Broadcaster-turned-podcaster Megyn Kelly ripped CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss to shreds after her 60 Minutes hiring decision spectacularly self-combusted.
“It’s her fault. What she’s doing at CBS, which is failing, is her fault,” Kelly, 55, said of Weiss, 42.
Shortly before Kelly hosted The Megyn Kelly Show on Monday, veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley torched Weiss to the show’s newly appointed executive producer, Nick Bilton, in a closed-door meeting, according to reports.
In the meeting, Pelley, who has been with the show since 2004, said that Weiss was “murdering 60 Minutes."
“She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,” he said, according to the Guardian. Pelley was reportedly “supported” by other producers.
The flare-up comes days after Weiss’s internal 60 Minutes bloodbath, in which the editor-in-chief fired three of the show’s top women in quick succession on Thursday.
Kelly, who was initially “friendly” with Weiss and supported her hiring, took a victory lap over her prediction that Weiss would be skewered by CBS insiders.
“Scott Pelley is a p---k, and he’s so annoying, and he’s so elitist. However, it doesn’t matter what you and I think about Scott Pelley and his editorial judgment. What matters is inside of CBS,” Kelly said.
The conservative host then showed a clip of her from October in which she accurately predicted that CBS would “eat her alive” because of her lack of broadcasting experience.
“The entire organization is against her,” Kelly said, calling out CBS owner David Ellison directly. “Pro tip to the Ellisons: you also at CBS have to have been raised in television. You have to understand what’s in the mind of a television correspondent; what makes a good television story; what works; and what doesn’t in a 60 Minutes piece."