Outrageous Casey DeSantis Attacks, CNN's Whiny Newsroom, and Surviving Cancelation, with Jesse Kelly and Joseph Massey | Ep. 566

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News Commentary, News

4.4 • 38.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly begins the show addressing the recent profile in The Atlantic of CNN CEO Chris Licht, what Licht gets right about CNN's problems, how he lost the newsroom full of whiners, and more. Then Jesse Kelly, author of "The Anti-Communist Manifesto," joins to discuss CNN's identity crisis, why Jeff Zucker is to blame for the problems now, whether the right should employ "cancel culture" in response to the left's cancel culture, if the progressive left can be reasoned with or should be ignored, insane stories trans ideology on college campuses today, DeSantis trailing Trump in the polls, how Trump’s indictments are helping him in the GOP race, the outrageous Daily Beast article on “The Walmart Melania” criticizing Casey DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott taking on "The View" and the reality of victimhood in our culture today, and more. Then Joseph Massey, author of the book "The Light of No Other Hour," joins to discuss his attempted cancelation, the attacks from within the poetry community, how he has recovered and built his life and career back, how pain helps his art, and more. Kelly: https://www.thefirsttv.com/book/ Massey: https://a.co/d/gcvFNvR

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly show, your home for Open, Honest, and Provocative Conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone on Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly show.
0:16.3	An in-depth profile by the Atlantic's Tim Alberta on CNN.
0:22.3	It's led to a lot of consternation and backlash and that is where we begin today.
0:27.3	The profile was on CNN chief Chris Lickt.
0:30.5	It was supposed to confirm his brilliance and journalistic integrity.
0:33.9	This is the way back for CNN, which is at the bottom of the barrel in the ratings these
0:39.0	days.
0:40.0	Instead, this piece may be the death now for Lick's career.
0:43.6	In the piece, Lickt comes across as self-aggrandizing and insecure, uttering phrases to a reporter
0:49.8	like, I'm a machine while pumping iron in the gym.
0:54.0	My God.
0:55.0	Okay.
0:56.0	Can you imagine?
0:57.0	What if a man does that?
0:59.0	A man oddly focused on the guy who held his job before him, Jeff Zucker, while lifting
1:03.8	a weighted pole at said gym where he is said to be obsessed with his trainer from whom he
1:08.0	takes advice on how to run CNN.
1:10.0	By the way, the trainer is some far left guy who prefers MSNBC.
1:13.0	Lickt is said to have exclaimed, Jeff Zucker couldn't do this.
1:17.7	What?
1:19.0	The piece includes much criticism by Lickt of the CNN he inherited and I actually happen
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