck” — which is an adaptation of his 2005 film of the same name — due to a shortage of roles for the star at age 63.
“So now he’s starring in his Broadway show … by the way, 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!”
DOUBLE DAMN.
Like I said above, Clooney is an actor, and when you become a decent enough actor and you win some awards and make a lot of money, you believe that you absorb knowledge from pretending to be somebody else. You don’t become that person or know about the profession that they were in.
Maybe you’ll recall that Jim Carrey, when he was portraying Andy Kaufman, would be in character all the time on the set of the movie to the point that people actually thought he was Andy Kaufman.
The dirty little secret was that he was just pretending to be somebody else who was a bit eccentric, thus acting eccentric in that role. I’m sure Carrey, having watched film on Kaufman, felt that he got to know him that way, but he never actually was Andy Kaufman.
Clooney, having played a doctor on ER, should have been able to tell that Joe Biden was suffering from something long before the fundraiser that Clooney attended and claimed that he was shocked at how dysfunctional Biden was. But he wrote an op-ed in July after the debate in June. How much more noble can you be?
Now, for my money, I’m going to take Megyn Kelly’s form of journalism over George Clooney’s pretending to be a journalist. Also, I’m going to try to never tick Megyn Kelly off for the rest of my life.
