On her show Thursday, SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly called Republican Texas Rep. Brandon Gill a “stone-cold assassin” after he pressed NPR CEO Katherine Maher over her political bias.
Maher testified before the House Oversight Subcommittee on Wednesday regarding NPR’s government funding as lawmakers work with the Department of Government Efficiency to cut wasteful spending. On “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly said she believed Maher would lose taxpayer funding. She highlighted Gill as her new “favorite” congressman.
“I think NPR is about to lose its taxpayer funding based on what I saw yesterday, right? I think it’s going to be based on what Trump tweeted and what we saw yesterday. It was so great to watch this woman, Katherine Maher,” Kelly said. “She was so smug.”
“She was oozing contempt and superiority and trying to be like, ‘Thank you so much for raising a thank you. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to respond to that. Now let me lie for two minutes about how it never happened,’” Kelly added. “‘I [Maher] appreciate you giving me the chance to lie about how I never did the controversial thing. I’m very grateful to you for bringing [it] up.’”
During her testimony to lawmakers, Maher was repeatedly pressed by Republicans about her political bias and allegations of the outlet’s left-wing reporting. At one point, she told Republican Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan that she had not seen “any instance” of political bias influencing editorial decisions and repeatedly said that NPR is a “nonpartisan organization.”
“Then these congressmen just kept hitting her with, ‘Oh, you never did it. Oh, well, here’s you saying you did it.’ There’s so many good ones to choose from. But we might as well just kick it off with my new favorite congressman. He is from Texas. He’s Brandon Gill,” Kelly said. “He is a stone-cold assassin in that congressional seat.”
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Kelly went on to play clips from the hearing of Gill questioning Maher.
The Republican lawmaker could be seen pressing the NPR CEO on her past statements online, asking if she believed Americans were “addicted to white supremacy” or if “white people inherently feel superior to other races.” While Maher attempted to deny or evade Gill’s questions, the lawmaker repeatedly referenced quotes from her own posts to make his point.
“His lack of emotionality is what made it so good. He was just like, ‘You did. You said that,’” Kelly said.
Kelly continued to ask whether Maher was lying about the books she had read or statements she made online about her political views, suggesting it could have just been “virtue signaling” to her followers.
“Were you [Maher] lying when you said that you read these woke, annoying books time and time again to try to pander to left-wingers who you think are your fans? Was that a lie? Or are you lying today under oath when you’re looking at me saying you never read these books?” Kelly asked.
“Because not only did you take the time to lie to all these people if you didn’t read these books, but you actually tweeted it. [Think about] the virtue signaling that she felt was important to do,” Kelly added. “Which is worse, if those were lies and she was just pandering or if she really did that shit and then just lied under oath to Congress?”
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