Threats Aimed at Kavanaugh, and a Free Speech Culture, with Greg Lukianoff and Anjelah Johnson-Reyes | Ep. 353

The Megyn Kelly Show

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🗓️ 8 July 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Megyn Kelly is joined by Greg Lukianoff, CEO of FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression), to talk about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh being protested while at dinner, threats aimed at all the conservative Supreme Court justices, destruction of the norms, the standard for "incitement," what qualifies as harassment, Alex Berenson's return to Twitter after his lawsuit against the company, the possibility that the government pressured Twitter to censor Berenson, the decline of our culture of free speech, using the courts to fight back against free speech suppression, whether Elon Musk will buy Twitter, microaggressions being punished in one school district, Biden's problematic Title IX decisions and due process changes, and more. Then comedian Anjelah Johnson-Reyes, author of "Who Do I Think I Am?" joins to talk about how she became a Raiderette, her dream job as a Friends extra, the comedy routine which launched her career after it went viral on YouTube, the secret to impressions, anger and rage, using comedy to bring people together, following her dreams to become an actress, and more.

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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, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.1	Protesters, once again targeting Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and it's disgusting,
0:21.0	it's absolutely disgusting what they're doing, this time they forced him to run out the
0:25.4	back of a DC area steakhouse.
0:28.5	And to report the protesters gathered outside of Morton's steakhouse after finding out
0:33.0	that Justice Kavanaugh was there.
0:35.2	They reached out to the manager and demanded that our sitting Supreme Court Justice be kicked
0:41.8	out Morton's to its credit said, your lunatics, okay, that's what I said, but basically
0:48.1	they said no dice.
0:49.8	And now they are reportedly condemning the actions of the protesters.
0:53.7	Morton's just as mad as we are about this, saying that these protesters unduly
0:58.2	harassed the justice and other patrons, calling it shameful.
1:02.8	Kavanaugh was forced to exit through a back door and the protesters love that.
1:08.4	They're celebrating it.
1:09.8	Keep in mind this comes weeks after a 22 year old man was arrested near Kavanaugh's home
1:14.5	after threatening to kill him, right?
1:18.0	That's the tension.
1:19.0	That's the tenor of the conversation around Justice Kavanaugh and some of these conservative
1:23.7	justices now, and yet this group gleefully encourages people to continue doing this, continue
1:31.0	targeting him.
1:32.0	This will be fun.
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