Former Fox News colleagues Megyn Kelly and Mark Levin are engaged in a bitter feud – and it’s getting worse.
Kelly blasted Levin this week, calling him an “old, irrelevant, bitter, angry man who could never make it in the Fox News primetime” after Levin called her a “degenerate bigot” and tried to get her canceled over controversial remarks.
Levin, 68, attacked Kelly over her 2018 departure from NBC’s Today show following controversial remarks about blackface Halloween costumes – and said it’s proof that she’s comfortable cozying up to other conservative media personality with controversial backgrounds.
Levin named Candace Owens, Jack Posobiec, and Tucker Carlson as antisemetic, “woke Right” bigots, and said Kelly was “queen of the modern Klan.”
“Meg Kelly, whose ratings were so bad on NBC she became a laughingstock, was canned for promoting blackface on Halloween,” Levin wrote on X. “You see, she was always a degenerate bigot. This is why she’s cool with Candace Owens and Jack Posobiec. This is why she slobbers over Qatarlson. She’s part of the Woke Reich — the queen of the modern Klan. More to come.”
Kelly, 55, fired back with a response that received more than five times the number of likes as Levin’s original post.
“You’re just upset bc I’m not afraid of you or your baseless slurs,” Kelly wrote. “You’re an old, irrelevant, bitter, angry man who could never make it in the Fox News primetime. We used to laugh at you there for your red-faced tantrums over … everything.”
Levin replied that he had never wanted to host a weekday primetime show on Fox News.
“I’m doing exactly what I want to do. Primetime Saturdays and Sundays. I was recruited. I never asked,” Levin said. “Your Sunday show on NBC was canceled in less than a year. NBC tried you in primetime weekday mornings. And that didn’t work, either.”
“You’re a bigot. A wannabe college influencer. You’re humiliating yourself. A slow but steady burn. Everyone sees it but you. You drop the f- bomb in every other sentence because you think it’s edgy and cool. You’re neither. And since you raised it, you failed on cable and network TV. Hence, look what you’ve become.”
Just two years ago, Kelly and Levin had only praise for one another.
“You know, I’ve admired you for a very, very long time,” Levin told Kelly in 2023, to which Kelly replied, “Whenever I see you, I stop. Whenever I see a Mark Levin clip, I stop. Whenever Mark Levin has a book, I read. It’s just there is such a small collection of people who are truly brilliant and honest.”
The feud between the two conservative media personalities is part of a broader infighting within the MAGA movement that burst into the open at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention in mid-December.
At the conference, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro delivered a speech attacking what he called “grifters” in the conservative movement.
“The conservative movement is in serious danger, from charlatans who claim to speak in the name of principle but actually traffic in conspiracism and dishonesty, who offer nothing but bile and despair,” Shapiro said to a standing ovation.
Shapiro also criticized Kelly, along with Carlson and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, for their failure to denounce conspiracy theorist Candace Owens.
Owens has repeatedly questioned whether Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated in September as part of a conspiracy that may have involved the Israeli government, the FBI, or even Kirk’s widow, Erika.
Kelly framed the attacks as part of a broader pattern within conservative media.
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, she criticized prominent pro-Israel MAGA voices, including Ben Shapiro, saying, “Why would you divide the American conservative movement… over Israel?”
Kelly said she felt ostracized for refusing to conform to ideological purity tests. She has also criticized Levin’s attacks on Tucker Carlson as “too much, too far, and dangerous.”
“We just finished a several-year period where we tried to make clear to the left that those terms are not acceptable in the public dialogue,” Kelly said. “They are too incendiary. They’re going to get somebody killed, like President Trump or Charlie Kirk.”
“‘Fascistic’, ‘neo Nazi’, ‘radical right.’ That is no way to be talking about Tucker,” Kelly said. “It’s too much. It’s too far. And it’s dangerous.”