SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly said Monday on her podcast that MSNBC’s “toilet” ratings are “no accident,” following Comcast’s announcement that it will spin off a number of cable channels.
Comcast announced on Wednesday that it will spin off MSNBC, CNBC, USA, E!, Oxygen, Syfy and other news and entertainment channels. The move comes after MSNBC’s ratings fell by 53% following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the SiriusXM host played a clip of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who claimed that critics of the press have felt “more empowered” to “lie” about the media, repeatedly asserting that what the corporate media does “matters.”
“Joy Reid was literally saying that if Trump won, they were going to start locking up brown people. So maybe spare me on the lectures of, ‘You stir people up and then make money.’ It’s no accident that MSNBC’s ratings are in the toilet,” Kelly said.
“They’re being spun off because reputationally they’re a nightmare for Comcast and NBC. These are the biggest losers at the party with their little pocket squares, and they’ve been spun off to go sit in the part with the non-alcohol punch,” Kelly added. “They’re still trying to tell us, Steve, that they’re the main people at the party and they matter. ‘There’s no prom king without me!’”
Kelly later called out Axios CEO Jim VandeHei, who appeared in the clip with Scarborough, for his criticism of “opinionated influencers” building followings on X, before slamming additional MSNBC hosts.